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LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS
ON
TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS
IN CEYLON,
OF HISTOEICAL OR LOCAL INTEREST,
WITH
AN OBITUARY OF PERSONS UNCOMMEMORATED.
BY
J. PENRY LEWIS, C.M.G.
Geylon Givil Service, retired.
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PRINTED BY H. C. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON.
To be purchased at the Govebnmbnt Recobd Office, Colombo, price Rs. 5.
1913.
Colombo.
St. Peter's Church, Fort . .
Galle Face Burial GroTind. .
Pettah Burial Ground
St. Paul's Burial Ground . .
Wolvendaal Church
Holy Trinity Church
Christ Church, Galle Face. .
Wesleyan Chapel, Pettah . .
Baptist Church
St. Lucia's Cathedral
St. Philip Neri's Church . .
St. Mary's Church
St. Anthony's Church
General Cemetery
Colombo Museum
In the Fort
Museum Grounds
Cotta
Wellawatta
Kalutara.
Dutch Burial Ground
Fort
St. John's Church
Cemetery
Bentota . .
Dutch Chiirchyard
St. Mary's Church
Cemetery
Esplanade
Galle.
Dutch Church
Dutch Cematery
All Saints' Cemetery
Wesleyan Chapel
St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral Cemetery
Baddegama Church
Baddegama Churchyard . .
Ambalangoda
Negombo.
Matara.
Dutch Church
Dutch Cemetery
Cemetery
St. Thomas' Church
Palliyawatta
Old Burial Ground
Ennipitiya Tank
Tangalla.
Esplanade
Cemetery
Hambantota.
Jaflna.
Dutch Church
Pettah Cemetery
St. John's Church, Chundikuli
St. John's Churchyard, Chundikuh
Nellore . . . . •
St. Mary's Cathedral
Wesleyan Chapel
Christ Church
Uduvil . .
Tellipalai
Batticotta
Point Pedro
Kayfcs
Mannar.
Fort
Dutch Burial Ground
Arippu . .
Marichchukkaddi
Kachchillaimadu
Ault Memorial Hall
Tandanvenveli
Town
Cemetery
82-09
Mullaittivu.
Batticaloa.
CONTENTS.
Trincomalee,
PAGE
PAGE
1-27
Fort Frederick
. 258
27-72
Fort Dutch Burial Ground
. 259
72-96
Fort Church
. 259-261
96-101
Esplanade Burial Ground
. 261-278
. . 101-120
Wesleyan Chapel
. 278-279
. . 120-124
Kottiyar. .
. 279
. . 124-127
. . 127-132
Kurunegala.
. . 132-135
Garrison Burial Ground . .
279-281
.. 135
1 ^K
Cemetery . . . \
. 281
. . X oo
.. 136
Puttalam.
.. 136
Old Burial Ground
. 281
. . 136-141
142—144
Kalpitiya.
. . 144-145
.. 145
. . 146-146
St. Peter's Church
Chilaw . .
. 281-283
. 283
Chilaw Cemetery
.. 284
.. 146
Ratnapura.
Old Cemetery
. 284-286
146-147
Maha Saman Dewale
. 286-287
.. 148
Avisawella
. 287-288
.. 148
148
Anuradhapura,
. . 148-149
Near St. Andrew's Church
Badulla.
. 288
. . 149-153
Old Cemetery
. 289-291
.. 153
St. Mark's Church
. 291-293
. . 154
St. Mark's Churchyard .
. 293-294
.. 154
Haputale
. 294
Diyatalawa
. 294-295
. . 155-174
Kandy.
. . 175-192
Old Garrison Cemetery .
. 295-319
. . 192-199
St. Paul's Church
. 320-330
.. 199
Mahayaya Cemetery
. 330-337
.. 200
Holy Trinity Church
. 337
.. 201
Holy Trinity Churchyard .
. 337
. . 201-203
Esplanade
. 337-339
.. 203
Kadugannawa
. 339-340
.. 204
Peradeniya
. 340-341
Bladetta . .
. 341
. . 205-210
Legundeniya -
. 341
.. 210-211
Bomure . .
. 342
211
Hingulwala
. 342
211
Kelebokka
. 343
211
St. Andrew's Church, Gampola
. 343
Old Burial Ground, Gampola
. 343-344
. . 212
Cemetery, Gampola
344
Pussellawa Chxttch
. 345-347
212
Pussellawa Churchyard .
. 347-349
Dikoya . .
. 349-351
. . 213
Maskeliya Church
. 351
. . 213-214
Maskehya Churchyard
. 351-352
Bogawantalawa Church .
. 352
. . 215-227
Bogawantalawa Churchyard
. 352-354
. . 227-231
Matale.
. 231-233
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Christ Church
. 354
. 233-236
Christ Churchyard
. 355-366
237
. 237-239
Wariyapola
. 356
. 239-240
Nuwara Eliya.
. 240
Old Cemetery
. 356-360
. 241-242
Holy Trinity Church
. 360-363
. 242-243
Holy Trinity Churchyard.
. 363-371
. 243-244
Roman Catholic Cemetery
. 371-372
. 244-245
Bamboda
. 372
. 245
Dimbula
. 373
Tiindula Church
. 373
246-249
Lindula Churchyard
. -374-376
" 249
Talawakele
. 377-378
94.Q
Abbotsford Estate
. 378
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Forest Creek Church
. 378
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Forest Creek Churchyard .
. 379
. 250
Agras Church
. 379
. 250-263
. 253
Obituary of the Uncomme
morated
. 380-446
. 254
Addenda . .
. 447
. 254-268
Additional Notes
•
. 448 -451
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ERRATA.
Page
22 . . No. 40, "J. Reeve" is an error for " F. Reeve." See No. 1013.
41 . . Line 9 from top, for " 1819 " read " 1818."
49 . . No. 130, date in second column should be " Aug. 23, 1837."
56 . . No. 160, for " Francis " read " Frances."
59 . . No. 175, line 3 of note, for " son" read " daughter."
61 . . No. 187, end of note, omit " and other poems." " Adam's Peak " was not a poem.
62 . . No. 194, fifth line of note, for " daughter " read " sister."
62 .. No. 201, /or " 1856" read " 1866." This entry consequently should have been No. 235.
68 . . No. 227, date of death should be May 20.
72 . . Liue 4 from top, omit " for next year he published ' Ceylon : a poem in Three Cantos ' and."
73 . . No. 253, third column, omit " Magnus."
74 . . No. 255, line 2 of note, for " aheady blazoned " eubstitute " See No. 360."
77 . . No. 278, for " Christelyn " read " Castelyn."
78 . . No. 280, for " Piette " read " Putte."
78 . . No. 281, omit reference given at end of note and read " See No. 373."
79 . . First column, for " 628 " read " 285," and for " Charlotte " in third column read " Charlotta."
81 . . No. 291, read " WiUiam."
83 . . Fifth verse, for " morn" read " mourn."
87 .. No. 303, note, line 7 from top, /or " 1811" reod " 1809."
88 . . No. 309, date should be Nov. 13, not Nov. 23.
88 . . No. 311, last line of note, read " Jemima."
93 . . No. 329, for " Lavaliere " read " Lavalliere," and for " Steuart" read " Stuart."
96 . . Paragraph headed " St. Paul's Burial Ground," hne 3, for " September 25 " read " May 26."
98 .. No. 341, hne 10 from end of note, /or " Henry " read " George."
102-120 . . The heading should read " Wolvendaal Church " throughout, not " Wolvendaal Burial Ground."
107 . . No. 369, note, for " Rhee " read " Reede."
112 . . No. 379, for " in Bansted " read "at Banstead."
118 . . No. 398, hne 9 from beginning of note, omit the brackets and letters within them.
135 .. No. 426, date of death should be "June 27."
135 .. -No. 427, line 3 of inscription, read "Monte Sancto."
136 . . No. 428, date of death should be " July 26," line 11 of inscription, for " dev." read " div." In third
column, " Horatius" should read " Orazio."
141 .. Line 6 from top, /or " Rathooob " read " Rathooole."
142 .. No. 451, line 3 of inscription, owi* comma after " d'eiiiE."
143 . . No. 453, third coliimn, for " Fernando " read " Helena."
145 . . No. 460, note, " Lembrick " should be " Lambrick."
147 .. First hne at top. Query whether " riUs " should not read " jets."
153 . . No. 490, hne 4 from end of note, " August " should be " September 10."
168 . . No. 506, third column, omit " Reets."
165 . . No. 536, for " Conjugam " read " Conjugiim."
167 . . No. 644, reference should be to No. 504, not No. 506.
174 . . No. 666, last line of note, for " Luke " read " LiUie."
178 . . Last paragraph on page should come under No. 686, and not where placed.
179 . . No. 689, omit " the " in inscription.
180 . . No. 590, last line but one of note, read " Hilliard."
186 . . No. 611, insert " Waring."
195 .. No. 669, third column, /or " Flower " read " Inglis."
200 . . No. 728, note, for " AuraUa " read " Aurelia," and for "Robert BuUer " read " John Dent "
205 . . Line 13 from top, for " 1769 " read " 1767."
209 . . No. 756, hne 2 of inscription, omit " (sic)."
224 .. No. 800, hne 9 from top, read " married at Kayts."
226 . . No. 810, for " fifth" read " eldest."
227 . . No. 815, note, line 9 from top, for " 1787 " read " 1757."
247 . . No. 883, last line but one of note, for " 1904 " read " 1894."
262 . . Middle of note, for " 73rd " read " 19th."
Inscription on Mrs. John— .For " D " in fifth line read "Dr.," in seventh line read " Tranquebar " and
in eighth line for "1821 " read " 1824."
263 .. No. 938, hne 4 from end of note, omi* " Samuel."
266 . . No. 961, third column, omit " Johanna Jacoba Stutzer."
273 . . No. 999, note, in line 7 from end, " three " should be " four," and in last hne but one " 1853 " should be
" 1866."
274 .. No. 1011, /or "C" read "G."
283 .. No. 1061, last line, omii "the."
284 . . " 1821 " should be " 1824."
290 . . Insert "Nicholson" after " Brinsley."
300 . . No. 1099, for " 1844 " read " 1846."
301 . . No. 1104, note, second paragraph, for " Madras " read " Europe."
308 . . No. 1139, note, first line, for." H " read " N."
343 . . No. 1286, read " Gampola, so that."
347 .. No. 1297, note, last paragraph. Possibly " brother " should be " son."
351 . . No. 1334, see " Nos. 616 and 1231."
363 . . No. 1354, note, for " Guildford " read " Guilford."
354 . . No. 1369, " 1417 " should be " 1392."
372 .. Paragraph headed " Ramboda Churchyard, &c.," sixth line from commencsment, for "unknown"
read " unhewn".
421 . . Last line but six, " Kalutara " should be " Kalpitiya."
264
INTRODUCTION.
" There be of them that have left a name behind them,
* * * *
And some there be, which have no memorial."
Eooleaiasticus XLIV., 8, 9.
The idea of compiling a list of Ceylon inscriptions on the tombs and monuments of Europeans
was suggested by the pubUcation, a few years ago, of similar lists for Madras by Mr. J. J. Cotton M C S
and for Bengal by the late Mr. C. R. Wilson.
2. The Dutch inscriptions have for the most part been pubhshed by Mr. Leopold Ludovici in
" Lapidarium Zeylanicum," a praiseworthy and pioneer effort to deal with the subject, and the numerous
omissions and inaccuracies which characterize it have been supplied and corrected by Mr. F. H. de Vos
in papers appearing in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. But the English
mscriptions, with the exception of a few, published from time to time in Ceylon newspapers and periodicals,
and a number of " Triacomalee Inscriptions to 1871," privately printed by the late Mr. R. Massie, C.C.S.!
have been hitherto unrecorded.
3. The field in Ceylon is, of course, much more circumscribed, though it must be confessed that
the dimensions which this work, almost unwittingly on the part of the compiler, has ultimately attained
are not calculated to create that impression. But it seemed a pity that steps should not be taken to
record the monumental inscriptions of historical or local interest in the Island which have survived
the ravages of time and the ruthless hands of the utiUtarian and the vandal. Most of the Portu<^uese
inscriptions, which would have been invaluable to the historian, have disappeared — there are only a
dozen left — owing chiefly to these natural enemies, but some of them to other causes which are, perhaps,
unique. We are told by Saar, a German soldier in the Dutch Company's Service, that the Dutch sailors
broke up the tombstones in the churches and in a monastery outside the Fort of Jaffna and used the pieces
to load their mortars with, and that these missiles were daily thrown into the town along with the
grenades and proved most destructive, so that the unfortimate Portuguese were destroyed by the tombs
of their progenitors and relatives which they had piously erected to their" memory.* Within the last
quarter of a century, if the statements in a Portuguese periodicalf be correct, the tombstone of the
first Portuguese Primate, who died in 1536, and of the Sinhalese King of Cotta, Don Joao Perera Pandar
Dharmapala, who died in 1607, a convert to Christianity, suffered simUar destruction at the hands,
not of enemies but of friends, and were broken up, not for munitions of war, but for incorporation in the
foundations of the largest and most stately church in the Island. The tomb of Don Joao, which had a
Portuguese inscription, was in the Dutch Church which occupied the site of the Gordon Gardens, and
was removed to Wolvendaal in 1813. The result of these depredations by foes, by friends, and by the
indifferent is that at the present day there are in existence only some sixteen stones engraved with
Portuguese inscriptions, while the Madras Presidency can show five or six times thenumber, though many
of the latter, it is true, are comparatively modern. Another tombstone of the Portuguese period that
has disappeared, though the inscription has been recorded,J is that of one of their greatest generals
and administrators, Philip de OUveyra, who is described as having commanded, not only among his
own countrymen but among the Tamils, affection as well as respect. It was in the chapel within the
Fort at Jaffna, which had been dedicated at his instance to " Our Lady of Miracles,"§ that he was
buried, and his tombstone was probably destroyed or disappeared when the Dutch repaired the Fort
and built a new church, not on the site of the Portuguese chapel, but on the opposite side of the Fort
green, in 1707. The memorial at Mannar of the wife of a " Captain of Mannar " of the time of the
Spanish Armada was more fortunate. . It escaped the Dutch gunners to serve English officials as a pig
trough and a horse trough, but now it has found a permanent pedestal in the church within the fort
which Don Joao de Mello commanded, and probably within a few yards of the spot where his wife,
Donna Maria Lacerda, died.
- 4. The oldest Portuguese inscription is that engraved on a rock near the Breakwater, which to
the compiler at least, seems to indicate that some adventurers or captives of that race must have touched
a.t Colombo in 1501, though the visit is nowhere else recorded, and the accepted date for the first landing
of the Portuguese in Ceylon has hitherto been 1505,
5. The Dutch memorials have escaped wholesale destruction, but many of them have disappeared
owing to the carelessness and want of reverence for the past displayed by their successors and descendants.
Trincomalee, Battiealoa, Mannar, Kalpitiya, or, to give it its more melodious Portuguese name, Calpentyn,
and Kalutara, all important places in Dutch times, must have lost many. At Trincomalee, for instance,
there was to be seen in 1791 the tomb of Jan Willem Schorer, a member of a noble Dutch family, stiU
to the fore in Holland, and also that of his wife, a Van Citters, but now search is made in vain for them.
At Jaffna was found.the tombstone of the wife of another, " Wei Edelen Heer," but it had been cut in
two and formed part of the floor of the verandah of a house, with nearly all the lettering carefuUy and
• Journal R.A.S. (C.B.), Vol. XI., p. 312.
t " Jomal des Colonias " of September 27, 1886. See Journal R.A.S. (C.B.), Vol. XI., p. 312.
± In the " List " this inscription should have appeared under " Jaffna " and not under " Colombo."
§ Not " Our Lady of a Thousand Acres" as it was once translated, the g of " Milagres " having been mistaken
for a c.
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laboriously chipped out. The modest and easily portable stone that once covered the remains of the
third wife of Captain Thomas Nagel , the first and last Dutch Administrator of the Wanni , had been removed
four miles out of the town to serve a similar purpose in the bungalow of a coconut estate. In Galle two
burial grounds reserved by the Dutch for the burial of their dead have been turned by the British
to the uses of the Uving, one as a market place, the other, hke many in the city of London, is now partly
built over and partly a garden. These alterations involved the dispersion of the tombstones, some
were cut up for building purposes, others served excellently for covering in the drains of the Fort,
and were themselves covered in many feet deep. One that was years in the old Kaohcheri compound at
Galle, and had often been seen there by the compiler, mysteriously disappeared when the Government
of&ces were removed to new quarters, but was ultimately rediscovered in a recently constructed drain,
and three others were found in other Fort drains. One of those fortunately recovered, which was once
probably in the Groote Kerk, gives us further information about a personage who is mentioned by Dutch
seventeenth century annalists. It is that of Captain Burchart Coq or Koch, the German officer in the
Dutch Company's service, who, on November 16, 1659, at Batavia, gave his countryman, Johan Jacob
Saar, his discharge. He himself was killed by a soldier at Galle three years later, and his tombstone is
the oldest memorial of a European there.
A recent discovery in the Dutch Church at Jaffna, of the tombstone of the young wife of the
Rev. Bartholomeusz Heynen, who had been Predikant there, " affords the clue to Heynen's removal
to Galle, of which his colleague Baldseus complains that he ' had been thrown with a shng ' to Galle,
where his Tamil was of no use, and where he had to learn Sinhalese. Heynen, whose abilities Baldseus
testifies to, had been sent to Ceylon with another Predikant, Maxwel, from Batavia in 1665, and this
removal, according to Valentyn, was lamented by the Batavian congregation." Heynen returned to
Batavia in 1696. This is an instance of the way in which " the Uterature of the tombstone," to quote
Mr. Cotton, throws a fight on or supplements contemporary records.
6. The tombstones of five or six eminent persons, which were in 1813 removed from the Fort
Dutch Church to Wolvendaal, have, in spite of the desire of the authorities to preserve them which this
action evinced , disappeared from the face of the earth . The loss of two of these is specially to be regretted —
those of General Hulft, who commanded the Dutch forces at the siege of Colombo in 1656, and of Don
Joao Perera Pandar Dharmapala , already mentioned . The General had a stately monument in this church ,
every vestige of which has disappeared. Of the destruction of the tomb of the Sinhalese king, a possible
explanation has been referred to. Some of these vanished tombstones may be rediscovered when
St. Peter's Church in the Fort is dismantled, if, as tradition says, they have been utilized to serve a
similar purpose for British officials.
7. Other Dutch memorials have disappeared, but of their purport there is some record. We
are indebted for this to Dr. Daniel Havart's valuable work, " Op-en Ondergang van Coromandel,"
pubUshed in 1693, in which he records a large number of mortuary inscriptions on Dutch officials and
members, of their famifies, who are buried in the various settlements on the Coromandel Coast. He
mentions those on the tombs of Abraham Carters, merchant, who came from Masufipatam to Jaffna
in 1659, and died the following year in the Island — where exactly is not known, and of Jan Jansz Somer,
a jeweller, also of Masulipatam, who " being stricken with the prevailing pestilence in 1688 left for Europe,
but reaching Galle on October 3, died on November 20, and was buried in the ordinary graveyard
there."* The verses on his tombstone are quoted by Havart. He also gives us interesting details
which supplement the information conveyed by memorials stiU existing in stone. For instance, we learn
from him the cause of the death of Hercules Lindebom, whose tombstone, originaUy in the Fort
Dutch Church, is now at Wolvendaal. He died of snake bite, and the misadventure befel him in his own
garden. It is strange that this is not recorded on his tomb, for old mortuary records, unfike those of
the present day, went much into detail, often stating the age of the deceased in years , months, and days,
and the exact moment of his death. Liadebom had served in various capacities under the Company, his
last appointment in India beiag that of " Opperhoofd " of Bimfipatam. He left for Ceylon in 1661, and
was Captain of the Burgherage at Colombo. At the time of his death he owed the Company 12,000
guilders. Two of his daughters, aged sixteen and seventeen, are buried at PuUcat, and the epitaph on
one of them is enfivened (if we may be aUowed the word in such a connection) by a doggerel four-line acrostic
on her name Sara, " having the four letters of the word at the beginning, middle, and end of the line."j-
8. There are some 225 Dutch inscriptions in Ceylon, as against about 250 in the Madras
Presidency. They range from 1662, four years after the Dutch had finally established themselves, to
1836 , forty years after they had lost their Ceylon dominions , and it may be said that their language lingered
in Ceylon for about half a century after the extinction of their rule, to be brought back to a transient
sojourn there, and again to a more permanent existence in mortuary inscriptions, by the Boer prisoners
at the beginning of the present century. The older Dutch inscriptions have preserved for us the names
of about one hundred servants of the Dutch Company, of about as many of their wives and " Jonge
Dogters," and of forty of their young children.
9. The oldest Engfish inscription is that commemorating a captain of the Navy, whose ship,
the Princess Mary, called at Trincomalee in 1748, possibly for the purpose of his burial on shore. There
are but five others of the eighteenth century. An " angelick infant," daughter of Alexander Davidson,
the " Chief of Vizagapatam" under the East India Company, was buried at Batticaloa in 1779, and
C'aptain WiUiam Kirton of the same Company, whose ship, the Elizabeth, a " snow," which was a vessel
resembfing a brig but with the addition of a top sail mast immediately abaft the main mast, was at Galle
three months before the English captured the place, was interred in the kerk-hof there in December,
1795. At Negombo a tall obelisk marks the resting place of Lieutenant Hetherington of the 52nd
Regiment, who died on the day the British forces occupied that place, February 9, 1796. All these
persons received sepulture in Ceylon earth before it had actually become British. The two remainino-
inscriptions are those on the monuments of Major Petrie and Dr. John Ewart in the Pettah Cemetery
at Colombo. There is a tablet to Mrs. Grace Beck in the Dutch Church at Galle, who died less than
* D. W. Ferguson in Ceylon Observer of December 22, 1905.
t Cotton, p. 190.
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a month after the begmning of the new century. The identity and entourage of this lady are lost, as
tar as the compiler is concerned, in the impenetrable fog of oblivion which envelopes most people of a
past day, but she has the distinction of being the earliest Enghshwoman commemorated in the Island.
•14. ■^'^■^e'"^ *^® ^'"^* thirty years of the nineteenth century the inscriptions commemorate civil and
mihtary officers and members of their families. " Ceylon in 1825 contained four regiments of European
soldiers, two of native troops, and an exclusive and highly paid Civil Service. The merchants were few, and
their energies were depressed and cramped by Government monopoHes. Trade was a petty huckstering,
ihe European planter and landholder were unknown."* This picture is in the main correct, but the
first coffee estate had been opened in 1824, and there were at that time some European planters and
proprietors of land. The first Ceylon planter died in 1837, but no memorial of any is found earher
than 1843. An EngUsh tradesman of Colombo was the first non-ofiicial person to have his name placed,
m 1816, on his tombstone, and the first Enghsh merchant achieved, among the departed mihtary and
civilians of the Galle Pace Cemetery, a hke mortuary distinction ten years later.
11. The paucity of memorials of officers of the 19th, 51st, and 73rd Regiments is remarkable.
The 19th was for over twenty-three years in the Island, and " throughout the whole of this period preserved
the highest reputation, and distinguished itself for every quality which is honourable to the soldier either in
war or peace."t It shared with the 51st, another Yorkshire Regiment, the rigours and reverses of first
Kandyan war, and with Regiments, Scotch and Irish respectively, the 73rd and 83rd, the prolonged
guerilla warfare and exposure of the Uva RebelHon. The 19th in its long tour of service, which
exceeded that of afay other British regiment in the Island, lost by death 42 officers, 8 of them in
action ; the 51st during seven years lost a dozen, 1 in the Kandy massacre and 7 from the fevers and
other diseases resultant on the campaign of 1803 ; the 73rd, in its second term of service of seven years,
lost 20, 1 in action, and most, if not all, of the remainder from the effects of the Uva campaign.
But of all these, only 9 of the 19th, 1 of the 51st, and 7 of the 73rd have any memorials. The 83rd,
with 18 deaths among its officers during its twelve years of service, was more fortunate. Nine of them
are commemorated, as well as 6 of its non-commissioned officers and privates ; whereas there is not a
single tombstone to be found of any non-commissioned officer or man of the other regiments named.
Among these memorials of the 83rd in the Galle Face Cemetery are to be found those of four veterans
of the Peninsular War, a captain, two lieutenants, and a sergeant, who was wounded at Badajoz, but
" received a mortal woimd at Panella during the Uva Rebellion and died at Colombo like a good
Christian."
12. In fact, very few of the officers and men who fell or lost their lives in, or from the sequelse of,
the Ceylon campaigns of 1803, 1815, and 1817-18 have any memorial, and one is inclined to think that
some of the name plates on the ponderous " table" or " altar" tombs of the fashion of the time which
are to be seen crumbling away at Kandy, BaduUa, and Batticaloa must have been carried away and
" converted into currystones." In any case it seems a pity that no monuments of these campaigns have
been erected at Kandy or at BaduUa. On the adjoining continent most of the numerous small wars,
which have from time to time disturbed its tranquillity, have their appropriate memorials erected by
the Company or the Government. Such a cenotaph might at least have been dedicated by the Ceylon
Government to the memory of Sylvester Douglas Wilson of the Civil Service, a victim to duty, whose
murder marked the outbreak of rebellion in Uva. His young wife's tomb at Badulla has been bodily
lifted skyTvards by a grasping but discriminating bo-tree.
V. It was probably the East India Company that erected in the Pettah Burial Ground its most
conspicuous monument, the obelisk that commemorates Major Petrie, the officer who captured Cochin
in 1795 when in command of the 77th Regiment, and who also took part with that regiment in the
capture of Colombo. With him in the same regiment in both these expeditions was Captain Alexander
Lawrence of the 19th Foot, father of Sir Henry Lawrence, who was bom at Matara, where Captain
Lawrence was afterwards Commandant, of Lord Lawrence, and of another son buried in the Dutch
Church there.
13. The Church of St. Peter in the Fort is a historic landmark shortly to disappear — an additional
reason why there should be preserved an authentic record of the memorials that it contains. These are
chiefly of civil and mihtary officers of note. Four of them are known to have been buried within its walls :
WiUiam Tolfrey of the Civil Service, Archdeacon Twisleton, Mr. Justice Henry Matthews, and Captain
Dawson, whose monument dominates the Kadugannawa Pass. ToKrey, besides being a Sinhalese and Pali
scholar, had fotfght at Assaye, and his description of that hard fought field used, we are told, to thrill his
hearers. The interment of the first Archdeacon of Colombo within the walls of St. Peter's took place several
months after his death at Hambantota, so we learn from the Rev. Mr. Spence Hardy, who was present at
the ceremony. The Archdeacon was a good classical scholar, and the Latin epitaphs on two of his children
and on the infant child of Colonel John Wilson in the Pettah Burial Groimd and on Sir William Coke
in the church were probably written by him. He was certauily the author of the lengthy eulogium en
Lady Louisa Rodney, which is transcribed on her monument in St. Peter's. The tombstone of Henry
Matthews lies in the centre passage of the church, and is usually covered by matting, but he has a tablet
as well. The other graves are not so marked. Henry Matthews, the father of Lord Llandaff, was the
son of John Matthews of Belmont, a beautiful seat in Herefordshire on the Wye. His father, though a
physician and colonel of the local volunteers, was also a poet, probably local too. He was a typical
Herefordshire squire. Henry was wont to attend his father in the latter's declining days, and every
night as the old man's head settled into his pillow, he used to repeat to his son, in his Herefordshire
dialect, the complacent formula : " I tell yer, 'Enery, I think the most comfortablest place in the world
is bed-fur-there ye forgets all ye're cares." At Eton Henry was " a reckless madcap, driving tandem
through the town, and once lighting a bonfire on the floor of Long Chamber."t He became a Fellow
of King's College, Cambridge. His " Diary of an Invalid " reached a fifth edition, and was appreciated
by Byron.
* Colombo Observer, of January 20, 1842.
t General Order of January 17, 1820.
{ " Reminiscences of Oxford," by the Rev. W. Thackwell, 1901.
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14. Sir William Eough, to whom there is a memorial tablet, was also, perhaps, more distinguished
as a literary man than as a lawyer. He had certainly distinguished literary associates, Coleridge,
Wordsworth, Walter Savage Landor, and Henry Kirke White, and a notorious poHtical connection in
his wife's father, John Wilkes. Another judge commemorated in St. Peter's, whose name is liaked
with literature, is John Frederick Stoddart, whose father. Sir John Stoddart, Chief Justice of Malta,
was a friend of Lamb and Coleridge. The latter ■visited the Stoddarts at Malta in 1804, the year before
the Cejdon judge was bom. Sir John Stoddart's sister, Sarah, married WiUiam HazUtt. His son just
missed having his epitaph written by Chief Justice Sir Anthony Oliphant, father of the famous writer,
traveller, and mystic, Laurence OHphant. Sir Anthony made several attempts, and his final draft
recited that " he fell a victim to fever and dysentery in the 28th year of his age," that he " was eminent
for integrity and independence of character, for great legal attainments at an early age, for indefatigable
and scrupulous attention to aU his duties as a judge," and that he " had gained the confidence of the
natives of Ceylon in a very remarkable degree." But the meeting which was called on September 20,
1839, to decide the question of a memorial selected the shorter composition which is engraved on his
tablet, preferring it to Sir Anthony's, which perhaps reads rather like the farewell speeches addressed by
" the local bar " to civihan judges changing station.
15. Sir Hardinge Giffard, a scholarly Chief Justice with literary leanings, and uncle of a late
Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Halsbury, died at sea, and has no monument in St. Peter's or anywhere else
that I have been able to discover. He published a smaU paper-covered volume of poems at Colombo
in 1822, the best, perhaps, being an EngUsh rendering of the " Sirmio " of Catullus. Another is addressed
to " Kandi," but is not at all flattering to that pleasant moimtain capital, chiefly on account of its
inaccessibihty — a defect which was to be remedied by Sir Edward Barnes and Captain Dawson two
years after the sonnet was written, which was in 1820. As the booklet is now quite as inaccessible to
the Ceylon resident as the town used to be, the only copy the compiler has seen being in the British
Museum library, there is some excuse for reproducing the poem here : —
" Marshes and quagmires, puddles, pools, and swamps,
Dark matted jungles and long plashy plains.
Exhaling fcetid airs and mortal damps,
By Kandian perfidy miscalled a Road,
Through which the luckless traveller must wade,
Uncheared by sight of man — or man's abode,
Gladly I give to you these farewell strains.
Nor e'er again would your repose invade.
I loathe your noisome fogs — ^your poisonous mud,
And the sad stillness of the sultry wood,
Without a sound the sickening heart to cheer.
Oh, when shall I the western breezes hear,
Bearing old Ocean's intermittent roar.
As wave succeeding wave, assails the sounding shore ? "
Evidently the Chief Justice had to get to Kandy at the burst of one of the monsoons to hold sessions.
16. Pour Chief Justices and a Puisne Judge who acted as Chief Justice for over two years died in
the Island, and it is a curious coincidence that they should all of them have borne the Christian name
of William— Sir William Coke, Sir William Rough, Sir WiUiam Ogle Carr (not " Sir WiUiam O'Carr,"
as Mr. WiUiam Digby caUs him, converting him into a counterfeit Irishman), Sir WiUiam Carpenter
Rowe, whose tomb is at GaUe, and Sir William Hackett, who died at Nuwara Eliya in 1877 of cholera.
Coke was at Westminster with Twisleton and D'Oyly, and Rough was also a Westminster boy, but while
Coke was elected to the chief foundation, " the House," at Oxford, Rough proceeded to the leading
Cambridge coUege, and D'Oyly also went to Cambridge ; Twisleton's alma mater I have not been able to
discover. Coke , judging from his epitaph , and from the Gazette notices of his death , was highly appreciated
as a lawyer and for his social quaUties. But he does not seem to have shown any literary leanings.
Among the scanty memorials of the long-disused burial ground of St. Paul's, behind Wolvendaal Church,
is one to the infant son of another Chief Justice, Sir WiUiam Norris, to whom the name of WiUiam,
so far as Ceylon was concerned, was not fatal. This boy was a brother of W. E. Norris, the successful
noveUst, and of Lady Havelook, wife of a late Governor.
17. Classical scholars belonging to the Civil Service were Sir John D'Oyly, also an orientalist,
and Henry Augustus MarshaU, neither of whom ever re-visited England. But MarshaU's sojourn in the
Island of 42 years was nearly twice as long as that of D'Oyly, which was 22. The Hon. Frederick North's
description of MarshaU as a youth of 23 is as amusing as Sir James Mackintosh's reference to D'Oyly
as " a Cingalese hermit prematurely old at 35." The Governor, writing on February 3, 1800, to the Hon.
Henry Dundas, on Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, says of
MarshaU : " I am much obhged to you for the notice you have been pleased to take of MarshaU and his
wife. He is a young feUow of good parts and considerable erudition, but a httle of what we used to call
at Eton ' a pretending feUow,' owing to his having Uved too much with fine feUows in that noisy chaos,
Devonshire House. I hope his marrying as comfortably as he has done wiU cure him of that defect.''
MarshaU had married, at St. Helena, on his way out to Ceylon in 1798-99, Miss Brooke, daughter of the
Governor of that Island, Colonel Robert Brooke. The period from 1815 to 1833, though httle is known
of it, is one of which the Civil Service has reason to be proud.
18. The pathetic appeal on the ramparts of the old Fort at Kalutara to the casual visitor or,
perhaps, the Pubhc Works officer of a future time to " respect and spare the remains of our lost child "
was doubtless the work of the Hon. John Rodney himself, but he or some one of his friends must have
been a reader of Addison, for the concluding paragraph of the epitaph is a quotation from a fragment
of the lost play of '' Aphrodosius " by Aristophanes, which he or his friend must have met with in the
" Spectator."*
19. Other great names in the world of hterature are recaUed by the tombs of Admiral Charles
Austen, one of Jane Austen's two naval brothers, at Trincomalee,t and of a cousin of Thackeray's at
Jaffna.
* No. 289, " On Death."
t His body was sent ofi in H.M.S. Eattler to be taken to England for bvixial, but was buried at Trinoomalee instead.
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20. _ A tombstone, fortunately retrieved some years ago at Kandy from the original burial ground
of the British troops there, which is now an undefined plot of ground hidden away under the dense shade
and humus of a cacao plantation at the foot of " One Tree Hill," is that of Captain McGlashan, who had
passed unscathed through the battles of Busaco, Albuera, and Waterloo to die of fever at Kandy. Two
lieutenants, one of the 73rd, who was severely wounded at Waterloo, and the other of the 66th, who had
lost an arm at Albuera, Ke in unknown graves at Matara and at Trincomalee. In 1841 there were three,
if not four, Waterloo veterans in Ceylon,* but none of them died in the Island.
21. Neither did any Ceylon Governor nor any Bishop of Colombo, though Sir Edward Barnes,
ksir Henry Ward, and Sir William Gregory are commemorated by statues. Sir James Longden by a brass
m St. Peter's, and Bishop Chapman by the Bishop's throne ia the pro-cathedral church at Mutwal. Sir
Edward Barnes, in the simulacrum of his statue by Weeks, stands at the top of Prince street in the Fort,
whence he regards the first stage of the road to Kandy which he completed, and seems as if about to
take off his coat, or rather miUtary cloak, to begin the stupendous undertaking. Sir William Gregory
turns his broad back and Herculean shouldersf on the Museum that he founded, and Sir Henry Ward
contemplates in perpetuity the placid waters of the Kandy lake. The Colony also possesses an excellent
painting of Sir Edward Barnes, by John Wood, R.A., which for many years hung in the United Services
Library, Kandy.
22. It appeared to the compiler that this List of Inscriptions might well be supplemented by
an Obituary of persons who have not been commemorated in this way. Many of them, were just as
important or as interesting in their day and generation as their more fortunate contemporaries, but
through accident' or heedlessness or iU-hap they have never received this last tribute. Among them are
the last Dutch Governor of Ceylon, three high officials of the Dutch Company, one of them renowned as
a botanist, the widow of the Governor of Coromandel, the Colonel of the Eegiment de Luxembourg, who
fell in opposing the British attack in Colombo, two Commandeurs of Jaffna, and the last Commandeur
of Galle. Erom the Enghsh period we have two officers in command of the troops in Ceylon, one who
began his military career at the age of twelve, spent most of his Hfe in fighting in the wars with America
and France, died a Major-General of 39. In this list also are two commanding officers of British
regiments, one of whom had survived the disastrous Walcheren expedition and the perils of the Peninsular
War, two other Peninsular and Waterloo heroes, and a Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, who had
also been through the Peninsular War, and dying in Ceylon, received a public funeral. Two other officers
who received public funerals, but no memorial in Ceylon, haye monuments elsewhere : Captain Hardinge,
R.N., and Major Beaver of the 19th Regiment. To this same company of the forgotten belong the fiJst
Advocate Fiscal under the British regime, the first civil administrator of the Northern Province, and 27
other members of the Civil Service, one of the first Surveyor-Generals (a Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Royal Engineers), the second Archdeacon of Colombo, and the pioneer coffee planter.
23. In this " Obituary," the meagre entry from St. Peter's register relating to the burial on
March 19, 1815, of " Philip, son of the Prince De BuiUon D'Auvergne," recalls one of the most remark-
able of the " Vicissitudes of Families." We learn from the book bearing that name that " a short time
before the French Revolution, Godfrey, Duke of Bouillon, chief of his ancient family of De la Tour
D'Auvergne, finding the prospect of a lineal successor to his illustrious house destroyed by the death of
his second son, Charles, a Knight of Malta, and the infirmity of his eldest son, James Leopold, was
induced to seek among his relatives for some one on whom he might fix as a successor to his titles and
vast wealth." A member of the Jersey family of D'Auvergne, PhiHp, who was a lieutenant in the
Navy, happened to be a prisoner of war in France at this tiirte, and the Duke sought him out and arranged
in 1791 to make him his heir. This act was duly ratified by the authorities of the Duchy, and Philip
D'Auvergne was put into possession of his inheritance and governed his Duchy for a few months. He
reached the rank of admiral in the British Navy, and it was when his ship, H.M.S. Africaine,
was calling at Colombo that the death of his son, a midshipman, in his seventeenth year, occurred there.
But the Prince de Rohan brought an action against him, claiming the title and estates, and in the year
after he had lost his son at Colombo (who, however, was not legitimate), the Admiral was deprived of
them by the Congress of Vieima. He died on September 16, 1816, and is buried in St. Margaret's,
Westminster. Not a member of the Admiral's branch of the family remains. J
24. It is a pity that some of these inscriptions and n'otices of deaths do not give us just a little
more information than they do. How came it, for instance, that twin brothers who had grown up to
man's estate, like the Van Kempens, came by their death on the same day, January 9, 1688 ? There are
several other instances in these hsts. At Negombo, where there was but a small garrison, there died on
May 24, 1695, Anthony van der Veen and Maria, the " chaste, pious wife of " Sergeant Anthony van
Holten. This may be the sole hint that we have of some tragedy, now completely lost, of which we shall
never know the particulars. We know that the cause of the death on the same day, October 8, 1826,
at Hambantota, of Captain and Mrs. Drieberg was the fever which then prevailed in that district, and
to the same cause or to cholera, which made its first appearance in Ceylon in that year, were probably
due the deaths on two consecutive days of Major Vallance and his wife at Batticaloa in August, 1819.
The deaths of a Master Attendant of Trincomalee and of his wife also occurred on the same day at
Trincomalee in June, 1822, and may be attributed to cholera, but the Gazette notice omits to mention
the cause, though usually the obituary notices published in the Gazette of this period were not
paraimonious of words, and those relating to the two commandants and their wives inform their readers that
they left their young and numerous families " totally unprovided for."
25. The only Englishman known to have died from snake bite in Ceylon lies in a nameless grave
at Jaffna ; it is impossible now to ascertain even the whereabouts of the graves of two soldiers and two
planters of the seven Englishmen who were killed by elephants.
26. It is instructive to inquire how many of the Ceylon worthies iacluded in these lists have obtained
recognition in the Dictionary of National Biography.. Their number is surprisingly small. They are,
* The Colombo Observer says four, including among them Sir Robert Arbuthnot, but the General, though he had
been through nearly every battle ia the Peninsular War, does not seem to have been at Waterloo,
t Actually his figure was " slight and deUcate, though his head was massive." — (D. N. B.)
t Notes and Queries, 11 S. v., pp. 153, 273.
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in caddition the five Governors already named : of the Civil Service, Wilham Tolfrey, Sir John D'Oyly,
and George Tumour ; of judicial officers, Sir Hardinge Giffard, Sir William Rough, and Mr. Heniy
Matthews ; of fighting men. Captain Hardinge and Captain James Armar Butler, the hero of Silistria ;,
of scientific men. Doctors Gardner, Thwaites, and Trimen ; and an artist, Samuel Daniell, one of the
" Uncommemorated." The Hon. John Eodney and Henry Byerley Thomson are mentioned incidentally
in notices of their more distinguished fathers.
There was no room for Major Petrie, the conqueror of Cochin ; for Colonel Barbut, that energetic
soldier and admioistrator, whose zeal saved in all probabUity the life of Governor North at Dambadeniya,
but cost him his own ; or for Major Willerman, to whom, as Governor Brownrigg, who got the credit of it,
himself witnessed, the success of the second was largely due. Other men of action are also absent ; the
indefatigable Major Rogers, " the most prominent planting pioneer and the most famous sportsman
Ceylon ever saw," eminent also in his civil administration, the regenerator of Uva ; General Fraser,
whose long service in the Island included two campaigns, and the construction of the unique and
graceful satinwood bridge at Peradeniya, which lasted the greater part of a century ; Phihp Acland Dyke,
" the Rajah of the North," whose chief monument, which will outlive the " Dictionary," is the well-
roaded and prosperous Jaffna Peninsula ; John Frederick Dickson,* the creator and organizer of the
North-Central Province. We look in vain for two of the earliest students of Buddhist literature,
Daniel Gogerly and Robert Spence Hardy ; for the compUer of the first Sinhalese grammar written by
an EngUshman, James Chater, who was biu-ied at sea ; for the first writer on the botany of the Island,.
Alexander Moon, or on its fauna, Edward Kelaart, also buried at sea ; for its ablest Ceylonese journalist
and advocate, Charles Lorenz, or its most distinguished Ceylonese physician. Dr. Anthonisz. Sir Charles
Marshall and Sir William Coke, who were, perhaps, quite as distinguished judges as Sir William Rough,
Sir Hardinge Gifiard, or Henry Matthews, are missing from the Dictionary. But, then, they were not
literary. Sir Charles Marfshall merely fought a duel with General Sir John Wilson, and left Ceylon his
" Judgments."
27. These omissions give us pause. One cannot help feeling that a more intimate knowledge
of the Island on the part of the compilers and biographers of the Dictionary would have resulted in the
inclusion of some at least of these names, but at the same time we must beware of imitating the people
of whom it was remarked that " all their geese are swans."
28. My thanks are due to the Government Agents and Assistant Government Agents and other
members of the Civil Service and the ecclesiastical authorities who assisted and co-operated in the
transcription of these epitaphs, especially to Messrs. CM. Lushington, H. R. Freeman, C. R. Cumberland,
C. S. Vaughan, G. M. Cookson, P. Bartlett, E. Sueter, and G. W. Woodhouse, also to the Government
Archivist (Mr. R. G. Anthonisz), Mr. James Ryan, and Major M. LI. Ferrar, late of the Alexandra,
Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire) Regiment, formerly the 19th Foot, and present editor of the
regimental magazine, the " Green Howards ' Gazette," for information embodied in the notes. Mr. John
Ferguson, C.M.G., kindly suppKed me with a copy of Mr. R. Massie's book on Trincomalee Inscriptions,
and Mr. H. W. Cave with the excellent photograph of the tomb of Sir John D'Oyly, which forms the
frontispiece. To Mr. J. J. Cotton, M.C.S., and Mr. F. H. de Vos I owe much in the correction of proofs.
Mr. deVoswith great good nature wrote most of the notes on, and transcribed aU of, the Dutch inscrip-
tions. The Ceylon Government allowed the compiler much time and latitude, and the Government
Printer, Mr. H. 0. Cottle, exhibited the greatest patience and care over repeated corrections and addi-
tions to a work which intermittently occupied the attention which he could spare from business of more
pressing importance.
J. P. LEWIS.
Walton-by-Glevedon,
Somerset, 1913.
'■ The statement on p. 326 as to his inclusion is incorrect.
A LIST
OF
THE INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBS OR MONUMENTS IN CEYLON
POSSESSING HISTORICAL OR LOCAL INTEREST.
COLOMBO.
St. Peter's Church, Fort.
The massive old building with thick walls and large door-windows in the Fort, facing the harbour, was
formerly the residence of the Dutch Governors, in which all Council Meetings took place (see Sir Alexander
Swettenham's note in the Report on the Colombo Museum of 1901).
The picture by Reimers in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, of which there is a copy in the Colombo Museum,
is supposed to show the interior when it served this purpose. It was the " Government House " of the first few
years of the Hon. Frederick North's rule. According to Captain Percival, the British troops in his time (1796-1800)
attended Wolvendaal Church, as the church which occupied " the upper end of the parade " (the present Gordon
Gardens) had never been finished by the Dutch,* and on account of the inconvenience to the troops of the march
to the Wolvendaal Church "in this sultry cKmate," Governor North was about to roof the Dutch Church in the
Fort, but this project was never carried out. Instead, Government House, which in 1803 was in the occupation
of General Macdowal, was converted into a church for their use, no doubt in 1804, on the General's vacating it.
He left Ceylon in March (he was thanked for his services by the Governor on March 1), and in the Gazette of
March 14 a notice was published announcing that " Divine service wiU be held at Government House on Sunday at
4.30 P.M. imtil further notice." The registers, too, date from 1804. This went on until January 1, 1806, when
the service was transferred to Wolvendaal Church, at 5 p.m. But St. Peter's was shortly afterwards (when, I
cannot say exactly) reverted to, and became again the official and garrison church.
From December 27, 1818, service was held at 11 a.m. instead of at 10, and evening service at 4.30 p.m.
This Was changed to 6.30 p.m. from September, 1821, and to 4 p.m. from August, 1836. The church was not
C9nsecrated until May 22, 1821, when the Bishop of Calcutta, Dr. Thomas Fanshawe Middleton, performed the
ceremony. Until then it had been known as the " Fort Church," but from the time of its consecration it was
called " St. Peter's." It was closed for repairs from September to December 23, 1832. I imagine that it was at
this time , or probably earher during the British period , that the large portico and wide verandah , supported by tall
pillars, were added to the front. Judging from the portions of the structure at each end of the church which have
no verandahs, the portico and verandah on each side of it did not form part of the original building, and they are
. in a ^Masi-classical style peculiarly Britishf- Originally the building must have comprised two separate haUs or
rooms, and the arcade of six round arches, supported by sections of wall, which has made of them a nave and wide
aisle, was also probably an alteration carried oiit after the building, or rather a portion of it, was converted into a
church.
The first chaplain was the Rev. James Cordiner, author of the book on Ceylon. He arrived in 1799
and left in 1804, and was succeeded by the Rev. the Hon. T. J. Twisleton. An assistant of his was the
Rev. WiHiam Hamlyn Heywood, appointed " Chaplain of Brigade to the Forces in Ceylon," March 3, 1804, who
was lost at sea on his voyage to England in the Jane Duchess of Gordon in March, 1809, and with him the
Register of Marriages which he was taking to England in order that a copy of it might be entered in the Registry
Office of the Bishop of London. He was succeeded by the Rev. George Bisset, M.A., lSl2-1820 ; and Archdeacon
Twisleton, in 1824, by the Ven. J. M. S. Glenie, who was assisted by the Rev. the Hon. Edward Finch, 1827-1830
(see No. 103), and succeeded by the Rev. Benjamin Bailey, 1832. The registers are not confined to Colombo
entries, but contain some of Jaffna, GaUe, and Kandy (1817) ; they seem to have been personal to the chaplains.
The church possesses a silver gilt commmiion service, large salver, and candlesticks presented by George HI.
The salver bears the following inscription: "Hanc pateram et quicquid hie conspicitur argenti in usum Ecclesise
Taprobanse sacrari voluit Georgii Tertii Britanniarum Regis pia mimificentia A. S. MDCCCX. A. R. L."
Several persons have been buried in the church, viz., Henry Matthews, Puisne Justice of the Supreme
Court and father of Viscount Llandaff ; W. Tolfrey ; Archdeacon Twisleton, who was re-interred here ; Captain
Dawson R.E. , whose monument is conspicuous at Kadugannawa ; and possibly others. Of functions which have
taken place at St. Peter's, the first episcopal visitation was in October, 1816, when Bishop Middleton of Calcutta,
who had arrived by H. M. cruiser Aurora on the 21st, preached from the 1st verse of the 62nd chapter of Isaiah,
" a discourse which in compass of theological knowledge, skill in composition, and beauty of diction, proved the
judicious choice that has been made of the first Bishop of the Anglo-Indian Church " [Gazette of October 30, 1816).
* This does not appear to be quite correct. On the opening of Wolvendaal Church in 1749 it had been allowed to fall
into <^'!f^*J'^(g^g oTth^^buTwing'from the front and from the garden which appear opposite pages 416 and 417 of Valentyn.
vol. v., confirm me in this opinion.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — ccmtd.
His next visit was in 1821, when he held a visitation and confirmation on April 27 and 28. On May 22 the
consecration of the church took place. Bishop Heber held an ordination and confirmation on September 21 , 1825,
and Bishop Turner followed in February, 1831 , and Bishop Wilson held his first metropoHtan visitation in January,
1843. There were probably other episcopal visits in the interval, including those of the Bishop of Madras (Corrie).
The first Bishop of Colombo, Dr. Chapman, was enthroned in St. Peter's on November 7, 1845.
The walls of the church are covered with monuments, which, though none of them can be said to have any
artistic value, add considerably to its interest. The church itself is not unhke a City church, " wide, cool, and
stately," flanked by the Grand Oriental Hotel at one end and by the Government offices at the other ; it remains
the only Dutch building of any pretensions now left in the Fort.
Serial No.
1 .
Date.
April 26
1804
Name.
Hugh Casement
Nov. 13
1809
Thomas James Rodney
Dec. 2
1814
Louisa Rodney
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Hugh Casement, Lieut.,
H. M. 34th Regt. of Foot, who departed this life
on the 26th April, 1804. Age 21 years.
There was a detachment of the 34th Regiment in
Colombo in 1803-4 under Captain J. M. Everard, and
a small party at Jaffna under Lieutenant Downing,
which drove the rebels and Kandyans out of Chundi-
kulam in August, 1803 (see Cordiner, vol. II., p. 244).
Sir W. Casement, Member of the Supreme Council of
India, who died in 1834, was probably a relative.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Casement was Secretary
to the Military Department, Fort William, Calcutta, in
1823. There was a JuUus Casement, M.D., Hospital
Assistant (the rank below Assistant Surgeon), at
Hambantota in 1826 (see Bennett, " Capabilities of
Ceylon," p. 229).
In memory of Lieut. Thomas James Rodney of H. M.
19th Regiment, who died on the 13th November,
1809. Aged 19. "He rests with our Father in
Heaven."
A wooden tablet of a very Georgian design, w^hioh
looks as if it was meant to show how a monument
might behave in an earthqiiake. The oval tablet has
been knocked out of the perpendicular, but the
pediment behind it still remains firm.
He does not appear to have been a son of the Hon.
John Rodney, Chief Secretarjr to Government, and
his name does not occur in the pedigree of the Rodney
family in Burke. But the name of the 4th Baron
Rodney, a nephew of the Hon. John Rodney, who
was born in 1784 and died 1843, was Thomas James,
and the Hon. John Rodney had an elder brother
James. The subject of this inscription was gazetted
2nd Lieutenant in Ramsay's Regiment (2nd Ceylon)
September 10, 1805, 1st Lieutenant May 15, 1806.
Here lie deposited the mortal remains of the Right
Hon'ble Lady Louisa Rodney, daughter of John,
Eael oe Aldboeough. She was born December
3rd, 1778, married October the 19th, 1799, the Hon.
John Rodney. She departed this life December
2nd, 1814. A few days before her death she was
seen in this place apparently in health joining with
unaffected piety in the public worship of her Maker,
one who was felt to be the life, the ornament of the
limited society of Colombo. The pious daughter,
the faithful wife, the affectionate mother, had too
well discharged her various duties, not to feel a
firm reUance on the mercy of the Creator. To
those with whom those relations existed, who shall
speak earthly comfort ? Who shall replace to her
parents the pride of their noble house ? Who shall
soften the affliction of the beloved partner of so
many of her happiest years ? Wbo shaU calculate
the loss of such a mother to the poor infants sur-
rounding their sorrowing father,' unconscious of
their common calamity, and wondering at the
change which has converted the happiest dwelling
into a house of mourning ? Before her native
dignity and easy condescension, restraint and
ceremony ahke retired, and while our social circles
were enlivened by her cheerful temper, the sorrows
of the unfortunate were sooth'd by her prompt
bounty. Such wa,s the kind, the good, the warm-
hearted friend whom aU deplored. Such was she
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No. Date. No-„, , _, ^.
iName. Inscription.
18l'/ ' ' ^""'^^ Rodney— cow<(i. . , who has left a void in our society not to be filled
up, and now is her earthly form, which beamed the
very spirit of benevolence, the tenant of a cold and
silent grave. For such a loss it is fair to indulge
in the grief, which we feel to be universal, the
best aiieotions of our hearts demanded, and cold
must be that heart, knowing as we know, would
not sorrow for the amiable Lady Louisa Rodney.
"And now, Lord, in whose hands are the issues
of life and death, not my will, but Thine be done."
' ' The illness which terminated thus fatally was
short and sudden — a visceral affection, of which she
complained on Thursday morning and expired on
Fciday evening at 5 o'clock, within a few hours of
completing her thirty-sixth year." She left " eight
infant children."
" The funeral, which took place on Saturday, was
attended by an inunense concourse of persons of
every description in the neighbourhood of Colombo.
His Excellency the Governor, the Chief Justice, the
Members of Council, all His Majesty's Civil Servants,
and all the officers of the Garrison formed the pro-
cession ; and as a solemn, though unusual, mark of
respect for departed worth, Mrs. Brownrigg, Lady
Johnston, and all the ladies of the Settlement were
present on this melancholy occasion.
" Never was witnessed a scene of sine erer grief than
the Church of Colombo exhibited while the funeral
service proceeded ; tears poured from every eye ;
frequent and audible were the expressions of that
sorrow which could not be restrained, and when the
mortal remains of this beloved woman were committed
to the earth, it seemed as if every one felt that their
dearest sister was deposited in the tomb.
"To those who have known Colombo, who have
seen her in the exercise of every quality which can
ornament her sex, who have witnessed her conduct
in social or domestic life, her winning kindness and
generous hospitality, who have seen her the object
to whom all eyes were tiu^ned as the chief spring of
social intercourse, diffusing through all that happy
temper which soothed all into good humour^ — to
those it is possible to estimate the degree in which the
public grief has been expressed, and to believe that
we use no figurative phrase in saying that the death of
Lady Louisa Rodney has cast a general gloom of
sadness over this Settlement.
' ' In her domestic character this admirable woman
was beyond all praise ; to administer' consolation to
her beloved partner of fifteen years was the last act
of her life ; to his children of a forraer marriage she
was more than a mother, and in their grateful love she
experienced a return of affection undistinguished from
that of her own children.
' ' Highly and elegantly accompHshed, with a sound
judgment and correct taste, her conversation was
sought by all ; to learn that she was to be present
was to give to any social meeting the most pleasing
attraction ; and we cannot without admiration,
mingled with our grief, remember what a charm was
thrown over society by the mere influence of her
manner.
" To this tribute to departed excellence, traced by
the hand of one who loved and revered her, may be
added the words with which the Hon. and Rev.
Mr. Twisleton concluded liis sermon on Sunday last,
the day succeeding her funeral. The impression
which they made upon his laearers and their own
truth entitle them to be recorded." (Gazette.)
Mr. Twisleton's sermon shows that he was the com-
poser of the epitaph on her tomb. There are phrases
in it identical with several of those used in the epitaph.
This tomb consists of a very large slab of local stone,
with a frame similar to those of the Coke and D'Oyly
tablets, but less elaborate. It is the largest stone
in the church, and looks as if it was originally a Dutcli
tombstone.
The Hon. John Rodney, tliird son of Admiral Lord
Rodney, who defeated Count de Grasse, was appointed
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Dec. 2
1814
Name.
Louisa Rodney — contd.
Inscription.
Jan. 4
1817
William Tolfrey
President of tlie Board of Revenue at Colombo,
August 1, 1804, and Chief Secretary, September 3,
1 806. He retired June 4, 1832, and died at Boulogne,
May 8, 1847, aged 82. He was three times married:
first to Lady Catherine Nugent, only daughter of the
Earl of Westmeath , on July 4 , 1 784 , and Lady Louisa
Stratford became his second wife. He married (3)
Jime 7, 1815, at Colombo, Antoinette Elizabeth,
daughter of Benedict Edward Reyne, a girl who was
barely 16. By his three marriages he had eighteen
children. His eldest daughter, Catherine Henrietta,
married at Colombo, July 20, 1810, Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. Patrick Stuart, 19th Regiment,
who died a General and K.C.M.G. ; the second,
Faimy, married Lord Blantyre, February 20, 1813 ;
and the tliird, Frances, Thomas Eden, C.C.S.,
at Colombo, June 4, 1810. Another daughter by
Lady Louisa, EUza, married March 22, 1832, at
St. Omer's, J. S. Wetenhall, Esq. His eldest son
(born to him by Lady Louisa, May 14, 1802),
John Stratford Rodney, who was in the Ceylon Civil
Service (Sitting Magistrate of Colombo, Assistant
Goverrutnent Agent, Madawalatenna), 1831-8, mar-
ried (1) Anna Boyce of Bombay, who died February
3, 1825, and (2) Eleanor, third daughter of Joseph
Hume, December 23, 1826. His second daughter by
Lady Louisa, Angela EUza, married at Colombo,
January 8, 1825, Captain Brown, R.B., the architect
of the Pavihon, Kandy ; and his sixth daughter by
Lady Louisa, Caroline Stuart, married at Colombo,
April 3, 1830, Campbell DrummondRiddell, who came
to Ceylon on a Commission to report on the Civil
Service, and was afterwards Treasurer of New South
Wales. The Hon. Edward Rodney, in command of
H.M.S. Africaine, which arrived at Trincomalee in
May, 1811, was a younger brother of .John, who had
also been in the Navy. Descendants of the Hon. John
and Lady Loxiisa Rodney have come out to Ceylon
in recent years, viz., Mr. John R. Manners and Mrs.
Sevier, whose father , Captain Herbert Russell Manners
of the 37th, was stationed in Ceylon in 1847-51, and
married Angela, daughter of Colonel Brown, R.B.,
at Colombo, June 23, 1849. There is a " Rodney
street" in Colombo.
In memory of William Tolpeby, Esq., of His
Majesty's Civil Service, who devoted Ms oriental
learning to the propagation of the Gospel by render-
ing the Holy Scriptures into the Singhalese and Pali
languages . He had with intense application nearly
completed a translation of the New Testament, and
the last labour of his hand well describes in the
language of St. Paul his benignant character and
the great object of his pious zeal : " And the
servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle
unto aU men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves : if God
peradventure will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth, and that they may
recover themselves out of the snare of the devil,
who are taken captive by him at his wiU." — Ti-
mothy 2nd, ii. 24, 25, 26. He was called from his
unjanished task 4th January, 1817. Aged 39 years.
This monument is erected by the grateful public of
Colombo.
The montunent is of a curious design: an oval of
white marble set in a rectangular slab of local granite.
Surmounted by a tall pyramid of the same stone , on one
side of which is a shell-shaped lamp and on the other an
hour glass. Below the lamp in a comer of the larger
tablet is the rising sun, and in the other corner a cross
lying obhquely across it. Between them over the
inscription are two quill pens crossed. In the middle
of the pyramid is a pile of books, one of which is
open, and shows a verse from Scripture in Sinhalese.
WiUiam Tolfrey died at 3 p.m. on Saturday,
January 3, after a severe illness of fourteen days'
duration, and is bm-ied in St. Peter's. His funeral
was headed by the Governor and Edward Tolfrey,
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No Date. Name. Inscription.
4 Jan. 4 .. William Tolfrey—con/S. .. his cousin, and was attended by the Civil and Military
1817 officers. " His death was attributed by the medical
gentlemen in a great degree to the intense assiduity
with which Mr. ToKrey had discharged the duties of
his public office, and performed the pious task which
he had voluntarily imposed upon himself of trans-
lating the Scriptures into the Singhalese and Pali
languages." {Oazette, Jan. 11, 1817.)
He had had an eventful career. He arrived in India
in 1794. His father, who was resident in Calcutta,
procured him a situation in a pubHc office, until
which he was nominated to an Ensigncy in the 76th
Regiment. " His conduct on many occasions drew
from the distinguished officers whom he had the good
fortune to serve, frequent and recurrent testimonials
of approbation , and if , as he was wont to say of himself ,
he was httle calculated to be a soldier, the justice of
the observation was never acquiesced in by those who
were the most competent judges of military merit."
He served through the Mysore war under General
Harris, and in the Mahratta campaign of 1803-4. He
was promoted into the 74th, and was Brigade Major
to Colonel Harness at the battle of Assaye. " His
letters descriptive of these campaigns were greatly
admired for classical elegance of composition and
masterly display of knowledge of his subject. There
are persons in the Island who may remember the
impression which Captain ToKrey's account of the
battle of Assaye made on their irdnds. He was
one of the three officers of the 74th who escaped the
carnage of that destructive conflict. At the termi-
nation of it he performed the melancholy office of
committing to the grave twelve of his brother officers.
He sold out in 1 805 , and next year , when the regiment
was called home , came to Ceylon on a visit to his uncle
(Mr. Samuel Tolfrey of the Civil Service), and was
appointed by the Governor to a situation in one of
the public offices, and then on his recommendation
gazetted to the regular Civil Establishment " (January
1,1811). He was appointed Assistant to the Commis-
sioner of Revenue April 3, 1811, Chief Translator to
Government, in succession toD'Oyly, June 12, 1816.
He studied Sanskrit, Pah, Hindustani, and Tamil,
also revised his knowledge of Greek. He pubUshed
a "List of Medical Works" in the hands of the
native practitioners of Ceylon in Ainslie's "Materia
Indica," vol. II., p. 525; a "Narrative of Events"
which occurred in Ceylon (see Marshall's " Ceylon,"
p. 137); and translated part of the Scriptures. His
translation is "one of the most scholarly translations
in the Sinhalese language." He had completed
the Pah translation of the New Testament to the
end of the Epistle to Philemon, and the Sinhalese
translation to the end of the second chapter of the
Second Epistle to Timothy. To quote the Johnsonese
of the obituary in the Gazette, January 11, 1817:
" In private life he was amiable, and in pubhc life he
was valuable — benevolent in the highest sense ; he
was the affectionate son, the kind master, the warm
and sincere friend. To the mildest manners and
most unaffected modesty he joined great strength of
mind and high independence of spirit. Of a tempera-
ment naturally melancholy and conscious that he
was so, yet in the few moments of relaxation which
he permitted to himself (and unhappily f hey were too
few), he rose into such cheerfulness and so much
enlivened conversation by the playfulness of his
fancy, as to make it matter of general regret that he
did not allow himself to mix more frequently in
society ; but here his ardent desire to accompUsh his
benevolent task interfered, and by degrees abridged
even the little period he had allowed to recreation.
Mr. ToKrey was a striking (we had almost said ' and
a singular ' ) instance of one who laboured to do good
for its own sake ; gifted with talents and enriched
with acquirements far beyond the pretensions of
many whose names are more in the public eye, his
name was scarcely heard out of Ceylon ; his learning
was as unassuming as his manners , he had no ambition ,
not even in its most venial form, a desire of
literary fame ; his knowledge was as freely imparted
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
4 . . Jan. 4 . . William Tolfrey — contd. .. %s it was laboriously attained, and, satisfied that he
jgjY was rendering his useful talents in the way^ most
acceptable to his Maker, he entertained no anxiety to
have his good work published to men."
Instances of his hours of recreation are to be found
in the notices in the Gazette of subscription balls or
assembhes, at which he occasionally acted as one of
the stewards.
According to Bennett (" Capabilities of Ceylon,"
p. 420), Tolfrey's death was indirectly due " to the
Uva rebellion. He was, as Chief Interpreter, daily
receiving anonymous but friendly olas from loyal
natives of the interior of the projected rebellion and
of the Government's danger through the intended
treachery of Eheylapola." But these warnings were "
disregarded, and " Tolfrey himseH was thought
scarcely less than a lunatic for viewing them in a
more serious light. . . . He was constitutionally of a
melancholy turn of mind, and the excitement which
had at first driven him to madness ended in death."
Samuel Tolfrey arrived at Colombo with the first
batch of Civil Servants in September, 1801, was
reported by the Secretary of State with James Scott
Hay as qualified for the higher appointments, and
was appointed with Hay a member of the Board of
Revenue on £1 ,500 a year, was Civil Auditor-General,
retired on January 1, 1810, and died in 1827.
George Tolfrey, who was gazetted Ensign in the 66th
March 23, 1812, was probably a son of his, and so
probably was Edward. His daughter, Mary Elizabeth,
married at Colombo, on July 5, 1804, Dr. Thomas
Christie, the Superintendent-General of Hospitals,
Ceylon.
Samuel Tohrey compiled a Sinhalese vocabulary,
" the first that appeared, which was patronized by the
then liberal Secretary of State for the Colonies, who
presented its author a donation of £1,000 " (Bennett,
p. 363). It formed the foundation for dough's
Dictionary, published in 1830.
5 . . April 18 . . Thomas Aldersey Jones . . Sacred to the memory of Thomas Aideesby Jones,
1818 Captain in H. M. 19th Eegiment, who died in the
37th year of his age, and was buried at Batticaloa
on the 18th AprU, 1818. During 17 years' service
in the 19th Regiment on the Continent of India
and the Island of Ceylon, Capt. Jones was distin-
guished by the constant approbation of his
Commander, the respect of his inferiors, and his
brother officers' affectionate regard. When in the
midst of the Kandyan rebellion he was attacked
by his last illness at Katabowa in WeUasse, he
refused to quit his post or remove to the seaside
until he had exhausted the last effort of his strength
in the cause of his country. That some record of
his military worth and private virtues should be
preserved in pubhc remembrance beyond the
remote retirement of his grave, this monument was
erected by his afflicted widow.
Captain Jones. . . .first joined the 19th Regiment in
1801 ,was gazetted Lieutenant Jxme 25, 1803 {vice Byne,
who fell at Kandy), Fort Adjutant of Port Osnaburg,
January 28, 1804, and Captain, 3rd Ceylon Regiment,
on September 20, 1806. He accompanied the Ceylon
force, consisting of the 3rd Ceylon under Lieutenant-
Colonel Morrice and a detachment of the Royal Artil-
lery, which took part in the suppression of the Travan-
core rebellion in 1 809 , and retiurned to England in 1 8 10.
In 1813 he married at Alderbury, Shropshire, Emma,
second daughter of Rev. Mr. Thornes. In 1815 he
returned to this Island, and " was soon appointed
Commandant of Batticaloa, where he resided until
the rebellion broke out in the Kandyan territories.
He then moved to Katabowa in Welassa, where his
services were eminently useful in keeping that part
of the country quiet, and in protecting and forwarding
supphes upon the hne of communications between
Batticaloa and Badulla. In Welassa Captain Jones
was attacked by a hver complaint, which at length
proved fatal. Captain Jones had always distinguished
( 7 )
St, Peter's Church, Fort— contd.
Serial No.
5 ..
Date.
April 18
*818
Name.
Sept. 1
1818
William Coke
Inscription.
Thomas Aldersey Jones — contd.
himself by the most scrupulous and honourabJe
discharge of his military duties. The strictest
attention to disciiDline was so tempered in him by a
suavity of manners and soundness of judgment, that
he was regarded by his brother officers, without any
invidious preference, as a pattern of military conduct,
and throughout his Regiment he was universally
respected and beloved." (Gazette, May 9, 1818.)
His Commanding Oflficer, Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly,
referred in highly eulogistic terms to his services in
supplying the troops, and in inspiring the Moormen of
Welassa with confidence. ( ' ' Manual of Uva," p. 108. )
He was thanked by General Order of March 19,
1816, for the good discipline he had kept in the
detachment of the 19th stationed in Colombo for the
last seven months, now about to embark for Trinco-
malee — nearly 200. One man only was confined for a
very minor offence.
He left a young widow and three infant children. "It
would be vain to offer our consolation to the volimae
of pubhc grief at such a moment of overwhelming
afiBiction," says the ever-sympathetic but somewhat
platitudinous Gazette, and it proceeds to moralize —
" The widow bereaved of such a husband must
rely upon the sustaining comforts of religion, and,
occupied in the maternal duties of endearing attention
to her children, wait until the lenient hand of time
shall have assuaged her sorrow."
He was the fourth son of John Lloyd Jones, Esq., of
Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire, and was born at
Maesmawr Hall, August 28, 1778, so that he was in
his 39th, and not in his 37th, year at the time of his
death. He married Susan, not Emma, Thornes.
She died October 31 , 1845. Their eldest son. Captain
John Thomas William Jones, born 1814, of the 43rd
Light Infantry and Royal Canadian Rifles, had a
distinguished career in Canada, and was A.D.C. to
the Governor-General. He died in 1885. The widow
and her three children are buried at Kensal Green.
Mr. Herbert White, C.C.S., is a relative.
There are a tombstone with inscription, and also a
tablet, neither of them in situ, at Batticaloa.
Kotabowa is about 34 miles south-east of BaduUa
on the road to Batticaloa.
Memorise positum Gulielmi Coke equitis ^di-
Christi Oxon alumni studentis regis Britanici in
hac usula concilio qui per annos decem rem
juridicam hie administravit juris consultus regius
socius judex prseses literisj humanioribus ornat-
issimus suavitate morum insignis, ingenio duleis
judicio sinoerus suis benignus omnibus facilis et
urbanus justitise et propositi impavidus sedplacide
vindex bonos omnes sibi conciliavit concivibus
dilectus indigenis veneratus quam cams vixit
quam flebilis oocidit nobis et posteris hoc marmor
testetur. Natus AngHa in agro Derviensi, deoessit
Trincomalse, Kal Septembris 1818, setat 43.
The Coke monument was erected in 1821. It
consists of a very large tablet of local stone in a frame
of classical design with Ionic pillars, and entablattire
all in black and white masonry. There is a tradition
that it was originally the tomb of General Hulffc
(which has disappeared from Wolvendaal, to which it
was removed in 1813) reversed, and with the new
inscription cut on the back.
" The death of the Hon. Sir WiUiam Coke, Puisne
Justice of the Supreme Court, took place on the
12th instant at Trincomalie, where Sir William had
arrived only a few days, for the purpose of holding a
Criminal Sessions on the commencement of his circuit.
Sir William landed on the 23rd ultimo and found
himself a little out of order the next morning, but was
not affected materially until night, when he was
severely attacked by a disorder which soon exhibited
alarming symptoms of dysentery ; some blood was
taken from him and he appeared to be a little better,
but was not considered out of danger. On Friday
evening Sir William was removed from the Admiral's
House by his own desire to the Minden, then lying
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St, Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
6 .,
Date.
Sept. 1
1818
Name.
William Coke — contd.
Inscription.
in the harbour, where everything was arranged for
his comfort in the spacious and airy cabin by order
of the Admiral, who showed the most anxious
solicitude for the recovery of his distinguished guest.
Sir William was attended on board the Minden by
Dr. Robson, Physician to the Forces, as well as by Mr.
Rodgers, the Admiral's Siu'geon, but aU human aid
was vain, and on Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock
he breathed his last. Th6 immediate cause of Sir
William's death was a mortification of the bowels,
which probably began at an earher stage of the
disorder, as he soon ceased to feel any extraordinary
pain. He expired without a struggle, and the last
expression upon his manly countenance was a placid
smile.
" The remains of Sir WiUiam Coke were carried to
the grave by the men of the 73rd Regiment at 6 o'clock
on the morning of the 2nd instant. Major-General
Jackson and every Civil and Military Servant, as well
as aU the officers of the Navy attended, and Rear-
Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart., walked as chief
mourner. The fimeral service was read by the
Rev. T. Ireland, Chaplain to the Forces, and the
concourse of natives was the greatest that has been
for many years seen m Trincomalee. While the
procession moved from the Admiralty House to the
chmchyard the band of the 73rd Regiment played
solemn pieces of music, and minute guns, 42 in
number, corresponding with the years of the
deceased's age, were fired from the saluting battery.
As soon as His Excellency the Governor received by
express the melancholy news of Sir WilUam Coke's
death, a General Order was published directing that
every mark of respect should be shown to the memory
of this distinguished servant of the Crown, who was
at the time of his decease the second person in rank
upon the Island of Ceylon. Accordingly, on the lOth
instant, the flag of the Fort of Colombo was hoisted
and remained during the whole of the day half-mast
high, and at noon the minute guns were fired from the
rampart.
' ' Sir Wilham Coke was educated at Westminster
School, where he was a King's Scholar, andin 1794 he
was elected to Christ Church in the University of
Oxford. On September 15, 1808, he arrived in
Ceylon as His Majesty's Advocate Fiscal, and on
March 12, 1809, he was nominated provisionally to be
Chief Justice. On October 28, 1810, he was by
Letters Patent regularly appointed Puisne Justice.
"The general feehng of the public towards a public
man is the best testimony of departed worth, and if
any circumstances were wanting to increase om
regret, it is an aggravation of our loss that we are
deprived of Sir WiUiam Coke's abUities and pro-
fessional knowledge at a moment when there is not
only no other Judge, but not a single EngUsh lawyer
in the Island of Ceylon. In private hfe Sir William
Coke was remarkable for that ease and sobriety of
manner which are the natural result of a public
education and an early introduction into good
company, operating upon a sound understanding and
obhging disposition. His loss must be long regretted
in a hmited society, of which from his rank and
accomplishments he formed so conspicuous a part."
{Gazette, September 12, 1818.)
Sir WiUiam Coke arrived by the H. C. ship Jane
Duchess of Gordon in 1808. He went to England in
the Albima (with John Downing, G.C.S.), leaving
GaUe on January 11, 1814, and returned in H.M.S.
Iphigenia from Madras, arriving at Trincomalee on
Jidy 20, 1816, after an absence of 2J years.
He went on to Jaffna in July 28 in the He6e
(Captain J. Morris, see No. 248), to hold the Jafina
Sessions, Charles Scott, C.C.S., J. G. Forbes, C.C.S.,
and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bennett being feUow passengers.
The Bennetts had only arrived at Trincomalee on
July 25 by H. M. brig Elk from Madras, which had
picked them up at sea from the Elphinstone, India-
man, bound for Madras. Mr. Bennett is noted for his
books on " Ceylon " and " Ceylon Fishes."
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St. Peter's Church, FoTt—contd.
Serial No.
6 ..
Date.
Sept. 1
1818
Name.
William Coke — contd.
March 11
1819
George Rivers Maltby
Feb. 7
1821
Alexander Cadell
Inscription.
Sir William held the Jaffna Sessions, and then
proceeded to Colombo , where he landed on August 19.
Governor Brownrigg gave him a dinner the same
day, and all heads of departments were invited to
meet him. " A general satisfaction prevailed among
all ranks at seeing once more restored to their society
a gentleman whose character has always stood so high
in the public estimation. When Sir William's health
was drunk he rose and in a short address, deUvered
with much feeling, expressed his thanks to the cona-
pany, and assured them that although he had just
left a country so dear to every Englishman, many
delightful associations united to remind him of former
happy years and cheer his voyage on a return to
Ceylon." (Gazette of August 21, 1816.)
J. W. ]3ennett, in his " Capabilities of Ceylon,"
pp. 226-7, relates an amusing incident that happened
on this passage from Trincomalee to Jaffna. Sir
William and the rest of the party landed at Point
Pedro, and were entertained by the Sitting Magistrate,
Mr. John Ernst Theile, a Prussian gentleman who had
served under Frederick the Great.
Sir William was second son of the Rev. D'Bwes Coke,
Rector of Plinxton, by Hannah, daughter of George
Heywood, Esq., of Brimington. His elder brother,
D'Ewes Coke, succeeded to the estate of Brookliill
Hall, Derbyshire, in 1811. His younger brother,
John Coke of Debdale Hall, Notts, was High Sheriff
of that county in 1810. The Cokes are related to the
Wilmots^of Chaddesden, Derbyshire, to which family
Edward Parr Wihnot belonged.
Sir W. Coke's house was at " Tanque Salgado,"
near Uplands, Mutwal. It was advertised for sale
with aU his effects on December 10, 1818.
Sacred to the memory of Gboege Rivebs Maltby, late
Captain in H. M. 16th Regiment of Foot, eldest son
'of the Rev. Dr. Maltby of Buckden in Huntindon-
shire, whose life was unfortunately terminated in
the 24th year of his age by a fall from his horse in
the neighbourhood of Colombo. Cut off in the
enjoyment of youth, health, and the brightest
prospects of success in his profession, his untimely
fate excited the deep regret of aU. who were
acquainted with his many excellent qualities.
By the Commanding Officer of his Regiment and his
brother officers who well knew and highly appre-
ciated his amiable character this tablet is erected
in testimony of their sincere regard.
Born May, 1796. Died 11th March, 1820.
Also inscription on his tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
" Hia death was occasioned by a fall from his horse,
from which he received so severe an injury as pre-
cluded every hope of his recovery, but by the efforts
of medical skill and imceasing attention by his friends
his life was protracted for one week, during which
time he evinced that fortitude and resignation which
might be expected from the amiable qualities of his
mind. He died at King's House." {Oazette.)
To the memory of Alexander Cadell, Esqr., who
was born at Carron Park in the County of Stirling,
North Britain, and died at Colombo on the 7th
February, 1821, in the 40th year of his age. He
resided 20 years in this Island, during the greater
part of which period he held the situation of Civil
and Military Paymaster-General. He was an
upright member of society, a zealous and faithful
servant of Government . This memorial of a much-
regretted relative was erected by his brothers.
He was appointed Writer in 1801, and Assistant in
the Cliief Secretary's Ofl&ce on arrival September 22,
1801; Deputy Paymaster of the Eastern Division,
November 3, 1802, and Paymaster-General April 30,
1803. On January 1, 1804, he became Collector of
Colombo ; on November 13, 1805. Collector of Jaffna ;
and on November 5, 1806, Civil and Military Pay-
master-Gfeneral.
82-09
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Feb. 7
1821
Name.
Alexander Cadell — contd.
Aug. 9
1821
Edward Tolfrey
Inscription.
When Lady William Bentinck, accompanied by the
Governor and Staff, paid a visit to Negombo for a few
days in 1805, embarkiftg at Pamunugama " on the
new canal " on June 12, Cadell, as Collector of the
District, entertained the party to " an elegant
collation." On October 25, 1820, he gave " a grand
diimer " to Sir Edward Barnes, Lieutenant-Governor,
which was the first entertainment attended by the
latter in Ceylon. There were upwards of fifty guests.
He died " of hver complaint which began to assume
an alarming appearance " on February 3.
The Colombo Kachcheri stands on land that
belonged to Cadell, which was known as CadeU's
Garden, or Cadell Disawagewatta. About 3 J acres of
it were purchased by Government on February 20,
1821, from his executors, James Maitland, W. C.
Gibson, and Simon Sawers, C.C.S., for the sum of
£600.
Sacred to the memory of Edwabd Tolfeey, Esq., of
His Majesty's Ceylon Civil Establishment, and late
Judicial Commissioner in the Kandian Provinces,
who after a period of nearly 20 years' service in
various parts of this Island died in Kandyon the
9th August, 1821. Aged 37 years.
" Mr. Tolfrey was one of those gentlemen sent out
to Ceylon in the first establishment of the Civil
Service in 1801 , and in the several situations which he
held under Government performed his duties with
credit to himself and utility to the public. In private
fife his amiable and friendly disposition secured to
him general esteem, and his loss to those who were
most intimately acquainted with him is proportionate
to their means of appreciating the value of his
friendship." {Gazette, August 14, 1821.)
The career of Edward Tolfrey in Ceylon almost
exactly coincided with that of Alexander Cadell.
They arrived together. He was a cousin of William
ToKrey. Spence Hardy erroneously states that
Samuel and WiUiajtn Tolfrey were brothers (" Jubilee
Memories," p. 278).
E. Tolfrey was appointed Secretary to the Board
of Revenue and Commerce September 22 ; Registrar
of the High Court and Commissioner of Stamps
December 28, 1803 ; to act as First Assistant at the
Kachcheri of Jaffna October 23, 1805 ; Collector,
Mannar, April 23, 1806 ; Provincial Judge of Gt^Ue
January 31, 1810, to November 1, 1811 ; on leave
1812-1813; he returned with Mrs. Mary Ann Tolfrey
and Miss Tolfrey by the Marchioness of Exeter in
October, 1813. The ship arrived oflt Galle on the 6th,
but was driven to the southward by strong currents,
anchored in Wehgama Bay, where she parted her
anchors on the 12th, and finally arrived at Trinco-
malee on the 17th. Other passengers were the Rev.
Thomas Ireland, Captain Benezet, R.A., Lieutenant
Mainwaring. Miss Tolfrey went on to Calcutta.
He became Deputy Controller-General of Customs
October 10, 1813; also Commissioner of Stamps
August 12, 1814; Controller-General of Customs
and Commissioner of Stamps September 1, 1816;
Auditor-General March 2, 1816, to March 1, 1817,
when he went on leave, again proceeding to
England with Mrs. Tolfrey in the ship Princess
Charlotte. They stopped on the way at the Cape,
and, says the Gazette, "We have the pleasure to
announce to the friends of Mrs. E. Tolfrey in the
society of Ceylon in which she was an ornament
and deservedly a favourite, that she had a son on
June 1,1817. Mr. Tolfrey experienced very material
benefit to his health." In January, 1820 he was
appomted Judicial Commissioner of Kandy ' On the
birthday of King George III., 1820, we find him
attending a dinner at the Resident's house (The Old
Palace), proposing toasts, and having his health
drunk, "the fine band of the 45th" attending He is
buned in the Garrison Cemetery there, but nothing
marks the grave.
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St. Peter's Ghureh, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
10 ..
Date.
Oct. 3
1821
Name.
William Geddes
11
June 19
1822
Johanna Magdalena Mudge .
12
May 25
1824
John D'Oyly
13
Aug. 15
1824
Thomas James Twisleton
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Bt. Lieut. -Colonel W.
Geddes, Captain H. M. 83rd Regt., who died at
Trincomalie on the 3rd Oct., 1821, age 58 years.
Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes was Commandant at
Balangoda during the Uva rebellion in 1818, and
arrived at Colombo from Balangoda in December of
that year. In 1819-20 he was Commandant at
Matara. He married a daughter of Major Thomas
Summerfield, 83rd Regiment, and sister of Mrs.
Thomas HoUoway Twynam.
Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes was commended by
Governor Sir Robert Brownrigg, the Commander of the
Forces, in General Orders, November 22, 1818, for
"his gallantry, zeal, and inteUigence manifested on
several occasions during the rebelUon."
Sacred to the memory of Johanna Magdalena
Mudge of Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, who
departed this life on the 19th June, 1822, on her
passage to Ceylon. This monument is erected by
her husband, Lieutenant Mudge, Royal Engineers,
as a humble tribute of his love and affection for her
departed worth.
The ship Olobe arrived from England on June 25,
with Lieutenant Mudge, Mrs. Mudge having died on
board " of a deep dechne, aged 26. Her mild and
benevolent disposition endeared her to all who had
the pleasure of her acquaintance." {Gazette.) From
her Christian names she must have been a Dutch
lady of the Cape. Lieutenant John Mudge, who
entered the Royal Engineers July 21, 1813, left
Ceylon before the end of 1822.
In memory of the Hon. Sir John D'Oyly, Bat., Resi-
dent of the Kandyan Provinces, and one of the
Members of H. M. Council of this Island, whose
meritorious services to the Goverimient from the
year 1802 and his talents during the Kandyan war
stand recorded in the archives of this Government
and in the office of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
Born 11th June, 1774. Died at Kandy, 25th May,
1824. Aged 49 years. He was the second son of
the Rev. Matthias D'Oyly, late Archdeacon of
Lewes in Sussex, and this memorial is erected by
his three surviving brothers.
Arms. — Or two bends azure.
Crest. — A demi-grifftn.
This inscription is word for word the same as that
on his grave in the Garrison Cemetery, Kandy (see
under " Kandy " for an account of Sir John D'Oyly).
The monument is almost exactly hke the one to Sir
WilUam Coke, except that the tablet is white marble.
Sacred to the memory of the Hon. and Venerable
Thomas James Twisleton, D.D., First Arch-
deacon of Colombo, who died universally lamented
at Hambantotte on the 15th August, 1824. Aged
52. He was second son of the Right Hon. Thomas ,
eleventh Lord Saye and Sele.
In Dr. Twisleton the scholar and the gentleman
were combined, to which he added the social and
the Christian virtues. He possessed unbounded
benevolence of heart and disposition, and charity
in its most comprehensive sense. That his
numerous good and amiable qualities may not be
buried in oblivion , and that his name may live in the
remembrance of the many whom he assisted and
befriended, this tablet is erected by his affectionate
wife and children.
"As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive."
He arrived at Colombo in February, 1804, as Chap-
lain to Government, or Colonial Chaplain. In addi-
tion he was appointed First Member and President of
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
13 . . Aug. 15 . . Thomas James Twisleton— the Com-t of Justices of the Peace February 27, 1806,
1 to. .„„,j Sitting Magistrate for the Town, Fort, and District of
I»Z4 conm. Colonfbo July 13, 1806. " In addition to his clerical
duties, he executed for many years the laborious
office of Sitting Magistrate of Colombo with the
greatest assiduity and to the general advantage of the
pubUc." {Gazette, August 21, 1824.) On July 15,
1807, probably being on a visit to Jaffna, he was
appointed Provincial Judge of that place, but rever-
ted to the Colombo Magistracy on March 23, 1808.
He was also Principal of Schools from May 9, 1804.
On April 12, 1818, the Archdeaconry of Colombo was
constituted by Letters Patent, with Twisleton as first
Archdeacon. ( " He resigned the Magistracy on being
appointed to the Archdeaconry.") He was installed
at St. Peter's by the Rev. George Bisset, Colonial
Chaplain, acting on commission for the Bishop of
Calcutta, on September 18, and read himself in on
September 1 9. But though he gave up the Magistracy,
he became a pluraUst again on August 29, 1812, when
he was instituted (while in Ceylon) to the valuable
rectory of Bradwell cum Addlestrop in Gloucester-
shire, the duties of which, even if laborious Hke those
of the former office, were capable of being performed,
like the ceremony of institution, by proxy.
He had been absent from Colombo for five months
before his death " on a visit to his daughter, Mrs.
Gisborne, in the Tangalle district, intending to con-
tinue his tour of official inspection to Trincomalee.
Four or five days prior to his decease, travelling to the
eastward of Hambantotte, he experienced an attack
of diarrhoea, but with no alarming symptoms, and he
was recovering from this disease, when on the morning
of the 15th instant he was seized with violent fever, in
consequence of which he preceded his family and the
rest of the party travelling with him, and accompanied
only by Mr. Morgan, Hospital Assistant to the Forces,
arrived at Hambantota, where he died shortly after-
wards, at 8 P.M., in the 54th year of his age. His
remains were interred at Tangalle on the 1 7th instant."
(Gazette, August 21, 1824.) The Gazette is, as usual,
very eulogistic. " His urbane and sociable manners
united, and arising from a kindness of heart, have
gained him the friendship and regard as well of those
who have been coeval with himself in the society of
Colombo as of more numerous members. Among the
poorer classes his charity will be remembered with due
regret for his loss, which will be equally felt by the
middle class of inhabitants of the Settlement." He
was instrumental in founding St. Paul's Church,
Pettah, in 1816. Spence Hardy is also eulogistic.
Archdeacon Twisleton was born September 28,
1770, and raarried at the age of 18, Charlotte Ann,
daughter of John Wattell,Esq. (September 26,1788),
by whom he had five children, and whom he divorced.
He married (2) Ann, daughter of Benjamin Ashe,
Esq. (June 7, 1798), by whom he had a son, Frederick,
who became 13th Baron Saye and Sele, and seven
other children. The eldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth,
married December 6, 1815, Wilham Gisborne, CCS.
She had gone home in 1809 by one of the fleet of
three ships which took Major-General Charles BaiUie,
the Hon. Mr. A. Johnston and his family, and the
Rev. Wilham Hamlyn Heywood. The latter went
in the Jane Duchess of Gordon, which was lost at sea
in March of that year. Mary Twisleton was more
fortunate, and returned with her mother ahd sister
Ann to Ceylon in October, 1813. But Ann left for
home again in the transport Amiston in 1815, and was
lost on the voyage home in that ship near the Cape,
May 30, 1815, with Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Moles-
worth, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, who had been Com-
mandant at Jaffna and at Galle, and the Viscoimtess.
Mrs. Gisborne married (2) Captain T. H. Twynam.
His daughter by his first wife, JuUa EUza, married
Captain James Brown, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, who
was killed in a duel with Captain Parker (see No. 96).
She died March 28, 1832, leaving an only son, who
became Vicar of Sydling. He was born at Colombo,
April 10, 1809.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — cmtd.
Serial No..
14 ..
Date.
Aprils
1826
Name.
Reginald Heber
15
May 20
1828
Henry Matthews
Inscription.
This tablet is erected by the British in Ceylon to the
memory of Reginald Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop
of Calcutta, who, turning cheerfully from the enjoy-
ments of home and the prospects of honour in
England, undertook in faith and hope the epis-
copal charge of his brethren in the Indian Empire,
and Mved and died there, watchful, indefatigable,
devoted friend and pastor. In the short space of
three years he animated by his presence almost
every part of his vast diocese , and while he every-
where encouraged in the Island as on the penin-
sula, with special and parental care, the Church
already formed, and visited with thankful joy the
converts of his flocks, he looked earnestly to the
day when to the heathen also he might be the
means of preaching the Gospel of Christ, and might
thus be not only the Prelate of India, but the Chief
Missionary of England to the East.
He was born 21st April, 1783, consecrated Bishop of
Calcutta 1823, died 3rd April, 1826.
Bishop Heber held a visitation in Ceylon in Sep-
tember, 1825. He preached in St. Peter's, Fort, on
Sunday, September 11, from Acts 11, 39, on behalf of
Bishop's College, Calcutta, and a meeting was held at
King's House next morning " to consider the best
mode of appropriating the collection made yesterday."
On September 14 the Governor and the Bishop at
daybreak, accompanied by Mrs. Heber, the Acting
Archdeacon (Glenie), and the Bev. Mr. Robinson,
left Colombo for Kandy. The party was to sleep at
" Ootuankandy," and reach Kandy the next morning
for breakfast. He was to hold an ordination and a
confirmation at St. Peter's on Wednesday, September
21. On September 25 he consecrated Baddegama
Church. Mrs, Heber's " Journal of a Tour in Ceylon "
was published in 1828.
Sacred to the memory of the Honourable Henry
Matthews, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court
of Judicature of Ceylon.
Born 21st June, 1789. Died 20th May, 1828.
He is buried in the church, a slab in the centre
passage marking the spot. He was educated at Eton ,
and King's College, Cambridge, and in 1819 had
published " The Diary of an Invalid," which obtained
some poptdarity. After call to the. Bar at Lincoln's
Inn, he was appointed Advocate Fiscal, Ceylon,
November 1, 1821, and in 1827 Puisne Justice
(sworn in on October 9). His son, Henry, born at
Colombo, January 13, 1826, was Home Secretary
in Lord SaUsbury's second administration, and
was created Viscount LlandaS. "The short period
during which it was permitted to Mr. Matthews
to exercise his judicial functions fuUy reahzed
the expectations, even of those who had been in the
habit of listening to and admiring his brilliant
efforts as an Advocate. His natviral talents were
of the very highest order. Strength of mind, quick-
ness of perception, and accuracy of judgment directed
and tempered a warmth of feeling which influenced
every action of his hfe and ardour in the discharge
of his pubUc duties, which neither fatigue nor bodily
suffering could damp, nor anything but death itself
could extinguish. His attainments, independently
of such as were incidental to his profession, were
those of an elegant scholar and a poUshed gentleman.
But it was in the private relations of hfe, and above
aU in the bosom of his family, that it was most pleasing
to contemplate his amiable and endearing quahties.
As a husband and father his conduct was above
all praise. Such, indeed, was his devotedness to the
dearest objects of his affections, that he might have
been supposed to be wholly absorbed in them, if the
nimiber of his friends who now deplore his loss did
not testify that his heart was as capacious as it was
open and accessible. His highly cultivated mind and
extensive information, his manly and generous senti-
ments, and the playfulness of liis imagination rendered
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
15 ..
Date.
May 20
1828
Name.
Henry Matthews — contd.
16
March 31
1832
Hamilton Bailey
17
March 8
1833
Henrietta Charlotte Sneyd
18
March 20
1834
Frances Sillery
Inscription.
him the charm and delight of society. And thos&
who were fortunate enough to enjoy an intimacy
with him felt that thus to know and not to love him was
scarcely possible. Kind and affectionate as was his
life, his end was in every way worthy of it. On the
bed of sickness and of death, his body worn down by
lingering disease, he was still the same ; his thought
still fixed on every one rather than himself. Forti-
tude the most undaunted, resignation the most
exemplary, marked his last moments ; and gave proof,
cheering and undeniable, of a mind cabnly conscious
of its own rectitude. The grief of his friends wiU be
deep and lasting. But even they must feel hghtly in.
comparison with one whom nothing but a mind the
counterpart of his own, and a firm rehance on that
hope, which teaches that the separation is but for a
space, could have supported under this most trying
visitation." (Gazette of May 24, 1828.)*
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews came out by the ship
Windsor Castle, which left Portsmouth November 8,
1821, and arrived at Colombo March 17, 1822.
He lived at Mutwal. His widow, Emma, long
survived him, dying at Paris on July 30, 1861.
In memory of Hamilton , wife of Reverend B . Bailey ,
M.A., Senior Colonial Chaplain of the Island of
Ceylon, and only daughter of the Right Reverend
George Gleig, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c., Senior
Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Bom at
StirUng, N. B., on the 19th April, 1793, and died at
Colombo , Island of Ceylon, on the 31st March, 1832.
" This mortal must put on immortality." 1 Cor.,
XV., 53. Erected by her sorrowing husband.
' ' Where from their suffering saint's repose , thou art
For ever blessing and for ever blest ;
Here pain and sorrow wrung thy gentle heart,
There in thy proper sphere thou art at rest.
Most loved, most loving, and most lovable,
To whom a purer happier world is given ;
A broken heart can only say Farewell,
Farewell, FareweU, until we meet in heaven."
Also an inscription on tomb in the Galle Face
Cemetery. Dr. Gleig was consecrated Bishop of
Brechin in 1808 (see No. 30).
Sacred to the memory of Henrietta Chahlottb, the
beloved wife of Richard Malone Sneyd, Esqr., of
the Ceylon Civil Service, and eldest child of Charles
Edward Layard, Esqr., of the same service, and
Barbara, his wife. She died at Point de Galle on
March 8th, 1833, in her 28th year.
" Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord."
Rev. xiv., 13.
She is buried in the Dutch Church, GaUe, where
there is a tablet. R. M. Sneyd was District Judge
there at the time of her death. He retired September
6, 1837, after 23 years' service at Matara, TangaUa,
Mannar, Chilaw, Batticaloa, and Galle. He died
at Leamington, October 23, 1861.
She was eldest daughter of C. E. Layard, C.C.S., and
married R. M. Sneyd, September 28, 1827, at St.
Paul's, Colombo (see No. 47).
Sacred to the memory of Feajstces, wife of Robebt
SnxEEY, M.D. , and daughter of the Revd. Richard
Williams, Rector of Great Houghton, Northamp-
tonshire, who died at Galle, March 20th, 1834.
Aged 32.
The register of the Dutch Church, GaUe, curiously
enough, shows that she was buried in the Church on
March 19. The inscription there adds that the Rev.
Mr. WiUiams was a Prebendary of Lincoln, and that
she was his third daughter. She was married at Great
Houghton, September 12, 1825.
* There is a notice of Matthews in the " Dictionary of National Biography" as well as in AUibone's <• Dictionary of
Authors." He was a son of John Matthews, M.P. for Herefordshire in the Parliament of 1802-6. His brother, Charles Skimier
Matthews, who was drowned boating on the Cam, a Fellow of Downing, was an intimate friend of Byron's.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
18 .
Date.
March 20
1834
Name.
Frances SiWery— contd.
19
April 30
1835
John Gore
20
Feb. 5
1837
Daniel Corrie
21
May 19
1838
William Rough
Inscription.
. Staff Assistant Surgeon and Mrs. Sillery arrived in
Ceylon on March 30, 1826, by the same ship, the
Pyramus, that brought Colonel Muller (see No. 113).
Lieut. R. S. C. Sillery, probably a son, was in the
Ceylon Rifles, 1848-1857, and was afterwards a
planter at Kitulgala and Pussellawa, and on Bath-
ford, Dikoya (1864).
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. John Goeb , R.N. , only
son of Vice- Admiral Sir John Goee, K.C.B., who
during the voyage home of his father's iFlagship
Melville from this station perished heroically in an
unsuccessful attempt to save the life of a brother
sailor,o£fAlgoa Bay, on the 30th April, 1835. Aged
23 years. In the pride of youth, in the bloom of
health, in the height of energy, with fervour of
hope, beloved, respected, and admired, one fatal
moment consigned him to a watery grave. The
Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed
be the name of the Lord.
Tins tablet was placed here by his friend, the Right
Hon. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Bart., G.C.H.,
Governor of Ceylon. October ,M.D.C.C.C.XXXVII.
Sacred to the memory of the Right Reverend Daniel
Corbie, LL.D., 1st Bishop of Madras, consecrated
at Lambeth, June 14, 1835, died February 5, 1837.
This tablet was erected by the inhabitants of the
Archdeaconry of Ceylon as a test of their love an"d
veneration for one who for more than 30 years held
forth to both Europeans and natives in his personal
ministration and by stimulating and directing
the efforts of others, first as Chaplain of the East
India Company on the Bengal Establishment, and
successively as Archdeacon of Calcutta and Bishop
of Madras, salvation by means of grace through
faith in Christ wrought in the heart by the Holy
Spirit and working by love and in all holy
obedience.
A white marble tablet with medallion portrait.
Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
In memory of Sir William Rough, Knight, Serjeant-
at-law, late Chief Justice of the Island of Ceyloii,
who died at Nuwara EUia, 19th May, 1838. Aged
64 years.
This tablet was erected by bis Judicial, Civil,
Mihtary, and numerous other attached friends in
the Colony in testimony of their deep and affec-
tionate respect for his pubUc and private character,
for his extensive learning, his inflexible integrity ,
his impartial justice, his high moral courage, and
his pure humanity as a judge, his amiable dis-
position, great benevolence, and eminent social
quahties as a man.
Arms. — Gyronny of eight, or and ermine, a griffin
segreant, on a chief sable a demi-lion rampant between
two crescents.
Crest. — A demi-lion.
This tablet was designed for the most part by
Mr. H. Tufnell (Sir R. Wihnot-Horton's son-in-law),
who with Mrs. Tufnell had paid a visit to the Island
in 1833, and who subsequent^' became a Lord of the
Admiralty. In a letter to the Rev. B. Bailey he states
that "the grouping of -the insignia in the pediment
is taken in some measure from the monument to
Lord Mansfield in Westminster Abbey." It came out
in the Symmetry in 1840. It is of classical design,
with fasces, &c.
In 1830 Mr. Serjeant Rough acted as Puisne Justice,
in place of Sir Charles Marshall, acting as Chief
Justice, and in 1831 he was appointed Puisne Judge
He was Chief Justice 1836-1838. He was knighted
August 8, 1837. He had been in Demarara, and
therefore had had some practical knowledge of Roman-
Dutch Law. ' ' Mr. Rough brings with him a well-
grounded knowledge of his profession , and particularly ■
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
21 ..
Date.
May 19
1838
Name.
William Rough — contd.
22
Sept. 27
1838
Charles Wallett
Inscription.
of the Civil and Dutch Law, an acquisition of no smaU
moment to the inhabitants of this Colony. He brings
with him, moreover, a highly cultivated mind enriched
from the stores of classical lore and trained to hberal
and sound constitutional principles, and, though last,
not least, a character in private life of unsulUed in-
tegrity and an amiableness of disposition that has
secured him the respect and esteem of all who have
had the pleasure of knowing him. In Mr. Rough,
then, we have a good man, an experienced lawyer, and
an upright judge. " (Colombo Observer, July, 1 836. ) "A
gentleman of the old school, a man of the most
undeviating reetitude,a hospitable and cordial friend."
(Ibid.) He was a friend of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord
Denman, also " of Walter Savage Lander, and in the
recently published life of Landor is alluded to as the
author of some pleasing verses." (Digby, "Forty Years
in an Oriental Crown Colony," vol. IL, p. 81.) To
these friends of his maybe added, according to Mr. A.
M. Ferguson, Henry Kirke White. His illness had
been of some weeks' duration. He left two daughters
and a son. One of the daughters, Harriet Joanna,
married at Colombo, August 11, 1832, Major Thomas
Edward HaU of the 97th Regiment, Commandant of
Kotmale District and a Deputy Lieutenant of Killean,
Argyllshire, and had a son, Angus WiUiam, who,
born at Nuwara Ehya, December 19, 1834, became
Sir Angus Hall, K.C.B., and died at Dinterwood,
Pontrilas, Herefordshire, in January, 1907.
The son, W. H. Rough, was Private Secretary to the
Chief Justice, Sir Charles Marshall, in 1832, Acting
Postmaster-General, April 2, 1835, and Assistant
Government Agent, Trincomalee and Kandy, in 1837.
There is some correspondence between Sir Wilhatn
Rough and the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie,
Governor, which was carried on between November,
1837, and April, 1838, pubhshed in the Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., pp. 1-6, from which it
appears that he had been m.uch of an invaUd from
early in April. "He expired without a struggle at
5 minutes past 7 o'clock this evening D . Saner was
in attendance." (Letter from Major Simmonds, 61st
Regiment, Commandant.) It is not easy to make out
what the correspondence was about, but apparently
there was a difference of opinion between the Chief
Justice and Mr. Justice Stoddart, and the former did
not know exactly what line the Governor would
take.
To the memory of Chaeles Wailett, Esq. (only son
of Major Wallett, Ceylon Rifle Regt.), who was
killed by. an elephant near Ruanwella on the 27th
September, 1838, in the 20th year of his age. A
young man of great promise' whose amiable
disposition and frankness and manly spirit endeared
him to all who knew him. This tablet was erected
by some of his friends.
Also on his tomb in the GaUe Face Cemetery. He
was employed in the Commissioner of Roads' Depart-
ment.
' ' Having heard of a tusker , Mr. Wallett , attended by
two native boys, went in pursuit and met it in a herd
of three. He fired one barrel, and is said to have hit
the animal ; but the second barrel of his gun missed
fire, and the elephant rushed upon him before he
could get another gun from his terrified attendants.
It immediately crushed him to death, and went off
for a few minutes ; but, returning, thrust his tusks
through the body, and tore all the clothes off it. It
is a curious coincidence that Mr. Wallett lost his life
not far distant from the place where Major Haddock
was killed by an elephant seven years' ago." (Colombo
Observer, October 1, 1838, quoted by Forbes, "Eleven
Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 146.) Major Forbes,
also from the same paper, gives an accoimt of
the destruction of this elephant three weeks later by
Lieutenant Gallwey, 90th Light Infantry, and Ensign
Scroggs, 18th Royal Irish Regiment.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort— con^d
Serial No. Date.
23 . . Aug. 29
1839
Name.
Frederick Stoddart
24
Jan. 23
1841
Henry Augustus Marshall.
Inscription.
This tablet was erected by his friends to the memory of
the Hon. John Frederick Stoddart, one of the
Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of the Island of
Ceylon, as a memorial of their respect and esteem for his
high intellectual powers, profound legal attainments,
and many pubhc and private virtues. He was born at
Malta on the 22nd September, 1805, and died in Colombo
29th August, 1839.
" It is a joy to the just to do judgment." Prov. xxi. , 15.
Arms. — On a chevron, between two stars, a cross.
Crest. — A sword and battle-axe in saJtire.
Also inscription on his tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
He was son of Sir John Stoddart, a former Chief Justice
of Malta, and grandson by his mother of Sir Henry
Moncreiff, and was educated at the High School at the
University of Edinburgh and at the University of Glasgow.
He was called to the English Bar, and was in 1836 appointed
Puisne Judge, Ceylon. " He was endowed with intellectual
power of a high order, combining in a remarkable degree
vigorous energy with sobriety and acuteness." {Colombo
Observer, February 17, 1840.) Sir Anthony Oliphant, the
Chief Justice, made two or three attempts at writing his
epitaph, but was not satisfied with them, remarking in a
letter to the Governor, Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, " I am no
Deacon at writing epitaphs." (Ceylon Literary Register.
vol. VI., p. 228.)
In memory of Henry Augustus Marshall, Esq. , for many
years Auditor and Accountant-General of this Island. He
was educated at Harrow and at Charterhouse and at Christ
Church, Oxford, and entered the Ceylon CiyU Service in
1798, having accompanied the Honourable Fredk. North
to the Island, from which time he never returned to Europe.
He was an elegant classical scholar and a sincere Christian.
He died on 23rd January, 1841, in the 64th year of his
age. This tablet is erected by his widow and two sons as
a testimony of their love and respect.
Also inscription on tomb in. Galle Face Cemetery.
Arms. — Argent, a chief poly of seven, or, and gules.
Crest. — A stag's head erased.
According to the Colombo Observer of January 25, 1841,
"he was admitted to be the best classical scholar for many
years in the Island." " During the holidays he took a trip
to Nuwara Ehya, after which he appeared in excellent health
and spirits, but fever soon made its appearance, imder which
he sank in a few days." (Ibid.) In a letter to a Ceylon
newspaper he states that he left England on February 17,
1798. He was called " Iniquity Marshall," merely to
distinguish him from a quondam contemporary, Sir Charles
Marshall, Chief Justice, 1833-1836, who was known as
" Equity Marshall." Though he never went to Europe, he
seems to have proceeded on a voyage to Europe in December,
1802, when he left in the Bengal, and on a voyage to the
Cape in 1832, arriving there January 10, in the York, which
left again on January 12.
He was on North's first establishment as 1st Clerk, Civil
Department, on £250 a year ; he was Deputy Registrar to the
Supreme Court in January, 1800, and in September, 1801,
was appointed Second Assistant in the Secretariat, but
resigned on the appointment of the Arbuthnots. In June,
1802, he visited and reported on the cotton plantation at
Karisal in Mannar Island. He was appointed Sitting
Magistrate at Trincomalee, June 29, 1803 ; Provincial Judge
of Matara, February 26, 1804 ; Provincial Judge of Jaffna,
November 20, 1805; Provincial Judge of Negombo, March 1 1 ,
1807; wEis unemployed in 1815,' but became Controller-
General of Customs, February 1,1816, and Auditor-General,
1822, holding the last appointment till his death. He can
hardly have gone to Europe in 1 802-3 , for he left in December
and was back by June, but his jnarriage did not take place
in Ceylon. Query, Did he marry at tlie Cape or in India ?
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell in his " Excursions and Field
Sports in Ceylon " refers to " Mr. and Mrs. Marshall and their
charming abode situated on the seashore about three miles
from Colombo " (p. 324).
82-09
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St. Peter's Church, FoTt—contd.
Serial No.
25 ..
Date.
Dec. 22
1842
Name.
Jane Vivian Parke
26
April 15
1847
Elizabeth Mary Steuart
27
Dec. 22
1849
Ann Steuart
28
Aprils
1850
John Pierre Jumeaux
29
March 12
1852
May 30
1853
July 5
1854
Robert Macgregor
Robert Imray
George Edward Hunter
Inscription.
In memory of Jaite Viviai^, wife of Major Parke,
Deputy Commissary-General of Ceylon, who died at
Colombo, December 22nd, 1842. Aged 36 years.
This tablet was erected by her devoted and sorrowing
husband. If we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so, them also, which sleep in Jesus, wiU
God bring with Him. 1 Thess. iv., 14.
Also an inscription on her tomb in the Galle Face
Cemetery, where her four infant children, Penelope,
Bliss, Bliss Charles, and Arthur Wellesley are buried,
the last two twins who died on August 29 and 3 1 , 1841.
Major George Thomas Parke came out with the
61st Regiment in 1828 and transferred to the Ceylon
Rifles. He was for some time in the Commissariat.
He left Ceylon with his four children in the ss.
Hindustan "after 16 years' residence, with what jnay
be considered an ample fortune" made at coffee
planting. In 1844 he and Henry Wright, C.C.S.,
Treasurer of the Colony, were proprietors of Hantane
estate, Kandy. On March 26, 1845, at St. James's
Church, Guernsey, he married (2) Joanna, daughter
of Colonel T. Kennedy of Guernsey. He returned
to Ceylon, which he left finally on May 12, 1849.
His son, Captain Fortescue Parke, was drowned on
Windermere, June 1 1 , 1 861 , by the upsetting of a boat.
Mrs. Parke was a daughter of Colonel Spicer, R.A.,
and her sister was wife of Brevet Lieut. -Colonel
E. Charlton, K.H., who was Adjutant-General,
Ceylon, 1839-1842.
In memory of Elizabeth Mary, wife of George
Steuabt, Esq., eldest daughter of the late Joseph
Dewsnap, Esq., R.N., of Greenwich Hospital.
She lived beloved, and died lamented, April 15th,
1847. Aged 43 years.
Also inscription on tomb in Galle Face Cemetery
(see No. 49).
In memory of Ajstn, for upwards of 34 years the
beloved wife of James Steuart. She arrived in
Ceylon 22nd December, 1824, and died at Colpetty,
22nd December, 1849. Aged 57 years. " Thy
will be done, O Lord."
Inscription in identical terms on tomb in Galle
Face Cemetery (see No. 37).
Sacred to the memory of John Pierre JuMEAtrx, bom
at Delhi, Hindustan, on the 15th July, 1792, and
departed this life on the 8th April, 1850, at
Colombo, Ceylon.
Also inscription on tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
He was appointed Fiscal of the Western Province,
Feb. 1, 1839, and to the Civil Service, Nov. 30, 1844.
" Jumeaux was of French descent .... To show how
times past, present, and future may be closely linked
together, I may mention that the late Mr. Jumeaux,
Fiscal of Colombo, showed me a book presented to
him by his friend Le Grand, whose yoimg and
beautiful wife was separated from him at Calcutta
by the wickedness of Francis, the able but malignant
writer of Junius' letters In the book, presentation
copy of which I saw, Le Grand gave details of his
wrongs at the hands of Francis." (A. M. Ferguson.)
Madame Grand subsequently became the wife of
Talleyrand. John Jumeaux mai-ried Julje, daughter
of Colonel Migot de la Combe of tlie French Artillery,
at Mah6, on the Malabar Coast, where they resided for
a time. Their daughter, Fanny Henrietta, married
John Ai-mitage, of the well-known firm of Colombo
merchants, on September 6, 1838, at Colombo.
This tablet is erected by the officers of Her Majesty's
15th Regiment in testimony of their sincere regret
at the loss of the under-mentioned brother officers
during the period of the Regiment's service in
Ceylon : —
Captain and Paymaster Robert Macgregor, after a
long period of service as subaltern in the Regiment,
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St. Peter's Church, Foit—contd.
Serial No.
29 ..
Date.
Mar. 12
1852, &c.
Name.
Robert Macgregor, &c,—contd.
30
June 25
1853
Benjamin Bailey
31
July 25
1854
Thomas Dawson
Inscription.
assumed the duties of Paymaster shortly after his
promotion, and died at Colombo on the 12th March,
1852. Aged 42 years.
Quartermaster Robert Imbay, after a long period
of service in Ceylon in Her Majesty's 83rd Regi-
ment, during a part of which time he was actively
engaged in the suppression of the Kandian
Rebellion, again returned to Ceylon in 1846, and
after a long and meritorious career died at
Colombo on the 30th of May, 1853, at the age of
59 years, universally esteemed and respected.
Lieutenant Geoege Edwabd Httnteb, a young
officer, who by his many amiable quaUties had
won for himself the respect and sincere regard
of his brother officers, was attacked by cholera at
Kandy on the 5th July, 1854, and died after six
hours' suffering at the early age of 25 years.
(See Nos. 189, 192.)
The 15th York East Riding Regiment was in Ceylon
from 1846 to 1854, and was stationed at Kandy. It
was under the conunartd of Lieutenant-Colonel T. A.
Drought, and detachments of it took part in the sup-
pression of the Matale rebellion. Among the subal-
terns were Lieutenant Johnson Wilkinson, who became
a General, and with his twin brother, Osborn, who
also became a General, wrote a book called " The
Gemini Generals " (1896) , containing his reminiscences
of Ceylon. Another brother, James Allix Wilkinson,
was also a subaltern in the 15th, and in Ceylon at the
same time. He became a coffee planter. There were
also Ensign F. H. Mylius, son of Captain Alfred
MyUus (No. 100), who became Rector of Ehndon,
near Birmingham, and father of Mr. Rodney
Mylius of Stonycliff, Dimbula. Lieutenant W. W.
Turner, afterwards Sir WilHam Turner, a famous
soldier and sportsman, was also in the regiment and
in Ceylon.
The Salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. — Psaku
xxxvii., 39.
To the memory of the Venerable Benjamin
Bailey, D.D., Archdeacon of Colombo, who minis-
tered for more than 20 years as Senior Colonial
Chaplain in this Church, this tablet is erected by
his friends, who held in deserved respect his sincere
piety, his high hterary attainments, and the
uncompromising truthfulness and sincerity of
his character. He was born at Thorney Abbey,
Cambridgeshire, on the 5th June, 1791 , and died in
London on the 25th June, 1853.
He was appointed Senior Colonial Chaplain in 1832
(see No. 16). " To his hospitable reception in his
home of ' mind and learning ' at Kollupitiya, of
Mrs. Fletcher, wife of a Bombay Chaplain, but better
known as the poetess Miss Jewsbury, Ceylon owes the
most beautiful set of verses which were ever written
in the island, or respecting it." (A. M. Ferguson.)
Tlie verses referred to are those entitled ' ' The Eden
of the Sea." Mrs. Fletcher lies buried in the cemetery
of Poonah, a victim to cholera.
His only daughter, Janet, married at St. Peter's,
April 7, 1844, Edward Ledwiok Mitford, who was
appointed a Writer in November, 1844, and retired
from the Civil Service in 1867 while Government
Agent of the North-Western Province on a pension
of £605. 9s. id. a year. He is still living (1910).
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Dawson, who
departed this hfe July 25th, 1854. Aged 66| years.
He faithfully served the Crown for 44 years, 21 of
which he was Ordnance Storekeeper of Ceylon.
This tablet was erected by his beloved widow and
family.
" Unto the upright there ariseth light in the
darkness." Psalm cxii., 4.
Also on tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
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St, Peter's Church, Toit-contd.
Serial No.
31 .
Date.
July 25
1854
Name.
Thomas Dawson — contd.
32
May 4
1861
James Caulfleld
Inscription.
Originally a Bombardier, Royal ArtiUery, he was
appointed on July 10, 1810, clerk in the CivU Ord-
nance Department at Tricomalee. He was Deputy
Storekeeper of Ordnance at Galle, 1828-1831. On
November 6, 1814, he married Miss Margaret Flood
at Trincomalee. Mrs. Lyons was a daughter (see
No. 185). His second daughter, Frances Christina,
married at Trincomalee, February 19, 1834, Henry
E. A. Glasgow, clerk of Ordnance at Trincomalee.
Another daughter (the 6th), Eleanor, married at
Colombo, December 24, 1859, Mr. F. G. Vick, and his
yoimgesfc daughter, Charlotte, married at Colombo,
October 18, 1849, Sussex Charles Melford, Esq.,
Bombay Army, eldest son of S. F. MeHord Esq.,
Master in Equity and Judge of the Vice-Admiralty
Court at Sydney, New South Wales. His eldest son,
Thomas W. G. , died at Jaffna, March 21 , 1842, in his
23rd year. Mrs. Dawson died at Colombo, March 17,
1861.
This tablet was erected by the Civil Service to the
memory of James Catjlfield, late Treasurer of
this Colony. He was born in Ireland, 19th July,
1806. He died at Kandy, 4th May, 1861.
Few men have lived more loved and respected, few
have died more sincerely regretted.
Arms on Tablet. — Barry of nine and — on a canton
— a lion passant guardant.
Crest. — A rose with three leaves.
Also an inscription on tombstone in the Garrison
Cemetery, Kandy.
He was a son of the Rector of Skibbereen in Ireland,
another son being Captain Henry Caulfleld, 58th Regi-
ment. The third son, the Rev. Charles Caulfleld,
became a West Indian Bishop. James began life as
a midshipman in one of the old H. E. I. C.'s ships,
but did not hke the hfe. His career in Ceylon dates
from March 1, 1823, when he became an Assistant
Superintendent in the Cinnamon Department under
John Walbeoff (see No. 110). He was gazetted
Fiscal of Colombo from January 1, 1832, and also an
Assistant in the Cinnamon Department from March
23 ; Assistant Government Agent, Galle, December 1,
1833; Assistant Government Agent, Hambantota,
April 1, 1834; on leave from January 5, 1836, to
November 7, 1837, returning ia the Malabar, which
brought Governor and Mrs. Stewa^rt Mackenzie and
Mr. A. M. Ferguson to the Island ; Acting Assistant
Government Agent, Western Province, and District
Judge of Puttalam, December 1, 1839; confirmed in
this appointment, February 1, 1841 ; District Judge
of Mannar and Nuwarakalawiya, May 1, 1843;
Assistant Government Agent, Northern Province,
and District Judge, Mannar, January 1, 1845;
Government Agent, North- Western Province, Octo-
ber 1, 1845; Acting Treasurer, January 1, 1850;
Government Agent, North- Western' Province, July
1, 1851 ; confirmed as Treasurer, October 23, 1854.
He died of disease of the heart of long standing. He
married at Chilaw, October 17, 1840, Eliza, widow of
Major S. A. Rehe, H. E. I. C.'s Service, and daughter
of Captain French Gray (see Nos. 33 and 199). He
had a son, Hans Charles Caulfleld, born in 1841, who ^
was in the Civil Service (1859-1867), and died June 26,
1867, two days after landing at Southampton on
leave after a stay for some time at Cape Town at the
house of the Governor, Sir Philip Woodhouse, a former
Ceylon Civilian and a friend of his father's. Another
son, James, emigrated to America. His eldest
daughter died at her uncle's house in the West Indies.
He was one of those civilians of the forties who
combined coffee planting with their official service — a
propensity which ultimately brought about Lord
Stanley's despatch of 1845 and the foundation of the
present Civil Service. He went into partnership
with Benjamin Dodsworth, M.D., who had married
a daughter of John Walbeoff, C.C.S., Superintendent
of the Cinnamon Department, under whom Caulfleld
had worked, to whose children he had acted as
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
■Serial No.
32 ,,
Date.
May 4
1861
Name.
James Caulfleld — cofitd.
33
Sept. 2
1864
Henry Rogers levers
34
June 13
1865
Charles Sim
36
36
April 18
1866
Oct. 9
1867
James Dowding
Percival Acland Dyke
Inscription.
guardian, and of whom he always spoke in the kindest
terms. They purchased Crown land and planted it
with coffee. The estate was called " Charlemont,"
after the Charlemont family, with which the Caulflelds
were in some way connected, and Dodsworth worked
it. Caulfield aupphed the capital, or part of it, from
borrowed money, and the debt hung like a millstone
round his neck nearly up to the last. In pursuance
of the Secretary of State's ruling he was asked if he
had given up his interest in land. His reply was
that he had purchased the land from Government,
almost on the recommendation of Government to
civilians at the time to invest in land, as there was
then no Widows' Pension Fund ; that he had spent a
large sum on the estate; that it was worth £5,000
sterhng, but that he was quite ready to make it over
to Government for that price. The subject dropped
and was not revived. He made nothing out of the
estate in the long run, and Dodsworth retired and
went to England.
In memory of Lt. H. R. Ievees, R1. Artillery, who
died at sea, 2nd Sept., 1864. Aged 32. W. M.,
No. 112, I. C.
This tablet is erected by the Brethren of his Lodge.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and
the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
He married at Colombo, June 14, 1860, EKza
Anderson, only daughter of Major S. A. Rehe, H. E.
I. C.'s Service (see No. 196). She was very tall and he
was very short ; she was called " The Great Eastern."
He must have been of the same family as the late
R. W. levers, C.C.S., C.M.G.
To the memory of Chaeles Sim, fourth son of John
Sim, Esq., of Coombe Wood, Surrey, Lieut. -
Colonel Royal Engineers, Surveyor- General of
this Island, wlio died at sea two days after leaving
Point de Galle on his voyage home on the 13th
June, 1865, in the 44th year of his age.
This tablet is erected by his sorrowing brother.
Arms. — On a chevron between two mullets pierced
in. chief and a battle-axe in base, a boar's head
between two hands holding a dagger.
Crest. — A Moor's head in profile.
Motto. — " Quod verum tutum."
There is a tablet, also with a medallion, in Holy
Trinity Church, Colombo, erected by Freemasons in
Ceylon. It ends "Multis ille bonis plebilis occidit."
Lieutenant-Colonel Sim was appointed Surveyor-
General, December 1, 1858, having acted in that capa-
city from December 1, 1854, to December 23, 1855.
He was on leave from November 16, 1860, to Sep-
tember 23, 1861. He entered the Royal Engineers in
1851, and was stationed at Kandy as a Captain in
1854 and in 1866-7.
Sacred to the memory of Cr. Sgt. Jambs Dov^ding,
2nd Batt. 25 Regt., King's Own Borderers, who
departed this life at Trincomalee, 18th April, 1866,
in the 30th year of his age. This tablet is erected
by the Sergeants of his Battalion.
This tablet is erected by the Ceylon Civil Service in
testimony of their respect for the memory of
Pekcival Acland Dyke, for upwards of 45 years
a member of the Service, and for the last 38 years
of his life the Government Agent of the Northern
Province of Ceylon. Known no less for his untiring
devotion to the Public Service than for his capacity
for administration and the zeal which he dis-
played in promoting the interests of the people
over whom he was placed. He rested from his
labours on the 9th October, 1867.
Arms. — Three cinque foils.
He is buried in Chundikuli Churchyard, Jaffna
(see under " Jaffna").
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St. Peter's Church, Fott—contd.
Serial Xo.
37 ..
Date.
April 4
1870
Name.
James Steuart
38
May 25
1870
Francis William Willisford
39
Nov. 12
1871
Aug. 9
1871
Eleanor Lorenz
Charles Ambrose Lorenz
40
June 4
J. Reeve
1869
Sept. 7 .
, . C. S. Holroyd
1870
Feb. 28 .
E. H. Downe
J870
Inscription.
James Stbuakt of Colpetty. Born at Greenwich^
14th August, 1790. Died at Worcester, 4th April^.
1870.
" Into thy hands I commend my spirit, for Thou
hast redeemed me, Lord."
James Steuart succeeded James Chrisp as Master-
Attendant on June 1, 1826, and retired on Sep-
tember 30, 1855. He wrote "An Account of the
Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon," which was published in
Colombo in 1843, and "Notes on Ceylon and its-
Affairs," pubhshed in London in 1862. " Steuart-
Place," Colpetty, is calledafter him. He was " a man
of considerable ability and of active habits, com-
bining as he did the functions of merchant, banker,
and boat-owner with those of Master Attendant and
Superintendent of the Pearl Fishery." ( Ferguson. >
(See Nos. 49 and 160.)
In memory of Fkancis William Willisford, M.D.
Bom August 7th, 1815. Died 25th May, 1870.
I am the resurrection and the Hfe saith the Lord, he-
that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet
shall he Hve.
Fanny Durand WiUisf ord, a sister( ? ), married Captain.
George Price, 5th Bengal Fusileers, October 9, 1860.
A daughter married John Allanson Bailey, C.C.S.,
who retired as Government Agent, Kandy, in 1900.-
A son, Frank Colebrooke, was in the Civil Service,
and died at Galle in 1876.
Sacred to the memory of Eleanob, wife of Charles
Ambrose Lorenz. Born at Colombo on the 12th
June, 1825. Died at Colombo on the 12th Novem-
ber, 1871.
Sacred to the memory of Charles Ambrose Lorenz,
Barrister-at-Law and Advocate of the Supreme
Court of this Island. Born at Matura, 8th of July,
1829. Died at Colombo, 9th August, 1871.
He was the second son of J. F. Lorenz {q. v.).
" A keen lawyer and an accomplished scholar. A
warmer heart, a more gifted mind, a nobler nature,
and take him aU in aU a better man has not hallowed
God's acre in Ceylon." {Ceylon Quarterly Magazine.f
He started a literary magazine called " Young^
Ceylon," which lasted for two years, and edited
the Examiner for some years. ' ' Perhaps the ablest
Ceylonese of his generation." (Digby.)
He was a Member of the Legislative Council,
representing the Burgher community, until his
death. A humorous skit of his on the proceedings in
Council in 1860-6, illustrated with portraits of
Sir Charles MacCarthy and the principal members,
and called " The Christmas Debates of the Island of
Ceylon," appeared in 1866.
Mrs. Lorenz was a daughter of George Michael
Nell, whose father, Frederick August Nell, came from
the Cape of Good Hope as " hofmeister " to Colonel de
Meuron, and married at Colombo, December 8, 1793,
Catherina Petronella de Fonseca, of Colombo. Her
mother was Maria BHzabeth Conderlag, and shfr
married Charles Lorenz in 1849.
To the memory of the Officers, Non-commissioned
Officers, and Privates of the 73rd Perthshire Regt.
who died during their last tour of service in the
Island from 17th March, 1869, to 2nd February,
1874.
Major J. Reeve, 4th June, 1869.
Capt. C. S. Holroyd, at sea at Galle, 7th Septem-
ber, 1870.
Ensign E. H. Downe, 28th February, 1870.
S.-Sergt. M. Mulcahy, 31st July, 1871.
Here follow the names of 1 Sergeant, 6 Corporals,
and 48 Privates.
The 73rd served three times in Ceylon. " Th&
flank companies of the 73rd " formed part of the force,
which embarked at Madras on August 1, 1795, under
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
40 ,
Date.
June 4
1869, &c.
Name.
J. Reeve, &c. — contd.
Inscription.
the command of Colonel Stuart {" Old Row "), for the
purpose of capturing the Dutch possessions in Ceylon.
The rest of the battalion seem to have followed them
to the Island. In April-May, 1797, the regiment
embarked at Point Pedro for Madras (having come
there from Colombo for this purpose) in the H. E. I.
C.'s extra ship Harriet. Captain J. B. Archer was
' ' commanding of the Harriet ' ' at the time (so he signs
in the Jaffna records). The embarkation took from
April 29 to May 13. Tlie officers who embarked
were Lieutenant-Colonel G. St. John (who had been
Commandant at Trincomalee) ; Captains Mossman,
Robertson, McLeod, McDonald, Steel, White, Bordes,
and A. Rose ; Lieutenants Edw. Crofton, Suther-
land, Gordon, Thomas, Downing, Power, Mac-
pherson ; and Ensign Eraser. Majors Barbut and
Jeanneret and Lieutenant the Hon. G. Turnour
remained in Ceylon. Lieutenant Wm. McLeod was
acting for the Prize Agent in December, 1795
(see Cotton, p. 300). Other officers of the 73rd
were Lieutenant Wm. Bagster, Commandant at
Point Pedro, 1795; Lieutenant T. Campbell,
Commandant at Mannar, 1796; Lieutenant
G. Hamilton, Fort Adjutant, Jaffna, February to
September, 1796. During this period Captain
E. Rumley transferred to the Malay Regiment
(October, 1802), and was one of the two officers who
accompanied Major Davie into captivity at Kandy
after the Watapuluwa massacre, and Lieutenant.
Colonel Barbut (No. 301) died after the return of
the troops from Kandy. Major Jeanneret was also
dead by 1806, but whether he died in Ceylon or
India I have not discovered.
The second period was from 1814 to 1821. After
some service in New South Wales the regiment
returned to Ceylon 1,200 strong, a second battalion
having in the meanwhile been raised. Three
companies embarked at Sydney, January 25, 1814,
and arrived at Colombo on March 25 ; another detach-
ment arrived by the Windham on October 28, with
Lieutenant- Colonel Geils ; CajDtains Murray, Kenny,
Ritchie ; Lieutenants Campbell,Taylor, and Lyttleton.
The last-named was a good artist, and published a
book of " Sketches of Ceylon Scenery " in 1819.
The regiment took part in the Kandyan war of
1815, in which Lieutenant-Colonel M. O'Connell of
the 73rd commanded the 3rd Division; also in the
suppression of the Uva rebellion of 1817-1818. During
this period it lost by death nineteen ofpcers, viz..
Majors Anthony Coane and Vallance, Captain
Glenholme, Lieutenants McCreevy, James Taylor,
Maclaine, killed in action, McConnell, Lid well. Holmes,
McBain, Murphy, and Duncan Campbell, and
Ensigns HaswaU, Coane, and Campbell (No. 62),
Trydell and Koshorn, Roscrow, and Assistant-
Surgeon MoDermott. In stances of the gallant conduct
of the men of the 73rd are given in the despatches
re the Uva rebellion, published in the Gazette and
reprinted at the Ob'server Office, 1889 (pp. 141-196).*
During the second year of the rebellion it "lost by
death 356 men, or 42 per thousand The mean
strength in 1819 was 566, and the mortality 160, or
282 per thousand, and 105 were invalided, conse-
quently the regiment may be said to have lost 621
men iu two years. Only 12 of the men of the light
company of 1817, consisting of about 1 10 individuals,
survived to go home with the regiment in 1821. This
company was very actively emploj^ed in the Kandyan
country durins: the whole period of the insurrections."
(Marshall's " Ceylon," pp. 210-11.)
Captain Ritchie of the 73rd commanded in the
district of Welassa from May, 1818, to the close
of the rebellion in November, " exposed to diffi-
culties of the most trying nature arising from an
alarming and extensive sickness, which raged with
the most fatal consequences to the troops under his
command during a period of four months, and
which would have warranted Captan Ritchie at any
time in withdrawing the post of Kattabowa," and was
* See also Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI., pp. 62, 123.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort — contd.
Serial No.
40 ..
Date.
June 4
1869, &c.
Name.
J. Reeve, &c. — contd.
41
1877-1884
Henry F. Phillpotts
42
June 13
1884
Alice Mary Gordon Budd
43
Aug. 5
1886
William Dumaresq Wright.
44
May 29
1890
William Henry Ravenscroft.
45
Nov. 5
1890
James Duff Robinson
Inscription.
thanked in General Orders by Sir Robert Brownrigg,.
who could not " express in adequate terms the admira-
tion he felt for his conduct " (November 22, 1818).
Ensign Shoolbraid succeeded in capturing the chief
MadugaUa, one of tlie leaders of the rebellion. Major
Coane and Lieutenant Raymond were also thanked in
General Orders, and Captain Glenholme, who died near
the end of the rebeUion, also distinguished himself.
Captains Stace, Drew, Lieutenants Butler, Holmes,
Maclaine, McConnell, Murphy, Wentworth, and
Taylor, and Ensign Lidwell also took an active part
in the operations, and of these, Lieutenants Holmes,
McConneU, Taylor, and Ensign LidweU succumbed
during the covirse of the campaign, while Lieutenant
Maclaine was killed. Lieutenant MacBain died just
after its close, and Lieutenants Roscrow, Campbell,
and Farren in 1820-1821.
The 73rd is now the 2nd Battahon, the Black Watch.
Sacred to the memory of their Commanding Officer,
Major Heney P. Phillpotts, and their comrades
who died in Ceylon, 1877-1884 {here follow the,
names of eleven men).
Erected by the surviving N.-C. Officers and men of
No. 5 Battery, 1st Brigade, Eastern Division,
Royal Artillery.
Requiescat in Pace.
Major Phillpotts was a son of "Henry of Exeter,"
Dr. Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter.
Many waters cannot quench love.
In memory of a dear sister Alice Maey Gordon,
the beloved wife of Edwabd Eraser Budd,
who died at sea soon after leaving Colombo on
the 13th of June, 1884. Aged 29 years.
There shall be no more death, neither shall there be
any more pain.
In memory of William Dumaresq Wright of the
Ceylon Civil Service, Colonial Treasurer, who died
aged 53 years, on the 5th August, 1886, from
injuries received on being thrown from his carriage
ten days previously.
This tablet is erected as a mark of their esteem by
his friends in Ceylon.
He was a son of Henry Wright, who was in the
Civil Service, 1811-1846, and retired as Auditor-
General. W. D. Wright entered the Civil Service in
1853 ; was Government Agent, North- Western Pro-
vince, 1871-1873; Principal Collector of Customs,
1873-1881 ; Treasurer, February ;, 1882. He had
recently returned to the Island from leave, and
intended to complete a short period of service before
retirement. He married at Colombo, July 4, 1857,
Amy Delatre, yoimgest daughter of Colonel Samuel
Braybrooke. An elder sister of hers , Harriet, married
at Colombo, December 15, 1847, George Vane, C.C.S.,
afterwards Treasurer.
The memory of the just is blessed. In grateful
memory of the Hon. W. H. Ravenscroft, C.M.G.,
late Auditor-General and Controller of Revenue,
Ceylon. Born 11th January, 1843. Died 29th
May, 1890.
This brass is erected by the Government Clerks.
Mr. Ravenscroft was appointed Auditor-General,
May 23, 1877. He had served in the Commis-
sariat Department of the Army, 18,61-1874; was
Auditor-General, Griqualand West, Jime 6, 1876.
In dear memory of James Duff Robinson, Esq., son
of John Joseph Robinson, Esq., Banff, N. B.
Born 7th June, 1836. Died 5th November, 1890.
And lies buried in Lindoola Churchyard.
Deeply regretted by the whole European Community
of Ceylon. Posuerunt Amici.
He was a merchant of the firm of J. Duff Robinson
& Co. , and a general favourite.
The Lindula inscription is to the same effect.
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St. Peter's Church, Fort—contd.
Serial No. Date. Name.
Inscription.
46 . . Oct. 4 . . James Robert Longden . . In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
1891 Holy Ghost.
In memory of Sir James Longden, G.O.M.G. Born
7th July, 1827. Died 4th October, 1891. Some
time Governor of this Colony.
Sir James Longden entered the Colonial Service in
1844, and was Colonial Secretary of the Falkland
Islands, 1857 ; President of the Virgin Islands, 1861 ;
Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica, 1865 ; Lieutenant-
Governor of British Honduras, 1867; Governor of
Trinidad, 1879 ; British Guiana, 1874 ; Ceylon, 1877-
1883. His son, Cyril Chapman Longden, has been
Inspector-General of Police, Ceylon, since 1905.
47 .. July 17 .. Charles Peter Layard .. To the memory of Sir Chaelbs Petee Layabd,
1893 K.C.M.G. Born 9th December, 1806. Died 17th
July, 1893.
He entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1828, and
served the Colony for 50 years. For 30 years he
was Government Agent of the Western Province.
This tablet was erected by the members of the Civil
Service and by a few personal friends, in recogni-
tion of his high character, his public worth, and
his many private virtues.
The Layard family is well established in Ceylon.
The first members of it to arrive were two sons of the
then Dean of Bristol, the Very Rev. Charles Peter
Layard, who both came to Ceylon in 1803-1804, viz.,
his second son, Henry Peter John Layard, and his
third son, Charles Edward Layard, and they were both
provided with posts in the Civil Service, the younger
succeeding the elder as Second Assistant to the Agent of
Revenue, Jaffna. H. P. J. Layard retired on January
1, 1814, having held various appointments, such as
Sitting Magistrate, Battioaloa ; Collector, Matara ; and
Provincial Judge, Matara. He married a Miss Austen,
and his son was Sir Henry Austen Layard of Nineveh
fame. The younger brother remained in the Civil
Service, having married at the age of 20, Barbara
Bridgetina Mooyart (see No. 166), by whom he had
26 children. In 1808-1814 he was Collector of Kalu-
tara, where he had a house called "Mount Layard,"
on the left bank of the river (Bennett, p. 375), with
a beautiful view of it. [Query : Was this " The Teak
Bungalow" of later years?] He was Provincial
Judge, Trincomalee, 1814-1815; ControUer-General
of Customs, 1815-1816, Provincial Judge, Galle, 1822-
1824; Collector, Colombo, 1825-1828; Paymaster-
General, 1828-1832 ; and District Judge of Colombo
North, 1836-1839; retired ISth July, 1839, and died
December 19, 1864. His eldest son, Sir C. P. Layard,
Government Agent of the Western Province, the
subject of this inscription, was educated at St. John's
College, Cambridge, and entered the Ceylon Civil
Service in 1830. Ha was Eiscal and Sitting Magistrate
at Jaffna in 1831 ; Assistant to the Collector, Colombo,
1832 ; Assistant Government Agent, Colombo, and
District Judge, Kalutar a, 1836; Assistant Government
Agent, Colombo, and District Judge, Negombo, 1837 ;
District Judge, GaUe, 1839 ; District Judge, Trinco-
malee, 1840; District Judge, GaUe, 1860; Government
Agent, Western Province, 1851 ; and acted on three
occasions as Colonial Secretary in addition. " Layard' s
Broadway," Colombo, is called after him. He was
Commissioner for Ceylon at the Paris Exhibition of
1878. He retired in 1879. He became C.M.G. in
1871 and K.C.M.G. in 1876. His son. Sir Charles
Peter Layard, was Attorney- General of Ceylon
1892-1902, and Chief Justice 1902-1906.
, C. P. Layard, senior, married May 29, 1830, his
cousin, Louisa, daughter of Captain Clement Martin
Edwards, CeylonRegiment, who had been on the staff
of Sir Thomas Maitland in Ceylon (1805-1811), and
had married a sister of H. P. J. and C. E. Layard.
Bennett, who claims (erroneously, as it was culti-
vated by Captain Thomas Nagel in the Varmi) to
have introduced the cultivation of cassava from
Mauritius into Ceylon, states that C. E. Layard was
the only individual who paid any sort of attention to
its culture. (" Capabilities of Ceylon," p. 127.)
82-09
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St. Peter's Church, Fovt—contd.
Serial No,
Date.
Name.
48 ..
Aug. 27 .
1893
. . Franeis Conningsby Hannam
Clarke
49
July 8
1896
George Steuart
50
Oct. 17
1898
William Bowden Smith
61
1901-1902
52
63
March 2
1905
Dec. 7
1906
Inscription.
Men of the Royal Artillery,
80th Company
Edwin Arthur Russell Ben-
ham
Alexander Murray Ashmore
Bugle.
Ich dien.
To the glory of God and in memory of Colonel F. C. H.
Claekb, C.M.G., late R. A., Commandant, Ceylon
Volunteers, who died at Brighton, 27th August,
1893.
This tablet is erected by his widow and officers of the
Ceylon Volunteers.
" The work of righteousness shall be peace and the
efiect of righteousness quietness and confidence for
ever." Isaiah xxxii., 17.
Colonel Clarke was D. A.Q.M.G. (Intelligence Branch)
at the Horse Guards, 1872-1880 ; employed in Russia,
Turkey, and Greece, 1876-1879, on various missions
xmder the War Office and Foreign Office ; Assistant
Commissioner for Bulgarian boundary under the Treaty
of Berlin, 1878 ; Commissioner for Ttirco-Russian
boimdary in Asia, 1879 ; Assistant Quartermaster-
General in the Transvaal Campaign of 1881 ; Military
Secretary to Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood ; Pro-
fessor at the Staff College, 1881-1884; Surveyor-
General, Ceylon, L884 ; and Commandant, Ceylon
Volunteers, 1886. He was author of " Staff Duties "
and " The Franco-German War, 1870-1871 " (German
official translation).
Juvant Aspera Probum.
In ever loving memory of George Stetjabt, founder
of the firm of George Steuart & Co., Colombo,
late of Waverley Lodge, Blackheath, Kent. Bom
at Dover, 1st May, 1808. Died at Dover, 8th July,
1896.
Jesus said : " I am the resurrection and the life."
" Before he left the Colony, Captain Steuart gave up
his agency for Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co. of Madras .....
his brother, George, taking up the agency and
founding the eminent firm of Messrs. George Steuart
& Co." (Ferguson.) (SeeNo. 37.) He was at one time
conunander of the Govenmaent steamer Seaforth,
1840-1842.
In memory of William Bowden Smith, a resident
for 40 years in Ceylon. A Member of the Legis-
lative Council and an esteemed representative of
the planting and mercantile communities. This
memorial is erected by friends who appreciated his
worth in public life and valued Ms friendship.
Bom 27th Dec, 1840. Died Oct. 17th, 1898.
" Life's race well run. Life's work well d'one. Life's
crown well won."
He was a member of the firm of Sabonadiere & Co.,
and later of that of Cumberbatch & Co.
To the glory of God and in memory of the under-
mentioned N. C. Officers and men of the 80th Com-
pany, Royal Artillery, who died whilst stationed
in Ceylon, 1901-1902.
Here follow the names of a Corporal and 5 Gmmers
R. A. and of a Private of the A. O. C.
To the glory of God and in loving memory of Edwis
Abthub Russell Benham, eldest son of Edwaed
Benham, of Syon Lodge, Isleworth.
Bom the 2nd of March, 1851. Died at Colombo on
the 2nd of March, 1905. In God I have put my
trust.
In memory of Sir Alexander Murray Ashmobb,
K.C.M.G., died at Colombo, 7th Dec, 1906;
after distinguished service in the Gold Coast,
Ceylon, Cjrpms, the TransvaaJ, and British Guinea,
he returned to Ceylon in 1904 as Lieutenant-
Govemor and Colonial Secretary. This tablet is
erected by the Members of the Ceylon Civil Service.
Sir Alexander was in the Ceylon Civil Service from
1876 to 1894, filling the offices of Police Magistrate,
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St. Peter's Church, Fort— contd.
Serial No.
53
Date.
Dec. 7
1906
Name.
. Alexander Murray Ashmore —
contd.
54
1904-1906
Men of the Worcestershire
Regiment
55
April 9
1908
R. K. Hyslop
Inscription.
PanwOa, 1878 ; Office Assistant, Western Province,
1883 ; OfiSce Assistant, Central Province, 1884 ; Police
Magistrate, Kandy, 1882 ; Government Agent,
Sabaragamuwa, 1892 ; Principal Assistant to the
Colonial Secretary, 1892-1894. In the latter year he
acted as Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast, and was
appointed Receiver-General, Cyprus, 1895. He was
on the Transvaal Concessions Commission, 1900-1901,
and became Government Secretary, British Guinea,
1901, for a time administering the Government.
" Firm."
THE WORCBSTBRSHmE BEGIMBNT, SECOND BATTALION.
In Memory of the following Non-Commissioned
Officers and men who died wMle serving in Ceylon,
1904-1906.
Here follow the names of Corporal C. Bagnall,
a Lance-Corporal, and 14 Privates.
In memory of Lieut. R. K. Hyslop, Royal Engineers.
Died Colombo, 9th April, 1908. Aged 24 years.
He was a son of the late Colonel Maxwell Wither
Hyslop.
Galle Face Burial Ground.
The Galle Face Burial Ground was opened in 1803. " On the borders of the lake of Colombo, on the
south side of the Fort, lies another burial ground lately enclosed with palisades. It was rendered necessary for
the garrison by the uncommon mortality which followed the campaign of 1803." (Cordiner, vol. I. , p. 42.) A wall
was built round it towards the end of 1805, and the first inscription dates from 1809. It was consecrated
by the Bishop of Calcutta (Middleton), after the consecration of St. Peter's, Fort, on May 22, 1821. It was called,
rather flippantly, in the thirties and forties, "Padre Bailey's Godowns," after the Ven. Archdeacon Bailey,
who chiefly officiated there during that period.
Serial No.
56 ..
Date.
Jan. 1
1809
Name.
William Fraser
David Dunn
57
June 10
1812
Richard Owen
58
June 13
1815
William Willerman
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Bombardier Will Fkaseb
and Davbd DtraiTN of the Royal Regt. of Artillery,
the former aged 24 and the latter 27 years, who
were unfortunately drowned in Colombo Lake on
the 1st day of Jany. , 1809. This stone was erected
by a brother of the former, who deeply regrets the
melancholy accident.
A brother's feelings who can tell
Like those who feel a brother's love ?
Here lies the body of Ric ha rd Owen of the Royal
Staff Corps, who was bom at Llanberis in Carnar-
vonshire, North Wales, and died at Colombo on the
10th of June, 1812. He was for several years and
in many laborious campaigns the servant of
Lt.-Col. Willerman, who sincerely lamented his
death, and now lies by his side.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut.-Col. William
WiLLERMAif, D.Q.M.G., who died on the 13th of
June, 1815, aged 41. To an ardent zeal in the
performance of his military duties Lieut.-Col.
Willerman united many acquirements, which
grace the character and elevate the profession of a
soldier. He had an extensive knowledge of ancient
and modern languages, mathematical and astro-
nomical science, and in military and topographical
drawing he was eminently skilful. He had served
with distinction in Flanders, Portugal, and Spain,
and the decisive success of the late Kandian war
was attributed by his grateful commander to his
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Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Serial Xo. Date Name. Inscription.
58 .. June 13 .. William Willerman— confai. arrangements and combination. His manners were
1815 mild and polished, his moral conduct honourable
and upright. His religious opinions were founded
on a firm belief in the Gospel and an humble
reliance on the mediation of our blessed Saviour.
The character of such a man was regarded with
alieotionate esteem, his untimely death with
deep regret. He was buried at his own desire close
to the grave of his faithful servant, and this monu-
ment was erected by Lieut. -Gen. Sir Robert
Brownrigg , G.C.B. , who long had known his worth,
and will ever deplore his loss.
A stone obelisk.
" He was seized with a violent fever on Friday, the
10th, on Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock he became
insensible, and at 7 he expired.
" He Nvas the son of a Swiss Gentleman, descended
from a noble German family, married to an English
Lady of the Ancient Family of the Keckwicks (Keke-
wich) in Devonshire, where he settled, and where
Major Willerman was born.
" In the beginning of the year of the breaking out
of the French Revolution he was serving in the
Dutch Guards of the Prince of Orange, through whom
he obtained a Commission in the British Army. In
1803 he was promoted Lieutenant of the Staff Corps,
and he accompanied Sir John Moore to Sweden, and
was present at the battle of Corunna.
'■ To an extensive acquaintance with the Greek,
Latin,German, Dutch, Spanish, and French languages,
he added a correct knowledge of the principles of
Mathematics and Astronomy. His talents in drawing,
in perspective, his power of seeing at a glance the
features and bearing of a Country and combining their
relative positions with scientific precision, his ardour
in the pursuit of Geographical knowledge and felicity
of execution in every species of Military Plan or
Topographical Drawing were entitled to the rank and
character of real genius. He may be called the
inventor of a kind of panoramic landscape drawing in
whic.h more than ISO degrees of a Circle are represented
to the eye, and his views executed upon this principle
of some remarkable scenes, particularly the battles of
Viemiera, at both of which he was present, have been
admired by some of the. first Painters of the age.
" His private excellence, mildness of disposition,
and engaging behaviour will be long remembered with
deep regret by those who were admitted to his more
intimate acquaintance.
" Owen had been with him through many dangers
and hardships in Sicily, Portugal, and Spain, and he
wished to be buried at his side. It was proposed to
bury him in the Church, but Captain King stated that
ho had heard him frequently declare his choice, if he
died at Colombo, to have his grave close to the coffin
of Richard Owen.
" His eminent services in Flanders, Sicily, Portu-
gal, and Holland have been repeatedly honoured with
the approbation of His Royal Highness the Duke of
York, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Ralph Abercromby,
and Sir John Moore, and the fruits of his superior
topographical genius will long remain in the Military
Arcliives.
" Lieu tenant- General Brownrigg knew Major Wilier-
man's worth for years past, whose Companion in the
Field he had been in some trying scenes , who witnessed
his bravery, admired his attainments, and reaped the
advantage of his aid, to whom he fully attributes in
a great degree the success which attended the late
operations in the Kandyan Provinces." {Gazette, June
13, 1815.) Captain King was A.D.C. to General
Brownrigg. Fort King was named after him.
A Tribute to the Memory of Maior Willerman,
by a Friend.
Here sleeps the man whose noble soul pursued
And labour'd solely for the public good.
Who never from his arduous purpose swerv'd
With joy obeyed and with devotion served.
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Galle Face Burial GxounA—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
58 ..
June 13
1815
William Willerman— cow«d.
59
60
Sept. 6
1816
Jan. 28
1816
Nov. 21
1816
James Sheridan
Margaret Anne Sheridan
Samuel Allen Wheeler
61
62
Jan. 3
1817
Jan. 27
1817
Brindley Hone
John Campbell
Barrington Haswall
William Conyngham Coane
Inscription.
The task performed, he sought no gainful post
Nor wish'd to glitter at his Country's cost.
Erom duty's path he never turned aside
To pluck a wreath from pleasure or from pride.
And in this age, for high achievements fam'd.
With proud distinction Willerman is named.
With more than comraon talents amply bless'd,
Of every brilhant excellence possess'd,
His were the sweet urbanities of life,
The temper mild, untouched by envious strife.
Unquestioned courage and a spotless name,
His modest merit dignified his fame,
Endow'd by natine with an active mind,
To no contracted, narrow views confined.
And though that mind to taste and science dear
Too soon has left its habitation here.
Why should we sorrow for its early flight
To the fair fields of unalloy'd delight ?
Death could to Willerman present no stiug.
Who serv's his God, his Country, and his King.
(Gazette of July 12, 1815.)
Here Mes Bombdr. Sheeidak, Royal Artillery, who
died on the 6th Sept. , Anno Domini 1816. Aged 22
years. And Mabgabet Ai^-ne Sheridan, who
died on the 28th Jany., 1816, aged 3 years and 10
months.
The daughter's name is given as '' Sarah " in the
register.
To the Memory of Captain Saml. Allen Wheeler,
of His Majesty's 1st Ceylon Regt., who departed
this life 21st November, 1816. Aged 42 years.
He was appointed to the 1st Ceylon from the 80th
Kegiment, June 30, 1812. He appears to have died
at Galle. Letters of administration were issued to
Lieutenant Paul Secluno, 1st Ceylon Regnnent, who
also belonged originally to the 80th Regiment, and
who had joined the 1st Ceylon, October 26, 1810.
To the memory of Lieutenant Brindley Hone, of
His Majesty's 1st Ceylon Regiment, who departed
this life 3rd January, 1817. Aged 30 years.
He joined the 1st Ceylon as a Second Lieutenant,
April 6, 1810 ; Lieutenant, March 4, 1815.
In memory of Ensigns John Campbell, Barrington
Haswall, William Conyngham Coane, of His
Majesty's 73rd Regiment, who were accidentally
drowned in Colombo Roads when returning to the
port from H. M. Ifhigenia on the night of 27th
January, 1817.
A large urn of masonry on a pedestal, conspicuous
from the high road.
Ensign J. Campbell joined the Regiment on July 29,
1815, and was senior Ensi^ ; B. Haswall joined on
August 1 ; and W. C. Coane on August 4, 1815. The
latter was a brother of Major Anthony Coane.
The following account of the catastrophe is taken
from the Gazette. There is no memorial to Lieutenant
Saunders, R.N. , who perished at the same' time.
" Forster " should be Foster. The ofi&cer referred to
was Lieutenant Isaac Foster of the Ceylon Regiment,
who served for many years afterwards in Ceylon : —
"On Monday, the 27th, about 8 o'c. in the evening,
a Cutter from the Frigate Iphigenia was upset a
little distance from the Zeburgh Battery.
" There were on board Lieut. Saunders of the
Iphigenia, Mr. Windsor, a Midshipman, eight seamen,
and a boy, with Lieut. Forster of H. M. 2nd Ceylon,
and Ensigns Campbell, Haswall, and Coane of the
73rd Regiment.
" Lieut. Forster, the Midshipman, and 6 seamen
were saved, but Lieut. Saunders, all the three
officers of the 73rd, two seamen, and a boy unfortu-
nately perished.
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Galle Face Burial Giowni—contd.
Serial No.
62 ..
Date.
Jan. 27
1817
Name.
John Campbell, &c. — conld.
63
Feb. 9
1817
William Orr
Inscription.
" The night was clear and the moon shone bright,
but the wind was blowing fresh, and the sea was
running high. A great sea broke over the beam
quarter, and she was instantly filled and turned keel
upwards. Two of the seamen who could not swim
clung to the boat and were saved. Lieut. Forster
got hold of an oar, and with the help of one of the
seamen reached the harbour, where after being nearly
exhausted he was assisted by Mr. Windsor in saving
himseK upon a Dhony. The other seamen escaped
by swimming. Ensign Campbell was thrown upon
the rocks at the mouth of the harbour, and every
means were used in vain by the Medical Gentlemen
to restore his lifeless body. In the course of the next
morning Ensign Haswall and the bodies of the two
sailors were found, and at 5 o'c. the two officers and
the boy were interred in the burial ground on the
South Esplanade.
" H. E. the Governor, with the Staff, the Chaplain
and Officers of the Iphigenia, the 73rd and the Officers
of the other Regiments, and the Artillery attended.
The Rev. Mr. Twisleton officiated.
" The seamen were interred at 8. The two Officers
were buried in one grave. On the morning of the
30th, the body of Lieut. Saunders was brought ashore
by Fishermen, and his fioneral was attended in the
evening by the Commandant and all the Officers
in Garrison. He was buried close to his fellow-
Bufterers.
" The body of Ensign Coane, we regret to say, has
not yet been found.
" Lieut. Saunders was much esteemed for his
excellent disposition and lively temper by his brother
officers.
" The three young Officers of the 73rd were newly
arrived from England. Ensign Coane was a re-
markably fine young man, and a brother of Captain
Coane of the same Regiment. He afterwards lost
three other brothers in the service of their country,
one at Buenos Ayres, another on the frontiers of
Portugal at the battle upon the Coa, and a third who
died of fatigue in a Campaign against the Mahrattas.
He had a fourth brother, a captain in the 73rd
Reg., who was severely wounded at the battle of
Waterloo.
" Ensign Haswall was to have performed a principal
part in a play shortly to be performed."
H. M. S. Iphigenia, Captain J. Tancock, was just
about to start for home. She had arrived at Trinco-
malee from Madras, July 20, 1816, bringing Sir
William Coke. She left the Cape in April, 1816,
" three weeks before the Challenger." She was then
under the command of Captain John Rejm.olds. She
left Trincomalee again for the Cape in 1817, and was
to leave the Cape for England on October 16 of that
year. The body of Ensign Coane appears never to
have been recovered. There is no entry of his burial
in the register.
Sacred to' the memory of the late William Oeb, Esq.,
of H. M. Ceylon Civil Service, who departed this
Ufe on the 9th February, A.D.1817. Aged 42 years.
Leaving a wife and five children to lament his
loss.
He died at Colpetty, at the house of Robert
Boyd, the Commissioner of Revenue.
The first mention of William Orr is in 1800, when
we find him " Resident of Magam Pattoo," a title
and office inherited from the Dutch. He wrote a
"Report on the Magam Pattoo," in which "the
Leways or Natural Salt Reservoirs of the District of
Mature " are described, dated October 17, 1800.
Next, in 1802, he is " Superintendent of the Cotton
Plantation at Carselle " (Karisal, in Mannar Island),
and in that year he was suspended and committed
for trial before the Supreme Court for iU-treating
two coolies, giving them "18 or 20 stripes with a
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Serial No.
63 ..
Date.
Feb. 9
1817
Name.
William Orr — contd.
64
May 20
1817.
Patrick McGill
65
May 21
1818
Dec. 31
1818
James William Squire
Crutwell
James Nicholas tJrutwell
Inscription.
rattan." The charge was inquired into at Mannar
by George Lusignan (No. 88), the Assistant Collector,
on Jiine 18, and Orr discharged and allowed to resume
duties. On April 14, 1803, he forwards a " plan of
the Cotton Grounds," and asks for a ^n and screw
to be sent to him from Colombo. He also wishes to
be empowered to compel the wives of " WalUah "
{VcUaiyar) coolies to work gathering cotton, as he
cannot prevail on them to work, but this Lusignan
does not approve. It was at this time decided that
the establishment should be immediately suppressed,
unless Orr thought it " desirable from the state of the
plantation to keep up apart of it for some time longer."
Lusignan calls on Orr to send in proposals re the
Cotton Plantations. The Board of Revenue wishes to
know whether any one would rent it (July 22, 1803),
and Lusignan thinks that if Orr will not rent it, no one
else will, and recommends the sale of the plantation
by lots, as well as of the house, garden, and materials ;
also of the cotton, which will probably sell well, " as
there has been no intercourse with Candi for some
time." Finally, Orr is told by the Board that he may
retain " an establishment sufficient to keep the
ground clear of weeds, and to report the extent that
should be maintained, and for how long it should be
maintained. ' ' But Orr reported that he had ' ' dissolved
the Cotton Plantation entirely, as there is no hope of
ever being able to procure returns adequate to the
expense." On. October 1, 1803, he agreed to rent the
plantation for seven years at a rent of one risdollar
a year. Government to assist with coolies, and cotton
to be free of all duties during that period. He bought
the cotton remaining at 29 pagodas a tolam. In
December he reported the state of the plantation to
be very flourishing, but wanted 60 coohes, for whom
Lusignan informs him that he must pay. But this
arrangement seems to have soon come to an end j the
plantation, house, and grounds were to be sold by
public auction on October 7, 1804, and Orr had
become successively Customs Master at Jaffna and
at Trincomalee. He was an Assistant in the Pay-
master-General's Office in 1808, and Sitting Magistrate
of Negombo in June, 1809. He was Collector at
Matura from January 2, 1811; Commissioner of
Stamps from January 1, 1813; and Collector at
Mannar from September 1, 1814. He died while
holding this last appointment, and must have been
on a visit to Colombo. He married at Colombo,
February 12, 1808, Miss Margaret Mackay, and left
five children.
Sacred to the memory of Patrick McGill, late
son of Qr. Master Serjt. T. McGill, who departed
this life on the 20th May, 1817. Aged 13 years and
4 months.
Much regretted by his parents.
The Quartermaster-Sergeant belonged to the 73rd.
In memory of Lieut. James Squire Ckxttwell, who
departed this life at Colombo, 21 May, 1818.
Aged 37 years. Also of his soiu James Nicholas
Cbtjtwell, who departed this life 31 Dec., 1818.
Aged 3 months.
This posthumous son was born on September 25.
Lieutenant Crutwell belonged to the 83rd.
" He had been seized with fever at Idamalpane,
which Post he commanded, on the 14th, and set out
on the 16th for Colombo, which he reached about
midnight on the 18th, but his disorder increased with
great violence until he simk under it on the morning
of the 21st. Lieut. Crutwell had seen much service
in Europe, and was well acquainted with several
of the languages spoken on the Continent. He was
a good proficient in Mathematical knowledge, which
he applied practically to Military Topography. He
has left, we regret to add, a Widow and 3 children to
lament his loss." (Gazette.) He married, June 5th,
1812, at Clifton, Somersetshire, Mary .
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Serial No.
66 .,
Date.
June 1
1818^
Name.
Alexander Russell
•37
Aug. 3
1818
James Smith
68
69
April 23
1819
Aug. 18
1819
John Hogarth
Susanna Rogers
70
Sept. 12
1819
John Kelly
70a
Feb. 5
1821
Alexander Cadell
71
Feb. 17
1821
Thomas Smyth
72
Jan. 11
1822
William Phillips
Inscription.
Here lies the body of Alexander Russell, Sergeant
in the 83rd Regt., who was born in NewMonkland
in the County of Lanark, resided for some years at
Huntley in Aberdeenshire, and died on the 1st of
June ,1818. He had served in Spain and Portugal.
He was wounded at Badajos, and was present in
almost every battle won by the Duke of Wellington.
Fighting for his country like a brave soldier, he
received a mortal wound at Panella, and he died
at Colombo like a good Christian.
A large proportion of the men of the 83rd County
Dublin Regiment, which arrived in Ceylon in
November, 1817, from Cork and from the Cape,
were veterans of the Peninsular War.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. James Smith, late
H. M.'s 83rd Regt. in which he had served from its
foundation until the day of his death, and in the
West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope and
through all the campaigns in Portugal and Spain.
He died at Colombo on the 3rd August, 1818.
Aged 42 years, deeply regretted by his Brother
Oflficers.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. John Hogakth,
2nd Bengal Volunteer Battalion, who died on board
the Mary, transport, laying in Colombo Roads,
23rd April, 1819.
This monument is erected by his brother Ofi&cers as a
mark of esteem for his memory.
Sacred to the memory of Susanna Rogers, wife of
R. Rogers, Esq., Ordnance Dept., who departed
this life 18th August, 1819. Aged 35 years.
Also of Mary, their daughter, died the 9th Oct., 1829.
Aged 2 months.
R. Rogers was Clerk of the Check, Civil Depart-
ment of Ordnance, 1814,
Sacred to the memory of John Kelly, of the Band
of H. M. 83rd Regt., who died Sept. 12th, 1819,
in the 26th year of his age. His sorrowing com-
panions have erected this stone as a mark of their
high admiration of his character as a man and as a
"Christian.
Adieu lov'd friend. Where thou art. gone
Adieus & farewells are not known,
For those who reach that blessed shore
Shall hear this parting word no more.
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Cadell, Esq.,
of His Majesty's Civil Service on this Island and for
many years Civil and Military Paymaster-Greneral,
in which Offices His kind manner and strict integrity
obtained for him universal Regard and Approbation.
He was preparing to return to his native Country
when attacked by the illness of which he died,
February 5th, 1821.
He was born in Stirlingshire, North Britain, Feb.
9th, 1781.
A granite obelisk (see No. 8).
To the memory of Thomas Smyth, late Sergt. in
the 83rd Regt., who departed this Ufe on the
17th Feb., 1821. Aged 25 years.
Come brothers all with head and heart
And drop a tear ere you depart
For one whose virtues were sincere
Till death had laid his body here.
Captain W. Phillips, of His Majesty's 83rd Regt. ,
who departed this life January 11th, 1822. Aged
41 years.
"On the 20th (Feb., 1818) a party arrived from
Taldenia under Lieutenant Philhps, 83rd Regiment,
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Serial Xo.
72 ..
Date.
Jan. 11
1822
Name.
William Phillips— con<<J!.
73
Feb. 5
1822
Charles Ataell
74 .
75
76
77
May 19
1822
July 3
1822
Julys
1822
June 17
1823
John Todd
John Bannerman
James Collins
William Richardson
Inscription.
. at Hanwella, detached by Major Hext, to procure
communication from thence. On his march
Lieut. Phillips had been attacked, and a running
fire kept up nearly the whole distance while
passing Halhalle. The party sustained no loss
whatever. Lieut. Phillips remained at Hanwella
till the m.orning of 24th, during which no attack
was repeated, and leaving 10 men of his party
there, returned to Taldenia, meeting with a similar
opposition to that he experienced in marching
from it on the 20th, but equally without loss."
(Gazette.)
Lieutenant Phillips arrived at Colombo from
the interior with Lieutenant Brahan, of the same
Regiment, and Lieutenant Thomas Wilkinson, of the
1st Ceylon Regiment, on November 25, 1818.
Taldenia = Teldeniya, in Lower Dumbara, 12 miles
from Kandy. Hallialle = HaUyela, is in the valley
below, and close to Mad'iigoda Resthouse, in Uda
Dumbara, 13J miles from Teldeniya. Hanwella is
3 or 4 miles from Madugoda in another valley ,-
towards Mim^ure and the Matale District.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Charles Abell of
H. M. 83rd Regt., who departed this life 5th
Feb., 1822, aged 32 years.
Lieutenant Abell was Commandant at Chilaw 1819-
20, and appears to have been stationed afterwards
at Kurunegala. He is no doubt the " Lieut. A
of the 83rdRegiment" who accompanied Lieutenant-
Colonel Jam.es Campbell, the Commandant at Kuru-
negala, in 1822, on an " excursion" to Nahagedara,
which combined sport and a tour of inspection. The
Colonel says of him : "he volunteered to be of the
party, but the character of the country bemg
pretty well known, and the latter having his wife,
a very lady-like person, then at Kurunega?!!^
with him, I was surprised, yet pleased, at his
offering to accompany m.e ; for he was both an
intelligent and an agreeable companion." ("Bxoilr-;
sions, Adventures, and Field Sports in Ceylojsv^l"
vol. II., p. 148.) He adds: 'fat this season it was
thought by the natives that we had nothing to
apprehend from sickness." The expedjtiiiJnj how-
ever, was an unfortunate one for Lieutenant?^ bell.
" On our way back to KurunegaUa, Mf.'A— ^-M-toM •
me that the report of his gun, when fireflj shodK ajn^
annoyed him a good deal; for his head ached,
and he did not feel himself well." The Sui'geqh,
a few days later, reported him to be in great daiigei?,
as the fever with which he had been attacked
could not be subdued, and advised his being
removed to the sea coast. " He was consequently
sent off, accompanied by his greatly alarmed and
sorrowing wife (both in palanquins), attendiCjJ' by
the Surgeon as far as I could permit him to ^Srwjth
them. But, alas ! poor A's days were numbered,
for he died soon after reaching Colombo." (Ibid., pp.
151-2.)
Gunner Todd, late of the Royal Artillery, who de-
parted this life at Colombo, XIX. May, 1822,
aged 33 years.
John Bannbemann, late Quarter Mr. Segt. 83rd
Regt., who departed this life 3rd July, 1822,
aged 35 years.
Sacred to the mernory of Sergt. Jambs Collins, of
H. M. 83 Regt., who departed this life 3rd July,
1822, aged 28 years.
This stone was erected by his brother Masons.
In memory of Lieut. William Riohabdson, late of
His Majesty's 83rd Regt. Bom in March, 1797, at
Glentecle in Ireland. Died 17th June, 1823, at
Ootooankandi, aged 26 years.
He married Eliza, widow of Lieutenant T. H. Green,
at Colombo, on October 28th, 1822. Ootooankandi
(Utuwankanda) is visible from the railway, and is
82-09
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Serial No.
77 ..
78
Date.
June 17
1823
Jan. 23
1824
Name.
William Ricliardson — contd.
79 .. May 27 .,
1824
William Russell
John W. Summerfleld
80 . . May 4
1824
. John Scott Rigney
&1 .™_„iHay24 .,
1824
Felix O'Hara
82
83
June 10
1824
June 14
1824
John Wall
Henry W. Brahan
Inscription.
known as " Pulpit Rock," where the robber Sardiel
was captured in 1864 by Sir Frederick Saunders, then
Assistant Government Agent of Kegalla. The village
is on the Colombo-Kandy road, and was the seat
of the Assistant Agency of the Four Korales in the
thirties, but was superseded by KegaUa.
Sergeant William Russell, H. M. 83rd Regiment,
who departed this life on the 23rd January, 1824,
aged 30 years.
But according to the Gazette he was 45.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. J. W. StrMMEKFiELD,
of H. M. 83rd Regt., who departed this life on
the 27th May, 1824, aged 29 years.
He was a son of Major Thomas SiimmerSeld, also
of the 83rd, and brother of Mrs. Twynam, mother
of SirWiUiam Twynam, K.C.M.G., late Government
Agent of the Northern Province.
He was gazetted from the half-pay of the 83rd to be
Superniomerary Lieutenant in the 2nd Ceylon Regi-
ment, February 1, 1818, and to be 1st Lieutenant in
the same Corps, December 24, 1818. He took part in
the operation against the Kandyans in 1818, and was
at the Katugastota ferry on July 19 of that year,
when an accident occurred to some of Captain Piper's
party returning from an expedition. There were in
the ferry boat, or " catchpinel,"* Captain Piper,
9 men, 5 women, and 2 boys. It began to leak ; the
women got frightened and rushed to the other side,
knocking Captain Piper into the water. Lieutenant
Siunmerfield and his Sergeant of Pioneers and a
boatman jumped into the water and succeeded in
saving three of the women, but the other women and
three pioneers were drowned. He appears after the
close of the operations to have been stationed at
Kandy, and on.January 9, 1820, we findhijn proceed-
ing to Colombo with Captain Antill from Amunapura.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Joh:n Scott Rigney,
of H. M. 16th Regt., who departed this life at
Colombo on the 4th of May, 1824, aged 43 years.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Felix O'Haba, of
H. M. 16th Regt., who departed this life on the 24th
day of May, 1824, aged 32 years.
Lieutenant O'Hara appears to have been Com-
mandant at Padenij'a, 15 miles north of Kurmiegala,
when Lieut.-Colonel James Campbell took up his
duties as .Judicial Agent of Government for the Seven
Korales in 1822, and he accompanied the latter on "an
extensive excursion," which he made shortly after
his appointment, " by the way of DamVjool to the
beautiful but much dreaded neighbourhood of Minery
Lake," and thence "across Nem'acalava " to the
Kala-oya and Kantalai, returning by Padeniya to
Kin?iuiegala. An account of this trip is given in
Campbell's book, " Excursions, Adventures, and Field
Sports in Ceylon," vol. II., pp. 167-260. He refers
to Lieutenant O'Hara as '' a great favourite of mine,"
and " my obliging and agreeable friend, O'Hara."
O'Hara died at Wiyangodde (Veyangoda ?) on his
way to Colombo, sick no doubt of fevor or dysentery.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. John Wall, of H. M.
16th Regt. of Foot, who departed this life on the
10th day of June, 1824, aged 40 years.
Lieutenant Wall was Staff Officer of Seven Korales,
July 1, 1822, to May 25, 1824.
Sacred to the memory of H. W. Brahan, son of
Lieut. H. Beahan, who departed this life on .the
14th of June, 1824.
(See No. 84.)
* This word is written by D'Oyly, catapinelU
The word Jcattuppinai is now used for catamaran-
It is the Tamil kattuppinal, and probably meant a raft on two canoes.
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Serial No.
84 ..
Date.
July 2
1824
Name.
Henry Brahan
85
86 .
Feb. 26
1825
Eliza Moore
Ma,rch 16 .
1820
. William Moore
April 27
1825
Maria Lusignan
87
88
June 3
1825
Aug. 28
1825
John Swinney
George Lusignan
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Hbnby Bkahan,
late of H. M. 83rd Reg., who departed this hfe at
Colombo, 2nd July, 1814, aged 44 years.
This stone is erected by his four children, who deeply
lament his loss.
Possibly a brother of Lieutenant John Brahan of
the same Regiment. He took part in the operations
against the Kandyans in 1818. " On the 6th (Oct.,
1818) Major Coane sent out another party under
Lieut. Brahan, who was fortunate enough to capture
EUepola Adigar and his wife." {G'jzetie.) This wa« the
celebrated Ehelapola. Lieutenant Brahan returned
to Colombo, November 25, with Lieutenant Summer-
field (No. 79).
His eldest daughter , Mary Ann, married at Colombo ,
January 13, 1818, Lieutenant and Adjutant Henry
Houf-'h, 83rd Regiment.
Judging from his age he was a "ranker." The
83rd, "much to its credit, had more officers in it
who had been raised from the ranks than any other
I have ever come across. They were not a little
proud of this, and often talked of it. I can remember
seven or eight of them at this distance of time."
(Major Skumer in 1891, foe cit., p. 8.)
Sacred to the memory of Eliza Mooeb, the beloved
wife of Sergt. Moore of H. M. 16th Regt. of Foot,
who departed this hfe 26 Feb., 1825, aged 36 years.
Also of Wm. Mooee, their youngest son, who departed
this life on the 16th March, 1820, aged 10 months
and 16 days.
In memory of Makia Lusignan, eldest daughter of
Geoege Lttsignan and Augusta, his wife. Born at
Trincomahe, 20th April, 1806. Died at Colombo,
27th April, 1825.
0. D. R.
(See No. 88.)
This stone is placed here over the remains of Private
John Swinney, 16th Regt., by a master who is
deeply sensible of the loss he has sustained by the
death of so faithful (a) servant. Died on the 3rd
June, 1825.
In memory of George Lusignan, Esq., who, having
filled various important situations in the Civil
Service of this Island, died at Colombo, 28th
August, 1825, in the 41st year of his age.
0. D. R.
Lusignan was one of " three boys of 13," the
others being Sylvester Gordon and Robert Barry,
who accompanied Governor North to Ceylon in 1798.
They were borne on the Governor's &st establish-
ment as " Copjrists," each at £100 a year. Lusignan
is described by him, in a letter to the Hon. Heiu-y
Dundas, Secretary of State, dated January 16, 1798,
as " a good linguist, knows French, ItaUan, Greek,
Latin, and Turkish, and is intended to succeed his
father as Kin^^'s Interpreter." (Wellesley MSS.,
in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. XL, p. 228.)
This destiny was not to be fulfilled, and Lusignan
remained in Ceylon. On August 6, 1800, he was
appointed Acting Secretary to the Committee of
General Superintendence, and to the Law Committee
in October, 1801, and by March, 1802, he was
Assistant to Lieutenant-Colonel Barbut, the Com-
missioner Extraordinary of Revenue and Commerce
at Jaffna. On his death he succeeded him as
" Agent of Revenue and Commerce " (a title subse-
quently abandoned for that of "Collector") there.
May 25, 1803, and continued to hold that appoint-
ment for 2 J years. The circumstances which then
brought about a change are related in Mr. Walter
Frewen Lord's book 6n " Sir Thomas Maitland,"
from which I reproduce the following: — "The Col-
lector of Jaffnapatam was a protege, not to say a
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Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
RS Ana 98 Runrep -Lnsiennn—rontd favourite, of North's, He had been rapidly advanced
•• Aug. 28 .. George Lusignan contd. .. [^ ^j^^ ^^;^i,^^^^d although not much over twenty
^ ®^^ years of age , he held one of the principal CoUectorships
in the Island. He was ignorant of the language,*
and completely in the hands of his sherishdar and his
nominees. Private trade was not then definitely
prohibited to Civil Servants, and the Collector traded
largely on his own accoimt through the sherishdar.-]
The Collecforate, of course, was ruined, and the
country-side was in dismay. Maitland felt that the
case must be dealt with immediately. He sent for the
Collector and remonstrated with him, but without
effect. He sent for him a second time, and the
Collector almost told him to mind his own business.
" I am sorely tempted to make an example of him,"
Maitland wrote, and he would have been perfectly
justified in doing so, for although Maitland's know-
ledge of men told him that the Collector was only a
very foolish yotmg gentleman, his proceedings had
all the appearance, not only of incapacity, but of
flagrant dishonesty. But nothing would induce the
Governor to publicly reprimand a Bang's officer if he
could by any possibiUty avoid doing so the
alternative course was that which the Governor
adopted. He promoted the Collector from Jafifna-
patam to Colombo. Here he had him imder his own
eye ; and he persuaded the Collector of Colombo to
exchange for Jaffnapatam ....
' ' Thus appearances were saved. But there remained
the recovery of the balances due to Government from
the Collector personally and in his official capacity.
These balances the Governor was by no means
disposed to forego ; and yet their recovery wpuld
necessitate a very long and complicated inquiry. In
the ordinary course of the service this would have
fallen to the new Collector, but Maitland would not
hear of that. It would, to begin with, throw a vast
deal of extra work on him, which he had not bargained
for when he consented to the exchange ; and it would
also in great measure undo the good of the exchange.
So he deprived himself of the services of one of the
ablest Civihans in the Island — ^Mr. Alexander Wood—
and placed him on special duty for the inquiry. Thus
everybody's susceptibilities were spared, at the
expense of heavy labour on the part of the Governor.
But Maitland had not done with the peccant Collector
yet. He summ.oned him before Council and gave him
a last chance. By this time the Collector had begun
to understand what crossing the Governor meant.
He made his submission, promised to do better, and
was dismissed to his work with a reprimand, but not
a pubKc reprimand. Maitland immediately inter-
ceded for him with the Secretary of State. He was a
very young man he urged, and quite capable of doing
good work in the future. He almost made it a
personal matter that the young man should be forgiven,
and forgiven he was."
Of Lusignan' s administration of the " Northern
Provinces " glimpses are to be obtained from the
.Jaffna diaries, but there is nothing to show that
everything was not as it should be. There are
itineraries of his circuits. He proposed to substitute
for the joy tax (a tax on jewellery and ornaments)
a head tax of 2 rixdollars, 1 J, or J rixdoUar, according
to caste, aU castes being comprised under three classes
(1804). He went over to Mannar from Arippu on
October 25, 1803, to settle matters for an expedition
into the Wanni under Captain Drieberg, "for the
recapture of MuUetivoe. ' ' He has schemes for making
advances in money and paddy to the people of the
* I rather doubt this, in view of his capacity as a linguist, as testified to by North. — J. P. L.
■j- This word has never, so far as I knc^v, been used in Ceylon. Probably the author means the " Peshoar to the Collector."
In 1801 this " important office was held by a Moodeliar." (Jaffrw Diary.) The Cutcherry Interpreter was the most important
native official on the Collector's stafE, and next to him was the Peshcar. During the Company's rule, 1795-98, Indian names
were used to desoriba officials. There were on the Cutcherry staS at Jaffna, besides the Interpreter; an Aumildar, a Peshcar, a
Sumprady, 4 or 5 Coniooplies, a Tombu Coniooply, and 6 Gomashtahs, and the Respadoors, or collectors of revenue under the
Dutch, were re-appointed. There were 40 in " the Provinces of Jafina." There were also 37 Maniagars, and under the Maniagars
were the " Parpattaoarars," a local title now extinct, meaning the people " who look after things." In 1804 there were 378 of
them in the JaSna Provinces. There were also Patteagatyns for the fishers, and in the Mannar District a " Mottocara," a title
that might be revived at the present day, for headmen appointed to prevent excessive speed by motor cars.
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Serial No.
88 ..
Date.
Aug. 28
1825
Name.
George Lusignan — contd.
89 .,
90 .,
91 .,
92 .
1825
Nov. 29
1825
June 5
1826
Oct. 4
1826
Caroline Rowen
Mary Beaumont
John Fraser
Robert Thompson
93
Nov. 29
1826
John Frederick Holland
94
Dec. 1
1826
Emily Garstin
Inscription.
Wanni to assist them in repairing the broken tanks
and in sowing their fields, which he proposes to the
Board of Revenue (August 16, 1804).
Lusignan became Agent of Revenue, Colombo,
on November 13, 1805, exchanging with William
Montgomery, November 5, 1806, the Province mean-
while remaining under the charge of Alexander Wood.
He was appointed Provincial Judge of Trincomalee,
February 26, 1806, and of Matara on July 13, 1808.
He was Collector of Trincomalee from January 2,
1811, and continued to act as such after he had
received the appointment of Auditor- General until
December 1, 1817, when he took up the Secretaryship
of the Home and Judicial Department. He was
Deputy Secretary to Government and Secretary for
the Kandyan Provinces from 1819 until his death.
It is perhaps significant that in 1811 the address
which was given Sir Thonaas Maitland on his retiring
from the Governorship, though it was signed by
Civil Servants all over the Island, as well as by the
Military, does not contain the name of Lusignan.
He married at Colombo, March 27, 1805, at the age of
20, Augusta Daniel. They lost a son at Trincomalee,
March 31, 1812, aged 6 years and 10 months.
Mrs. Lusignan died at Edmonton, October, 26, 1857,
having thus survived her husband 32 years.
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Daniel arrived from Madras
with the Rodneys by the ship Glory in April, 1804.
Caeoline, daughter of Quarter Master W. Rowen of
the 16th Regt., who departed this life 2nd — , 1825.
Sacred to the memory of the late Maey Beatjmont,
widow, who departed this life on the 29th Nov. , 1825 ,
aged 70 years.
To the memory of John, eldest son of Major John
Frasee, H. M. Ceylon Reg., who died at Colombo
on the 5th June, 1826, aged 1 year and 8 months.
Sacred to the memory of Capt. Robt. Thompson, late
of H. M. 83rd Regt., who departed this life 4th
day of Oct., 1826, in the 65th year of his age.
He was in active service 48 years. His kindness
and affection as a husband and father gave addi-
tional strength to the firmness and intrepidity of
the soldier.
This tablet is erected as a slight token of the great
regard of his only surviving child and daughter.
His eldest daughter, Barbara, married at the Fort
Church, Colombo, December 2, 1818, Andrew Mitchell
Gibson, Esq., of the naval service of the H.E.I. C,
a younger brother of William Carmichael Gibson and
Lewis Gibson.
Sacred to the memory of John Fkedeeiok Holland ,
late merchant of Colombo, who departed this life
on the 29th day of Nov., 1826, in the 31st year of his
age. He is deeply regretted by those who knew
his kindness and constancy as a friend, and his
exemplary conduct as a son.
There is a case, 'H.oWa.nd versus Winter, reported in
Ramanathan's Reports, vol. I.
Emily, sixth daughter of the Rev. Noeman Gaestin,
Colonial Chaplain. Bom in Ireland, Dec. 1, 1815,
and died at Colombo, Jan. 4th, 1826. 0. D. R.
(See No. 108.)
The letters O. D. R. occur also on the tombstones
of Nos. 86 and 88. The O probably stands for ossa,
as in O. T. B. Q., ossa tua bene quiescant ; O. I. B. Q.,
ossa illius bene quiescant; O. E. B. Q. R. C, ossa
ejus bene quiescant resurgent condita, so that O. D. R.
may be ossa demwm resurgent. (See Lewis and Short's
Dictionary. )
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Serial No.
96 ..
Date.
Feb. 10
1827
Name.
Thomas Bayly
Inscription.
June 27
1827
John Parker
Sacred to the memory of, the late Major Thomas
Bayly, H. M.'s Ceylon Regiment, who departed
this life on the 10th Feb., 1827, aged 47 years.
He served his King and Country 28 years in Egypt,.
India, and Ceylon.
This simple tribute of respect by his afflicted family,,
■who in him deplore the loss of an affectionate
husband and indulgent parent and kind friend.
Major Thomas Bayly was bom at Devizes, August 1 ,
1779. He entered the Navy, was Midshipman on
board the Circe frigate. Captain Winthrop, and
taken prisoner in the first French War, 1793-98.
He was treated with much severity during one
year's captivity in the Citadel of Lille. When
reUeved on the exchange of prisoners he returned
to England. Having purchased a commission in
the Connaught Rangers, he embarked with a
detachment of his regiment in 1800 to join its
headquarters at Bombay. On his arrival he found
that the regiment had proceeded to Egypt, and
followed it immediately, under the command of
Sir David Baird. In that expedition he gained the
Egyptian medal. On the cessation of hostilities
he returned to the detachment left at Bombay, and
was with it engaged in active service until 1804,
when he was promoted to a captaincy in the 3rd
Ceylon Regiment. He served with that regiment
in Travancore and in other parts of the coast of
Southern India, where it was assisting in quelling
instirrections, and also in the Kandyan War of 1815,
and to the end of the rebellion of 1817-18. He
was in command of the troops at the execution of
the chief Ellapola at Kandy on October 27, 1818.
In 1818 he was appointed Commandant and Agent
of Government of Three Korales, with headquarters
at Buanwella, where he remained until his death.
Here "Major B., the Commandant, not only paid me
every attention, but also gave me much information
about the surrounding country." (Campbell, p. 60.)
He " died at Grand Pass on his way to Colombo
from his station, which he left for the benefit of
medical advice." He left a widow and nine children.
" He was so universally known and respected that it
must be quite unnecessary to offer any panegyric."
[Gazette, March 3, 1827.)
Major Bayly married, as an Ensign at Calcutta, in
1800, Lydia Hammond, the daughter of an officer of
the East India Company's Service. She died at
Nuwara Eliya in 1848. Three of their sons went into
the army. One was Captain F. B. Bayly, Ceylon
Rifles. Another son, Robert Lionel, was in the
Customs. The eldest, Thomas, was gazetted 2nd Lieu-
tenant in the 3rd Ceylon, November 26, 1815, and was
in that corps in 1816, and afterwards in the 19th and
20th Regiments. He died at the Cape.
Major Bayly was Commandant at Matara in 1811-
13, where one of his sons, Charles Bisset, was born,
and at Amunupura in 1816, where another son, Henry
Hardy, was bom. His only surviving daughter
married Lieutenant Duvernet, C.R.R. (see under
"Nuwara Eliya").
In the Uva rebellion he was engaged in co-oper-
ating with Major MacDonald in the operations in
Welassa (see "The Uva Rebellion," pp. 6, 14, 16, 18,
30).
Captain John Pakkbe of His Majesty's Ceylon Regi-
ment. Died 27th June, 1827, aged 56 years,
leaving a disconsolate Widow, who caused this
stone to be erected in memory of departed worth.
Captain Parker came from the 46th Regiment and
joined Ramsay's Regiment (subsequently called the
Ceylon Regiment or the 2nd Ceylon Regiment) as an
Ensign. He was in command of a party of this regi-
ment at Katadenia (Kotadeniyawa, or Fort Frederic,
on the Maha-oya, near Giriulla) in February, 1803
(see Cordiner, vol. II., p. 170). About the middle of
1804 we find him writing about the recruits for BaUlie's
Regiment (the 3rd Ceylon) at Jaffna. On September
1, 1804, he was appointed Adjutant of his regiment.
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Serial No.
96 ..
Date.
June 27
1827
Name.
John Parker — contd.
97
June 26
1828
Robert|Haddock
Inscviption.
and on September 5, 1805, he is gazetted Lieutenant,
vice Loughlin, deceased ; Captain, 3rd Ceylon, June 4,
1805; Captain, 2nd Ceylon, February 10, 1810. He
was at that time Commandant of Hambantota, where
he was succeeded by Captain Hardy, 19th Regiment, on
October 17,1810. Captain Parker and Quartermaster
John Staples of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment were tried
before the Supreme Court, December 9-10, 1811, for
the murder of Captain James Brown of the same
regiment, whom Captain Parker had shot in a due].
Parker was foimd guilty of manslaughter, and
sentenced to one week's imprisonment in the common
jail of Colombo. Staples was acquitted. There is a
short summary of the trial in the Gazette of December
18, 1811, reprinted in the Ceylon Literary Register,
vol. III., pp. 2, 3. The duel took place at Galle on
November 17, 1810. Captain Brown was shot in
the right side and died instantly. There is no record
of the burial of Captain Brown, and his death is not
given in the Gazette. He had married, April 18, 1808,
Julia Eliza, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. T. J.
Twisleton by his first wife.
This was the first trial by jury in the Island " under
the new Charter of Justice," and the Chief Justice,
Sir Alexander Johnstone, presided at it. Capt. Parker
married at Galle, in 1820, Petronella Confadie {sic).
(See No. 164.)
Sacred to the Memory of Bt.-Major Robt. Haddock,
late of H. M. 97th Regt. of Foot, who was
unfortunately killed by an elephant whilst
sporting in the Neighbourhood of Ruwanwelle, on
the 26th June, 1828, aged 41 years. Erected by
his Widow.
Captain, March 25, 1824. He was also " Agent of
Government for the Kandyan Provinces of the
Three Korles," having succeeded Major Bayly in that
position, and his headquarters were at Ruwanwela.
An account of the circumstances attending his death,
taken from the deposition of Private Charles Young
of the 97th, who witnessed it, is pubKshed in the
Gazette of June 28, 1828. " Yesterday evening Major
Haddock, Mr. Francis Bayly, and his brother went
out at Ruanwelle to shoot a wild elephant that
was in the jcmgle near that place. The gentlemen
stationed themselves at a distance from each other
outside the jimgle, some Cingalese people getting
inside to drive the animal out. The elephant first
came out where Mr. F. Bayly was stationed, who fired
a shot and the elephant retreated again. About
half an hova afterwards the elephant came out a
second time near where Major Haddock and the
deponent were posted — at that time the two Mr.
Bayly's had joined them and they all fired together at
the elephant, who stumbled but recovered himself and
retired into the jungle ; the gentlemen then separated,
but met on the other side of the jungle and loaded —
the Cingalese people were then sent in to beat —
Major Haddock placing the gentlemen in position at
a distance from each other. Shortly afterwards the
' elephant came out of the jimgle exactly where Major
Haddock and the deponent stood, and so close upon
them that the Major had scarcely time to level his
gun ; having fired the Major retired upon the depo-
nent, who then fired and turned the elephant. Major
Haddock then ran round a bush and the elephant
unfortunately coming in contact with him on the
opposite side, seized him with his trunk round the
body, threw him on the ground, and placing his foot
upon the Major's breast, trampled upon his body.
The deponent turned round for a double-barrelled
gun that was with a Lascoryn, who, however, had
disappeared. The deponent then went up, took hold
of Major Haddock and pulled him away from under
the elephant ; upon which the elephant tiu-ned roimd
and went off. Major Haddock was not then quite
dead, but apparently drawing his last breath : he
could not speak. The deponent ran for the doctor
of the station, but the Major died previous to his
return."
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Serial No.
97 ..
Date.
June 26
1828
Name.
Robert Haddock — ocmtd.
98
June 30
1828
Hugh Fraser
99
1828
John Woodford
Thomas Woodford
100
April 10
1829
Alfred Mylius
John Manwaring:
Inscription.
The death of Major Haddock is referred to by-
Major Forbes in his " Eleven Years in Ceylon,"
vol. I., pp. 144-6, but he had evidently not seen this-
account of it, for he attributes it to his inexperience
and to the fact that he " had entrusted his spare gun
to, a native, who fled when the animal first rushed out
from the jungle." The disappearance of the native
with the gun, it is clear from this account, made no
difference whatever in the result. Strange to say
Tennent does not mention the occurrence, though he
tells every story that there is to tell about the elephant
in Ceylon.
Major Forbes states that Sir Robert WUmot
Horton, Governor of Ceylon, erected a stone pillar
with an inscription to mark the precise spot where
Major Haddock met his death (p. 145). There is a
stone pillar about a mile from Ruwanwela, which,
tradition says, marks the spot, but it is an ancient
Sinhalese pillar, and bears no trace of letter or inscrip-
tion. It may, of course, have been used for tlis.
pinpose, instead of the inscribed pillar originally
intended.
The Gazette goes on: "Major Haddock was not less-
esteemed for his gentlemanlike deportment in society
than as being a gallant officer and a good soldier. He
had seen a great deal of service abroad, and in the
course of the Peninsular War received three medals
as honorable testimonials of his distinguished services
in the field. His loss will be deeply felt by his brother
officers and by those who had the pleasure of his
acquaintance, but above all by his affectionate and
now disconsolate widow, whom with three infant
children he has left behind to mourn his melancholy
and mitimely fate."
Six service companies of the 97th Regiment
arrived in Ceylon in the latter part of 1824. Major
and Mrs. Haddock came out with the headquarters
of the regiment in H.M.S. Princess Charlotte, which
left England on April 10. On board also were Colonel
and Mrs. MuUer and Thomas Skinner, afterwards
Major Skirmer {see "Fifty Years in Ceylon," p. 59).
To the memory of Lieut. -Col. Hugh Feasek, com-
manding the Royal Eegt. of Artillery in the Island
of Ceylon, who died on the 30th of June, 1828,
aged 56 years.
He is described in the Gazette as " late of Green-
wich." He died at Trincomalee, it appears. He had
" served His Majesty 34^ years in the Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery with zeal and fidelity in various
parts of the world. He was interred with the Military
Honors due to his rank and was followed to the grave
by most of the Civil andMihtary Officers of Colombo."
{Gazette, July 5, 1828.)
In memory of John and Thomas Woodford, who
died in this Colony, Lieuts. of H. M. Ceylon Rifle
Regt., aged the former 33 and the latter 26 years.
This stone is raised by an affectionate brother.
, Colombo, November 27th, 1828.
No particulars available, except that Thomas died
Jime, 1828, and John also in 1828.
To the memory of Captain Alfred Mylitts, of the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died 10th April, 1829.
Aged 36 years. Also that of Captain John Man-
WAHESTG, of the same Corps and Staff Officer of
Kandy, who died 17th April, 1829, aged 36.
Two attached friends who were each deeply lamented!
by their brother Officers.
(For Manwaring see under "Kandy.")
Alfred Mylius was the eldest son of Baron F.
Mylius, and was bom March 8, 1793, at Frankfort.
He was for a time a Midshipman in the Royal Navy.
He joined the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, August 10,.
1807. In the war of 1815 he was with the 8th
Division, and defeated the Kandyans in a skirmish
at "Wissenave," January 29, pursued the king to
Teldeniya, February 15, and was in the vicinity of
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Serial No.
100 .
Date.
April 10
1829
Name.
Alfred Mylius, &e.—contd.
101
Dec. 30
1829
Dec. 5
1817
Eva Conrady
Christiana Conrady
102
Feb. 17
1830
John Thomas Burslem
103
April 9
1830
Edward Finch
104
105
April 18
1830
May 1
1830
Rose Araminta Edwards
Kenneth Mackenzie
Inscription.
Medamahanuwara when he was captured on February
18. In the Uva rebellion his post was at "lUeka-
wella" in Seven Korales. ("Uva Rebellion," pp.42,
44-, 45.) The Gazette of April 18, 1829, states that he
" had given numerous proofs of being a good officer.
He was a very honourable and upright character,
highly esteemed by his brother officers, and respected
by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance."
He got his company April 29, 1819.
He married August 13, 1827, at Kandy, Sarah
Swinburne, who was a sister of Lieutenant and Adju-
tant Joseph Swinburne of the 83rd Regiment. His
son, Frederic Henry, born June 12, 1828, at Kandy,
became a Lieutenant in the 15th Regiment, and was
stationed with it at Kandy in 1848. He was after-
wards Rector of Elmdon, near Birmingham, where he
died January 8, 1896. He married at Streatham,
September 3, 1857,Fanny, daughter of John Boustead,
Paymaster of the 1st Ceylon Regiment, and his son.
Rodney, is a planter in Ceylon.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. E. Conkady, widow of
the late J. F. Conrady, Esqr., who departed this
life at Colombo on the 20th Dec, 1829, aged
64 years 8 months, and sincerely regretted by
her family and friends. Beneath lieth also the
remains of Cheistiana Conrady, daughter of tlie
above, died at Colombo, 5th Dec, 1817.
Mrs. Conrady was a daughter of Martinus Meckern
of Groningen, Secretaris van Pohtie at Colombo, and
Judith Charlotta Lever of Bergen-op-Zoom. She was
the second wife of Johan Friederich Conrady.
Captain Percival says ("Ceylon," p. 136): "At
some of the Dutch houses, and in particular at
Mynheer Conrade's at Colombo, I found the dishes
extremely well dressed, and the fish in particular
appeared exceedingly palatable to an Englishman."
The credit was probably due to Mrs. Conrady (or
Conradie, or Conradi, for we find all these versions of
the name). The Conradis no doubt entertained
largely, and many daughters of their numerous family
married officers. Although J. F. Conrady had held
high office under the Dutch Company, h^ started busi-
ness in Colombo, after the British occupation, as an
auctioneer. There was another family in Colombo
named von Conradi , represented by Charles Frederic,
Baron von Conradi, who married the eldest daughter
of Captain Schneider in 1813. The two families were
probably connected.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. John Thomas
Burslem, 61st Regt., who died 17th Febr., 1830,
aged 23 years.
The 61st (South Gloucestershire), now the 2nd
Battalion Gloucester Regiment, served in Ceylon,
1828-40. The headquarters arrived by the Arab
in November, 1828, and in the same month part of
the regiment by the E. I. Company's chartered ships
Maitland and James Sihhald.
In Memory of the Hon'ble and Revd. Edward Finch,
son of Heneage and Louisa, Earl and Countess of
Aylesford, sometime Senior Colonial Chaplain and
Principal of Schools in this Island.
Born February 25th, 1792. Died April 9th, 1830.
He arrived at Colombo by the Morning Star,
October 5, 1827, having been appointed Colonial
Chaplain at GaUe and Acting Chaplain to the Forces.
In 1829-30 he was Senior Colonial Chaplain, ap-
parently stationed at Colombo.
Sacred to the memory of Rose Araminta Edwards,
who departed this life the 18th April, 1830.
This stone was placed here by her truly affectionate
daughter.
Sacred to the memory of Lt. Kenneth Mackenzie,
58th Regt., son of Lieut. -Genl. Mackenzie, aged
20 years. He died on 1st May, 1830. Deeply and
sincerely regretted by his brother officers, by whom
he was much esteemed.
82-09
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Serial Ko.
105 .
Date.
May 1
1830
Name.
Kenneth Mackenzie — contd.
106
Jan. 6
1831
Henry John Whiting
107
Jan. 29
1831
Stephen Beaufort
108
April 23
1831
Norman Garstin
Inscription.
' ' After a few days illness Lieut. Kenneth Mackenzie.
Thus was cut off in the very spring of life, a young
man whose highly honourable principles and man-
liness of character gave every promise of being an
ornament to the profession ; and had so fully engaged
the esteem of his brother officers that the feelings that
they have evinced for his worth , although they cannot
but convey a melancholy satisfaction to his afflicted
relatives, yet must at the same time more deeply
impress upon their minds the severe loss they have
sustained. His remains were attended to their last
earthly abode by His Excellency the Governor and
his staff, Sir Hudson Lowe and the greater part of
the officers of the Garrison, and the whole of his own
Corps off duty, who all appeared to feel a deep
interest in the premature fate of this estimable young
man." (Gazette, May 8, 1830.)
His father was Colonel of the 58th Regiment (March
1, 1828). Six service companies of this regiment,
the Rutlandshire, now the 2nd Northamptonshire
Regiment, were stationed in Ceylon, 1828-33.
Sacred to the memory of Hbnby Johit, son of W. H.
Whiting, Esqr., by his wife Elizabeth, born at
Colombo on the 1st Dec, 1830, died 6th Jan., 1831.
W. H. Whiting was in the Civil Service, 1826-56.
He arrived by the ship Maitland, June 20, 1826 ; was
Assistant to the Collector , Colombo , 1 828-32 ; married
there, March 9, 1830, Elizabeth, fourth daughter
of the Rev. N. Garstin (see No. 108) ; was Fiscal
and Sitting Magistrate, Jaffna, 1832-33; Assistant
Government Agent, Hambantota, 1833; Assistant
Government Agent, Western Province, and District
Judge, Foxxr Korales, 1833-37, with " a Cutchery at
Ootooankandy " ; Assistant Government Agent,
Eastern Province, and District Judge, Batticaloa,
1837-39 ; Acting District Judge, Colombo, No. 1,
North, 1839-43, during which period he came into
collision with Robert Langslow, the District Judge of
Colombo South ; and Government Agent, Eastern
Province, 1845-56. His daughter, Elizabeth, married
at Pussellawa on March 7th, 1854, James AlKx
Wilkinson, late Captain, 15th Regiment, a brother of
the " Gemini Generals," who took to coffee-planting,
and bought Stellenberg and New Market estates (see
No. 29).
In memory of Stephen Bbatjkout, Esqr. , who departed
this life on the 29th January, 1831, in the 52nd
year of liis age. An affectionate husband, a Idnd
father, a friend to tlie poor.
Beaufort was, in 1823, supercargo of the ship
Forbes, and arrived, with Mrs. Beaufort, at Colombo
in November of that year.
The firm of Beaufort & Huxham of Colombo became
bankrupt in October, 1830. It was in existence in
1823 or earlier. (See Bamanathan' a Reports, vol. I.)
Anno Domini MDCCCXXXI.
Vigesima Tertia die Aprilis His lapidibus subter
depositse fuerunt Reliquiae Reverendi NoBMAif
Gakstin A. M. quondam ^Edis Episcopalis Limeri-
censis ex Prebendariis nuper Ecolesise Anglicanse
hac insula peregrinantis senioris SaceUani Qui
filius Anthony Gabstin Luthianensis Hibemia
equitis Vixit LVIII tandemque hac via dignitatem
assecutus est.
He had been, besides Prebendary of Limerick,
Rector of Kilpeacon in that diocese. Luthianensis ==
Louth. The Garstins still have a place, Castle
Bellingham, near Braganstown, county Louth.
The Rev. Norman Garstin was appointed Second
Colonial Chaplain in 1821, and was stationed at
Kandy from December, 1823, till the appointment
of the Rev. Thomas Ireland in 1828. He was there
again in June, 1832. A quantity of plate belonging
to the deposed king was discovered in Kandy in 1823,
and Mr. Garstin applied for it for the use of the
Kandy church. Accordingly " a silver salver, a cup.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
108 ..
AprU 23 .
1831
. Norman Garstin'— con*rf.
109
June 6
1831
Maria Langford Wallett
110
Dec. 14
1831
JohB Walbeoff
Inscription. ■<",
■ and a pair of candlesticks," comprising part of the
property, were handed over to him by Government.
These articles have disappeared since then, and there
is no note whatever of them beyond this extract
from the Secretariat records dated December 26,
1823.
His eldest daughter, Eleanor Aim, married John W.
Huskisson, C.C.S., at St. Peter's, Colombo, April 5,
1825 ; his daughter Lucy married at St. Peter's,
Colombo, February 12, 1825, Captain Botell Trydell,
83rd Regiment ; his fourth daughter, Elizabeth,
married at Colombo, March 9, 1830, W. H. Whiting,
CCS. (see No. 106) ; his fifth daughter, Ann, married
at Kandy, August 20, 1833, WUliam Lucas, Assistant
Surgeon, CR.R. His youngest daughter married at
Galle, David Baird Lindsay, August 10, 1843. His
son, the Rev. Norman W. Garstin, LL.D., was the
Colonial Chaplain at Galle. Another son was in the
army.
Makia Langfoed Wallett, 3rd daughter of Capt.
Charles Wallett, of H. M. 61sfc Regt., died at
Colombo, 6th June, 1831.
(See No. 22.)
Major Wallett, 61st Regiment, arrived with
Mrs. Wallett and Miss Constantia B. Wallett,
November 18, 1828, when the chartered E. I. Co.
ships Maitland and James Sibbald brought part of
the 61st.
Constantia Emma WaUett married at Kalutara, on
April 8, 1829, Captain Sadleir, 58th Regiment.
Sacred to the memory of Joinq- Walbeofp, Esqr., of
H. M. Civil Service in Ceylon, who died at Colombo
on 14th Dec, 1831, in consequence of an accident
in hunting in Kadirany, deeply regretted by his
children and friends. Aged 39 years.
Walbeoff was appointed 2nd Assistant at the
Secretariat, January 2, 1811 ; Assistant to Collector,
Colombo, and Vice-Ptesident of the Land Raad,
Negombo, December 25, 1811 ; Assistant Collector,
Chilaw, January 1, 1813 ; Collector, Chilaw and
Puttalam, February 1, 1814; Superintendent, Cin-
namon Plantations, 1822. This "situation was one
of the most important and lucrative under the (Dutch)
Government." ( "Autobiography of a Periya Durai,"
Ceylon Literary Begister, vol. III., p. 322.) It was
continued under the British Government so long as
cinnamon remained a Government monopoly. His
headquarters, while Superintendent of the Cinnamon
Plantations, were at Madama, Colombo, where there
was a cinnamon depot, and he had a bungalow at
Kadirane, where there were a store and a court-house.
The bungalow, store, and court-house are to be seen
at Goluwapokuna, four miles from Negombo. A
square building there with verandah aU round is still
known as the Nadu Salawa (court-house).
While Walbeoff was Collector of Chilaw in 1815,
the Shaw Allum transport, on a voyage from Mauritius
to Calcutta with detachments of the 22nd and 87th
Regiments, numbering about 250 men, went out of
her coxjrse, mistaking the western for the eastern coast
of Ceylon, and had to anchor off the island of
Karativu in ten fathoms of water, surrounded by
breakers and rocks, and with a heavy sea breaking-
over her. Lieutenant Fenton managed to get ashore
in a small boat and communicate with Walbeoff, who
immediately set off to render assistance with several
large boats from Calpentyn, reached the Shaw Allum
on the evening of August 2, and disembarked the
detachments at Calpentyn on the 5th, whence they
marched to. Colombo. ("Asiatic Journal," Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. V., p. 78.)
He married, February 19, 1817, Jane, daughter of
Baron von Lynden, Assistant Collector of Customs
at Ja&a, and formerly of the Dutch army, but the
marriage did not turn out a happy one. He sent his
wife back to her parents in 1825, and to England a
year later with her children, who were to be sent to
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
110 ,.
Dec. 14
1831
. . John Walbeoff
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Galle Face Burial Grouni—contd.
Inscription.
-contd. . . school. She returned by the Elphinstone, leaving
London.February 22,1829, other passengers being the
Tittertons and Mr. Trant. Titterton and Trant were
witnesses at the trial, which was the result of this
voyage, viz., an action by Walbeoff against Mitchell,
Surgeon of the ship, which is reported in Ramaruithan's
Reports, vol. I., pp. 135-142.
tValbeoff was a great sportsman, and died from the
effects of an accident while himting deer at Kadi-
rane, through his horse carrying him with violence
against a tree. He started at 3 p.m., and Mr. James
Caulfield (see No. 32), his assistant, saw him shortly
afterwards supported by Mr. Waring, another of his
assistants, and another person, and carried in a chair.
He informed him that " whilst in chase of some deer
his horse ran against a tree and he fell off." His
clothes were marked with green as if he had come
against a tree. Caulfield put him in a carriage and
was taking him to Colombo, when in Silversmith street,
at 12.30 A.M., he died. He was seen in the carriage
at Caulfield's house at Colombo by Dr. Kinnis, but
he was then dead. An inquest was held at Colombo
on December 13 by J. S. Rodney, Sitting Magistrate,
and a jury of 13, on which were the Ven. J. M.
S. Glenie and Lieutenant Joseph Vincent (No. 114).
{Gazette, December 14, 1831.)
According to tradition, the accident took place on a
part of the plantations which now forms an estate
called " Waringbungalowatta."- The tree was a
cashewnut tree, and in the herd of deer that Walbeoff
saw was one that was milk white — as it happened, a
bad omen.
The funeral was attended by the Governor and
the Civil and Military officers. Walbeoff was very
popular among the natives, judging from a letter in
the Oazette of December 28 signed " ladiophilus "
(probably S. Casie Chetty). This was owing to his
goodwill and kindness towards them. " He was
known as ' The good gentleman,' and was in every
respect the father of the fatherless and the help of
the poor." At the trial referred to elsewhere the
Judge remarked : " The plaintiff will have the satis-
faction of knowing that every attempt to injure his
character has failed."
There is an account by Boyd, imaginary or partly
founded on fact, of a duel between Walbeoff, whom he
erroneously calls a Dutchman, and " a general officer
of the name of Smith or Brown, or some very plebeian
one of that sort,*' also of his picnics, shooting parties,
£m.d all the other gaieties at Kadirane.
There is alsd an incorrect account of his death ;
it is said to have been due to family troubles, which,
of course, it was not : " he was never seen to smile
again, and some time' after his mangled body was
found at the bottom of a high cliff, on the top of which
his horse was found quietly crunching the sweet
grass The natives believe that Walbeofi's
ghost still haunts the precincts of his old residence,
and has been frequently met after dark wandering
about the walks and glades of the cinnamon grounds."
(Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III., p. 323.)
The editor corrects this account by stating that
Walbeoff was " not Dutch, but Welsh, of an old Pem-
broke family, members of whom had been Governors
of the Isle of Man. He was killed by a cheetah while
hunting in Ceylon." The statement that the family
belonged to Pembrokeshire appears to be incorrect.
Mr. Edward Laws, an authority on Pembrokeshire,
can find no trace of it there. So also is the statement
as to the cheetah, but I think it must have been
Walbeoff who had the two tame cheetahs described
by Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell in his book (vol. II' >
p. 381). If it was not Walbeoff, it was Henry Wright,
at one time Agent of Revenue in Seven Korales.
Walbeoff had, however, an adventure with two
leopards, in which he was severely mauled, and it was
probably an imperfect recollection of this incident
which was the cause of Mr. A. M. Ferguson's mistake,
A native was attacked by a leopard in the town of
Negombo in May, 1812, and was badly wounded.
Mr. Walbeoff, who was then the Assistant Collector,
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Galle Pace Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
110 .
Date.
Dec. 14
1831
Name.
John Walbeoff— cowfd.
Ill
March 2
1832
Aug. 21
1832
Anne Bond
Sarah Bond
112
April 23
1833
Mary Titterton
Inscription.
went in pursuit on horseback armed with a double-
barrelled gun, and followed by a servant carrying a
rifle. He found the leopard in a small jungle a short
distance off, fired at it with both barrels as it crouched
behind a coconut tree, and wounded it. The leopard
then sprang on him and fixed its teeth in the back of
his head and his claws in his back, but after a time
let go and went off. Walbeoff followed and shot it
through the heart. It is stated that several instances
had " lately occurred in the Island where the attacks
of these destructive animals had not been confined to
bullocks, &c., but has extended to the natives, many
of whom have been severely wounded and some
killed." This one measured, from " the tip of its nose
to the insertion of its tail, 5 feet, and its tail 2 feet 10
inches." (ffazeife. May 27, 1812.) An account of this
adventure is given by Bennett, p. 184.
Mrs. Walbeoff, after the death of her husband,
married (2) Captain Irving, of a Westmoreland family,
and after his death she went to England with an infant
daughter. She married (3) Captain Fagan, C.R.R. , and
lived after his death for many years with her daughter,
Mrs. Noble, in whose house she died at a good old
age." (Geylon Literary Register, vol. III., p. 389.)
Walbeoft"'s elder daughter, Jane Eliza, married. May
6, 1840, at St. Peter's, Colombo, Benjamin Dodsworth,
M.D. , who was Caulfield's partner in coffee planting.
He was in charge of Galmaduwa and Talwatta estates,
about three miles below Kandy, on opposite sides of
the Mahaweliganga, in the early forties. She died at
Colombo, January 25, 1853. Their daughter married
William Seward Le Feuvre, Superintendent of Police,
1873-1890. His younger daughter, Katherine Eliza,
married at Kandy. May 3, 1843, William Austin,
planter of Hunnasgiriya. She died at Kandy, March
26, 1844, aged ^9 years 4 months.
Walbeoff's elder son, John, went to Cambridge,
where he is said to have become a Wrangler as well as
an athlete. He was in the Ceylon Customs, and died
in England. He married Charlotte, daughter of R. C.
Roosmalecocq. Their son, H. J. Walbeoff, was for
many years Superintendent of Minor Roads in the
Central Province. The other son , Frederic, employed ,
it is said, in the Survey Department, was buried at
Trincomalee, April 24, 1849.
Sacred to the memory of Anne, ■wife of Sergt.
Saml. Bond of the Royal Artillery, who departed
this life on the 2nd March, 1832. Aged 39 years.
And to the memory of Saeah, daughter of the
above, who departed this life on the 21st August,
same year, aged 10 years.
The good sense and beauty of this amiable girl
gained her the affection of all who knew her, and
to the deep lamented impression made upon her
tender mind by the loss of her dear mother may be
attributed the short time she survived her. Reader ,
whoever thou art, stop here and muse. Our
life is short and transient, our death certain, the
time and manner of it uncertain. Be ye therefore
also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the
Son of Man cometh.
This tomb is erected by the husband and father of the.
above in token of his love and affection.
Mary, wife of James Titteeton, Apothecary to the
Forces, died at Colombo. Aged 42 years.
J, Titterton died at Colombo, December 17,
1836, aged 47 (no inscription). He married (2) at
St. Paul's, Colombo, February 16, 1835, Jane
WiUielmina Weerman. James Titterton was
probably a son of " James Emanuel Titterton, Esq.,
of Enfield Wash, Middlesex," whose death at the age
of 80 on November 8, 1835, is announced in the
Ceylon Oazette. His daughter, Elizabeth Katherine
Stewart, married Captain G, Schneider, May 19,
1831. "Until 1832 he lived in a house in Colpetty
belonging to John Walbeoff. He and Mrs, Titterton
came out in the Elphinstone in 1829, which led to his
being a witness in the Walbeoff case (see No. 110).
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Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
113 ..
Date.
July 27
1833
Name.
Frederica Muller
114
Oct. 24
1833
Joseph Vincent
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Fbedebica Elizabeth,
infant daughter of Col. Mullbb, who died at Mount
Lavinia, 27th July, 1833.
Colonel Henry F. MuUer was appointed to the
command of the 1st Ceylon Regiment in January,
1824, and subsequently was in command of the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, 1825-34, and also of the
Fortress of Colombo. He arrived by the Pyramus,
March 30, 1826. He was to have been tried by
court-martial on October 1, 1834, on what charges-
is not-stated, but sent in his unconditional resignation,
which was accepted. He left Ceylon by the ship
Seppings on September 25, 1834, and died at-
Bremen in December, 1835.
" He was a German officer, a nephew of Count
Munster, and had been equerry to the Duke of Kent,
in which capacity he went over to Germany to marry
by proxy and bring to England the bride of His Royal
Highness Colonel Muller was very kind to me.
He had the private entree at Kensington Palace, the
residence of the Duchess of Kent. My Colonel's
wife was an extremely tall woman with very light
hair, and would have been conspicuous anywhere."
(" Fifty Years in Ceylon," by Major Skinner, pp.
56-58.)
There is another reference to Colonel Muller in the
same book, which gives him rather a different charac-
ter, but the date, 1819-20, is not reconcilable with
the facts. Colonel Muller was not in command
of the 1st Ceylon Regiment in those years, neither
was the commanding officer a German. " We were
commanded by a German officer, a nephew of
Colonel {sic for ' Count' ) Munster ; he possessed a
good deal of interest, but was a most arbitrary and
cruel man. He tried and flogged for every offence ;
at the constant punishment parades, sometimes two
or three times a week, it was a common occurrence
to see men faint and drop in the ranks" (p. 9).
Major Skinner was evidently thinking of 1824-5,
when he was Staff Officer and Colonel Muller was in
command.
His son. Lieutenant Muller, of the Ceylon Rifles,
was drowned by the upsetting of a boat at the Cape
of Good Hope in 1845.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Joseph Vincent, of
the 97th Regiment, who departed this life on the
24th day of October, 1833, aged 33 years.
The Officers of that Corps, desirous of commemorating
their estimation of his many valuable qualities as
an officer, a friend, and a companion, have erected
this monument to their departed comrade.
" On Thursday evening, at 5 o'clock, the remains
of Lieut. Vincent, of H. M.'s 97th Regiment, were
conveyed to the burial ground on Galle Face, accom-
panied by the officers of his own Regiment, the Royal
Artillery, the 61st, and the Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
H. E. the Governor, the Major-General Coromanding
the Forces, and several gentlemen of the Civil Service
testifled by their attendance their respect for the
memory of the deceased, in whom his brother officers
have lost a worthy and honom'able companion and
friend." {Colombo Journal, October 26, 1833.)
Private John Masterson, of the 97th, was shot on
Galle Face, September 25, 1833, for having struck
Lieutenant "Vincent when the Lieutenant was in the
execution of his duty as a member of a General Court-
martial on August 30. {Ceylon Literary Begister,
vol. III., p. 102.)
This was the fourth and last mihtary execution in
the Island, the others, which all took place also on
the GaUe Face, or "Southern Esplanade" as it was
called, being those of Private John Gould, 19th
Regiment, on September 21, 1810, for mutiny at
Galle ; Private John Stevenson, 73rd, on July 18,
1814, for mutiny; Private John Jenny, 73rd, on
October 27, 1817, for mutinous conduct and
striking Captain Haddon Smith, of the same Regi-
ment.
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Galle Face Burial GrouM—contd.
Serial No.
114 .
Date.
Oct. 24
1833
Name.
Joseph Vincent — contd.
115
116
Dec. 26
1833
Jan. 23
1834
James Smith
W. Robinson
117
118
Feb. 5
1834
May 24
1834
Henry Bruce Becltwith
Mary Anne Ridsdale
119
Aug. 14
1834
Joseph Budden
120
June 8
1835
John Hastings Smith
Inscription.
William Boyd gives a detailed account of the
execution of Masterson, and of the circumstances
under which he struck Lieutenant Vincent, in the
" Autobiography of a Periya Duiai," which came out
in the Ceylon Literary Register, vols, II. and III.,
and was afterwards separately published. According
to his story, which is probably partly imaginative,
they were old friends and school-fellows, though it
should be added that this statement is made on the
authority of Captain LiUie, Masterson was a gentle-
man ranker, and Lieutenant Vincent , whom he calls
" Wallace," did his best to get him pardoned. The
shock of finding that his efforts had been unsuc-
cessful is said to have brought on brain fever,
from which he died two days after the execution.
Unfortunately for this story the interval was one
month. (See Ceylon Literary Register, vol. 11, , pp.
401-6.) Boydhad" forgotten Masterman's Christian
name," and it will be noticed that he has made
a slight change also in his surname. It is curious
that the four unfortunate men were all called
"John." Needless to say, the execution of Master-
son was before Boyd's time. Boyd did not arrive
xmtil 1841.
James Smith, Esqr. , merchant of Colombo, who died
26th Dec, 1833, aged 36 years.
Sacred to the memory of Coir. -Sergeant W. Robestson,
of H. M. 97th Regiment, who departed this life on
the 23rd Jan., 1834, aged 30 years.
He was a most affectionate husband, a kind father,
a good soldier, an upright man, equally esteemed
by the officers of his corps and all his brother
soldiers. This tomb is erected as a tribute of
respect to his memory by his disconsolate widow,
who, with a young daughter, is left to mourn his
irreparable loss.
The 97th Regiment, now the 2nd Battalion Royal
West Kent Regiment, was in Ceylon 1824-1836. It
had ' ' only recently been raised. They were a fine lot
of young fellows , the average age of the men being
only nineteen. They retained their health in Colombo
better than some of the other regiments." (Major
Skinner, op. cit., p. 61.)
Sacred to the memory of Henry Bbuce Beckwith,
Esq., who died February 5th, 1834, aged 26.
Sacred to the memory of Maey Anne, daughter of W.
and S. Ridsdale (of the Cotta Church Mission),
who departed this life May 24th, 1834, aged 11
months and 20 days.
Blissful transition from a world of pain
To the bright realms where saints immortal reign.
William Ridsdale married, April 7, 1832, at Colombo
(St. Peter's), Susan Dorothea, eldest daughter of
Captain F. W. von Drieberg.
Sacred to the memory of Capt. Joseph Bttdden, of
the 97th, who departed this Ufe on the 14th day of
August, 1834, aged 49 years.
His brother officers have erected this monument in
expression of their regret in losing a worthy and
estimable member of their Regiment, and their
sense of his worth as an officer and a man.
" Captain J. Budden from the 33rd Foot to be
Captain 97th Regiment, June 22, 1826." He arrived
at Galle, April 29, 1827, by the Maitland, which
also brought W. H. Whiting for the Civil Service.
He headed the address which the passengers
presented to the captain of the vessel.
Sacred to the memory of John Hastings Smith, the
dearly beloved son of Major H. Smith, who died at
Colombo on the 8th of June, 1835, aged 10 years
and six months.
This tomb is erected by his fond afflicted father as a
small tribute to his memory.
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Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
121 .,
Date.
Dec. 24
1835
April 6
1838
Name.
Thomas Hogg
George John Hogg
122
March 30
1836
Katherine Charlotte Stewart
123
124
125
126
127
May 31
1836
Aug. 4
1836
Nov. 18
1836
Feb. 6
1837
May 1
1837
Isabella Grant
John Hynde Cotton
Alexander Duncan
Anna Burton
Ellen Ingham
128
June 6
1837
Florentina Longina Seraphina
Theresa Sebastiana Josepha
Bagenall
Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Hogg. Born 9th
May, 1810, died 24th December, 1835, aged 25
years 7 months and 15 days.
And George John Hogg, born 25th October, 1817.
Died 6th April, 1838, aged 21 years 5 months
and 14 days.
This tablet by their affectionate Mother, Catherine
Hogg, Relict of the late Lieut. Thomas Hogg,
H. M. Ceylon Regiment, 1839.
Thomas Hogg, senior, was a Sergeant in the 3rd
Ceylon Regiment in 1809 ;■ Quartermaster of the
4th Ceylon, June 25, 1811. On the disbandment
of the latter he joined the 2nd Ceylon, November
25, 1816, and subsequently the 3rd Ceylon. He was
Commandant at Idamalpane, 1816, and died at
Atapitiya, 1818. He married at Colombo, June 3,
1809, Catherine Burr, widow.
Thomas Hogg, the son, in the Gazette of December
31, 1831, "apprizes the Pubhcof this Settlement that
he will on the 16th January, 1832, establish at his
Premises, 9 Chatham Street, a Concern for the
disposal of Merchandize on Commission." A daughter,
BUzabeth, married at St. Paul's, Colombo, November
14, 1831, Nathaniel Austin, son of Nathaniel Austin,
Quartermaster, 3rd Ceylon, afterwards Deputy
Assistant Commissary-General, Galle.
Sacred to the memory of Katherine Charlotte,
the beloved and lamented daughter of Algernon
Stewart, H. M. Ceylon Civil Service, and
Charlotte Anne his wife. Born 3rd February,
1835. Died 30th March, 1836.
Algernon Stewart was in the Civil Service, 1830-50,
and retired as District Judge of Galle, February 18,
1850. He married at St. Peter's, Colombo, November
23, 1833, Charlotte Anne, daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel Clement, R.A. (see No. 132). She died,
October 16, 1861, at Kensington Gardens.
Erected by Captain T. J. Grant, H. M.'s 58th Regt.,
in memory of his beloved daughter Isabella, who
died 31st May, 1836. Aged 2 years and 7 months.
He married, March 27, 1838, at Trincpmalee, Isabel
Bailey. A daughter, Mary Ann, was born at Kandy,
October 31, 1832.
To the memory of Lieut, and Adjutant John Hynde
• Cotton, 90th Light Infantry, who died on the 4th
August, 1836, aged 23.
This monument is erected by his brother officers as a
mark of their great esteem and affection.
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Duncan, Esq.,
Asst. Surgeon in the 78th Regt., who died at
Colombo on the 18th November, 1836, aged 22
years. This monument was erected by his brother
officers as a mark of their esteem and regret.
Anna Bxjbton, wife of Thomas Burton, Chelsea
pensioner, who died 6th Feb., 1837, aged 55 years.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Ellen Ingham,
wife of Major Ingham of the Ceylon Rifles, who
departed this life on the 1st of May, 1837, aged
31 years, leaving an afflicted husband, aged
parents, and three children to lament her pre-
mature loss.
She was a daughter of Lieutenant Andrew Hope,
Gun Lascars , and married ( 1 ) Captain Brahan , May 31 ,
1822, and (2) Captain Ingham, February 4, 1830.
Sacred to the memory of Florentina Bagenall,
Wife of the late Capt. John Doyle Bagenall,
Ceylon Rifle Regt., who departed this life on the-
6th June, 1837, aged 39 years, leaving a large
family to deplore her untimely loss. 1841.
Mrs. Bagenall, whose surname was Lequana, was
Spanish, born March 14, 1798, and married Captain
Bagenall, September 30, 1814. Captain Bagenall was-
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Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
128 .. June 6 .. Florentina Bageaall — contd. bom at MuUingar, Westmeath, May l, 1791, joined
1837 the 87th Regiment as Ensign, January 4, 1807^
lost his left arm, and was wounded through the body
at the battle of Talavera, Januaiy 28, 1809, went on
half pay June 4, 1817, became Lieutenant in the
29th Regiment March 5, 1827, and Captain in the
Ceylon Rifles April 16, 1829, and came out to
Ceylon in 1830. He left Ceylon as Brevet-Major in
the ship Sarah on January 30, 1838, and died on
the voyage home May 16, 1838.
They had four sons: the eldest, William, joined
the Ceylon Rifles, November 2, 1838, as 2nd
Lieutenant; was employed in the Civil Engineer's
Department in 1840; was Adjutant at Kandy in
1846 ; on leave to England in 1847 ; became Captain
on December 1, 1848; was Staff Officer of Trinco-
malee in 1851-52, and left the Island in the latter
year. He was, I believe, lost at sea withhis brother's
family.
The second brother, Henry S., was in the Civil
Branch of the Ordnance Department from 1837, and
was stationed at Trincomalee. He was transferred
to Halifax, Nova Scotia, about 1852. At Halifax
he married, on January 10, 1854, Louisa, daughter
of Colonel Creighton, 95th Regiment. She and her
family were all lost at sea on the voyage from Halifax
to England, in charge of his brother William. He
died about 1900.
The third son, Edmund, was also in the Rifles,
which he joined February 12, 1847. He left Ceylon
in 1850. He was mauled by a tiger in the Madras
Presidency , and died from the effects.
The youngest brother, George, joined the 37th
Regiment in Ceylon as Ensign, July 21, 1854. He
was killed during the Indian mutiny at Arrah (see
under " Dutch Church, Galle ").
The second daughter, Isabel Maria, married Decem-
ber 31, 1837, Lieutenant, afterwards Lieutenant-
Colonel, J. M. Macdonald, C.R.R., who died at
West Kensington some twenty years ago. Another
daughter, Clara Anne, naarried at Kandy, July
5, 1838, Lieutenant, afterwards Major, William
John Kirk , of the same regiment. They lived in Edin-
burgh. A third, Florentina Symonds, married April
6, 1840, Ensign William Henry Underwood, 95th
Regiment. He was transferred to the Ceylon Rifles,
and retired in 1851 as a Captain, to live at the Manor
House at Somerby, near Brigg, in Lincolnshire, the
place associated with Tennyson's early days and of
which Captain Underwood was squire. His eldest
son is now the squire. He died in 1883. A foiu^h
daughter, Cornelia Theresa, married at Galle, Jime 5,
1844, Henry Templer, CCS. (see under " Kandy").
Their son is George William Templer, C.C.S., 1865-
1895.
Mrs. Underwood was buried at Trincomalee, May
26, 1849, aged 26.
129 . . July 20 . . Edward Norman Bull . . Beneath are deposited the remains of Edward
1837 NoEMAN Bull, son of Lieut. Bull, 78th Highldrs.
Died at Colombo, 20th July, 1837, aged 16 months
and 16 days.
130 .. Aug. 23 .. Arnoldina Johanna Roddy. . Johanna, the beloved wife of Capt. C. H. Eoddy,
1838 Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died at Kandy, the
23rd day of August, 1837, and who was re-interred
here the 19th of May, 1838.
Deeply and sincerely regretted.
Also to the memory of two children of the above who
died in birth.
May they rest in peace. Amen.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Roddy married
on August 30, 1828, at Colombo, Johanna, youngest
daughter of J. F. Conradi. Her age is given in the
"Ceylon Almanac" as twenty-nine, but she was
baptized at St. Peter's, Fort, on August 26, 1806.
A son, Charles Martin Conradi, was bom January
15, 1832, and baptized at Kandy, April 2, 1832, the
sponsors being Colonel Muller, Captain Martin Con-
radi, and Miss Anna Conradi.
X, 82-09
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Serial No.
131 .
Date.
Jan. 30
1838
Name.
John Alfred Boultbee
132
June 10
1838
John Albeck Clement
133
Aug. 9
1838
William Gorges
Caulfield
134
Aug. 25
1838
Robert Crowe
135
Dec. 15
1838
George Fleming
136
Feb. 8
1839
Mary Messiter
Inscription.
. . This stone is placed here at the desire of his mother
to mark the spot where rest the mortal remains of
her only son, John Alfred Boultbee, who, far
from the solace of maternal affection, died rejoicing
in the consolation of the Gospel, on the 30th
January, 1838. Aged — years.
There was a J. Boultbee at Madawalatenna in
1842-4.
. . Sacred to the memory of Colonel John Albeck
Clement, commanding the Royal Artillery in this
Island, who departed this life on the 10th day
of June, 1838, in his 59th year.
By his death his family were bereft of a kind, indul-
gent, and affectionate Husband and Parent, the
Service lost a zealous and meritorious officer, and
Society one of its most estimable members.
The Clement family had been settled at Steep,
near Petersfield, Hampshire, from the seventeenth
century.
Colonel Clement's daughters : Elizabeth Maria,
married, April 28, 1836, William Ogle Carr, after-
wards Chief Justice; and Charlotte Anne, married,
November 23, 1833, Algernon Stewart, CCS. (see
No. 122). His eldest daughter, Mary Ann, married
on February 7, 1832, at Woolwich, Sir Thomas Swin-
nerton Dyer, Bart., then a Captain, R.A. Colonel
Clement's wife was Margaret Aime, daughter of
General Francis le Maistre, R.E., Governor of Gaspe,
Canada. Colonel Clement had served in the R.A.
from 1798, chiefly in the Colonies. His son, Charle=
Theophilus Clement, Captain, C.R.R., married Alice
Meaden, a daughter of Captain David Meaden, C.R.R.,
at Kandy, January 1, 1852. He was at one time
Staff Officer of BaduUa. He died at Carrick-on-
Shannon, August 14, 1859.
Crofton Wm. Gorges Croeton Caulfield, Ensign, 18th
Royal Irish Regiment, who departed this life on
the 9th August, 1838, aged 23.
His brother officers erected this monument as a mark
of the great esteem and respect in which they held
him.
Apparently he was not a relative of James Caul-
field (No. 32).
Sacred to the memory of Robert Crowe, Esq., who
died at Colombo the 25th August, 1838, aged
32 years.
It was probably a son of his, Robert Crowe, of
Colombo, who married at the Cathedral, Colombo,
February 27, 1867, Frances Elizabeth, third daughter
of George Wall. There was a firm, Messrs A. and
R. Crowe & Co., in Colombo, in the thirties, which
existed up to the seventies, interested in cotton at
Tuticorin.
. . In memory of George Fleming, Esq., of the Indian
Navy, who departed this life 15th Dec, 1838,
aged 23 years.
Erected by his brother officers as a testimonial of
their friendship and regard.
Midshipman Fleming, I.N., was in command of the
H. C. S. Tender Maldiva, engaged with the Surveying
Schooner Royal Tiger, which was employed on the
coasts of India, Ceylon, and the Malay Archipelago,
in 1837-8. The Maldiva left Galle for Cochin on
November 9, 1838, with Fleming in command.
. . Sacred to the Memory of Mary, the beloved wife
of Lieut. G. H. Messiter, of Her Majesty's 6th
Regt., who departed this life on the 8th February,
1839.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Messiter and three children
arrived at Colombo by the ship Morley on January
19, 1839.
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Serial No. Date.
137 . . March 24
1839
Nov. 8
1839
Name.
Elizabeth Haslam
Elizabeth Haslam
138
May 1
1839
Sarah Rogers
139
June 21
1839
Isabella Gillio Norris
140
June 28
1839
Mary Jane Parlett]
141
Nov. 27
1839
Charles Wyndham Burdett
142
June 13
1840
Alexander Wilson Archer. .
I f Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth, the beloved wife
of the Revd. J. F. Haslam, Church Missionary in
the Island. She died at Cotta, 24th March, 1839.
Aged 25 years and 11 months. Also Elizabeth,
the infant daughter of the above, who died at
Cotta, 8th November, 1839, aged SJ months.
The Haslams had only arrived in Ceylon by the
Symmetry on January 7, 1839.
Saeah Rogers, wife of lieut. and Adjt. Rogees,
H. M. 95th Regt., aged 44 years.
WUliam Armstrong Rogers, Lieutenant and Adju-
tant, 96th Regiment, married (2) at GaUe, November
16, 1840, Maria Josina Catherine, only daughter of
Lieutenant Frederick Ostheyden, Ceylon Rifle Regi-
ment. His daughter, Eliza Jane, had married at
Colombo, on September 3, 1840, Assistant Surgeon
P. H. aarke, 96th Regiment.
Lieutenant Ostheyden came from the Cape Regi-
ment, in which he was Ensign, to the 2nd Ceylon,
January 26, 1811. He was Commandant at Kurune-
gala in 1815 (from JJ'ebruary 6), and Fort Adjutant,
GaUe, 1816-19. He returned to the Cape by the
Oaroline, which left GaUe on November 27, 1838, but
he was still in the regiment in 1840. His name
disappears from the " Ceylon Almanac " in 1843.
Here lies the remains of Isabella Gillio, the beloved
wife of Peancis Beooke Norris, died at Colombo
on the 21st June, 1839, aged 29 years.
The Gazette gives the date of her death as July 22.
F. B. Norris was Civil Engineer, 1833-60, with
which office, until 1846, was combined that of
Surveyor-General. " He was dismissed in Sir George
Anderson's time for allowing the head clerk to
embezzle money. . . .-, became a railway contractor in
India, where, we believe, he died." (See Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. VI., pp. 252, 259.)
There was a C. W. GDlio, Third Judge of the Court
of Appeal and Circuit for the Western Division,
Madras, in 1813.
He had married again by 1841. Writing to
Governor Stewart Mackenzie on August 29 of that
year he says : " Mrs. Norris is quite pleased with
what little she has seen of Colombo, and when I can
take her to the mountains she will be highly delighted
with Ceylon." She had arrived by the Tigris on
August 13, 1841.
Mary Jane Parlett, born 21 Oct., 1813, died 28th
June, 1839.
She was the wife ofCharlesDawkinsParlett, who was
a Member of the Legislative Council, and who died at
Colombo, March 11, 1840, aged 28, of heart disease.
He was a merchant (CD. Parlett & Co.), and was in
the Island in 1832. He married in that year (Mary)
Jane, daughter of A. Lube, Esq., of New Bond street.
The firm of Parlett & Co., of Colombo, was existing
in 1861, but failed in that year. A Miss Julia Parlett
married at Colombo, January 23, 1840, Captain J.
Skelton , of the barque Egyptian. She had come out as
a passenger in his ship, the Africa, on June 23, 1838.
To the memory of Sir C. W. Burdett, Bart., bom
at St. Augustine, East Florida, Febr. 19th,
1771, died at Colombo, Nov. 27, 1839.
Of Burthwaite, Yorkshire, 5th Baronet, and a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. He died unmarried.
Letters of administration of his estate were issued in
February, 1840, to David Wilson and A. C. Archer.
His mother was Sarah , daughter of Joseph Hasley of
Boston, which accounts for his birth in America.
He arrived at Colombo by the Eleanor from Swan
River on March 1, 1838.
Alexander Wilson Aecher, Esq., who departed
this life June 13th, 1840, aged 33 years.
Of the firm of Wilson Archer & Co. He died of
remittent fever. He was a Member of the Legislative
Council.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
143 ..
Nov. 17
1840
. Emily Layard
144
Aug. 21
1841
Horatio Suclding
145
Oct. 9
1842
William Dickson
146
Oct. 11
1842
Lulce Kelly
147
Sept. 9
1842
Lewis Gibson
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Emily, wife of Brownlow
Edwabd Layabd, Captain in H. M. Ceylon Rifles,
who died in Colombo, Nov. 17th, 1840, aged 23
years.
Captain Brownlow Layard was a son of Charles
Edward Layard (see No. 47), and was bom April 18,
1820, and died February 21, 1890. He married (1)
on Jime 19, 1839, Emily Kensington, the subject of
this inscription ; (2) October 18, 1842, Caroline
Fenton, a niece of his first wife ; and (3) January 10,
1854, L. H. Carter. Probably his first wife was a
daughter of H. W. Kensington, M.C.S. (see Cotton,
p. 149). A sister of hers married Sir George Ander-
son, Governor of Ceylon, 1850-55.
Sacred to the memory of Major H. Suckling, 90th
Light Infantry, who died on the 21st August,
1841. Aged 50 years.
This, monument was erected by his sorrowing widow
and children as a memorial of their affection for a
kind husband, a good father, and an excellent
man. Sorrow not as those who have no hope.
He died of dysentery. The Colombo Observer gives
the date of his death as August 20. He figured in the
MacPherson court-martial (see No. 158).
Major and Mrs. Suckling and two sons arrived by
the ship Valleyfleld at Colombo on Marcli 7, 1836.
He was Commandant of Kotmale, staltioned at
Nuwara EUya in 1839. Mrs. Suckling an«i her two
sons had left for London by the ship AcMlhs on
November 2, 1840. His son, Captain HoA-atio John
Suckling, was the author of " Ceylon, by am Officer,
late of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment." Hie died at
Mortlake, September 4, 1906, aged 82 years.
Sacred to the memory of the late Capt. William
Dickson, H. M. Ceylon Rifle Regimeik, who
departed this life on the 9th October, 184fe, aged
28 years. This monument is erected v\j his
bereaved mother and afflicted family. *
Probably a son of Francis Dickson (see No. 163,1
Sacred to the memory of Luke Kelly, M.TX,
Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, who died afc
Colombo, 11th October, 1842, aged 38 years.
This stone was erected by his sorrowing widow in
memory of a most affectionate husban/d and kind
father. J,
He was father of Lillie Kelly. A dauAghter, Louisa
Lillie, married WilUam Walker Hume, C':!.C.S., 1854-
1883. Another daughter, Emily Marffa Campbell,
married at Trincomalee, November 21, fl855, James
Wheler Woodford Birch, C.C.S., 1852-73 $, afterwards
Colonial Secretary of the Straits SettW ,ments, who
was murdered at Perak in October, 1873^.
His eldest son, Luke Frederick, bom( at Chilaw in
1838, was in the Civil Service, and \ v^hile Police
Magistrate of Chavakachcheri was dismisLised in 1868,
as the result of the report of a Comma ssion which
inquired into charges against hun at Jaffrj la. He was
buried in Matale Churchyard, Novemb^i,r 25, 1888.
He had originally been in the Surveyi^r-Generara
Department. yy
Lewis, son of W. C. Gibson, Esqr., andit^i his wife
Louisa, born 23rd Feb., 1840, died 9 S^ t., 1842.
Adjoinmg are the graves of three other'^infant
children of the Gibsons : William, born Jvme loV died
June 15, 1836 ; Carolina, born and died Apr'Ju' 20,
1837; and Carolina Frances, third daughter f lom
October 21, 1846, died October 18, 1847. f., ,
WiUiam Charles Gibson was a son of Lewi knum,
and was in the Civil Service, from 1832-186' ! ng
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Serial No.
.147 . .
Date.
Sept. 9
1842
Name.
Lewis Gibson — contd.
148 . . April 9 . . Joseph Steuart
1843
149 . . Sept. 16 . . Maria Pritcliett
1843
15Q . . Sept; 22 . . David Ewing
1843
151
Sept. 25
1843
Anna Allan Campbell
Inscription.
the office of Colonial Secretary from 1860 to 1869.
He married, February 15, 1834, Louisa S., daughter
of C. E. Layard (see No. 47), his first cousin. He
had two sons in the Civil Service, James Whitaker
Gibson, 1865-1890, and Thomas Maitland Gibson,
1871-1887, and a brother, Thomas Lewis Gibson,
1845-1869, who died on leave while District Judge
of Kandy. His daughter, Mary, married Frederick
Richard Saunders, CCS. (who died in 1910 as Sir
Frederick Saunders, K.C.M.G.), at Colombo, on
October 26, 1867.
Joseph Steuabt, Master Mariner of the Port of
Dover, and Commercial Agent, Colombo, who
departed this Ufe on 9 April, 1843, aged 44 years.
He was a brother of James Steuart (No. 37).
Sacred to the memory of Mabia, the beloved wife
of Mr. J. Peitchett, who departed tliis life on the
16th Sept., 1843, aged 22 years and 4 months.
Mr. Pritchett was Chief Engineer of the first Govern-
ment steamer, the Seaforth, which was "christened"
by Mrs. T. H. Twynam at Bombay, in 1840,
and called after the family title of the Mackenzies,
Mr. J. A. Stewart Mackenzie being then Governor.
She was the first steamer owned by the Colony, having
been ' ' ordered by Sir Wiknot Horton for the regular
inspection of the Pearl Banks." She was employed
in taking the Governor round the Island, in taking
troops to and from Trincomalee, and the Supreme
Court to and from Jaffna. From 1843 to 1850, or
thereabouts, she was chiefiy employed in carrying the
mails to and from Bombay. She was a paddle
wheel steamer of 207 tons register, and had two engines
of 30 horse power each. She had a poop, under which
were two cabins , and there was one aft , " a good private
apartment," and a cuddy, round which there were six
berths. She was built at Bombay under the super-
vision of Captain T. H. Twynam, on the lines of one
of the fastest steamers on the Dover-Calais fine, but
being built of teak, a heavy wood, drew six inches
more water than was anticipated, and an arrangement
had to be made to raise the paddle wheels. On one
of her voyages she left Bombay on September 12 and
arrived at Colombo on September 18, 1843, having
taken 143 hours on the voyage, 135 of which were
xmder steam. She took Mr. Stewart Mackenzie to
Bombay on his relinquishing the Government in 1841,
leaving Colombo on April 5. Joseph W. Higgs, son of
the Master Attendant, who had been Second Master on
H.M.S. Algerine, was appointed to the command of
the Seaforth in 1843, succeeding George Steuart
(No. 49). She was xised by Captain James Steuart in
one of his inspections of the Pearl Banks when she was
caught in a cyclone. She did very, little of this
work, and was never employed at a Pearl Fishery.
She was a good sea boat, and Sir William Twynam
recollects the beautiful way in which she mounted
the waves at the entrance to the Colombo harbour.
Mr. Pritchett married, in 1847, at Trinity Church,
Colombo, (2) Emma, eldest daughter of T. Stephens,
Campden Hill Terrace, Kensington, and " the pretty
sister of old Jack Stephens, of Cooroonduwatta "
(W. D. Gibbon). He died at Colombo, December
10, 1863. She survived him and married (2) Josias
Lambert (No. 223) at Kandy, November 4, 1854.
Sacred to the memory of David Ewing, Esqr.,
Surgeon, H. M. Ceylon Rifle Regt., who died at
Colombo on the 22nd Sept., 1843, aged 50 years.
This tribute to his memory is erected by his
afflicted wife, who was left with two children to
mourn his loss.
In memory of Anna Allan, wife of Smollett J. D.
Campbell, Esqr. , and daughter of John 0. Geant,
Esqr., formerly Captain in H. M. 78th Highlanders.
She died at Colombo, September 25th, 1843,
aged 33 years.
This monument is erected by her sorrowing husband.
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Serial No.
151 ..
Date.
Sept. 25
1843
Name.
Anna Allan Campbell — contd.
152
Oct. 6
1843
William Gardiner Gumming
Inscription,
They had only arrived from Bombay by the barque
Ann Milne on August 24. " Mr. Smollett Campbell,
so well known in the Colony as the former Cashier of
the Bank of Ceylon, returned to Colombo in order to
open a branch of the Bank of Western India. It is
also intended, we understand, to establish a branch
in Kandy." {Colombo Observer, August 28, 1 843. ) He
married(2), at BycuUah Church, Bombay, September
28, 1846, Mary Adelaide, second daughter of
WiUiam Tyndall, Esq., late 2nd Dragoon Guards.
He was then in the Oriental Bank Corporation at
Bombay.
In memory of William Gaedestee Cummlng, Esqr.,.
Deputy Queen's Advocate of Colombo, born at
Forres, North Britain, on the 25th day of July,
1816, and died at Colombo on the 6th day of Oct.,
1843.
He died of epilepsy. He was a proctor in 1842, and
afterwards admitted advocate. He appeared in the
case of R. W. Langslow versus W. H. Whiting,
and obtained a transfer of the case from the
District Court of Colombo South, over which
Robert Langslow presided, to that of Kalutara for
trial. R. F. Morgan (afterwards Sir Richard) appeared
on the other side.
153
Jan. 22
1844
Caroline Julia Lillie
154
Mar. 20
1844
Philip William Mainwaring
Temple
155
Jan. 25
1844
John Michael Staples
156
July .18
1844
Martha Holt
Sacred to the memory of Cakoline Julia, youngest
daughter of Bt. Major T. Lillie, Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, who died at Colombo, 22nd January,
1844, in her 20th year.
Major Thomas Lillie's smviving daughter, Charlotte-
Hansford, married Lieutenant Donald Duncan
Graham, C.R.R., at Kandy, November 12, 1845.
Major Lillie was in the 58th in 1833, in which ye3r he
was Staff Officer of Seven Korales. By 1840 he had
been transferred to the Ceylon Rifles, and was A.D.C.
to Governor Stewart Mackenzie. He was a Water-
loo man. He became a coffee planter, and was the
owner of Nayapane Estate, Pussellawa, in the early
coffee days. William Boyd talks of him. (' ' Autobio-
graphy of a Periya Durai.")
In memory of Philip William Malnwarestg, second
son of Cheistopheb and Lucy Temple, bora
October 11th, 1843, died March 20th, 1844.
Christopher Temple, in 1843, was Deputy Queen's
Advocate, Western Circuit. He was educated at
Shrewsbtu'y and Magdalene College, Cambridge. B. A.
1833 ; M.A. 1840 ; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn
1836; Deputy Queen's Advocate, 1840; District
Judge, Colombo, January 1, 1845 ; Acting Junior
Puisne Justice, 1846-56; confirmed as Junior Puisne
Justice, October 1, 1856 ; confirmed as Senior Puisne
Justice, January 1, 1863 ; retired 1873. He was a
brother of Robert Temple, C.C.S., and father of
Christopher Temple. Henry Temple, sohcitor in the
Supreme Court of Judicature, Madras, who died in
August, 1804, was probably a relative.
Sacred to the memory of John Michael Staples,,
son of John James Staples, Esq., of H. M.
Ceylon Civil Service, who died at Colombo on
the 25th day of Jany., 1844, aged 19 years.
A youth of great promise, but cut down like a.
flower.
J. J. Staples' youngest son, Edward Ackland, died
at Colombo, January 19, 1861, aged 21 (see No. ISi)..
Sacred to the memory of Martha, the beloved wife
of W. Holt, Esqr. , H. M. 95th Regt. , who departed
this Ufe, 18th July, 1844. Aged 30 years. Leaving
a loving husband and three children to deplore-
her loss.
Holt was Quartermaster.
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Serial No.
157 ..
Date.
Aug. 22
1844
Name.
Henrietta Layard
158
Oct. 16
1844
James MaePherson
Inscription.
Henrietta, daughter of Henry Lewis and
Catherine Thtjetle Layard, born 6 Sept., 1843,
•died 22nd August, 1844.
A son, George Lewis, born August 27, died Novem-
ber 11, 1842, is commemorated on another stone.
Hem"y Lewis Layard, who was born April 1, 1808,
was second son of C. E. Layard (see No. 47), and
was a Captain in the Ceylon Rifles, and afterwards a
merchant at Colombo, belonging to the firm which
became Darley, Butler & Co. He married, December
31, 1835, Catherine Thurtle Dent, and died February
24, 1871.
Sacred to the memory of James MAcPHERSON,Esqr.,
late Lieut. -Col. of the Ceylon Eifles, and of Ralia,
N.B., who died on the 16th Oct., 1844.
" Lieut.-Col. MaePherson of the Ceylon Rifles was
an old ofificer of long service and strange experiences.
He was the first who came under the fire of the French
at the battle of Busaco. Napier tells how he and
another officer had descended a hill where the British
were posted overnight on purpose to watch the advance
of the enemy. They lay down and slept amongst
the fern and furze bushes, and were roused before
daybreak by the near tramp of the French tirailleurs.
MaePherson and his companion thought discretion
the better part of valour and took to their heels up
the steep hillside, the French following in crowds, and
blazing away at them whenever the detached masses
of misty clouds , which hung over the momitains , moved
aside and exposed the panting young fellows to the
view of their pursuers. Singular to relate, neither
was touched by the French fire, and MaePherson
served through the remainder of the Peninsular war,
He afterwards served through the first Biu-mese war,
in one of the actions of which he was wounded on the
head. He was subsequently promoted to the command
of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment. " ( " Autobiography of a
Periya Durai," Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III.,
pp. 273-74. ) He was brought into the Ceylon Rifles as
Lieutenant-Colonel, and appouited Commandant of
Kandy, March 27, 1835, andofTrincomalee, April 14,
1840, but he had not been a year at the latter place
before his behaviour was such that it involved a trial by
court-martial, which took place at Colombo in 1841,
the trial being continued by adjoiu-nments from July 5
to August 9. The account of the proceedings reads
like a page from " Charles O'Malley " or " Harry
Lorrequer." Among the charges were, that while
Commandant he had, in a state of intoxication and
improperly dressed, on the night of March 28, 1841,
ordered the sentry of the 90th Light Infantry at the
main guard to run him through with his bayonet, and
that he had placed a native armed with a broomstick
as sentry instead, and that he. had threatened the
lives of Major Horace Suckling, 90th (see No. 144), the
next senior officer of the Garrison, and Lieutenant
Alfred Thomas Heyland, 95th, Staff Officer of Trinco-
malee, on several occasions, by, in the first place,
declaring to Lieutenant Nicholas Fenwick , of the Ceylon
Rifles, that if Major Suckling and Lieutenant Heyland
hurt him by court-martial, he would rip their guts
out, and they should die the death of a dog. He was
also charged with declaring to Assistant Surgeon
Luke Helly, M.D., that he would take the lives of
these officers, and with declaring in the presence of a
lance-corporal and a private of the 90th that he would
send a party of Malay soldiers of the Ceylon Rifles,
take these two officers, miuder them, and wash his
feet iti their blood. He was further charged with
having, while in a disreputable state of intoxication,
sent for a sergeant of the 90th to his quarters and made
him take off his jacket and stock, handed him a chair,
and insisted on his drinking wine. He was found guilty
of some of the milder of the charges and sentenced
to be cashiered, but at the same time it was brought
to the notice of the Horse Guards that the medical
opinion was that " he was liable to fits of excitement
by the wounds he had received and by the results of a
malignant jungle fever contracted during a dangerous
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Serial No.
158 ..
Date.
Oct. 16
1844
Name.
James MacPherson— com<(?.
159
July 1
1845
Julia Mackwood
160
Sept. 28
1845
Sept. 13
1845
Barbara Bridgetina Layard
Francis Georgina Layard
161
May 1
1846
Edward Lisle Ryder
162
June 10
1846
Champion Thompson
163
Nov. 3
1846
Petronella Parker
Inscription.
inland journey on public duty to Trincomalie, under-
which he is still labouring. ' ' The authorities accepted
this view, and he was pardoned, in order that he might
retire and receive the value of his commission
(February 26, 1842). This he did. He appears to-
have been subsequently engaged in coffee planting,
and to have purchased Helboda Estate, Pussellawa.
The late Mr. A.M.Ferguson, CM. G., refers to "Colonel'
MacPherson of Helbodde, known in the Peninsular
wars as ' Fighting MacPherson. ' ' ' Lieutenant-Colonel
MacPherson and Lieutenant Fenwick came out in the
ship Tigris, which arrived at Colombo on January 21 „
1836.
Sacred, to the memory of Julia, the beloved wife of
William Mackwood, who departed this life on the
1st July, 1845, aged 38 years.
William Mackwood started as a merchant in
Colombo in 1841 or 1842, and four or five years later
was joined by his brother Frank, who was a planter
at Kadugannawa, and they founded the firm of Mack-
woods & Co. In the seventies the s was dropped
from the name of the firm, which became Mackwood
& Co. , as at present. They owned Galboda and other
estates in the early coffee days. This was
W. Mackwood's first wife. They came out by the
Symmetry, July 18, 1841. She was a Miss Trivett,
probably a daughter of the Captain of the ship
Achilles in 1840-41, J. F. Trivett.
In memory of BABBAKABRiDGETEsrA, wife of Charles
Edwaed Layabd, Esq., Ceylon Civil Service, died
20th Sept., 1845, aged 56 years. And of
Fkajstces Geoegina, daughter of the above. Died.
15th Sept., 1845, aged 19 years.
She was fourth child of Gualterus Mooyaart,.
Administrateur of Jaffna under the Dutch Company,
and was bom there, February 20, 1789, married
December 9, 1804, and had twenty-six children by
her husband, C. E. Layard (see No. 47).
To the memory of Edwaed Lisle Ryder, of Calcutta,
7th son of the Hon'ble Hbney Rydee, Bishop of.
Lichfield and Coventry, born August 20, 1818,
died May 1, 1846.
W. Dudley Ryder, eldest son of the Bishop, born
1813, was appointed to act as Clerk to the Executive
and Legislative Councils during the absence of W. C.
Gibson, Esq., May 15, 1845. "We hear that a
gentleman named Ryder, a lawyer by profession, is
coming out from England to preside over all matters-
connected with the Colonial Secretary's Department."
{Colombo Observer, February 13, 1845.) He acted as
Queen's Advocate in 1848, gave evidence in 1850
before the Special Committee of the House of
Commons appointed to inquire into the administration
of the Government of Ceylon, and was afterwards
British Arbitrator to the Mixed Court of Justice
at Havanna (1858) and to the Mixed Court of Justice
of New York (1862). This was a younger brother.
The Bishop was third son of the first Baron Harrowby.
Beneath lie the mortal remains of our beloved son,
Champion Thompson. He died on the 10th June.
1846, in the eleventh year of his age. An
irreparable loss to his parents.
Third son of Mr. W. Thompson, who was a merchant
in Colombo, 1843 (or earUer), and Member of the-
Legislative Council, 1863-64.
Sacred to the memory of Petronella Pabkee,
Widow of Cap. John Paekee, Ceylon Regiment,
who departed this life on the 3rd November, 1846,.
aged 64 years.
This tribute of affection by her nieces, Maey and.
Eliza Dickson, who in her lost a kind Aunt and
sincere friend.
She was a daughter of John Frederic Conradi, and
married Captain Parker on April 26, 1820, at Galle
(see No. 95). J
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Serial No.
Date.
163 ..
Nov. 3
1846
Name.
Petronella P,arker — contd.
164
Dec. 1
1846
Leopold Saxe Coburg Fraser
165
April 19
1847
Adolph Coutourier de St.
Clair
166
Sept. 8
1847
John Andrew Napier
167
Feb. 3
1848
June 23
1828
Mary Dalziel
James Dalziel
Inscription.
She was long a resident at Galle, and owned the
house No. 12, Middle street, now occupied by-
Messrs. Volkart Bros., until her death. The Misses
Dicksons were daughters of Francis Dickson, who
married another daughter of J. F. Conradi, Caroline
Augusta , on July 22 , 1 808. He was then Commander
of the Government brig Ariel, and succeeded W. C.
Gibson as Master Attendant at Galle in 1816. He
died at Galle, September 6, 1825, leaving a widow
and five children. His eldest daughter, Caroline,
married on March 26, 1831, Lieutenant Nagel, 97th
Regiment.
Lieut. Leopold S. C. Frasee, Ceylon Rifle Regt.,
eldest son of Major A. Fbaseb, of Flemington,
Scotland, A.D.C. to His Excellency Sir Colin
Campbell, K.C.B., Governor of the Island, who
died at Queen's House on the 1st December,
1846, aged 27 years.
He arrived by the Achilles in October, 1841, and
was appointed D.A.A.G., vice Captain Wilson,
October 12,1 841 , to January 1 , 1842. He must have
been a godson of Leopold I. of Belgium.
To the memory of Colonel Adolph CotrrotrBiEE de
St. Clair, who died of a fall from his horse on the
19th April, 1847, in the 55th year of his age.
The accident happened in the Cinnamon Gardens.
He was agent in Ceylon of Baron Delmar, a
French capitalist, most extensively engaged in
planting operations, who, among other estates,
owned Delta, Pussellawa, and Dotale. In the
period 1846-51, together with coffee planting, cotton
cultivation, " equally with sugar, received extensive
trials, and with equal want of success by the
agents of Baron Deknar, to whom the once well-
known planter, Mr. Cruwell, had acted as Private
Secretary." (A. M. Ferguson.)
In memory of John Andeew Napiee, ControDer of
Customs for the Port of Colombo, who died
September 8th, 1847, aged 47 years.
He was appointed Controller of Customs for the
Northern and Eastern Provinces, December 17,
1841. "He was thrown from his carriage at GaUo
about two months before his death, and never re-
covered from the injury to his spine which he then
received." {Colombo Observer, September 9, 1847.)
He married at Cardiff, September 6, 1838, Frances
Isabella Huntiagdon. A son, William Henry, was
baptized at Jaffna, March 29, 1842, and a daughter,
Catherina Clementina Arabella, was baptized October
19, 1843, who on June 5, 1861, at St. Giles, Camber-
well, married WilUam Robert, son of John T. Purcell.
The Napiers arrived at Colombo by the barque
Sumatra on December 17, 1841.
Sacred to the memory of Maey, wife of John
Dalziel, Esq., Police Magistrate of Colombo, who
died at Colpetty, 3rd Feby., 1848, aged 50 years.
And of his Brother James Dalziel, of the 78th
Highlanders, who died at Colombo, 23rd June,
1828, aged 28 years.
John Dalziel was bom in 1798 in the parish of New
Deer, Aberdeenshire, the son of a farmer. He had
fought, as a lad of 17, at Waterloo with the 76th High-
land Light Infantry, and came to Ceylon with the 78th
Regiment, in which he was a Colour-Sergeant, when
on June 8, 1829, he married, at St. Peter's, Colombo,
Mary Low. He was Quartermaster-Sergeant in 1838,
and lost his only child, John Irwin, aged nearly five
years, January 10, 1838. He " gained the heart of
Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, whose father had raised the
regiment, by welcoming her at Galle in full Highland
dress, which well set off his eminently handsome
person and good address." (A. M. Ferguson.) He
was appointed Superintendent of Police, Colombo,
October 1, 1839 ; PoKce Magistrate, Colombo, 1844.
He was on leave from April 19, 1848, to January,! 850.
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Serial Xu.
Date.
Name,
167
Feb. 3
1848
Mary Dalziel, &c. — contd.
168
169
Oct. 4
1847
March 8
1848
Johanna Reddie
John Barret
170
171
July 14
1848
Jan. 13
1849
James Balfour Ogilvy
Ann Heyward
172
Aug. 23
1849
Jan. 31
1843
Sept. 27
1846
Dec. 3
1846
James Stephen Preston
Frances Narcissa Preston
Richard William Preston
Alice Maud Mary Preston
Inscription.
" When passing Aden, Colonel Hamilton plaoe<i him
by his side on parade and held him up to his old
regiment as an example of what a good and steady*
soldier might become." (A.M. Ferguson. ) He acted
•for three months as Police Magistrate, Gampola, in
1857 ; was Acting District Judge of Kalutara from
1858 to 1861. He retired on October 1, 1864, and
died at Bayswater, May 23, 1873, aged 76. He left
no surviving children by his first wife, but by his
second wife, Eliza, daughter of Robert Wilson,
whom he married at Colombo on February 23,
1853, and who died at New York, April 25, 1909,
aged 84, he had two sons, John Arthur, who
married, November 15, 1876, Janet Susan Elizabeth,
youngest daughter of Alexander Lorimer, M.D.,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Madras, and
Robert Wilson, who died September 16, 1903, at
Vryheid, South Africa, aged 45. Dr. Lorimer died at
Lee, Kent, September 14, 1878.
" There was Sergeant Dalziel, of the 78th Regiment,
a Buchan man, who, beginning life as a hand-loom
weaver in the village of Stuartfield, rose to be PoUoe
Magistrate and Commissioner of the Court of Requests
in Colombo who in the course of his duties had
to try and convict the now notorious Colonel Valentine
Baker." (W. Boyd, " Ceylon and its Pioneers,"
Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 274.)
Sacred to the memory of Johanna Reddie, who
died at Rock House, Colombo, on the 4th day of
Oct., 1847, aged 23 years.
She was the youngest daughter of David Bryce of
Calcutta, and married John G. Reddie, Esq., at GaUe,
on March 5, 1845.
Sacred to the memory of Capt. John Babrbt, only
son of John Barret, Esqr., of Scarborough, who
departed this life March 8th, 1848, aged 31 years.
Thou hast taken thy rest in a strange country, and
the home of thy youth is desolate, yet the bed of
thy slumberiug is sacred. Round about it hang
the loves of an' affectionate wife and many weeping
and sorrowing relations.
Sacred to the memory of J. B. Ogilvy, Esq.,
Bengal Civil Service, died July 14th, 1848,
aged 42.
He died at Mount Lavinia.
Sacred to the memory of Ann, the beloved wife of
William Lash Heywaed, who departed this life
on the 13th January, 1849, aged 28 years.
W. L. Heyward was master of the ship Morning
Star, and had a disagreeable experience with one of
his passengers in 1846 or 1847. Assistant Surgeon
M. TweddeU, of the Ceylon Rifles, had him arrested
for a debt of 11 guineas for professional services
rendered to him and Mrs. Heyward on board that
vessel. He was ordered to pay 3 guineas and was
released, and Surgeon TweddeU had to pay his costs,
and was denoim.ced in the Colombo Observer for his
high-handed conduct. In August, 1847, Surgeon
TweddeU relieved Dr. Fergusson at Trincomalee.
In memory of James Stephen Peeston, who died
at Colombo, 23rd August, 1849. Aged 30 years.
Also of Feances Naecissa, died 21st January,
1843 ; Richard William, died 27th Sept.,
1846 ; and Alice Maitd Mary, died 3rd December,
1846.
Mr. Stephen Preston belonged to the firm of Venn,
Preston & Co. " The noted emporium of Venn,
Preston & Co., which sold everything from a needle
to a sheet-anchor." {" Autobiography of a Periya
Durai," Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III., p. 189.)
He " arrived by the Symmetry 8 years ago. There
were ten passengers, of whom only two are now Uving.
He died of dysentery." (Ceylon Times.) The firm
suspended payment in the following October.
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Serial No.
173 ..
Date.
Oct. 11
1849
Name,
Cornelius William Moffat
174
Dec. 11
1849
Charles Augustus Whitehouse
175
Dec. 17
1849
Ann Meaden
176
June 13
1850
Emiry Jane Fraser
177
July 15
1850
Mark Evans
178
Aug. 19
1850
Mary Catherine Lyons
179
Sept. 30
1850
John Chisholm
Inscription.
In memory of Cornelius William Moffat, M.A.,
of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Born
12th December, 18]^1. Died 11th October, 1849.
Erected by his sorrowing widow and his parents.
" A gentleman, well known here for his unassuming
manners, cultivated mind, and amiable disposition.
He died of consumption." (Ceylon Times, October
12, 1849.)
Chas. Augustus Whitehouse, born August 6th,
1812, died December 11, 1849, aged 37.
He was a " General Estate Agent, Plantation, Patia-
gamme " (in Deltota). He died of dysentery on his
way to Colombo. He was a brother of E. S. White-
house. He died on the same day that Thomas Clark
married, at Jaffna, E. S. Whitehouse's sister-in-law,
Ellen JuUa Lemarohand, but those were not the days
of telegrams.
"Cotton received extensive trials equally with
sugar and with equal want of success in the Jaffna
Peninsula by the brothers Whitehouse." (A. M.
Ferguson.)
Sacred to the memory of Ann, wife of Capt.
Meaden, late of the Ceylon Rifle Regt., who died
at Colombo, on the 17th December, 1849, aged
49 years.
She married Captain Meaden, then a non-com-
missioned officer of the 83rd, at the Cape of Good
Hope, January 8, 1815. Their son married Captain
C. T. Clement (see No. 132).
Sacred to the memory of Emily Jane, daughter of
John Chables Keb, Esqr., of the Island of
Grenada, and wife of Gbobgb Fbaseb, Esq., who
died at Slave Island on the 13th day of June, 1850,
aged 34 years, endowed with all the social virtues
and with all that adorns and elevates the female
character. She was universally beloved and
esteemed, and her early death is deeply lamented
by her sorrowing husband and all who knew her.
Sacred to the memory of Mark Evans, late Lieut. -
Colonel of the Royal Artillery, who died at
Colombo, July 15th, 1850, aged 60 years.
This tribute to an affectionate and beloved husband
is erected by his sorrowing widow.
She left for England by the barque Symmetry on
December 19, 1850, which arrived on AprU 29, 1851 ,
having called at St. Helena only. Mr. H. T. Armitage ,
then a boy going home to school, was a fellow-
passenger.
In memory of Mary Catherine Lyons, widow of
the late Capt. N. J. Lyons, who departed this
Ufe on the 19th of August, 1850, aged 40 years
and 11 months.
To my Mother.
With thee dear Mother though I roam
This lone cold world from shore to shore.
My heart can never find a home
Like that I loved with thee of yore.
And wheresoe'er I turn my feet,
Whatever friends I yet may see,
Oh life hath not a hour so sweet
As that I pass in thoughts of thee.
She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Dawson
(see No. 31) by his first wife, and married Captain
Norrison J. Lyons at Trincomalee, December 17,
1833. He died at Macao in 1846. He was commander
and owner of the brig Eleanor.
John Chisholm, late Quartermaster, 37th Regt. , who
died at Colombo, 30 Sept., 1850, aged 39 years.
This inscription is erected by his widow, who with
three children laments her bereavement.
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Galle Face Burial GrouM—contd.
Seria) No. Date.
180 . . Nov. 15
1850
• Name.
Eliza Mary Butler
181
182
Feb. 19
1851
March 19
1851
John Murray
John F. Haslam
183
184
Sept. 11
1851
. . WilUam Minchin
Jan. 21
1852
John James Staples
July 2
1858
Cecil Loughlin Staples
185
186
March 12
1852
May 28
1852
Robert MacGregor
Philadelphus Bain
Inscription.
Here lie the remains of Eliza Maby BrTLEE, born
February 21, 1849. She was the daughter of
Samuel Butlee, of Colombo, merchant, and
Eliza Hullman, his wife.
Samuel Butler was one of the earliest members of
the Agricultural Society. He belonged to the firm of
Darley, Butler & Co.
He was in 1841 " the partner who took charge of
the planting department of Ackland, Boyd & Co.'a
business." WilUam Boyd describes a journey made
with him from Kundasale to the Knuckles about
this time. (" Autobiography," chap. VIII.)
John Mtjkbay, son of Geoege Mueeay, Esqr.,
of Ancoats Hall, died 19th Febr., 1851, from an
injury sustained by a fall from his horse, aged
31 years.
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. John F. Has-
lam, B.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, late
Principal of the Christian Institution of the
Church Missionary Society at Cotta. He died in
Colpetty, 19th March, 1851, aged 37 years.
(See No. 137.) He married (2) on December 6, 1842,
at Cotta, Sophia Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev.
Joseph Bailey, C.M.S. Mr. Haslam was, on January
31, 1840, appointed Principal of the Colombo
Academy, but in a few weeks resigned and resumed
his appointment at Cotta.
In memory of William Minchin, Capt. H. M.C. R. R.,
who died at Colombo, 11th Sept., 1851, aged
29 years.
Sacred to the memory of John James Staples, Esq.,
Ceylon Civil Service, District Judge of Kandy.
Born 8th November, 1798. Died at Colombo 21st
January, 1852. And his second Son, Cecil
Lotjqhlin. Born 31st October, 1834. Died 2nd
July, 1858.
J. J. Staples was a son of Quartermaster John
Staples, of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment (No. 348). He
was an advocate, and appeared for the defence at
the trial of Mr. George Winter for libel in 1834
with Mr. E. P. Wilmot. By 1840 he was "an
advocate in large practice." (Digby.) He was
appointed District Judge of Kandy South, January
22, 1842; ditto of Kandy North, February 1,
1842 ; confirmed as District Judge of Kandy South,
November 1, 1843; District Judge, Kandy, January
1, 1845, and held this poiit until his death. There are
several references to him in Lieutenant Henderson's
" History of the Rebellion in Ceylon during Lord
Torrington's Government," due to his connection
with Captain Albert Watson, who married his
daughter, Emily Loughlin, May 1 , 1848. He refers to
him as Mr. Staples, commonly known as " Jorroeks."
There is a description of him in the " Autobiography
of a Periya Durai " (Ceylon Literary Register, vol.
III.) : " A very talented man, and in some respects a
thorough Enghshman in feeling. He behaved well
in trying to stop the riots that preceded the Matale
rebellion" (pp. 250, 300). (See Ncs. 202 and 206.)
Another daughter, Hem-ietta Caroline, married
Lieutenant Algernon Robson Sewell, 15th Regi-
ment, at Kandy, on March 14, 1850.
His youngest sister, Jemima, married at Colombo,
in May, 1837,^ George Howard.
In memory of Capt. Robt. MacGbbgoe, Pay-
master, H. M. 15th Regt., who departed this life
on the 12th March, 1852, aged 39 years.
This stone is erected as a memorial by his discon-
solate widow.
Sacred to the memory of Philadelphus Bain.
Born at Berwick, N. B., 17th Sept., 1830. Died
in Colombo, 28th May, 1852.
He was Deputy Accountant in the Oriental Bank
Corporation.
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Serial No,
187 ..
Date.
Dec. 26
1852
Name.
Henry Skeen
188
189
190
May 30
1853
July 15
1853
June 8
1853
June 13
1854
Robert Imray
Sarah Imray
A. P. Smith
F. Grimes
191
192
July 19
1854
July 22
1854
Alice Wall
Margaret Letitia Hope
193
July 30
1854
Eliza Caulfield
ineoription.
In memory of Henry Skeen, late Asst. Govt.
Printer, Ceylon, this monument is voluntarily
erected by those to whom he endeared himself by
his uniform kindness as a superior. Bom July
16th, 1831. He arrived in Ceylon 11th July, and
died Dec. 26th, 1852.
His body here to rest conveyed,
Into the earth like Jesus laid.
Like His shall rise again.
Meanwhile his flesh doth rest in hope,
Till in His likeness wakened up
Out of whose hands no dust shall fall,
But rise immortal at His call,
With Him for evermore to reign.
Henry Skeen was a brother of the late WUliani
Skeen, the first professional Government Printer of
Ceylon, and an uncle of the late George Skeen, who
was Government Printer from 1881 to 1906. William
Skeen was the author of " Adam's Peak," and other
poems.
Sacred to the memory of Robbet Imray, Quarter-
master, H. M.'s 15th Regt., died May 30th, 1853,
aged 53 years.
Also of Sarah, wife of the above, died July 15th,
1853, aged 42 years.
Their daughter, Mary Amie, married S. Day
Thwaites, a brother of Dr. Thwaites, at Kandy, on
July 17, 1854.
In memory of A. P. Smith, Lieut., C. R. Regt., who
died of cholera, 8th June, 1853. Aged 30 years.
He joined in 1847, and was employed under the
Commissioner of Roads.
Sacred to the memory of Qr. Mr. Serg. F. Grimes,
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who departed this life on
the 13th June, 1854.
This tablet is erected by his affectionate wife. He
was amiable in his purposes as well as in his
private character. He was sincerely regretted by
a large circle of friends.
Requiescat in pace.
Alice, wife of George Wall, born April XIII,
MDCCCXXII, died July XIX, MDCCCLIIII.
Sacred to the memory of Margaret Letitia, wife
of Lieut. -Col. Hope, Royal Engineers, who died
at Colombo, 22 July, 1854. Aged 47.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Isaac Hope died at Exeter,
April 17, 1861. Hisson,Maj or-Gener al John Edward
Hope, late R.A., died at Remenham, Henley-on-
Thames, September 18, 1909, aged 81. His daughter,
Elizabeth Sanwix, was married December 4, 1855, at
St. Peter's Church, Colombo, by the Ven. Archdeacon
Matthias, to James Brown Alston (of Alston, Scott &
Co.), who died, June 12, 1898, at Loancroft, Bromley,
Kent, aged 77. He was the third son of George
Alston, of Muirburn, Lanarkshire, and father of
George Hay Alston, of Whittall & Co. ; James
Edward Alston, of Bois Bros. & Co. ; and John Hope
Alston, of Alston, Scott & Co.," and afterwards of
Darley, Butler & Co., Tuticorin.
Eliza, daughter of the late Capt. French Gray,
and wife of Hon'ble James Cattlpield of the
Ceylon Civil Service. Aged 39 years.
Her first husband was Major Samuel Adolphus
Rehe, of the 26th Native Infantry, who died on
November 14, 1837, at Calicut (see Cotton,
p. 255). She married James Caulfield at Chilaw,
October 17, 1840. Their son, Hans Charles, was
baptized at Jaffna, September 6, 1841, the sponsors
being H. Caulfield, Rev. C. Caulfield, and Annie
Caulfield. Mrs. Caulfield's brother, French Gray,
married Susan Jane Warburton at St. James's
Nellore, Jaffna, December 3, 1840.
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Serial No.
194 .
Date.
Nov. 4
1854
Name.
Lucy Ann Bailey
195
May 31
1855
Harriet Elizabeth Heale
196
Oct. 8
1855
John Fraser
197
Oct. 9
1855
Philip Francis Miller
198
Nov. 13
1855
William Newman
Inscription.
In memory of Lucy Ann Bailey. Bom October
8th, 1822. Died November 4tli, 1854.
She was first wife of the Rev. Joseph BrooW
Halliley Bailey, whom she married at Colombo,
July 22, 1843. She was daughter of the Rev. W.-
Sawyer, Chaplain, H. B. I. C. (see Cotton, p. 279). Mr.
Bailey married (2) Georgiana, daughter of the Rev.
Wm. Henry Simons, Colonial Chaplain at Kandy, on
December 10, 1857. A son by his first wife was-
J. AUanson Bailey, C.C.S., 63-1899.
Habbiet Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Aethur.
Wellington Heale. Aged 32 years.
A. W. Heale was in 1846 connected with the firnt
of Hudson, Chandler & Co. at Colombo. He married
at the Cathedral, Madras, Harriet Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of George Helmore, Esq., of Arlington,.
Street, Piccadilly, May 20, 1846. Charles Urquhart-
Stuart married a Miss Helmore, sister of the Rev.
Mr. Helmore, L.M.S., probably sister of Mrs. Heale.
The Rev. Thomas Helmore, of musical fame, was, L
think, another relative.
A. W. Heale died at Blackheath, August 20, I860.
Sacred to the memory of John Fbaseb, of the
Ceylon Civil Service, who died at Colombo, 8th
October, 1855. Aged 42 years.
This tribute of affectionate esteem to his valued
friend was erected by Dr. Andbew Feegttson,-
Inspector-General of Hospitals.
John Fraser was Secretary of the School Commis-
sion, Commissioner of the Loan Board, and Record-^
keeper at the Secretariat from May 1, 1848, till his-
death, and in the Fifth Class of the Civil Service.
He acted as Principal Assistant to the Colonial
Secretary from January 18, 1856. Andrew Ferguson-
was "Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-
General of Hospitals, 1850-58.
Sacred to the memory of Philip Feancis Milleb,.
Captain of the Royal Artillery, who died of fever
on the 9th October, 1855.
He was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Fiennes-
Saunderson MiUer, C.B., late 6th Liniskilliiig.
Dragoons, of Radway, County of Warwick,
England. ,
His age was 29.
Sacred to the memory of William Newman, late-
of Oodewelle, who died at Colombo, 13th Novem-
ber, 1855, aged 47 years.
He was on Udawela estate in 1839. He married
at Kandy, July 22, 1839, Mary Flood, who also
resided at Udawela. He died on board a vessel in
the harbour.
199
April 11
1856
Robert Molesworth Jones .
200
201
April 17
1856
April 18
1856
Annie Holland Cohen
George Parsons
To the cherished memory of Robeet Moleswoeth
Jones, 2nd son of Rear- Admiral the Hon'ble Alb.
Jones. He died on the 11th April, 1856, after a
short iUness on his arrival at Ceylon, aged 43
years.
This stone has been erected to his memory by his-
colleagues and friends in the Admiralty.
Annie Holland Cohen, born at Hastings, 10
January, 1828. Died at Colpetty, 17 April,
1856. Universally beloved and regretted.
(See No. 213.)
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Geoege
Paesons, for many years a Missionary of the
Church Missionary Society in South Ceylon. He
died at Colombo, April 18th, 1856. Aged 42
years.
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Galle Face Burial GronnA—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
202 ..
April 24 .
1856
William Ogle Carr
203
Feb. 21
1857
Eliza Madeline Sauliere
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Sir William Ogle Cabk,
Knight, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
this Island, younger son of T. W. Cabe, Esqr., of
Eshott, Northumberland. He was born in
England, November 13, 1802, arrived in Ceylon
August, 1833, died April 24, 1856.
Also in memory of William Ogle Carb and
Clement Norton Cakb, infant sons of Sir
William Ogle Caee, both of whom died in the
Island.
He was Queen's Advocate, 1834-1840, and was
appointed to the Supreme Court, February 15, 1840,
He married at Colombo, April 28, 1836, Elizabeth
Maria, daughter of Colonel Clement (see No. 132).
He prosecuted in the MoUgoda trial " for raising a
rebellion. ' ' The trial took place at Kandy , and lasted
six days, January 12-17, 1835, and ended in an
acquittal. Digby converts him into an Irishman by
caUing him " Sir W. O'Carr."
In memory of Eliza Madeline Satjlibee, aged
23 years.
Leaving her husband and two young children to
moan her loss.
Her husband, F. SauUere, was an engineer and a
Frenchman. He was buried. May 2, 1864, aged 57.
She was a Miss Roosmalecocq, and married him at
Colombo, May 15, 1854.
204
May 23
1857
William Linton
205
July 2
1857
Theodore Glenie Staples
Sacred to the memory of Captain W. Linton, who
departed this Mfe 23rd May, 1857, aged 54 years.
He was Commander of the barque Morning Star,
1834, of the barque Iris in 1841, both well-known
passenger vessels.
The Morning Star was attacked and plundered
by a pirate brig of ten guns near the island of Ascen-
sion on one of her voyages to England in 1828. She
had left Colombo on December 13, and was chased and
overhauled by the brig on February 19. One of the
crew was killed and six wounded. The pirate took
away the captain, second mate, and a soldier of the
78th. What became of them does not appear,
nor who the captain was, but the Morning Star
continued her voyage and arrived at the Downs on
April 16. She was laden with coffee and cinnamon,
of which 300 bags had to be thrown overboard to
save the ship from fire. Every shroud and backstay
had been cut, and an attempt made to cut through
the main mast. The passengers were robbed of
their clothes and money. In 1837 "there resided
in Hospital Street, Colombo, a Mrs. Fowler, who
had been on board the Morning Star when this
British ship was taken possession of by pirates."*
(A. M. Ferguson.) According to Boyd, " the captain
was tied to the main-mast and brutally murdered."
("Autobiography," p. 20, Ceylon Literary Register,
vol. II., p. 386.)
Another passenger was Mrs. Walker, wife of Mr.
Andrew Walker, C.C.S., who, from 1823 to 1833, was
in the Cinnamon Department, and afterwards District
Judge of Negombo and of Kandy. He was an uncle
of Sir Edward Noel Walker, Colonial Secretary of
Ceylon, 1888-99.
Theodore Staples, youngest son of Henry J.
Staples, Esqr., bom 26tli May, 1839, died 2 July,
1857.
Henry John Staples was elder brother of John
James Staples (No. 184). He, too, was an advocate,
and appeared for the defence in the Mohgoda trial
in 1835, for which he was paid 500 guineas and
presented .with a gold chain. He was Commissioner
of Requests, Colombo, 1845-59, going on pension
on September 1 of the latter year, and dying in
London about 1865. He was of a musical turn, and
* There is an account ofthe attack on the Morning Star
in " Chambers' Journal" for May, 1885.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
205 ..
July 2 .
1857
Theodore Glenie Staples— cowid,
Inscription,
wrote the words and music of two ballads : "Oh
were I but a butterfly rover " and " Come weep with
me, love,'" and paid Sims Reeves one hundred guineas
to sing them in his drawing room. He had two other
sons, Dr. Henry Tonnon Staples of the Civil Medical
Department (1869-1886), who died August 8, 1893,
and was of a poetical turn, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Frederic Blair Staples of the Ceylon Rifles, and after-
wards of the 80th and 93rd Regiments, 1855-1873,
who died March 31, 1909, at Streatham. He was
Chief Constable of Stockport, 1874-1889. His family
are of a theatrical turn, as he was himself. H. J.
Staples' daughter married H. P. Levering, Survey
Department, 1873-1901.
206
Aug. 5
1857
William Huxham
207
Sept. 9
1857
Feb. 20
1858
Maria Cawthorne
William Cawthorne
In memory of William, fourth son of W. Huxham,
Esqr., died 5th August, 1857, at Colombo, aged
19 years.
William Huxham belonged to the firm of Beaufort
and Huxham, Colombo, which he carried on under
the same name after the death of Mr. Beaufort in
1831. He was a merchant at Colombo as early as
1819, and he was still one in 1857. He lived at
Mutwal. He seems to have been away from the
Island for some years after 1843. In the coffee days
he owned several estates, Kelebokka, Galhiriya,
MaduUsele, Oonoonoogalla in the Madulkele district,
PettigoUa and Balangoda in Sabaragamuwa, Mora-
gahagoUa in Lower Dumbara, also Wattegoda in
Kotmale. In 1861 he wrote a letter to the Madras
Times complaining of the " Toryism " that had
characterized the Ceylon Government for many years
past, and hoping for better things. He married at
Colombo, February 2, 1824, Jemima, eldest daughter
of Captain Clarke, 1st Ceylon Regiment, whose
youngest daughter, Sophia, married Charles Brown-
rigg, C.C.S., the same day. Mrs. Huxham had twin
sons at Quilon, July 19, 1829 (see No. 212).
In memory of Maeia, the beloved wife of William
Cawthoene, Esqr. She died at Colombo, 9th
September, 1857, aged 31 years. Also of
William Cawthoene, Esqr. , who was accidentally
killed at Kandy on 20th February, 1858, aged
50 years.
The register at Kandy gives his age as 46. He died
from injuries received by the upsetting of his vehicle.
He seems to have come out about 1846, when he
kept the " Yattiantotte Stores," and he also had a
store at Ambegamuwa. He is described in the
directory of the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1851 as a
merchant at Yatiyantota. In 1861-52 he was on
Laxanewatta, a coconut estate in Three Korales. In
1853-56 he was proprietor of, or agent for, Pitakanda,
a coffee estate in Lower Bulatgama. He had given
this up by 1857 to W. Davidson, and was proprietor
of Raddetottewatta in the same division. He had
also been " Postholder " at Ambagamuwa in 1850-53,
with an allowance for performing this work of £18 a
year, and in this, too, he was succeeded by W.
Davidson.
208
Dec. 20 .
1858
Thomas Affleck
April 14 .
1859
. William Affleck
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Affleck, of
Bogambra Mills, Kandy, died at Colombo,
20th Dec., 1858, aged 27 years. Also William
Affleck, died 14th April, 1859, aged 32 years.
James Affleck died at Diella estate, Kurunegala,
November 20, 1867, aged 46, " after 47 hours'
iUness, of apoplexy."
The Afflecks started the Bogambra Mills, which
were afterwards taken over by Mr. John Walker of
Roseneath, and were the headquarters of the firm of
Walker, Sons & Co., imtil that firm removed to
Colombo. The older firm was originally Affleck &
Gordon, engineers (1847), and subsequently J.
Affleck & Co. (1850-57). They were th^ contractors
for the building of St. Paul's Kandy, between 1841
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
208 ..
Dec. 20
1858
. . Thomas Affleck, &c.
Inscription.
-contd. and. 1863. James Affleck's name first appears in the
directory in the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1845 aa
resident at Kandy, and he was there in 1857, apparent-
ly in business on his own account. The firm came to
an end in 1858-59 with the deaths of Thomas and
William. (See a story about one of the Afflecks by
Boyd in the Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 282.)
A Captain Thomas Affleck died January 12, 1860,
at Barnfield House, Ayr.
209
Dec. 27
1858
Aug. 26
1851
June 10
1844
Jane Parsons
Mary Maria Charlotte
Skinner
Gerald John Parsons
210
211
Jan. 11
1859
Feb. 18
1859
Frances Elizabeth Hardinge
Mary Ann Higgs
212
Aug. 12
1859
Brownrigg Huxham
Jane Parsons, the beloved wife of Gother Mann
Parsons, Ceylon Civil Service. She was born on
the 26th Dec, 1809, married on the 20th Sept.,
1826, and died at Colombo on the 27th of Dec,
1858, aged 49 years.
Also in this vault rest, the remains of Mary Maria
Charlotte Skinner, wife of Capt. Henry
Skinner, Ceylon Rifle Regt., and daughter of the
above Gother Mann and Jane Parsons, who
departed this life at Slave Island, Colombo, on the
26th August, 1851, aged 24 years. Beneath are
also deposited the remains of Gerald John, the
4tli and infant son of the above Gother Mann
and Jane Parsons, who died at Colombo on the
10th of June, 1844, aged 1 month.
Mary Maria Charlotte, the eldest daughter, married
Captain Skinner at Colombo, November 7, 1846.
The 3rd daughter, Charlotte Mann, married Captain
James Cameron Fielding, C.R.R.
Sacred to the memory of Frances Elizabeth, the
beloved wife of Capt. Hardinge, 50th Regt.,
who departed this life at Colombo on the 11th
January, 1859, aged 35 years.
Sacred to the memory of Mary Anne, wife of
Commander Higgs, Royal Navy, Master Attend-
ant of Colombo. Died 18th February, 1859,
aged 50 years.
She was a daughter of Thomas Craven (No. 218),
and naarried Captain Joseph Higgs, R.N., at Trinco-
malee, November 10, 1834. Captain Higgs was at
Copenhagen on Nelson's flagship.
Brownrigg, eldest son of W. Huxham, Esqr., died
at Colombo, aged 34 years.
He was called after his uncle, Charles Brownrigg,
second son of Sir Robert Brownrigg, who was born
October 4, 1797, entered the Civil Service October 2,
1811, at the age of 14, retired October 1, 1829, and
died in January, 1854. B. Huxham was a planter on
Tunisgala in the Knuckles district in 1854^57. In
1851 he was in Hewaheta.
213
June 2
1860
William Cohen
William Cohen, aged 41 .... This monument is
erected by his sorrowing widow.
He was a planter on Wakkettewatta (Weketiya)
in Sabaragamuwa in 1856-57. He married at Port
Louis, Mauritius, on August 24, 1852, Ann Elizabeth
Hanning.
214
June 2
1860
Robert Duncan Gerard
BoBEET Duncan Geraud, aged 42.
A man of note among the coffee planters of the
forties and fifties. He was a partner of " Sandy
Brown " in the firm of Gerard, Brown & Co. at
Kandy, in 1853, subsequently R. D. Gerard & Co.
He was one of the original members of the Ceylon
Agricultural Society foimded at the end of 1841. At
the store of the firm in Kandy coffee was " stored
and despatched and advances made on crops."
" R. D. Gterard was a Londoner, and came to Ceylon
in the same vessel with R. B. Tytler. He opened and
planted up Degalle in the Dumbara Valley. About
1845 he began to acquire the agency of several other
estates, and in the course of a few years he had
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
214 ..
June 2
1860
Robert Duncan Gerard-
215
June 26
1860
April 24
1862
Susan Jumeaux
Louis Migot Jumeaux
216
217
218
Dec. 24
1860
Dec. 27
1860
Jan. 5
1861
John William Little
William Brigstoclc
Thomas Craven
219
June 18
1861
Annie Challis Thornton
Inscription.
. — contd. established a very large and prosperous business in
Kandy. Gerard possessed the soul of a gambler.
I never knew a man with so speculative a disposition.
I have heard or read that, when he returned to
England, the ship in which he sailed carried so large
a cargo of his coffee, that the rise or fall of a single
shilling on the cwt. in the London market meant
£1,000 either of profit or loss to him. He very
foolishly began to speculate on the Stock Exchange,
where he met cleverer and perhaps more experienced
or more unprincipled men than himself, with the
natural result that in the course of a remarkably short
space of time he was cleaned out of the whole of his
immense fortune, and returned to Ceylon a much
poorer, if not a much wiser man, where, after living
for a year or two on the charity of his former friends ,
" he ultimately died in Mr. Tytler's house in Kandy."
(W. Boyd, in Ceylon Literary Begister, vol. VI. , p. 354. )
The statement as to the place of his death must be
a mistake.
Sacred to the memory of Susait, the beloved wife of
Louis Jumeattx, C.C.S., who departed this life at
Colombo on the 26th June, 1860.
Also LoTTis Jtjmeatjx, C.C.S., who departed this life
on the 24th day of April, 1862, in the 46th year of
his age.
Louis was a son of John Pierre Jumeaux (No. 28).
He was Magistrate at Chavakachcheri from October 1 ,
1846 ; and afterwards at Colombo, 1848 ; Madawala-
tenna, March 1, 1863; Kurunegala, September 1,
1853 ; Negombo, May 8, 1854 ; at CSiavakachcheri,
January 26, 1856 ; and at Negombo, February 16,
1856 ; and finally District Judge of Negombo, which
post he held at the time of his death. A brother of his ,
Edmimd , was a planter on Belle Vue estate, Kotmale,
and died at Coconada.
He married Susan Armitage, a sister of John
Armitage, who founded the firm of Armitage, Scott
& Co. in 1837-38, and was a Member of the Legislative
Council for some years from 1847. John Armitage
married Louis Jumeaux' s sister, Fanny Henrietta.
A son of the former couple was Arthur Jumeaux, who
was in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1865-76 ; retired,
April 18, 1876, after holding appointments as Police
Magistrate, Kayts, Avisawella, and Matara ; and died
a year or two afterwards. A son of the latter couple
is Mr. Harry Turnour Armitage of Dunbar estate,
Hatton, whose godfathers were George Tumour, the
Oriental scholar, and James Steuart, the Master
Attendant.
Sacred to the memory of John William Little,
C.C.S., died 24th December, 1860, aged 43 years.
He was Magistrate at Avisawella at the time of his
death. He married, February 23, 1859, at Matara,
Hannah Susan, youngest (Jaughter of R. C. Roos-
malecocq. She married (2) the Rev. WiUiam ElUs.
In memory of William Beigstock, Master of the
Barque Walsoken, who died in Colombo Roads,
27th December, 1860, aged 33 years. Erected by
his brother shipmates.
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Craven, Esq.,
Naval Architect, late Naval Storekeeper at Trin-
comaHe, who died 5th January, 1861, aged 76
years.
, He was " Superintendent of Ships Building" at
Bombay in 1830. His daughter married Captain
Higgs, R.N. (see No. 211).
Annie Challis Thornton, nee Lamprell, wife of
Capt. H. B. Thornton, who suddenly, on the
19th June, 1861, departed this life, aged 21 years
and 4 months, deeply regretted by her loving and
disconsolate husband, relatives, and friends.
Requiescat in pace.
Captain Thornton was master of the ship Queen of
India. The ship arrived from Melbourne on the
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Galle Face Burial Ground— cowici.
alNo.
Date.
Name.
19 ..
June 19
1861
Annie Challis Thornton— cowici.
20
Aug. 21
1861
Aug. 27
1845
Jessie Tod Leslie
George Tod Leslie
21
!22
J23
Nov. 6
1861
Mary Jane Spratt
Feb. 19 .
1862
Henry Dudley
Oct. 5
1862
. Josias Lambert
J24
Nov. 20
1862
Jane Haultain
25
26
May 5
1863
Nov. 27
1863
Alfred John Lane
Sarah Kettyles
Inscription.
18th, and Captain and Mrs. Thornton went ashore
on the 19th, and proceeded to the Royal Hotel,
where Mrs. Thornton died while dressing to go
out for a drive. She had been married less than six
months.
The Royal Hotel stood on the site of the Post
OflSce in the Fort. It was opened on February 6,
1844, by Jonas Segar. Mr. Hugh Blaoklaw describes
it and the Galle Face Hotel of 1856 as being
" paragons of dirt."
In Memoriara. Jessie Tod, Relict of Andkew W.
Leslie, Boghall, Fife, Scotland, died at Colombo,
August 21st, 1861, aged 61 years.
George Tod Leslie, died at Singapore, August 27th,
1845, aged 26 years.
The beloved mother and brother of Barbara Glass
Leslie, Wife of the Rev. Charles Merson,
Colonial Chaplain, St. Andrew's Church, Colombo.
In memory of Mary Jaj^te, the beloved wife of the
Rev. Thomas Spratt. She died at Colombo,
• 6th Nov., 1861.
In memory of Henry Dudley, of Wilton, Wiltshire,
Captain and Paymaster of the Ceylon Rifle Regt. ,
who died on the 19th February, 1862, aged 42
years.
In memory of Josiah Lambert, of Galheria,
KaUebokka Valley, died 5th October, 1862, aged
40 years.
The name seems to be correctly, Josias.
He was, I believe, a son of Josias Lambert, F.G.S. ,
an experienced sugar planter who was in the Island
in the forties, and took a prominent part in the
proceedings of the Agricultural Society, which was
founded on November 29, 1841. J, Lambert,
senior, became its Vice-President. A paper by J.
Lambert, senior, on the cultivation of sugarcane, was
published in Ceylon in 1841, and in the Observer of
April 28, 1842, there appeared the translation from
Spanish by him of a report on the cultivation and
preparation of tobacco, issued by a Commission
appointed by the Spanish Government. He died at
Oviedo, in Spain, April 21, 1849, aged 51. The son
was Superintendent of Galhiriya, which belonged to
W. Huxham. WiUiam Boyd describes the elder
Lambert as " the son of a Commander in the R.N.,
and as a handsome middle-aged man, and a bachelor,"
but he was more probably a widower. He also
remarks that he " understands Scotch as well as the
natives." (" Autobiography," p. 80, and Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. VT., p. 370.) The younger
Lambert married a daughter of John Stephens,
widow of J. Pritchett of the Seaforth (No. 149).
Sacred to the memory of Jane , the beloved wife of
Arthur de T. Haultain. She died at Colombo,
20th November, 1862, aged 27 years.
She married A. F. de Tou&eville Haultain, of
Kehelwatta estate , Udapalata , at Colombo , on June 1 ,
1855. She was a daughter of Lieutenant T. Robertson
of the Gun Lascars. Her husband was on ParagaUa
estate, Dolosbage, in 1856 and in 1862. A Mrs.
Haultain, widow of Captaia Haultain, Madras Army,
died at Paris, March 17, 1858.
50th (or Queen's)
May, 1863, aged
In memory of Capt. A. J. Lane
Regt., died at Colombo, 5th
34 years.
Erected by his brother officers.
He was stationed at Kandy hx 1860.
Sacred to the memory of Sarah, the beloved wife of
C. Kettyles, Esqr., 2-25th Regt., The King's
Own Borderers, who died at Colombo on the 27th
Nov., 1863. Aged 34 years.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
226 ..
Nov. 27 .
1863
Sarah Kettyles
227
June 13
1864
Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Inscription.
-contd. Beloved and respected by all who knew her.
How sweet the hour of closing day,
When all is peaceful and serene
And the broad sun's decHning ray
Sends a mild lustre o'er the scene.
Such was this Christian's parting hour,
So peacefully she sank to rest.
And Faith, rekindUng all its power,
Lit up the languor of her breast.
There was a radiance in her eye,
A smile upon her wasted cheeks,
That seemed to tell of Glory nigh
In language that no tongue can speak.
Lord, that we may thus depart
Thy joys to share. Thy face to see.
Impress Thine image on our heart,
And teach us how to walk with Thee.
Christopher Kettyles was Quartermaster of the
2nd-25th Regiment. It is said that his name was
originally spelt " Kettles."
M. S.
CAKOLI BOSS MITCHELL
HENEICI MITCHELL
SCOT. ECCL. MONQ.
PASTOEIS
MINIMS NATI
QUEM EILIUM OPTISSIMUM
FEATREM GAEISSIMUM
IMMATURA MOETE
ABEEPTUM
OHEISTTJS AD SE
ARCESSIVIT
VIXIT ANNOS XX
MENSES IX DIES HI
OBHT Xni KAL JUN
MDCCCLXIV.
I have not been able to ascertain what place
" MONQ " stands for. " monq " may stand for Mon-
quhltter, a parish ia Aberdeenshire. " minimb nati "
also seems incorrect.
Charles Ross Mitchell
228
Feb. 10
1865
Cloudesly Shovel Fltzroy
Mason
299
March 29
1865
Richard Reginald Scott
230
July 25
1865
James Swan
Sacred to the memory of Cloudesly Shovel
FiTZEOY Mason, District Officer of Puttlam, died
at Colombo, 10 February, 1865, aged 34 years.
He was in the Commissioner of Roads' Department.
The bridge over the Hulu-ganga, at Teldeniya,
Central Province, was erected by the 3rd Division of
Pioneers under his superintendence, March 1, 1859-
March 20, 1860, as is shown by the inscription on it.
Sacred to the memory of Riohaed Reoinald
Scott, Esq., eldest son of the late Capt. J. K.
Scott, and late Master Attendant, Negapatam,
who departed this life on the 29th March, 1865,
aged 28 years 5 months and 23 days, leaving behind
his severely afflicted mother and a large circle of
relatives and friends to mourn his irreparable loss.
In memory of James, eldest son of Alexander
Swan, of Hythe, Kent, who died 25th July, 1865,
aged 55 years.
Also his infant daughter Emma.
The following announcement appears in the Ceylon
Times, 1846 : " At Bockawelle Grange, on 17th Oct.,
the lady of James Swan, Esq., of a son." " James
Swan of Bockawella " was appointed a Member of the
Legislative Council in September, 1848. Bokkawala
is in the Harispattu division of the Kandy District,
6 miles from the 9th mUestone on the Galagedara road.
The estate is near Morankanda, and in 1843 James
Swan and his brother, William, are given in the
directory of the " Ceylon Almanac " as resident on
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Galle Face Burial Ground— conic^.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
230 . .
July 25
1865
. James Swan-
-contd.
231
Oct. 11
1865
Alfred James
232
Sept. 27
1865
Richard Theodore Penne-
father
233 ..
Oct. 31
1865
John Lamb
234 ..
Jan. 2
1866
Edward Coviei
235 .
June 17
1866
James Massie
Inscription.
'* the Morankanda plantation," of which, no doubt,
the Bokkawala estate formed a part. WiUiam died in
that year, and James seems to have remained until
1846, when he removed to Colombo to take an active
part in the business of Swan, Keir & Co. , and later in
the firm of James Swan & Co. The Bokkawala estate
is now the property of the De Soyzas, and is not under
cultivation. A daughter of Alexander Swan, Anna
Maime, married at Kandy, Jim^e 18, 1845, Louis
George Morgan, youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel
H. Bird, of the 16th Regiment. Whether W. Aber-
cromby Swan, whom Mr. A. M. Ferguson describes as
an accomplished writer on planting life and the
creator of " Peter Donaldson " and many other
characters, and as drilling his coolies in military
fashion, was a relative, I do not know.
In memoriam, Alfred James, Ensign, 25th Regt.,
the King's Own Borderers. He was accidentally
drowned in the Colombo lake on the 11th October,
1865, while endeavouring to save the life of his
native boatman.
Erected by his brother officers as a tribute of respect.
Mr. George Armitage, a son of Mr. John Armitage,
was in the boat with him. There was a diflSculty in
stopping the boat, which was under sail.
A private of the 97th was drowned in the Colombo
lake, August 9, 1833.
RiCHAED T. Pennepatheb, Auditor-General, Ceylon,
died 27th Sept., 1865, aged 37 years.
He had served in British North America from 1848
to 1861, and was appointed Auditor-General from
June 24, 1861.
In memory of John Lamb, of Watagala Estate, who
died in Colombo, 31 Oct., 1865, aged 47 years.
Sacred to the memory of Edward Covien Acason,
of Barnet, Herts, who died Second of January,
1866, aged
In memoriam, James Massie, CCS., 17 June,
1866.
His age was 22. He was brother of Mr. Robert
Massie, CCS. (1865-1888), and a nephew of the
Rev. Dr. Massie, L.M.S., at one time a missionary at
Madras. He was a Cambridge man, and joined the
Civil Service in 1862. He was Acting Assistant
Government Agent, Trinoomalee, from August 1,
1864, and Acting Assistant Government Agent,
Kxunm.egala, August 1, 1865, in which appointment
he was confirmed on October 16 the same year. His
first fixed appoititmentwas Commissioner of Requests,
&c., Chavakachoheri, from August 1, 1865, but he did
not take up the work of that appointment. At the
time of his death he was acting as District Judge of
Ratnapvu-a.
236
237
June 26
1866
Oct. 22
1866
Ann Butler
Hamlet Wade Thompson
In memory of Ala's, Relict of the late Thomas
Butler, many years matron of the Female
Orphan Asylum, Colombo. Born 2nd August,
1802. Died 26th June, 1866.
To the memory of Hamlet Wade Thompson,
Ensign, 25th Regt., the King's Own Borderers,
who was accidentally shot at Colombo on the 22nd
October, 1866, aged 20 years.
Erected by his brother officers as a mark of esteem.
He was practising pistol shooting at his quarters
with Lieutenant J. A. Lawrie, R.A., Ensign F.
Forjett, 25th Regiment, and Assistant Surgeon
G. J. H. Watt, 26th, when a " Monte Cristo "
pistol, held by the latter, went off just as he was
presenting it, and Ensign Thompson was shot through
the head.
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Serial No.
238 .
Date.
1867
Name.
J. Fraser
239
March 24
1869
Henry King Fenwick
240
July 1
1869
Charles Merson
241
Jan. 17
1870
Gother Mann Parsons
242
243
Feb. 28
1870
Sept. 15
1871
Edwin Henry Downe
Nathaniel Westaway
Inscription
Dr. Frasee, D.I.G. Hos. Died 1867.
This is a very insignificant tombstone, and the
lettering is nearly illegible — the date almost altogether
so, but I take the date to be 1867, as Dr. Fraser's
name disappears from the " Ceylon Almanacs " ii
1868. He was Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, Ceylon, 1864-1867. Whether he is the same
officer as the J. Fraser, M.D., who was in 1863
Surgeon of the 50th Regiment in Ceylon, I cannot say,
but it seems likely. Strange to say there is no
reference to Dr. Fraser's death in the local papers, or
in the obituary in the " Ceylon Almanac."
In memory of Lieut. Hbney King Fenwick, Ceylon
Rifle Regt., died 24th March, 1869, aged 29 years.
Erected as a mark of esteem by his brother officers.
There was a Captain Thomas Lyle Fenwick. in the
Ceylon Rifles in 1831. He was gazetted Lieutenant,
Ceylon Rifles, August 10, 1826, while Quartermaster.
In the Literary Gazette of October 1, 1831, he adver-
tised for publication " A History of Ceylon under
the Government of Lt.-Genl. Sir Edward Barnes,"
also " Notes of a Voyage from Ceylon to England, with
some remarks on the Present State of the Mauritius,
the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and the Island of
.. Ascension," but neither work seems to have been
published. I imagine he was the father of the subject
of this inscription. There was a Lieutenant Nicholas
Fenwick in the Ceylon Rifles in 1 844. He had been in
the 61st Regiment, and may have been another son.
Sacred to the memory of Rev. Chablbs Meeson,
M.A., Assistant Minister, Arbroath, afterwards
Presbyterian Chaplain of St. Andrew's Church,
Colombo, Ceylon, where he died 1st July, 1869, in
the 47th year of his age, and 25th of his Ministry.
This stone is erected by his sorrowing mother,
Elizabeth Smith, widow of the late Rev. Peter
Meeson, M.A., Mathematical Master, Elgin
Academy, Scotland, as a token of respect for her
only and much beloved and deeply lamented son.
" A female school (at Moratuwa), im.der the super-
intendence of the Rev. C. Merson, is supported by the
Scottish Ladies' Association for the Advancement of
Female Education in India." (Spence Hardy's
" Memorials," page 188.)
In loving memory of Gothee Mann Pahsons, Capt.,
Ceylon Rifles, elder son of G. M. Paesons, Esqr.,
who fell asleep 17th January, 1870, aged 37 years.
He married a Miss Waller.
Gother Mann Parsons, senior, was a Lieutenant in
the Royal StaH Corps in Ceylon in 1826. He was
appointed an Assistant Engineer in 1833 ; Assistant
Civil Engineer, October 1, 1837 ; Civil Engineer,
November 30, 1844 ; and was also a Commissioner of
the Loan Board from April 16, 1846. He retired on
October 16, 1854, and died in 1872.
" Parsons , who had been in the Pioneer Corps under
Sir Edward Barnes, became Chief Assistant to Mr.
Norris in the Civil Engineer and Surveyor-General's
Department, and was with Mr. Norris dismissed in
Sir G. Anderson's time, for allowing the head clerk to
embezzle money. Through the interest of the Hon.
G. C. Talbot, Parsons was restored to thet'public
service." (Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI., p. 253.)
Edwin Heney Downe, Ensign, H. M. 73 Regt.,
bom 14th January, 1849, died at Colombo, 28th
Feb., 1870.
Erected in loving remembrance by his mother and
sister.
In memory of Nathaniel Westaway, Lieut., R.A.,
second son of N. Westaway, Esq., of St. Helier,
Jersey.
Erected by his sorrowing brothers and sisters.
(The date given is the date of burial.)
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Galle Face Burial Ground— cow^rf.
Serial No. Date. Name.
Inscription.
244 . . Oct. 8 . . Frank R. Gorman . . In memory of Frank R. Gorman, eldest son of
1872 Capt. W. J. Gorman, bom Nov. 22, 1856, died
8th Oct., 1872.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gorman, whose father was
Commandant and Police Magistrate of Moreton Bay,
was in the Ceylon Rifles until it was disbanded,
was Adjutant 1852-53, and afterwards Colonial Store-
keeper and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ceylon Light
Infantry Volunteers. He married a daughter of
Lieutenant-Colonel William Twisleton Layard, a
son of C. E. Layard (see No. 47). There was an
Adjutant Owen Gorman, 69th Regiment, in Ceylon
in 1832.
245 . . Nov. 19 . . Arthur Stuart Baynes . . Sacred to the memory of Arthur Stuart Baynes
1872 Army Control Department, died 19th November,
1872, aged 44 years.
246 . . Sept. 17 . . Thomas Dyer Thistleton In memory of Thomas Dyer Thistlbton Dyer,
1873 Dyer Lieut.-Col., Madras Army, died 17th Sept., 1873,
on board ss. Viceroy, off Colombo, aged 57.
247 .. Nov. 17 .. Edward Alexander Lawrance In loving memory of Edward Alex. Lawrance,
1873 Surgeon-Major, Bombay Army, who died at
Colombo, 17th November, 1873, aged 37 years.
248 . . June 3 . . Anna Staples . . Erected by Annie and Georgiana Staples to the
1874 memory of their beloved mother, rehct of the late
J. J. Staples, C.C.S., born 25 Nov., 1803, died at
Staples House, Colombo, 3rd June, 1874.
She was a Miss Anna Loughlin, daughter of Mr.
Michael Loughlin, and married J. J. Staples in 1821
(see No. 184). Mr. M. Loughlin was the proprietor of
" Loughlin's Auction Rooms" of the first years of
British rule. He married a Miss Anna Williams at
Colombo, January 23, 1803, and died at Bombay,
June 20, 1822, aged 65. She died at Madras,
January 2, 1816, " aftera long illness on this Island."
249 . . July 29 . . Joseph Rimmers . . Sacred to the memory of Private Joseph Rimmers,
1874 aged 22 years. Private George Wilson, aged 25
George Wilson years, of H. M. 57th Regt., who were accidentally
drowned while bathing on the 29th July, 1874.
This stone was erected as a token of respect by the
ofiScers and men of E Company.
250 . . Aug. 16 . . Eliza Harriet Hall . . Sacred to the memory of Eliza Harriet, 2nd
lg'74 daughter of G. M. Parsons, Esq., and the beloved
wife of W. G. Hall, Esqr. , died 16th August, 1874,
aged 44 years.
W. G. Hall was son of Quartermaster William Hall,
and was in the Public Works Department for many
years. He was generally known as "Billy Hall,"
and is described by Lieutenant Henderson as " a Civil
Servant of the Roads Department and one of the
most energetic of the officers of the Government.
He was employed at Dambool to assist the miUtary in
various ways." ("Matale Rebellion," p. 162.) This
was in 1848. He died at Colombo, July 3, 1889.
Mr. A.M. Ferguson says of him , writing in 1 8 8 6 : "In
Ambagamuwa, in May, 1840, in the heart of a portion
of the five hundred square miles of forest which then
constituted the wilderness of the Peak, but which is
now one series of plantations, some abandoned. . . .
I met Mr. Wm. Hall, who still lives to recount
the main incidents of British rule in Ceylon or the
narratives of many who were connected with his
family, including the poetical Major Anderson."
("Ceylon in 1837-46," p. 31.) This refers to
Captain Thomas Ajax Anderson of the 19th Regiment,
who was in Ceylon 1798-1816, the author of " Poems
written chiefly in India," published in 1809 out
of a poem called " The Wanderer in Ceylon," which
was published in 1817, and of others contributed to
the Government Gazette, which for twenty years or
more had a " Poet's comer." In 1811 he was tried
by court-martial for ( 1 ) " submitting to be told by his
cormnanding officer that he had told a lie," and (2)
for not having fulfilled his written promise to leave
the regiment within a year of his departure for
England on September 24, 1807. He was acqtutted
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Galle Face Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
250 ..
Date.
Aug. 16
1874
Name.
Eliza Harriet Hall-
-contd.
251
June 27
1877
Maud Edith Moncriefl
St. George
Inscription,
on the first charge, but found guilty on the second,
and pubUcly reprimanded. This did not, however,
induce him to quit the regixuent or to cease writing
poetry, for next year he published " Ceylon : a Poem
in Three Cantos," and in 1815 he took part for the
second time in a Kandyan war, commanding the
force which marched from Batticaloa. He must
have been a connection by marriage of the Halls.
W. G. Hall married (1) on July 11, 1843, Julie,
eldest daughter of J. Piachaud, (2) in 1867 the
subject of this inscription, and (3) a sister of G. W.
Worthington, C.C.S., 1859-1892.
Maud Edith Moncbieff St. George, the beloved
daughter of H. H. and Agjstbs St. Geoege, aged
2 years 11 months. Drowned by the capsizing
of the boat between the wharf, Colombo, and
ss. Almora, 27th June, 1877.
Lieutenant-Colonel St. George was Assistant Com-
missary, Ordnance Store Department, at Colombo,
1874-77, and was again stationed at Colombo in 1890.
He contributed to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society a translation from the Spanish of Joao Rod-
riques de Sae Menzes' "Rebellion de Ceylon," which
was read at a meeting on November 22, 1890.
The Colombo Pettah Burial Ground.
The " kerkhof " of the Dutch Church in the Fort, which used to lie on the site of the " Gordon Gardens,"
is situated, in accordance ^vith the custom of the Dutch, just outside the Fort in the Pettah. "It is
enclosed by a low wall having two gates, one leading into Main street, one of the busiest thoroughfares in
Colombo, the other into Keyzer street, in which a fair amount of native traffic is carried on." It is probable
that there were no burials in the compound of the Dutch Church in the Fort, except within the area of the church
itself, and there is very Uttle ground round Wolvendaal, which superseded it. In the Pettah Burial Ground
were interred all Dutch people who did not care to pay the high fees charged for burial within the church, and
in the first few years of the British occupation all members of the British community who died within that
period. Even after the opening of the GaUe Face Cemetery there were burials occasionally of British officers,
civil and mihtary, and of their wives and children in the Pettah. It was the burial place of Wolvendaal
and of St. Peter's. The Wolvendaal register shows, that in Dutch times it was divided into two portions : " het
binnen kerkhof" for Europeans and "het buiten kerkhof" for Christian natives, but the two portions appear to
have been in the same enclosure without a dividing waU. The burial ground, which was originally open on all
four sides, with a street on each side, has of late years been enclosed by buildings on two sides erected for shops
and o&ces, and it is probable that these encroachments may go further. In fact, a two storey shop has quite
recently been erected on the Keyser street side, which until then had been quite free of buildings.
The following is a continuation of the description of the Pettah Burial Ground, quoted above, froi^ the
Madras Mail (1902) :—
' ' A few of the monuments are crumbling to pieces ; some of the slabs of granite over the remains of British
officers are partially sunk out of position and almost covered with weeds and grass. A few of the tombstones,
principally of the Dutch, have apparently been removed, for there are gaps here and there, and impressions where
some of the smaller stones have been. The Dutch tombstones are of a different kind of granite and less massive
than the EngUsh ones , and almost square. They seem to be all of one pattern , having the symbol of Time and the
emblems of Mortahty executed in bas-reUef . The headings of the epitaphs generally begin with ' Hier-onder rust '
or ' Hier-onder legt.' " I may add here that many of the Dutch memorials are small head stones of the pattern
of the Dutch gable, with a seventeenth century air about them, both as to style and lettering. "The
inscriptions on several of the English slabs are cut pretty deeply, some to the extent of almost half an inch.
To the west there is a fairly extensive portion almost level, and probably at one time covered with graves. Not
a single memorial is there to be found to indicate the resting place of the British soldier. Perhaps the wooden
crosses and slabs set up at the heads of the graves by loving comrades have long since perished. A few garden
flowers grow wild, chiefly the pink oleander, the golden cup, and some stragghng and stunted chrysanthemums."
Captain T. A. Anderson, in a note to his poem " The Wanderer in Ceylon," pubUshed in 1817, states that
" The gallant Captain Hardinge of the St. Fiorenzo, who was killed in action with the French Frigate La Pied-
montaise off Colombo, was buried there together with many officers of rank, such as General Doyle, Colonels Petrie,
Bonnevaux, Barbut, Blair, Blakeney, Hunter, Hayter, &c., not to mention many distinguished Admirals and
Generals in the earUer periods of the Colony, who did honour to their respective nations." Capt. Hardinge, a
younger brother ot Lord Hardinge, was killed on 8th March, 1808, towards the end of a three days', engagement
with the French frigate in the gulf of Mannar. (See Cotton, p. 45.)
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Pettah Burial Ground— cow^tZ.
There are the tombstones with inscriptions of Colonels Petrie and Barbut and of Major Blair still to be seen,
but none of the rest. As Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter died at Trincomalee, Lieutenant-Colonel Hayter at Jaffna,
and Lieutenant Blakeney perished in the Kandy massacre, it is curious that they should be interred in the
Pettah. Captain Anderson describes the Pettah Burial Ground in the following verses in the same poem (Canto
III.), and his note, quoted above, explains the allusions. There is no sign of any " Lusian" tomb in the place,
i)ut it may have been originally used as a burial ground by the Portuguese : —
That square with walls encompassed round
Is the colonial burial ground.
How many a restless plotting brain
Its narrow limits now contain !
The mind which fixed upon this spot.
Where human grandeur is forgot.
With rev'rence views the silent scene,
And ponders what each once has been !
Some Lusian warriors here may sleep.
Who boldly plough'd the eastern deep.
And undismay'd by perils bore
The cross to many a pagan shore.
By fierce, but erring zeal impell'd,
Their daring course undaunted held ;
How swift their empire rose and fell
Let history's mournful records tell !
And here those Belgic chiefs repose.
Who tore the laurel from their brows.
Who cheok'd their rivals' proud career.
And fix'd a rising empire here.
Till conqu'ring Britain won the gem
And fix'd it in her diadem !
Then pause, and in this sober hour,
Behold the emptiness of pow'r ;
How vanished all their regal state,
No ready slaves around them wait.
No sycophants are on the watch.
Each motion, word, or look to catch ;
Ah, no ! the fawning minions run
To worship at the rising sun !
Within that vault's capacious breast
Some patriot chief perhaps may rest.
No crowds now listen to that voice
That bade a sinking land rejoice !
Some beauty, proud of youthful grace,
The kindest heart, the sweetest face,
Whose thrilling glance bade all adore.
Now hears the tender vow no more !
Perchance some bard, whose tuneful lyre
Was richly fraught with heaven's own fire,
How silent all its silver tones.
The Ij^e its absent lord bemoans !
And some have cross'd the swelling wave,
From poverty's cold grasp to save
A parent or a drooping wife.
And mingling in these scenes of strife,
Indulg'd a hope, their little hoard
Might comfort to their age afford ;
Yet here, away from every friend,
Those cherish'd dreams have found an end.
Others, who at their covintry's beck.
Have firmly trod the reeking deck.
And 'mid the battle's purple tide
Have on the eastern billow died ;
Some to these distant shores who came
In tented fields to purchase fam.e,
Who proudly hop'd a name to raise,
That bards might harp in future days ;
But found, too late, these forests yield
No glorious wreath, no hard-fought field !
Disease, the warrior's wily foe.
Has laid their sanguine ardour low ;
And with the coward, and the slave,
They share one undistinguish'd grave !
From all their arduous labours free,
The fathers of this colony
Repose upon this spot of earth,
Far from the land that gave ^nhem birth,
And palsied is the head and hand
That bravely fought or wisely plann'd !
These melancholy thoughts impart,
A solace to a wounded heart.
While every gleam of happier hue
Steals like the rainbow from my view,
This weed-grown monumental space
Recalls that dear-lov'd youth's embrace,
Who hail'd with me this distant realm,
While hope and rapture rul'd the helm.
Whose early spring tide, bright and clear,
Gave promise of a fruitful year,
It might have sooth'd his parting breath.
If he had met a soldier's death.
The meed of the distinguish' d few
Who nobly bled at Waterloo !
But here the hapless youth, denied
This guerdon of a warrior's pride,
And on this unfrequented spot
He died unhonor'd and forgot,
Wither'd in manhood's opening prime,
A martyr to a burning clime !
E'en he, a trifler 'mid the throng
Who boast the melody of song,
Who pom's this meditative lay
O'er these forgotten mounds of clay.
Pass but a few brief years and then
He slumbers with his feUow men.
And may perchance as widely claim
Some slight memento of his name,
May, far from his paternal halls.
Repose within these very walls.
And not a living soul retain
The memory of his idle strain,
Fled like a summer's morning haze.
That vanishes e'en while we gaze.
" The dear lov'd youth " may have been Lieutenant John Kerr of the 19th, who died at Colombo on January
17 1803 a brother officer of Captain Anderson's of the same standing ; or Lieutenant Saunders, or Lieutenant
Nixon of the same regiment, who died in 1810 ; or Lieutenant John Winn, who died at Colombo the same year, and,
I think was also of the 19th. The other three officers who died at Colombo between 1796, when the regiment
arrived'in Ceylon, and 1812, when apparently Anderson wrote his poem, were officers of some service.
Name. Inscription.
Willem Meyer . • Hier leyt begraven Willem Meyer. Overladen den
6 Xber Ao. 1678. Out synde 60 jaaren.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., p 62.)
Serial No.
252 ..
Date.
Dec. 6
1678
253
June 18
1680
Catharinna Magnus Brunek
Hier legt begraven Cathaeinna Magnus huysvrouw
van den Vryborger Joan Jacob Beunek.
Begraven den 18 Juny, 1680. Haer ouderdomwas
21 jaer en 4 maent en 18 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XVn.,p. 35.)
The lettering on this tomb is quaint. It is in high
relief. U is used for V everywhere, and all the N's
are upside down.
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Pettah Burial Ground— cow^i.
Serial No.
253 ..
254 ..
255
Date.
June 18
1680
Jan. 6
1684
June 11
1684
Name.
Catharinna Magnus Brunek
— contd.
Joan de la Court
Thomas van Vliet
256
July 31
1684
Catharina Elisabeth Alstorpf
257
April 1
1686
Jan Weemayer
258
Jan. 9
1688
Cornelis Gerardsz van
Kempen
Joan Gerardsz van Kempen
259
Jan. 7
1689
Sigismundus Moor
260
Feb. 16
1689
Job Goutier
Inscription.
John Jacob' Brunek of Worms (Germany) was the-
Chief Surgeon of the Casteel of Colombo in 1671, when
he married Catherinna, born at Colombo, 1659, the-
daughter of Mattheua Magnus, of Gulick, and An-
thonica Ferreira. He appears to have left the service-
of the Company, as in 1680 he was a " vryburger."
Hier legt begraven Den. E. Capitain Joan dje la.
CoTTBT van Luyck, out 48 jaren, 10 mndn en 21
daen. Obiit den 6 Jany, Ao. 1684.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 33.)
The lettering is finely cut in high relief.
Thomas VAN Vlijit. Obiit 11 Juny, Anno 1684.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 53.)
Arms. — The same as those of Joan van Vliet^
already blazoned.
The inscription is a peculiar style of raised lettering.
Thomas van Vliet was born at Tuticorin in 1683,
being the son of Joan van VUet of Schiedam, Chief of
Tuticorin, and Maria van Rhee.
Catharina Elisabeth Alstorpf geboren tot
Colombo den 27 January, Ao. 1683. Obiit ulto.
July, 1684.
Catharina Elisabeth Alstorpf, born at Colombo
on the 27th January, 1683, died 31st July, 1684.
Perhaps daughter of Gerrardus Alstorpf of Deven-
ter. Secretary of the Weeskamer (Orphan Chamber),,
and Christina Groenenburg. They were married at
Colombo on January 13, 1677.
Hier leyt begraven Jan Weemayer in syn leven
cruytmaker. Obit den 1 April, Ao. 1686.
{Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 61.)
He was the husband of Annetje Jansz Verhaare of
Batavia, who married, as widow Weemayer, Hubert
van Kranendonk of Rotterdam, " Crugt maker," =
powder maker.
Hier onder leyt begraven Cornelis Gerardsz van
Kempen, geboren tot Amster, anno 1665. Obiit 9
Januarii, 1688.
Hier onder leyt begraven Joan Gerardsz van
Kempen, geboren tot Amster, anno 1665. Obiit
9 Januarii, anno 1688.
(/6id., vol. XVII., p. 37.)
Evidently twin brothers, who died on the same day.
There was a Jan van Kempen, Onder koopman,
who was married to Anna de Heyde, and had a son
Rutgaert, baptized at Tuticorin, November 11, 1683,
by the Rev. Simon Cat. Anna de Heyde was probably
the daughter of Rutgaert de Heyde, Commandant
of the Madura Coast, and Christina Bgger, who were
sponsors at the baptism. Anna married (2) John
Staff orts. Superintendent of the Cinnamon Depart-
ment.
Hier rust Sigismundus Moor in syn leven vryborgher
te deeser steede, out 50 jaaren, overleeden 7
January, 1689.
Here rests Sigismundus Moor, free burgher of this
city, aged 50 years, died 7 January, 1689.
Sigismundus Moor was a native of Villach, Carinthia
(Germany), and married (1), 1670, Dominga Suarus of
Colombo, and (2), 1677, Anna Coningh of Colombo.
Hier leyt begraven den eersamen Job Goutiee, in
syn leven vryborgher in vicepreses van't civile
collegie. Gestorven den 16 Febry, Ao. 1689, out
62 jaaren.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 54.)
Job Goutier was a vryman (i.e. , a person not in
the Company's service) so early as 1669, when he was
livmg at Colombo. His wife was Andrezia Ferreira.
(See No. 267.)
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Pettah Burial GrouM—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
261 ..
July 20
1690
. . Zacharias Kakelaar
262
Jan. 25
1691
Rachel Brunek
263
May 3
1694
Maria de Wandel
264
June 26
1694
Isabella Dier
Inscription.
Hier leyt begraven den E. Zacharias Kakelaar
zalr. in syn leven Koopman en secretaris alhier,
gebooren den 18 Maart, 1652, overleden den 20
July, 1690.
(Journal, R.A.S., C,B., vol. XVII., p. 21; vol.
XVIII., p. 56.)
He married Petronella van Zon.
Hier rust de eerbare juffrouw Rachel BROtrwBRS,
huysvrouw van den Opperchirurgyn des Castls.
Colombo, Jan Jacob Betjnek out 24 jaer 9 maand
en 11 dagen, ende overleeden den 25 January,
anno 1691.
(Ibid., vol XVIIL, p. 57.)
Rachel Brouwers or Brouwer was of Amsterdam.
Whether she was a relative of Gorvernor-General
Hendrik Brouwer (born 1580, died 1643) has not been
ascertained. She was the second wife of J. J. Brunek,
whom she married on December 27, 1682, at Colombo.
<See No. 253.)
The Governor-General was the father of Hendrik
Brouwer, born at Amsterdam, October 21, 1624, the
great jtirist.
Genes. 49, vers 18. Op Uwe Saligheydt wachte ick
Heere. (I have waited for Thy salvation,
Lord.)
Hier rust d. eerbaer E. juffrou Mael^ Geeeetsen van
Colombo, in haer leven huysvrouwe van den
schippr. Jan de Wandel. Sy is geboren den 12
Juny , 1664. Overleden den 3 May, Ao. 1694. Haer
ouderdom 29 jaer 11 maenden 9 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 62.)
Jan de Wandel, of Maldegem in East Flanders,
north-west of Ghent. He married Maria Gerritsen,
widow of Matthys Cornelisz, on January 10, 1683.
Gen. 49, v. 1.8. Op Uwe saligheit wagte ik Heere.
Hier rust d'eerbare Isabella Lambeets, geboren tot
Colombo, in hare leven huysvrouwe van Coeneaad
DiEE, Luyt. der Burgery. Overleden 26 Juny,
Ao. 1694, out 36 jaaren.
(76id.,vol. XVII.,p. 32.)
See No. 273.
Coenraad Dier was a native of Ntirenburg, and
married (1) at Colombo, March 18, 1683, Isabella
Lamberts, the divorced wife of Willem van Loo. He
married (2) at Colombo, January 15, 1696, Anna van
Salingenof Colombo, born at Colombo, 1678, daughter
of Jan van Salingen, vryburger, and Maria Linds.
Anna van Salingen married as widow Dier on August
7, 1707, Albert van Wede of Pulicat, Onderkoop-
man, and Master of the Mint at Negapatnam. Albert
van Wede gave a power of attorney, November 4,
1707, to Jacomina van Wede, widow of Pieter Calen-
drini, Jan Maartensz, Onderkoopman and Secretaris,
Negapatnam, and Wouter van Wede, Assistent,
Negapatnam. Albert van Wede's mother was Anna
van Wede, then deceased. There was one Albert van
Wede of Utrecht, Koopman, Tegenepatnam, born
June 28, 1641, died Pulicat, July 28, 1681. (Cotton,
p. 19.) One Cornelis van Wede was married to
Neeltje Pietersen (died Pulicat, October 1, 1655),
daughter of Captain Pieter Huybrechtsen. (Cotton,
p. 185.) In the " Monumental Remains of the Dutch
East India Company," by Alex. Rea (Archaeological
Survey of India. New Imperial Series XXV.), a
sketch is given (Plate XV.) of the arms on the tomb-
stone of Neeltje Pietersen. The first quartering of the
dexter impalement contains the Van Wede arms,
blazoned as follows by Rietslap (Armorial General) : —
D'Argent a six fleurs-de-lis de gueules. Cimier deux
t§tes et cols de heron adosstes au naturel. This crest
is over the shield on the tombstone. The surtout or
inescutcheon contains the arms of the Anthonisz
family of Ceylon, allied, according to tradition, to the
Maartensz family. Pieter Huybrechtsen was a native
of Rotterdam (died Pulicat, March 21, 1669, aged 70
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Pettah Burial Ground— cow^^Z.
Serial No.
Date.-
Name.
264 ..
June 26
1694
. . Isabella Dier — contd.
265
March 5
1695
Maria Toorzee
266
267
Oct. 22
1695
April 16
1697
Thomas Albertus
Quiryn Goutier
268
Sept. 20
1697
Pasquel de Orta
269 ..
Jan. 25
1701
Livina Brouwer
270
Jan. 8
1702
Jacob Pietersz^Loos
Inscription.
years). His wife was Assentia Pietersen (died Pulicat,
September 11, 1669, aged 68 years). (Rea, Platfr
XXI.)
Jan Maartensz van Suohtelen, Corporal of the
Adelborsten (Cadets), married (I) Johanna Maar-
tensz, who died at Pulicat, January 27, 1662, aged
33 years (2 Wapenheraut, 248). His second wife was
Gertruida Pietersen, who died at Pulicat, September
6, 1670, aged 28 years. His eldest daughter by the-
second marriage was Margarita Maartensz (died in
Pulicat, January 25, 1685, aged 21 years), wife of
Abraham Dormieux. (Rea, Plate VI.)
Psal. 63 V. 4. Uwe goedertierenJieit is beter dan het
leven ( ). " Thy loving Idndness is better than
life."
Hier rust juffw. Maeia Pij}CK in haer leven huys-
vrouwe van J. Tooezej!, Constapel Majoor en
iQgenieur op Ceylon. In den Heere ontslapen den
5 Maart, 1695, out 28 jaren 9 maanden en 24 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 36.)
Her husband was Jan Christiaansz Toorzee of
Wiburg in Jutland, whom she married on December-
Si, 1682, at Colom.bo. She was born at Gorcum,,
South Holland.
Ter gedagtenis van Thomas Albjietus en syn leven.
Baas-metselaar. Obyt 22 October, Ao. 1695.^
Translation.— To the memory of Thomas Albertus >
during his life chief mason. Died October 22, 1695.
There was a Thomas Albregt of Insbruck, mason, in
Colombo in 1684, perhaps the same person.
Hier rust Qtjieyn Goutijje out 29 jaaren. Sterf d.
16 April, Ao. 1697.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII.,p. 56.)
He was son of Johannes Goutier, of Dordrecht, and
Andrezia Ferreira, and was baptized at Colombo,
March 28, 1669. He married at Colombo, July 10,.
1689, Elizabeth Chiap of Colombo. (See No. 260.)
Ter gedagtenisse van Pasquel dp Oeta, de salig.
Sterf t den 20 September, 1697, out
{Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 38.)
Pasquaal de Orta, Assistent, Colombo, married
there, June 24, 1691, Wilhelmina Jansz of Colombo.
She married, on February 6, 1701, as widow de Orta,.
Salomon Riers of Colombo, boekhouder.
Hier rust de eerbare jufEr. Livina Jansz geboortig
van Rotterdam in haar leven weduwe wylen d*'
eersame Geeaedtts Beouwjee zab. in den Heere
ontslaapen 25 January, Ao. 1701, out 68 jaren 8 m.
en 15 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 35.)
This Gerardus Brouwer died before January 4,
1699, and was no doubt a relation of Rachel Brouwer
of Amsterdam and Alida Brouwer of Amsterdam,
wife of Jan de Haan of Dordrecht, Fiscaal, Colombo,
1677, and thereafter, 1709, wife of Abraham Emans
of Amsterdam, Dissave of Jaffna. The Governor-
General Mattheus de Haan was bom at Dordrecht
in 1663, and was the son of Adriaan de Haan (Notary
of Dordrecht and afterwards an Onderkoopman in
the service of the Dutch East India Company) and
Johanna van Wyngaarden. The Governor-General
married, circa 1692, Francina Tuwaart. His only
child Adriana died at Batavia, July 22, 1727, as the
wife of Stephanus Versluys (born in Middelburg,.
1691), Governor of Ceylon (1729).
Hier legt begraven den eersamen Jacob Pieteesz
Loos van Amsterdam in syn leven Baas van's
Comps. wapenkamr alhier , geboren den 1 5n. Febry. ,.
1655. Obyt 8n. Jany. , anno 1702.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 61.)
He was " the chief of the Company's armoury."
Jacob Pietersz Loos married at Colombo, on June 1,
1681 , Margarita Diiksz de Vries of Colombo.
( 77 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
271 ..
Jan. 14 .
1702
Cornells Haneeop
272
273
274
Nov. 25
1702
July 26
1702
Dec. 23
1705
Hendrick Jacob van Toll
Coenraad Dier
Pieter Roos
275 ..
April 28
1707
Rachel Crytsman
276
June 7
1708
Joannes Strick
277
Jime 9
1708
Joanna Roos
278
Sept. 21
1709
Joannes Huysman
M
Inscription.
Hier leyt begravn. Cornelis Hanecop van JafEnapm.
in zyn leven adsistt. ten dienste der E. Comp.
Gebooren den 16 Septber, Ao. 1674, en overleden
den 14 Janry., 1702.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII. , p. 60.)
Arms. — Argent, three crescents sable 1 . 2.
Crest. — A crescent as in the arms.
Cornelis Hannecop, Chief of Calpentyn, was the
husband of Maria Magdalena Cherpentier of Woerden
(South Holland, west of Utrecht), who died at
Galle, March 25, 1699, as wife of WiUem Loquet of
Rynbach (Germany, Cologne), her second husband,
whom she married on February 17, 1692.
Hier leyt begraven Mr. Hendrick Jacob van Toll
in synleven adsistent in Comps. dienst. Overleden
den 25 Novembr., anno 1702.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 60.)
Hier onder rust den E. Coenraat Dier, Capitn.
deser stede burgery, Natus Neurenb. 6 Feby.,
1655. Obyt. 26 July, Ao. 1702.
(Z6id., vol. XVni., p. 53.)
(See No. 264.)
Hier rust het lyk van de E. Pietbb Roos in syn leven
ondercoopmn. presidt. van V^eesmeesteren en
civilen raad albier. Overleden den 23en. Xber,
Ao. 1705, oud 49 jaaren 10 maanden.
(/6*d.,vol. XVIII.,p. 58.)
Pieter Roos was the husband of Joanna Boddens.
(See No. 277.)
Hier ondr. rusVd'eerbar. Juffw. Rachel Hogerlinde
huysvw. van den Boeckhoudr. en ontfangr. van's
Comps. gerechtighedn. alhier Johann CRYTSMAJ>r.
Geboorn. den 24 July, Ao. 1684, en overledn. den
28 April, Ao. 1707, out 22 jam. 9 maanden en 4
dagen.
(/6id.,vol. XVIII,. p. 51.)
She was perhaps the daughter of Pieter Willems
Hogerlinde of Dordrecht and Anna Hoepels of Colom-
bo. Johann Crytsman, the receiver of the Company's
taxes, was a native of Breslau, and married Rachel
Hogerlinde on November 6, 1701. She died seven
days after the birth of her child, Pieter Bmestus
Crytsman.
Hier onder rust 't leyk van d'E Joannes Strick zal.
in syn. leven onderkoopman en cassier alhier.
Geboren in 't jaar 1668, den 15 Septemb. en over-
leden den 7 Juny, 1708, ond 40 jaren 9 maanden en
25 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 225, 285, 286; vol. XVII., pp.
14, 15, 22, 30, 32 ; vol. XVIII., p. 63.)
Anns. — Argent, three merlettes sable.
Crest. — An ostrich's head argent.
He was perhaps the son of Cornells Strick, Dissave
of Colombo, and Abigail Ketelaar, and married
Susanna Magdalina Wenkebnen.
Thedate of birth should apparentlybe 1667, not 1668.
Hier onder rust 't lyck van d'eerbare juflFrouw Joanna
Boddens, laetste weduwe wylen den ondercoop-
man Pieter Roos zaliger. Overleden den 9 Juny.,
Ao. 1708, oud 44 jaren.
(Ibid, vol. XVIII.,p. 67.)
(See No. 274.)
Hier rust den onderkoopm. Joannes Huysman.
Geboren op Jaff. den 25 Feb., 1670. Overl. tot
Colombo den 21 Sept., Ao. 1709, oud synde 39
jaren 6 mn. en 26/0.
(Ibid., vol. XVIII., p. 59.)
He was the son of Marten Huysman of Rotterdam,
Director of Bengal, and MagdaLLna Christelyn. He
married a Baroness van Reede (Christina or Margarita) .
82-09
( 78 )
Pettah Burial Ground— cow^rf.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
279 ..
June 26 .
1720
. Anna Hoflant
280
June 16
1721
Oct. 9
1721
Otilia Brummer
Dirck Antony Brommer
281
282
June 28
1721
1728
Dominea Hals
Johanna Maria Albinus
283
Oct. 24
1737
Joan Pieter Clop
Inscription.
Rust plaets van den eerbai'e jufEr. Anna Gevertz
van Colo, in haer leven huysvrouw van den assistent
PijETBE, Hoflant. Overleden den 26 Juny., 1720,
oud 29 jaren 5 maanden en 27 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., p. 52.)
There were two persons of the name of Hoflant, who
settled in Ceylon from Holland, evidently brothers,
viz. , Gerrit Hoflant of Amsterdam and Govert Gerritsz
Hoflant of Amsterdam. Pieter Hoflant was born at
Colombo, and was evidently the son of Gerrit Hoflant,
who married at Colombo, December 1, 1680, Wilhel-
mina Cloi^penburg of Zwolle, as, lie names his eldest
son, who was baptized at Colombo, April 28, 1709,
Gerrit, no doubt after the child's grandfather — the
usual practice with the Dutch. Pieter Hoflant was
married to Anna Gevertsz at Colombo,DeceTOber 4, 1707.
Hier rust de eerbaare juffr. Othja Borimcan zalr.
geweese huysvrouw van den boeckhouder Sr.
DiECK Beummer, Gebooren op Colombo den 4
September, Ao. 1700, den 16n. Juny., Ao. 1721,
in den Heere ontslaepen.
Hiermede rust Dieck Antony Bkommjje soontje
van den boeckhouder Dibok Beommjer en Otilia
BoEMAN. Geborn. d. 29 M. 1721, dn. 9 October, in
dn. Heere ontslaepen.
(Ibid., vol. X.y III., p. 59.)
" Brommer" is the older form of spelling.
Dirk Brummer of Bremen was married to Otilia
Borman (Borremans) at Colombo, May 22, 1718. She
was the daughter of Antony Borremans of Keulen,
vryburger, and Gertruida Cornells van der Piette
(marriage, Colombo, June 26, 1694).
Dirk Brummer and Otilia Borremans had a son,
Theodorus Antony, baptized at Colombo, June 1, 1721.
This must be the same child as Dirk Antony referred
to in the epitaph.
Hier leyt begraven de eerbare jufr. Dominoa Suaetts ,
waarde huysvrouw van den E. Jacob Hals, Burger,
Capit. deser stede Colombo. Obyt den 28 Juny,
Ao. 1721, oud 40 jaren 9 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XVni.,p. 55.)
Hier onder rust JoHAinsrA Maeia Toorzee in haer
leven waarde huysvrouw van den ondercoopm.
WiLLEM Beenard Albinus, geboren tot Batavia
den 17 July, Ao. 1707, overleden Ao. 1728, out
21 jaren 5 maanden en 16 dagen.
Here rests Johanna Maria Tooezee, in her life-time
the beloved wife of the onderkoopman Willbm
Beenard Albinus , bom in Batavia on the 17 July,
1707, died 1728, aged 21 years 5 months and 16
days.
Johanna Maria Toorzee was the daughter of Johan
Christiaan Toorzee, of Wiburg in Jutland, Constapel-
Majoor, by his second wife Sibilla Rex of Matara.
(See No. 265.)
She married William Albinus, at Colombo, on
March 4, 1725.
Willem Bernard Albinus of Leyden, onderkoopman,
arrived in the Indies on the the ship Jacoba, was
afterwards Governor of Malacca, and Johanna Maria
Toorzee was his first wife. He married (2) at Colombo
on May 14, 1730, Maria Henrietta van de Parra,
sister of the Governor-General, and (3) at Batavia,
on June 17, 1750, as retired Governor of Malacca,
Adriana d'A'bleing of Batavia, widow of John Her-
man Theiling, Raad-ordinair.
{Ibid., vol. XVII., pp. 15, 36.)
Hier onder rust de E. Joan Pieter Clop van Solingen
in syn leeven luitenant van de HonorabUe Militier
en gebooren den 1 Augusto, anno 1700. Over-
leeden den 24 October, anno 1737, oud 37 jaaren
2 maanden en 23 daagen.
{Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 32.)
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Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
283 ..
284
Date.
Oct. 24
1737
Oct. 13
1740
Jvdy 13
1754
Name.
Joan Pieter Clop — contd.
Anike Fockes
Johanna Isabella Nieper
528
Oct. 3
1786
Susanna Petronella Charlotte
Sluysken
286
Aug. 25
1796
George Petrie
287
March 13
1800
John Ewart
Inscription.
Arms. — Argent, on a bend, between two lions
rampant, three besants ....
Orest. — A bust of a man holding in his dexter hand
a mallet and in his sinister a sabre.
Hier leggen begraven Anikj) Fockes in syn leven
Baas der Scheepstimmerlieden alhier. Overleden
den 13 October, anno 1740, en desselfs oudste
dogter JoHAJSTNA Isabella Fockjjs huysvrouw van
den Chirurgynma joor te Gale Jan Willbm Niepjjb.
Hier overleeden den 13 July, Ao. 1754.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., p. 55.)
Anika (Aucke) Fookes was a native of Amsterdam,
and married at Colombo, May 31, 1722, Catherina
van Laten of Colombo, daughter of Gerrit Jarisz van
Laten, of Embden, and Isabella Pietersz. Jan Willem
Nieper was a native of Verden, Westphalia, and
married Johanna Isabella.
He was head of the ships' carpenters. " Chief
of the ship and house carpenters" was a well known
officer under the Dutch Company, equivalent, I
am told, to a Provincial Engineer of the Public
Works Department. " Scheepstimmerman " was a
subordinate officer. The word "Baas" has been
taken into the Sinhalese language. It has been sug-
gested that it is the same as the English-American
word " Boss." The use of it by the Dutch as an
equivalent for " chief " is apparently peculiar to
Ceylon. (See No. 270.)
Hier onder rust S. P. C. Modeler, huysvrouw van den
Colombose Hoofd Administrateur P. Sluysken,
end 40 jaaren 2 maanden en 6 daagen. Gtebooren
den 28 July, 1746.
(Ihid., vol. XVII., p. 36.)
She married Pieter Sluysken of Amsterdam, at
Galle, on July 17, 1763.
She was daughter of Major Jan Hendrik Modeler
of Braeekel (Brenhelen ?), who married on November
4, 1741, at Colombo, Gertuida Augustin of Batavia,
widow.
Sacred to the memory of Gboege Peteib, Esq.,
a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and
Commandant of this Garrison, who died the 25th
day of August, 1796, in the 45th year of his age.
During 33 years of constant and often the most
arduous service, he was equally distinguished as
an officer and a mian of honour.
Memoriae Sacrum Geobgeii Petbie, armigeri Bri-
tannico in Exercitu chiharchi, hujusce necnon
arcis prsefecti qui die 25 Mensis Augusti, anno
domini 1796, aetatisque suae 45 obiit. Qui in
rebus arduis per triginta et tres annos et civis et
ducismunerihus rite functus eximie laudis praemium
et meruit et retuUt.
An obelisk with a marble tablet in front and at the
back, enclosed by a stone wall. " Columbo was
particularly unfortunate in the loss of its three first
governors after it came into our hands, aU in the
space of one year. The first was Colonel Petrie of
the Seventy-seventh regiment." (Percival, p. 110.)
The early age at which he entered the King's
service is noticeable. Lieutenant-Colonel Barbut
joined at 16, (See No. 296.)
The 77th was at the capture of Colombo inFebruary,
1796. Lieutenant-Colonel Petrie besieged and cap-
tured Cochin in 1795. (See Cotton, p. 264.)
John Ewabt, M.D., Physician-General to His
Majesty's troops in India, and Inspector-General
of Hospitals in Ceylon. Died 13th March,
MDCCC, aged XXXV. years.
A splendid slab, a species of hornblende, the letters
being deeply cut and perfectly chiselled.
When Governor North arrived in October, 1798,
he found Dr. John Briggs, of the Madras Establish-
ment, Head Surgeon of the Island. He was replaced
by Dr. Ewart.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
287 ..
March 13 .
1800
. John EwATt—contd.
( 80 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Inscription.
Dr. Ewart was appointed Physician-General in
Ceylon about June, 1798, and he came out armed with
regulations for Ceylon hospitals, but Governor North
assured him that he " would not aUow changes in
MiUtary departments without highest order," so he
informs the Secretary of State. Dr. Ewart began
his short Ceylon career by attempting reforms in the
direction of promoting temperance among the troops
by writing to Lord Mornington, under date May 6,
1799, on the subject of the bad health of the soldiery
because of the too great facility in getting spirits.
" My plan was to give good pay to commandants and
staff officers for preventing their family or men from
bribing them for permission to get hquor, and to
allow the arrack renter only one shop in each garrison
town, and to subject that shop to the Commandant
and Town Major to destroy adulterated hquor, and
raising the retail price to 20 fanams per gallon.
I intended to import cheap white Cape wine, but
could not close with the merchants." He wrote on
May 6, 1799: " As it refers directly to the Military,
I forward copy of this letter to Sir Alured Clarke. I
have seen hospital returns of India and Ceylon for
nine months. The majority of serious diseases and
the mortahty among troops have proceeded directly
from unrestrained excess of arrack and toddy, which
have been rendered more pernicious by the infusions
of poisonous herbs. I have received voluminous
complaints from Surgeons from all India. Our
soldiers in foreign service have received, and now
consider it a right, hquor gratis. Officers get emolu-
ments from its sale to troops. Smuggling takes place."
Governor North was annoyed at Ewart's writing
direct to the Secretary of State, instead of " through
the Lieut.-Governor, who is now the representative
of supreme power in Ceylon," and what happened to
Dr. Ewart's schemes of reform does not appear. He
had trouble, too, with one of his suborcQnates. In
November, 1799, he charged Surgeon Thomas Clarke
of the 19th Regiment with disobedience of orders.
Clarke was placed under arrest by General De Metiron,
Commanding the Forces in Ceylon, but was " allowed
to leave for Europe owing to the state of his mind."
North was, as we have seen aheady, pre-disposed
against Ewart, and a difference on the question of
court-martials gave rise to further friction and to the
following ebullition on the part of the Governor : —
" That Prince of Idiots, Dr. Ewart, storms against
my proclamation which deprives him of his birth-
right, which he states is neither Trial by Jury nor
Habeas Corpus, but Court-Martial." But they were
reconciled before Dr. Ewart's death, as the Governor
records on March 16, 1800 : " Dr. Ewart died of a
violent fever ; we were reconciled the day before his
death." (Wellesley MSS. in Ceylon Literary Register,
vol. II., pp. 223, 230, 247, 263, 286.)
288 . , Feb. 1 . . Dugald Campbell . . Captain Dttgald Campbell, H. M.'s 88th E«giment.
1801 Son of Major-General D. Campbell, Honourable
E. I. Co.'s Service. ObiLt 1 Feb., 1801, se. s. XIX.
A slab of black granite in a good state of preser-
vation. Possibly it is " 85th Regiment." General
Dugald Campbell succeeded General Stewart as Com-
mandfer-in-chief of the Forces of the Madras Presi-
dency on December 12, 1804. He married Miss
Elizabeth Mackay, at Madras, July 31, 1777.
289 . . July 31 . . Richard Williams . . Sacred to the Memory of Richard Williams, who
l^^l died on the 31st day of July, 1801, aged 45 years,
Feb. 3 .. Rose Williams and of Rose, his wife, who departed this Ufe on
1820 the 3rd February, 1820, at the age of 62 years.
Both distinguished for their parental tenderness and
social virtues.
In life beloved and ia death deplored.
A Miss Anna Williams married Michael Loughlin
(see No. 184, and Cotton, p. 181) at Colombo, January
23, 1803, and a Miss Elizabeth Williams married at
Colombo, January 25, 1804, Austin Flower, who was
appointed on April 13, 1803, Sitting Magistrate for
the Pettah of Colombo, and combined with this office
( 81 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
289 ..
July 31
1801, &c.
. . Richard Williams— cowtd. . .
290
Feb. 11
1803
Catharina Elizabeth Recker-
man
291
April 5
803
Willim OUenranshaw
292
April 8
1803
Abraham Robinson
Inscription,
that of Private Secretary to the Puisne Judge,
Edmund Henry Lushington. They had a son, born
December 19, 1804.
There was a " Lieutenant J. Loughlin " in the Ceylon
Regiment, who proceeded to England for a year on
March 22, 1804. He may have been a relative of
Michael's. J. Parker was gazetted Lieuteaant, " vice
LoughUn, deceased," September 5, 1805. " Lieut.
John Loughlin " died in 1803 at PoonamaUee. (See
Cotton, p. 181.)
Hier rust Cathakina Elizabeth Wolff, huisvrouw
vandenHeer J. H. Reckbbman. Gebooren den21ste
Maart, 1773,enoverleedendenllstePebruary, 1803.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIIL, p. 58.)
Jan Hendrik Reckerman was for years Fiscal at .
Colombo under the British Government. He was a
son of Jan Hendrik Reckerman of Onna (Onnaing ?,
France), vaandrig (ensign), and Cornelia Merciana
Franohimont. Catherine Elizabeth Wolff was a
daughter of Jan Sebastian Wolff, of Amsterdam, and
of Anna Cornelia Lensz. Her first husband was
Hendrik Willem Prancke.
Sacred to the memory of Wm. Ollenbanshaw, late
Lieut, in H. M. 65th Regt., who died on the 5th
day of April, 1803, aged 25 years.
A detachment of the 65th or 2nd Yorkshire North.
Riding Regiment, now the 1st Battalion York and
Lancaster Regiment, arrived in Ceylon on November
2, 1802, from the Cape, and left for India at the end
of 1803. It seems to have been but a small detach-
ment, andinAugust, 1803, the only officers of the 66th
in Ceylon were Lieutenant- Colonel George Maddison,
who succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson as Com-
mandant of Colombo in June of that year, and Lieu-
tenants Thomas Watson and Philip de Lisle. On the
despatch of the army to Kandy in 1803 Lieutenant
OUenranshaw was sent up to superintend' the for-
warding of stores from Port Frederic at Kotadeniyawa,
but "the endemial fever occasioned by the noxious cli-
mate soon proved fatal." Like Lieutenant Patrick
Campbell, whom he succeeded, he had been "selected
on account of his talents and merit to an office of great
trust and importance." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 192.)
Sacred to the memory of Abeaham Robinson, late
Lieutenant and Adjutant of H. M. 51st Regt. , who
med en the 8th of April, 1803, aged 40 years.
Captain Percival, in his diary of March 14, 1800,
en route with General Macdowal's embassy to Kandy,
says : " From* Colombo we learnt that the 61st
Regiment from Madras had arrived there and
disembarked in order to form part of the garrison."
The 51st, or 2nd Yorkshire (West Riding Regiment),
served in Ceylon from 1800 to 1807, and lost many
officers and men dm^ing the period, especially in the
Kandyan war of 1803.
" On the 6th of April a detachment of sick which
had left Candy on the 1st arrived in Colombo. In
this party was Lieutenant and Adjutant Abraham
Robinson of the 51st and Lieutenant Arthur Johnston
of the 19th. The former expired the following day ;
the latter went to sea and recovered " (to be after-
wards the hero of the retreat from Kandy in 1804).
(Cordiner, vol. II., p. 198.)
Lieutenant Robinson had also been Fort Adjutant
of Colombo before leaving with General Macdowal's
forces for Kandy.
" On the 11th of April 400 men of the 51st Regi-
ment appeared under arms at Colombo on their
arrival from Kandy. In little more than two months
three hundred of them were buried, having laid the
foundation of disease in the interior." (Captain
Johnston's " Narrative," pp. 90-1.)
Lieutenant Robinson's widow, EUzabeth, married
at Colombo, March 30, 1805, Quartermaster Thomas
Taylor of the Caffre Corps, who died at Trincomalee
in 1814. In October, 1816, No. 2, York street,
belonging to her, is advertised in the Gazette for sale.
( 82 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
293 .,
Date.
May 3
1803
Name.
Ann Young
294
May 5
1803
Edward Bullock
295
May 15
1803
David Blair
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Ann Young, wife of
Lieut, and Adjutant Young, H. M. 65th Regt.,
who died 3rd May, 1803, aged 26 years.
Lieutenant John Young was Quartermaster of the
detachment of the 65th at Colombo from December
28, 1802, and was appointed Adjutant on February
23, 1803.
Sacred to the memory of Edwabd Bullock, late
Captain in H. M. 65th Regt., died 5th May, 1803,
aged 37 years.
The Gazette of May 11, 1803, gives the date of his
death as "Wednesday, the 4th instant." On March
13 he was sent with fifty men of the Grenadier Com-
pany of the 66th and fifty Sepoys of the Ceylon Native
Infantry to Katadenia (Kotadeniyawa) via Negombo
to reheve that post. He was there joined by another
twenty-five men of the Grenadier Company. " Every
individual of the party was seized with the fever, one
after another, and sent down in boats to Colombo ;
and at the end of three weeks Captain Bullock was
the only European remaining at Fort Frederic. He
had received instructions to remove the stores by the
river and canal to Negombo, as it had been determined
to destroy and abandon this post, on account of the
extreme unhealthiness of the station. He exerted
himself with great spirit, and fell a sacrifice to the
service ; and at the end of one month from the
commencement of his march, Lieut. Hutchins and two
privates were the only persons of the party who
remained ahve. This officer recovered by going
immediately to sea, a total change of air being one of
the most successful remedies for this dreadful malady.
The sufferers of the 65th Regiment were all picked
men, about six feet high, and from eighteen to twenty-
three years of age ; they had orJy landed from the
Cape of Good Hope on the 2nd November, 1802.
The disease from which they suffered resembled in its
symptoms the yellow-fever of the West Indies, and
in general it baffled the skill of the physicians, and
resisted the power of medicine." (Cordiner, vol. H.,
pp. 193-4.) See also Captain Johnston in his "Narra-
tive," p. 90.
The site of the fort is now a teak plantation, with
a Public Works Department circuit bungalow in the
middle of it, on the road from Negombo to GiriuUa,
18 miles from the former. It is feverish at certain
times of the year.
This was the second officer lost by the detachment
of the 66th on service at Colombo in April-May, 1803.
(See No. 291.)
Sacred to the memory of Major David Blaib of the
Honourable the East India Company's Service,
Aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Honourable
Frederick North, Governor of Ceylon, Commissary
General of Grain and Provisions on that Island.
He died the 15th of May, 1803, aged 41 years.
A stone similar to Dr. Ewart's (No. 287) and cut
equally well, both material and workmanship being
far superior to the slabs found in modern cemeteries.
Captain Blair belonged to the 1st Madras Native
Infantry, and was A.D.C. to Governor North in
September, 1799. He joined the force which was
being organized to operate against the King of Kandy
on February 1, 1803. He was also " Barrack-Master
General on Ceylon."
Captain Anderson wrote some verses " On the
Death of Major Blair," which are contained in bis
book of " Poems written Chiefly in India," which he
published in 1809. These verses are deseribed by him
as " Written during a Time of Great Mortality from
the Jungle Fever," and are as follows : —
" Is not the tyrant weary yet ?
And must another blow
Fill every bosom with regret,
And lay the worthy low ?
( 83 )
Pettah Burial Ground— coni^?.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
295 ..
May 15 .
1803
. . David BXair—contd.
296
May 21
1803
Burton Gage Barbut
Inscription.
Oh , how the king of terrors must
Exult in such a prize !
Since he has level'd in the dust
The virtuous and the wise !
If upright conduct, spotless mind.
Integrity severe ;
If honour, worth, and truth combin'd.
May claim an honest tear !
Then we may surely weep for Blair,
Since Death's unerring dart,
Which never yet did mortal spare.
Ne'er piere'd a nobler heart !
To soothe our sorrows here below
Heaven sometimes deigns to send,
The richest gift it can bestow.
An ever-faithful friend !
When suddenly that friend is torn
From our admiring eyes.
In bitterness of soul we morn
The loss of such a prize ! "
Sacred to the memory of Bueton Gage Babbut,
Esquire, late Colonel in His Maj's Service, who
departed this life on the 21st May, 1803, in the
44th year of his Age , 29 of which he had passed
in the Service of the King.
A fine stone slab, about 8 ft. by 4 ft. , with the letter-
ing deeply out in a flowing hand.
He came over with the 73rd Regiment, which
had covered itself with glory at Seringapatam, and
was engaged with the 71st and 72nd in the oapttue,
successively, of Trincomalee, Point Pedro, Jaffna,
Mannar, and Calpentyn, in August-November, 1795.
In December of the year he was Commandant at
Jaffna. He was present at the capture of Colombo
in February, 1796, when he commanded the flank
companies of his regiment , which , according to Captain
Percival, " were foremost in giving the Malay Troops
fighting for the Dutch such a warm reception that
they soon retired very precipitately with great loss "
(pp. 91-2). After this he appears to have been on the
coast until June , when on the 1 7th , at Arnee he married
Miss Eliza Nixon, and he then retiu-ned to Jaffna as
Major and Commandant. From January to July,
1797, he was again at the coast, engaged part of the
time in seeing about a stallion and brood mares for
Delft. In October he was appointed ' ' Superintendent
of the Company's Stud at Delft and Two Brothers "
(Iranaittivu), and in the foUo^i^ing February " Collec-
tor of the Revenue and District of Jaffnapatam," on
the death of the first " Resident and Superintendent
of Revenue. ' ' He became Lieutenant-Colonel in July.
He was again at the coast in February, 1799. On
September 25 he was appointed, with Captain T. W.
Kerr and Lieutenant J. Yomig, on a commission " for
settling the Districts of Batticaloa, the Wanniya, &c. ,"
and during November he visited Cundaatje, Mannar,
and CalpentjTi, and in February, 1 800, MuUaittivu and
Batticaloa, no doubt on work connected with this com-
mission. He was also Deputy Quartermaster-General.
The 73rd was then at Poonamalle. In AprU, 1800,
he was at Mannar. On May 5 the commission made
its report and was dissolved. He paid a fourth visit
to the coast in February, 1801, returning on February
28, and on March 27 we find him urging on Govern-
ment " the necessity of the Civil Architect constructing
new tanks in the Wanny, " and undertaking to trans-
mit an account of the old tanks which may stand in
need of repair. At the same time he instructs the Civil
Architect that " new tanks are to be made at every
stage from Werteltivu to Kokalay, the whole of that
distance being without water. The repair of the old
tanks is to be commenced hereafter." (The Civil
Architect was Lieutenant Richard John Cotgrave,
R.E.) In April he was at Arippu engaged with the
Pearl Fishery. On July 12, 1802, he is encamped " at
the Dam on the Mossalie " (Musali), and is writing to
Govermnent on the subject of the regulations for the
management of Government forests, which had been
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
296 ..
May 21 .
1803
. Burton Gage Barbut
( 84 )
Pettah Burial Grovind—contd.
Inscription.
-coiitd. . . issued in December by the Board of Revenue, and
which he criticises. The cost of the establishment
which it will be necessary to maintain will be greater
than the revenue which will be derived from the sale of
timber, and it will be difficult to find suitable natives
for the office of " Muhandii-am of the Woods." He
advocates the export of timber, which should pay duty
at 30 per cent. , and not the entire prohibition of the
felling of timber. He had proved himself a useful
revenue officer, and Governor North in one of his
despatches speaks of "his assiduity, firmness, zeal,
and success," and on February 18, 1801, the title of
his ofifioe was changed to " Commissioner Extra-
ordinary of Revenue and Commerce for the Northern
Districts," which included the Wanni, Puttalam and
Calpentyn, Trincomalee and Batticaloa. When the
expedition against Kandy was organized at the begin-
ning of 1803, he was entrusted with the command of
a force consisting of one company of the Madras
Artillery, five companies of the 19th, the greater
portion of the Malay Regiment, and a complement of
lascars and pioneers, which was to proceed to Kandy
from Trincomalee. Accordingly he left Jaffna for
Trincomalee on January 14, marched from Trinco-
malee on February 4, was at Allettavely on the 9th,
Minneri on the 12th, " Gonavie " on the 13th, and on
the 14th at " Dalovoy," and expected to reach
Nalanda where ' ' the Dissave of Matola ' ' was supposed
to be posted in force. There is no record, however,
of any resistance, and on February 20 he reached
Watapuluwa, on the opposite bank of the Mahaweli-
ganga, and joined General Maodowal. Kandy was
occupied on the 21st. With the Malay Regiment he
met "the Rajah Moottoo Swamy " on the 22nd,
and proceeded to Kandy on the 24th or 25th. At
Minneri he had given orders for " the Candian Prince
Mootoo Swamy " to be sent to Candely* lake under
the charge of Captain von Drieberg. He is to be
taken into Trincomalee with the guard, if necessary.
Captain T. A. Anderson was one of the officers of the
19th who took part in this expedition, and his die^ry
is printed at the end of some of the copies of his
" Poems written Chiefly in India." On March 3
Barbut left Kandy with General Maodowal. On
March 31 he was appointed " Commissioner Extra-
ordinary and Plenipotentiary from Government to
the Court of Kandy." Macdowal returned with his
forces to Colombo, and Barbut proceeded to Damba-
deniya with Governor North, which they reached on
May 1. On the 4th he contracted fever there and
returned to Colombo on the 8th, dying a fortnight
later. It is said that at Dambaderuya he discovered
a plot against North by the Kandyans, which he
frustrated by getting him to return to Colombo.
There is no doubt that he was a very able offl.cer both
in his military and in his civil capacity. Peroival
refers to the many improvements introduced by him
into the Northern Districts. " His conduct has
rendered him equally esteemed by his coimtrymen
and the natives," and Governor North said of hitn,
as early as 1799, writing at " Arippo, September
3, 1799 : " Barbut is the only good Collector, but
he is alas not a Company's servant. Proved his
integrity after examination of a million of malicious
petitions against him." (WeUesley MSS., Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., p. 254.) From which it
appears that the malicious petition flourished then,
as it does now, in the Island. Mrs. Barbut had
left for Europe by the Bengal in the preceding
December. The executors of his estate were Sir
Eccles Nixon, Major-General in the Company's Ser-
vice, who, no doubt, was his father-in-law, Captain
Thomas William Kerr of the Ceylon Regiment, Cap-
tain John Campbell (of the 73rd), and Mrs. Elizabeth
Barbut. He had 200 lachams or about 8J acres of
land at Ilpecarwe (Iluppaikadavai), in the Maimar
District, and the executors were granted a lease of it
for 96 years " in consideration of the labour and
expense in clearing and rendering it fit for cultivation,
* Kantalai tank, 24 miles from Trincomalee.
( 85 )
Pettah Burial Ground— con^^^.
Serial No.
296 ..
Date.
May 21
1803
Name.
Burton Gage Bathut—contd.
297
Aug. 7
1803
Christianus Camp
298
1803
Jfr. Const
299
April 16
1804
Robert Riddel
N
Inscription,
which the late Colonel Barbut was at." Lusignan,
who had succeeded him as Collector, applied after his
death, in 1803, for leave " to piirchase a part of the
late Colonel Barbut's garden of 200 lachams survey-
extent for 2,012 rix-dollars 1 fanam," but evidently
this was not allowed. The following fact is interesting
in this connection: In 1905 I was at Iluppaikkad-
avai and met a youth called Joseph Barbut, who was
the last of that name in the village. He was to all
appearance a Tamil. The lands which were originally
Colonel Barbut's are called Pallanarikamani and
Pallavachchikamam, but this youth had no posses-
sion of them. This part of Iluppaikkadavai was
colonized by Portuguese and other European descen-
dants, who have still such names as Leanders, Spek,
Mackintyre, &c., but are to all intents and purposes
now Tamils. This has given its name to the river
close by, which is locally called " the Paranki-aru."
The lease expired in 1900, but I am sure no one in
Ceylon besides myself knew of its existence.
Barbut was assisted in his charge of the Northern
Districts by Frederic Gahagan, a Madras civilian,
who acted for him during his absences at the coast,
and who, we learn from the Wellesley MS., was
his cousin. Gahagan was appointed Acting Collector
of Jaffna, March 29, 1799; Assistant Collector at
Jaffna, October 29, 1799. He returned to Madras on
October 11, 1801, and died at Nellore, May 19, 1815.
(Cotton, p. 276.)
Geheiligd ter gedachtenis van den weleerw. en zeer gel.
Hear Christianus Camp in zyn Eerw. leeven S. S.
Th. Min. Cand. te Colombo.
Geb. te Amsterdam den 20 Maart, 1745. Overleeden
den 7 Augs., 1803, in den ouderdom van 58 jaaren
4 m. en 28 d.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 34.)
He married Catherina Bosch of Amsterdam.
Jfe. Const.
(Juffrouw Const.)
This refers, no doubt, to Maria Elizabeth Lochveld,
the wife of Severinus Kunst (Konst) of Stockholm,
the daughter, perhaps, of Jan Hendrick Lochveld of
Maagdenburg, Kwartier meester, Colombo.
RoBEET Riddel, late Lieutenant and Adjutant, His
Majesty's Caffre Corps, who departed this life
April 16th, 1804, aged 44 years.
His monument has apparently disappeared sine
1902, when a copy of the inscription appeared, amon
others from the Pettah burial ground, in an articl
contributed to the Madras Mail.
In June, 1802, he was at Matara in command, as
an Ensign of the Matara Independent Conipany. He
accompanied Captain Beaver's force from Matara to
the relief of Tangalla Fort, besieged by Kandyans,
which force arrived there on May 28, 1803. He was
left there with a considerable force of Europeans and
Sepoys. He was thanked for his assistance on this
occasion by Captain Beaver. Mr. John D'Oyly was
with Captain Beaver as a volunteer, and was
also thanked. On September 10 Ensign Riddell
marched from Tangalla to Hambantota, arriving there
next day. He found the garrison there under Ensign
Pendergast in a state of blockade from August 23.
The Kandyans were repulsed, and Ensign Pendergast
thanked. Ensign Riddel was transferred from the
Matara Independent Company to the Caffre Corps on
November 6, no doubt as a reward for his services.
His only daughter, Caroline, married at Colombo,
June 16, 1812,Worthington Thomas Gylby, Assistant
Surgeon, 4th Ceylon Regiment (the Caffre Corps), to
which post he had been appointed from the rank of
Hospital Mate, August 30, 1810. The name is foim.d
spelt " Riddel" and " Riddell." Judging from their
ages. Lieutenant 'Riddel and Adjutant Robinson
(No. 292) had risen from the ranks.
82-09
( 86 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
ierial No.
Date.
Name.
300 ..
Nov. 8 .
1807
. Child of John Wilson
301
1806
1808
North Wemyss Twisleton
Caroline Twisleton
302
Aug. 31
1809
Lewis Gibson
303
Sept. 23
1809
Arnoldina Johanna Laughton
Inscription.
Hie manent iterum revivescere reliquiae infantis
filiffi Chiliarchi Joannis Wilson, Q.M.G., Qu«
non ad hunc mundum, ad gloriam autem et caeli
beatitudinem nata prima die vitse mortalis periit.
Novembris octava A.D.
MDCCCVII.
An infant daughter of Lieutenant-Coloael John
Wilson, who was appointed Deputy Quartermaster-
General in Ceylon, July 25, 1805, from the half pay
of the 5th Garrison Battalion, and arrived with his
wife, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, in the Windham, which
also brought the new Governor, Sir Thomas Maitland.
He was afterwards Colonel of the 4th Ceylon, and
Brigadier-General in Ceylon (November 23, 1810).
He administered the Government as Lieutenant-
Governor from the departure of Sir T. Maitland to
the arrival of General Brownrigg, March 19, 1811, to
March 10, 1812.
Thomas Maitland, son of Lieutenant-Colonel John
Wilson and Margaret, his wife, was baptized at St.
Peter's, Fort, April 15, 1806. Colonel Wilson died in
England, January 18, 1818. He is not to be confounded
with Maj or-General Sir John Wilson , who administered
the Government in 1831, or with Major John Wilson,
Barrack Master-General, who died at Colombo in 1809,
NoKTH Wbmyss, died 1806, and Caboline, who died
in 1808, two infant children of the Hon. and Revd.
T. J. Twisleton and Anna, his Wife.
Vitse summa brevis, his brevissijna !
(See No. 13.)
The boy was called after the Governor, the Hon.
Frederick North, and the Maj or- General at Colombo,
David Douglas Wemyss, 1804-5.
Here lie the remains of Lewis Gibson, infant son of
Lewis and Caroline Gibson. Born 19th and died
the 31st August, 1809.
Lewis Gibson was a brother of William Carmichael
Gibson, and was Agent of Revenue at Matara under
George Gregory of the East India Company's Service,
who was successively Collector of Revenue at Galle and
Colombo in 1799-1801. Later Gibson was Deputy
Paymaster and Garrison Storekeeper at Galle, and
retired January 1, 1814. He married at Galle on
November 20, 1806, CaroUne Bethia Layard, sister
of Charles Edward Layard (see No. 47). The
marriage was celebrated by the Rev. W. H. Heywood
on special license from the Governor, Sir Thomas
Maitland, who was himseK present. The register
containing the entry of this marriage was lost at sea
with the Rev. W. H. Heywood in 1809 (p. 1), and in
consequence James Maitland made affidavit before
the Rev. T. J. Twisleton, as J. P. and Sitting Magis-
trate, in 1812, that he had been present at the
marriage, and Twisleton certified that he had seen the
original entry. This James Maitland was probably
Sir Thomas Maitland's " Clerk." He had a clerk of
that name, but there was another James Maitland in
the Civil Service, who was, in 1806, Assistant to the
Accountant-General. Lewis Gibson was the father of
William Charles Gibson and Thomas Lewis Gibson of
the Civil Service (see No. 147).
Sacred to the Memory of Arnoldina Johanna db
Ly , wife of Geoege Laughton , Esq. , Master Atten-
dant of this port, who died 23rd Sept., 1809, in the
27th year of her age, leaving a disconsolate
husband, who with three children, together with
her aged parents, has to deplore the loss of the
most affectionate of Wives, the tenderest of
Mothers, the most dutiful of Daughters, and, from a
life of unaffected piety, virtue, and benevolence,
was deeply regretted by all who knew her.
The Wolvendaal register records the burial on
September 24 of " De Housvrouw Van den Engelsche
Compagnye Meester Lotten." Her sister, Dorothea
Agatha, married (1) Captain J. W. Young, R.N., (2)
( «7 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
303 ..
Sept. 23 .
1809
. Arnoldina Johanna Laughton
amtd.
304
March 29
1811
Seraphina Sansony
305
306
June 4:
1811
Sept. 23
1811
Abraham Gordon
Barbara Theodora de Jong
307
Dec. 12
1811
James Scratchley
Inscription.
- Captain Edward Lockyer , 1 9th Regiment. They were
daughters of Andreas Edwardus de Ly, Onderkoop-
man of Galle. Mrs. Laughton had a son at Colombo,
Aug. 28, 1804. G. Laughton married (2) at Colombo,
eight months after the death of his first wife, Eliza-
beth, widow of Major Hilliard, 89th Regiment, who
had died at Colombo on April 29, 1811. "Captain
George Laughton " was a merchant in Jaffna in 1802,
trading in tobacco, and with the Hon. George
Turnour, also a Jaffna merchant at the time, and
two Dutchmen, Messrs. Verwyck and KJ?oon, signed
a memorial to the Board of Revenue asking for certain
concessions, which was unsuccessful. In May, 1800,
he was acting as Master Attendant, Colombo ; in Octo-
ber of the same year he was Customs Master there ; a
year later he was acting in a similar capacity at Galle,
and it was during this period, no doubt, that he
contracted his first marriage. He was again acting
as Master Attendant at Colombo in December, 1802.
In 1803he was Acting Commissioner of Grain and Pro-
visions. He retired as Master Attendant, Colombo,
January 1, 1814, and was Kving up to 1839 or 1840.
His name disappears from the " Ceylon Almanac "
in 1841.
Geheyligd ter gedagtenis van Seraphina Sansony.
GeboorendenO Decembr., 1801. Overleeden 29th
Maart, 1811, oud 9 jaaren 3 maanden en 20
dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIIL, p. 53.)
She was the daughter of Dr. Joseph Sansony and
Johanna Dorothea Julia Wilhelmina Schorer, widow
of Samuel Pieter Foenander of Calmar in Sweden, and
daughter of Jan Willem Schorer of Middleburg, Chief
of Trincomalee, by his second wife Juliana Cornelia
Lebeck.
Sacred to the memory of Abraham Gordon, late of
His Majesty's Ordnance, who died June 4, 1811.
His widow Susanna married, six months after his
death, J. O. Thibeaudo, also of the Ordnance (see
No. 314). The latter was one of the administrators of
his estate.
Sacred to the memory of Barbara Theodora Hinc-
KBL, wife of C. A. DE Jong, who died on the 23rd
September, 1811, aged 19 years.
Barbara Theodora Hinckel was the first wife of
Casparus Adrianus de Jong, the son of Barent de
Jong, boekhouder, and Helena Petronella Witz. Bar-
bara Theodora Hinckel was no doubt the daughter
of George Philip Hinckel of Marsenheim and Anna
Maria Handel of Colombo.
Jambs, infant son of James and Maria Scratch-
ley. He departed this life the 12th December,
1811, aged 13 days.
James Scratchley was Assistant Surgeon, R.A.,
Colombo, 1806, and subsequently Surgeon of the
" Troop of Light Dragoons " at Colombo (1814-1818).
He was a son of James Scratchley of Winterslow near
Salisbury, an officer in the Army, and was at Harrow
School at the same time as Lord Pakaerston, with
whom he made a life-long friendship. He married at
Colombo, July 18, 1810, Maria Roberts, a daughter of
Lieutenant C. W. L. Roberts, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
She had a daughter born at Colombo on January 13,
1813. He was, on leaving the Island on February 20,
1818, presented with an address ' ' by the numerous and
respectable body of Burghers of the Town of Colombo ,' '
in which he was eulogized "for his readiness to aid
and succour the afilicted, and the kind attention and
pleasing manner with which he had invariably treated
his patients." He and his family left by the Mary,
transport, on March 6. His youngest son, born August
24, 1835, became Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley,
Special Commissioner of New Guinea. He died on
December 2, 1885. James Scratchley was bom in
1783. He died at Paris, of cholera, on Jime 15, 1849.
( 88 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
erial No.
Date.
Name.
308 ..
Feb. 21
. . Christian Wilhelm Suther-
1812
land
309
Nov. 23
1185
Archibald McCreevy
310
June 5
1816
March 12
1817
Andrew O'Shea
Henry O'Shea
311
Aug. 21
1816
George Gunn
312
Sept. 28
1817
Margaret Conway
313
Jan. 19
1818
Abraham White
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Christian Wilhelm, the
son of Mr. Daniel Stttheeland, born 27th March,
1794, died the 21st February, 1812.
Daniel Sutherland was Master of the Sloop Oertruyda
from 1808 (or earlier) to 1812. In the Gazette of
April 22, 1812, he advertises for sale the Qertruyda,
riding at Colombo. She was a brig, and trading
between Tuticorin and Colombo.
He himself was buried ia the Pettah cemetery,
April 11, 1813. Judging from this son's names, lus
wife was Dutch or German.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Archibald
McCreevy, late of H. M.'s 73rd Regt., who died
23rd Nov., 1815, aged 28 years.
He died ' ' after a short but most severe iUness of
the Yellow Fever." His " amiable and prepossessing
manners had marked him to his Brother OfiScers as a
most promising Military character. To his family and
friends it will be a consolation that his life though
short had been in the strongest manner uniformly
Moral and Religious." {Gazette, November 16, 1816.)
He joined May 9, 1810.
Andrew, son of Lieut. O'Shea, H.M. 19th Regt.
He was bom on 27th May, 1815, died 5th June,
1816.
Also to the memory of Henry, infant son of Lieut.
O'Shea. He died on the 12th March, 1817, aged
8 days.
Lieutenant O'Shea joined the 1 9th as Ensign, June 1,
1808 ; Lieutenant, June 15, 1810 ; married Eliza, 2nd
daughter of Lieutenant C. W. L. Roberts, whose sister
had married Assistant Surgeon Scratchley (see No. 307)
at Colombo, August 10, 1813. He was Deputy Assist-
ant Commissary at Hambantota in May, 1816.
Captain O'Shea was killed in the first Burmese war.
His eldest son, Andrew Charles Byng, was buried at
Kandy on June 6, 1816, by the Rev. George Bisset.
Another son, Rodney Payne, became a Captain in the
army, and married a daughter of Sir Lucius Curtis,
Bart. Their son is Professor of Chemistry at Sheffield
University. Mrs. O'Shea died at Croydon in 1877.
Sacred to the memory of the late George Gtjnn,
watch-maker of Colombo, who departed this life
on the 21st day, August, a.d. 1816, aged 57 years,
leaving a wife and 7 children to lament his loss.
A Mr. Wilham Gunn died at Colombo, September
11,1827, aged 28 , probably a son. It may have been
a daughter of the latter who married Mr. J. W.
Brett at Colombo on October 11, 1843. J. W. Brett
died on board the Jemina on September 9, 1853.
Sacred to the memory of Margaret, late wife of
Lieut, and Adjut. Conway, 3rd Ceylon Regt.
Departed this Ufe 28th Sept., 1817, aged 37 years
6 months.
The register of St. Peter's makes her " BKza."
Lieutenant Samuel (or James) Conway lost no time in
marrying again. On December 6, 1817, he married
Mary Gimn, widow, at Colombo — possiblv the widow
of No. 311. ■^
She opened a school for boys and girls at house
No. 8, Hospital street, on July 15, 1822. This school
was attended by, among others. Sir Richard Morgan.
She died June 6, 1829. Lieutenant Conway was
Garrison Sergeant-Major of Bombay, when on May 1,
1814, he was appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Ceylon,
with rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
Sacred to the memory of Abraham White, Esq.,
late Surgeon of His Majesty's 1st Ceylon Regi-
ment, aged 36 years.
" The sickness which led to his death was occasioned
by bemg exposed during the greater part of the day
m gomg to a ship in sight of this Fort, where Medical
aid was required, and returning thence in very severe
weather on the night of the 9th instant. The
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
313 .
Jan. 19
1818
. . Abraham White-
K 89 )
Pettah Burial Ground — contd.
Inscription.
-contd. . . untimely fate of this valuable member of Society,
always forward in the performance of acts of humanity,
will long be regretted by his Friends and the Poor
of this place, to whose summons he always attended,
and whose distresses he readily relieved. What then
must be the poignant feeling of his afflicted Widow,
left in distressed circumstances with 7 children, still
too young to know or appreciate the extent of their
loss, or the cause of their STHviving parent's sufferings."
{Gazette, January 24, 1818.)
He came out to Ceylon as Assistant Surgeon in the
66th Regiment, and was appointed Medical Store-
keeper, Trincomalee, December 30, 1807, and to
the charge of Jaffna, April 1, 1811. He married at
Jaffna, June 13, 1807, Theodora Elizabeth, daughter
of Captain F. W. von Drieberg.
A son of his, J. C. White, was one of the earliest
planters in Ceylon, and had charge of the first coffee
estate, Sinhepitiya, Gampola. He was living at
Auckland, New Zealand, in 1899. He was born at
Jaffna, and was taken to England, along with an elder
brother, by his father in 1815, at the age of six. He
attributes the death of his father to "yellow fever
caught in attending upon a vessel which put into
Colombo for medical advice," but he is evidently
incorrect as to the cause of death, as yellow fever
is not known in Ceylon. C. E. Layard, C.C.S., who
" lived at Bagatelle, a little beyond the Cinnamon
Garden," and had " a fine country residence at
Caltm-a," was his guardian. He and his brother had
been promised commissions by the Duke of York for
his father's services. The elder brother received a
commission in the 38th Regiment, was transferred
to the 44th, and was Adjutant of the regiment when
it was stationed at Cabul, and fell in the Khyber Pass
during the fatal retreat of the British in 1841-2,
when only one man saved his Ufe, Dr. Bryden. J. C.
White retixrned to Ceylon in 1825, and was at Ham-
bantota next year staying with his uncle Captain C.
Drieberg, when this officer and his wife both died of
fever the same day, October 8, 1826. He gave up his
planting appointment in 1839 and went to Australia,
entered the service of the Australian Agricultural
Company, and in 1899 had been resident in Australia
for sixty years. A yoionger brother, George, was
bom at Jaffna, August 30, 1812, but what became of
him I do not know. Mr. J. C. White says : " Sir
Edward Barnes and Lady Barnes took an interest in
my sisters, who were often invited to the country
residence at Mount Lavinia. ' ' ( Ceylon Literary Regis-
ter, vol. v., pp. 194—6.) The yomigest sister, Susan,
married Edward Maltby, August 18, 1834. He was
Sub-Collector of Customs, Mannar, 1843-4, and had
his quarters in the Mannar Fort, and included in them
the building now known as Christ Church, which is
described, in the Colombo Observer of 1844, as "a
consecrated building since the time of the Dutch."
Complaint is made by a correspondent that "the
pulpit is now used in securing provisions, and the
permanent communion table is now used as a place
for keeping sundries belonging to the family."
(Colombo Observer, April 11, 1844.) Sir William
Twynam recollects this state of affairs with regard
to the church. E. Maltby was afterwards in the
Telegraph Department.
314 . . Feb. 22 . . Christie Isabella Ross . . Here lie the remains of the once interesting but
1818 unfortunate Ckeistie Isabella Ross, who died
22nd February, 1818, aged 17 years and 10
months.
Mourn not my Brothers and Sisters dear,
The time will come when you'll lie here.
Prepare my friends for die you must,
And hke your sister sleep in dust.
In what way she was " unfortunate " appears from
the baptismal register of St. Pete 's Church, Fort,
Colombo, which records the baptism on February 28,
1818, of Joseph Ross, son of Joseph Oliver Thibeaude
(Civil Ordnance) by Christie Isabella Ross, deceased,
bom February, 1818.
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Serial No.
314 . ,
Date.
Feb. 22
1818
Name.
Christie Isabella Ross — contd.
Inscription.
315
316
March 2
1818
March 7
1818
Oct. 13
1827
A. J. Bolhard
Petronella Elizabeth Marselis
Christina Elizabeth Mar-
selis
317
May 15
1818
Mary Traachell
318
April 22
1820
Thomas George Cleather
319
July 26
1820
William Henry Cleather
I have been unable to trace the parentage of the
unfortunate girl herself. The Wolvendaal register
merely has the entry " Het lyk van de yonge juffrow
Ros."
J. O. Thibeaudo or Tibeaudo was Storekeeper in the
Civil Ordnance Department at Colombo. He married,
December 18, 1811, "Susanna Gordon, widow,"
whom I take to have been the widow of Abraham
Gordon of the Ordnance (No. 305), and a daughter,
Julia, was baptized at St. Peter's, April 19, 1814. He
and his family left Ceylon by the hired transport
Regalia in April, 1818. He died at Banagher, King's
County, Ireland, in 1844.
Richard William Thibeaudo was Storekeeper of the
Ordnance Department in 1830.
Hier onder legt begn. de burger A. J. Bolhakd oud
45 jaaren 3 maanden. Overl. den 2 Maart, 1818.
(Journal, R.AS., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 37.)
Hier onder legt begraven Petronella Elizabeth
Maeselis. Geb. den 24ste. Dec, 1816. Overl.
den 7de Maart, 1818.
en
Cheistina Elizabeth Ketel huisvrouw van Johan-
nes Marselis. Gteb. den 15de Novr., 1783.
Overl. den 13de Octr., 1827.
(Ihid., vol. XVIII., p. 52.)
She was most likely a daughter of Michael Fredrik
Ketel of Colombo. She was second wife of Johannes
Marselis, Third Surgeon, whom she married on May
4, 1810. His first wife was Gertuida Jansz, whom
he married on April 30, 1797.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Tkanchell.
Died 15th May, 1818, aged 21 years 10 months.
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 255; vol. XVII., p. 25.)
" On Friday, the 15th instant, at Colombo, where she
had been for a few days for the benefl.t of medical
advice, the lady of John Tranchell, Esq., Sitting
Magistrate of Negombo. Mrs. Tranchell was greatly
and deservedly respected while living by her numer-
ous friends, who now sincerely lament the mournful
stroke of affliction which so early in life has removed
her from an affectionate husband and three small
children, the youngest only five weeks old." {Gazette.)
She was a daughter of Captain Selway, 89th Regi-
ment, and married John (alias Pieter Cornells Johan-
nes) Tranchell in 1814. Her sister, Elizabeth,
married his brother. Lieutenant Gustavus Adolphus
Tranchell, 3rd Ceylon, in October, 1813. Her
daughter, Mary Harriet, bom in 1817, married (1) in
1834 Sergeant, afterwards Lieutenant, J. A. Shaw,
61st Regiment, at Trincomalee in 1834; and (2) Mr.
Justice Hayes. John and Gustavus Adolphus were
sons of Johannes Tranchell of Romelanda in Sweden,
who died in 1805, and his wife Maria Magdalena
Sievertsz, who died at Trincomalee also in 1818 (see
under " Trincomalee ").
Sacred to the memory of Thos. G. Cleathee, son
of Capt. W. H. Cleathee by Amelia, his wife, who
died on the 22nd of April, 1820, in the 7th year of
his age.
With pious confidence beyond his years.
His dying thoughts betray no childish fears.
He said, repeating a fond parent's prayer,
God, receive my soul into Thy care.
In memory of William Henry Cleathee, a Captain
in His Majesty's 1st Ceylon Eegt., who departed
this life on the 26th day of Julj , 1820, aged 37
years.
Gentle and firm, affectionate and brave,
A soldier, a Christian fills this grave.
Of steadfast honour, and of maimers kind.
Unshaken truth and independent mind..
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Serial No.
319 ..
Date.
July 26
1820
Name.
William Henry Cleather — contd.
Inscription.
Him a loved partner and dear children mourn ;
By fell disease from their embraces torn,
As husband, father, friend, he felt the rod.
But for himself bow'd meekly to his God.
Captain Cleather was in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment,
and from May 1, 1807, was Fort Adjutant at Galle,
where, on December 17 the same year, he married
Amelia Loodan. Sm-geon Michael Reynolds of the
Malay Regiment, formerly of the 51st, was one of
the witnesses. He was Fort Adjutant of Jaffna from
July 1, 1808, till January 22, 1810, when he took up the
similar appointmient at Colombo, which he held until
March 31, 1811. He joined the 4th Ceylon, Novem-
ber 11, 1810. He was transferred to the 3rd Ceylon,
February 22, 1816, on the disbandment of the 4th
Ceylon, and to the 1st Ceylon, February 25, 1817, on
the disbandment of the 3rd Ceylon. He took part in
the operations in Uva in November in 1 8 1 8 , and was in
charge of the post at Ahapola diiring Colonel Kelly's
absence at Badulla in January, 1818, marched to
Usanwella, May 10, arrived at Colombo, July 2.
" His residence in the jungles of Wellassy and labo-
rious march appear to have agreed with him, for we
never saw him apparently in better health." In
August he was employed in destroying villages on the
right bank of the Maha-oya. He was at Hanguran-
keta with Colonel Hardy on September 2. He sallied
out next day with twenty men, and within half a mile
of the fort attacked a body of the enemy, which soon
fled. He was " in the neighbourhood of Hanguran-
keta composing everything in the Province of Hewa-
hetty," then marched to Panella, and was there on
October 19, found everything satisfactory, moved on
on October 20 towards Wiyaluwa, intending to cross
the Kin?imdu-oya and the Uma-oya, and to join
Major Macdonald at Happatagama on 21st. He was
at Kandy in November, and acted as Judge Advocate-
General at the court-martial on Kepitipola and
Pilame Talawwa and other Kandyan prisoners. He
was, no doubt, a son of "Thomas Cleather, Esq.,"
whose death at Plymouth on February 25, 1819,
aged sixty-four, is announced by an obituary notice
in the Gazette, in which he is described as " a truly
virtuous, upright, and honourable man, universally
beloved and respected. As a mark of the veneration
and esteem in which he was held, both in his native
town and neighbourhood, his remains were followed
to the grave by no less than fifty gentlemen." It is
also annoimced that his widow, Mrs. A. Cleather,
died at the same place on March 18, aged forty-
three. The Misses E. and M. Cleather had left
for England by the ViUoria on January 1 of that
year.
320
Feb. 15
1822
William Bell
Sacred to the memory of William Bell, son of Lieut.
Jas. Bell, who died on the 15th February, 1822,
aged 6 years 7 months.
James Bell was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in
Baillie's Regiment {3rd Ceylon), March 28, 1806;
transferred to 2nd Ceylon Regiment as 1st Lieutenant,
April 25, 1815 ; was Commandant of Nalanda in 1816,
and of Hettimulla, 1817; Assistant Engineer, Pioneer
Corps, February 1, 1820.
321
Aug. 27
1824
John Litson
Sacred to the memory of Johk Litson, commander of
the Ship Thames, who departed this life on the
27th day of August, 1824.
There appears to have been a family of this name in
Ceylon about this time. Mary Ann, aged 3| years,
daughter of Thomas Litson, Esq. , and Sarah, his wife,
wereburiedat Jaffna, January 5, 1828. The Thames
left Cowes on February 22, and arrived at Colombo
June 30, 1824, bringing Government stores and
recruits for the European regiments. Captain
Litson died at the house of Messrs. Boyd and
Holland.
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Serial No.
322 ..
Date.
April 9
1826
Name.
Mary Morris
323
324
Nov. 2
1826
June 12
1827
Junias Bumsted
Susanna Margareta Camp.
325
April 22
1829
Georgiana Harriet Fermier
326
Nov. 10
1830
William Gibson
327
Feb. 4
1831
Jacob Anthon Muller
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Maey, eldest daughter of
Major MoEEis,' 97th Regt., who departed this life
April 9th, 1826, aged nineteen years and a half.
Six service companies of the 97th were stationed at
Colombo in 1826. Major William Morris was senior
Captain, Major Haddock coming next. He entered
the army June 4, 1814 ; Captain, March 25, 1824.
Sacred to the memory of Junias Btjmsted, late
commander of the schooner Mary, who died 2nd
November, 1826, aged 25 years.
Hier rust mejuffrouw Susa. Maega. Camp geb von
Hagt tedergehefd en deugd zaame echtgenoote
van den Heer Joannes Camp. G«booren den 13
May, 1772 : overleeden den 12 Juny, 1827.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 34.)
They were married at Colombo on October 4,
1795. She was the daughter of Arent von Hagt and
Susanna Maria Cheval, and granddaughter of
Augustus von Hagt of Hamburg and Margarita
Verlangen of Colombo. She had been married first
to Pieter Johan MuUer.
G-EOEGiANA Habbiet, Daughter of the late Dr.
Fbemiee. Bom 29th April, 1814, died 22nd
April, 1829, aged 15 years.
Dr. Fermier was at Trincomalee in 1823 as Medical
Sub-Assistant, and is mentioned in Surgeon W. H,
Young's diary as having been one of the medical men
who attended Quartermaster Hall in his last illness.
When and where Dr. Fermier died does not appear.
Possibly he was the " Dr. F., a friend of mine" — of
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell. (Ceylon Literary Re-
gister, vol. II., p. 327.)
Sacred to the memory of William Gibson, formerly
Master Attendant at Trincomalee, died lOth
November, 1830, aiged 37 years.
" At the house of Mr. Read, near Colombo, on the
10th instant, after a long and very painful illness,
William Gibson, Esqr. , Assistant Customs Master of
Jaffnapatam and formerly Master Attendant of
Trincomalee, aged 37 years. His amiable disposition
and agreeable manners endeared him to all who had
the pleasiore of his acquaintance." (Gazette, Novem-
ber 27, 1830.)
He was Assistant Customs Master at Jaffna, 1828-
1830. He was not apparently related to WiUiam
Carmichael Gibson. Mr. Joseph Read was a partner
in the firm of W. C. Gibson & Co. , which Bennett refers
to in 1843 as " the oldest commercial firm in the
Island." He says of Read, the surviving partner : —
" Joseph Read, Esq., who resides at Colombo, than
whom few, if any, are better acquainted with the
internal and external commerce of the Colony, is an
admirable specimen of the old British merchant,
combining with every quality that can fix confidence,
and ensure esteem, the most genuine Caledonian
hospitality, for which, distingmshed as his countrymen
are everywhere (and where they are not it is next to
an impossibility to discover), Mr. Readmay perhaps be
equalled, but cannot be excelled." (Bennett, p. 159.)
" This Prince of Ceylon Merchants had a large and
commodious house uison the hill overlooking the bay "
(p. 33). This is no doubt the hiU above the resthouse
at Weligama. He was, with George Hay Boyd and
J. HiQebrand, one of the first unofficial members of
the Legislative Council, appointed in 1834.
Hier onder rust 't leyk van Jacob Anthon Mullee
iu zyn leven chirurgyn te Tutucoryn. Geboren
28 May, 1743, overleeden 4 Feb., 1831, oud 87
jaaren 8 maanden en 8 daagen.
Below rests the body of Jacob Anton MtrLLEE,in his
life-time Surgeon of Tutucorin.born 28 May, 1743,
died 4Feb. , 1831 , aged 87 years 8 months and 8days.
There was a Jacob Anton Muller (son of John
WUlem Muller and Sara Cornelia Maas) baptized at
Tuticorin, July 20, 1755.
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Serial No.
Date.
328 ..
June 5
1836
Dec. 22
1834
Name.
Dieterick Cornells Fretz .
Andreas Wilhelmus Fretz
329
March 4
1837
Oct. 20
1852
April 17
1859
June 6
1860
Feb. 14
1871
Samuel Stuart Curgenven
Fredrlch Ludulg Straube .
Theodore Lavaliere
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Dieteeick Coenelis
Febtz, bom 6th May, 1787, died 5th June, 1836,
and Ms son Andreas Wilhelmus Febtz, bom 23rd
January, 1816, died 22nd December, 1834.
Dieterick Cornells Fretz (born at Matara, May 6,
1787, baptized at Colombo, August 5, 1787) was the
son of the last Commandeur of Galle , Dieterick Thomas
Fretz of St. Goar (Hesse Nassauw) and Cornelia
Reyniera van Sanden of Jaffna. His son Andreas
Wilhelmus, born at Colombo, January 23, 1816, and
baptized there March 17, 1816, was the child of his
third marriage (June 22, 1814) with Johanna Ger-
truida Wilhelmina Mottau.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 240, 269.)
This tablet was erected to the memory of Samuel
Stuaet Curgenven, died March 4, 1837.
Frbdeich Luduig Straube, died October 20th,
1852.
Theodore Lavalieee, died April 17th, 1859.
Charlotte Eugenie Curgenven Charlotte Eugenie Curgenven, died June 6th,
1860.
Charles Richard Curgenven Charles Richard Curgenven, died Febmary 14th,
1871.
S. S. Curgenven was Storekeeper of H.M.'s Naval
Yard, or, as he was at first called. Naval Officer at
Trincomalee, from 1822. He married, March 23, 1822,
atTrincomalee, Charlotte Eugenie, daughter of Jean
Martin Lavalliere. He died at Colombo, aged 46.
His daughter, Clara, married at St. Peter's, Colombo,
on July 28, 1842, in her sixteenth year (born at Galle,
June 12, 1827), Edward Himae Smedley, C.C.S., who
was a first cousin of the novelist , Frank Smedley. His
eldest daughter, Winifred, married F. L. Straube, who
was a merchant at Colombo, 1846-1852, and was for
some time a planter on Delta estate, Pussellawa.
Another daughter, Eugenie Elizabeth, married, Octo-
ber 23, 1845, Thomas Chandler Power, C.C.S., and a
third, Eveline Theodora, married Lieutenant WiUiam
Harper Mytton, R.A. , on January 20, 1853, atKandy.
Lieutenant Mytton was a brother of Jack Mytton
of Halston, the sportsman, who set fire to himself to
ciu-e the hiccough. (See " Life of Jack Mytton" and
" Highways and BjTvays in North Wales," by A. G.
Bradley, p. 432.) -Charles Richard Curgenven was a
son of Samuel Steuart, and was in the Civil Service,
1861-1871 : Police Magistrate, Avisawella, January
1, 1861-5; Police Magistrate Jaffna, 1868; and was
Assistant Government Agent at Mullaittivu, 1867-8.
At the time of his death he was Assistant Government
Agent, Colombo. He married Catherine Lydia,
daughter of Captain James Stewart, C.R.R., at
Colombo, May 20, 1861. Another son, Samuel
I Lavalliere, was gazetted Ensign in the 37th Regi-
ment, July 9, 1853, retired as Captain, and died
about 20 years ago. A story of the Curgenven family
and their connection with the Madras Presidency,
which began in 1699, is told by Mrs. F. Penny in her
book " On the Coromandel Coast," pp. 93-6. The
first member of the family who came to India, Thomas
Curgenven, a free merchant of Madras, was taken
prisoner by the pirate Angria, " Admiral to the Sou
Raja,* then at war with the Enghsh at Bombay,"
on a voyage from Surat to Bombay, and served as a
galley slave at the oar for five years, but eventually
escaped to England, where he died, in 1729, at
Walthamstow. " He was the son of William Curgen-
ven, a gentleman of good family in Cornwall." His
uncle, the Rev. Thomas Curgenven, Rector of
Folke, Dorsetshire, married a sister of Thomas Pitt,
the Governor of Fort St. George (1698-1709) and great
aunt of Lord Chatham. Theodore LavaUiere was
a son of Jean Marie LavaUiere, who was Sitting
Magistrate and Customs Master, Negombo, 1815,
* Or, to use the delightful old " Qui Hye's" spelling, the " Sow Roger.'
82-09
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Serial No.
329 ..
Date.
March 4
1837, &c.
Name.
Samuel Stuart Curgenven,
&e. — contd.
330
July 11
1837
Anne Whitfield
331
May 3
1838
Elizabeth Rudd
332
Feb. 18
1841
Frederika Antoinetta Roos-
maleeocq
Inscription,
succeeding T. R. Backhouse, C.C.S., and afterwards
Assistant Customs Master, Galle; Customs Master
and Sitting Magistrate, Hambantota, 1826. He died
May 10, 1831. Theodore was in the Civil Service
from 1831, when he became Sitting Magistrate of
GaUe (January 3) , and ditto of Pantura (September 1 ),
From 1833 to 1836 he was Assistant Collector of
Customs, Jaffna, and from 1836 (May I) to 1840
District Judge of The Islands ; from 1841 to 1846
District Judge of Colombo, No. 4 (Caltura) ; from 1846
to 1848 Acting District Judge of Colombo ; and from
1852 to his death District Judge of Kandy. While
District Judge of Kalutara a duel was arranged
between him and Lieutenant Remmett, C.R.R., to
be fouglit on July 30, 1842, but the Superintendent
of Police arrived on the spot just as the principals
were placed. Lavalliere's second was T. L. Gibson,
who was then acting as District Judge of Colombo,
and Remmett's was Lieutenant Gwilt, C.R.R.
Sacred to the memory of Anne, daughter of C. T.
Whitfield, Esq., Surgeon, Royal Artillery, who
departed this life the 11th day of July, 1837,
aged 14 years.
C. T. Whitfield was Assistant Surgeon, R.A., 1818.
He came out by the Svrat-Casfle wliich left England
December 10, 1817, and arrived at Trincomalee,
May 18, 1818. He was then 'an Assistant Surgeon.
He was, in addition, Superintendent of the Vaccine
EstabUshment at Colombo, 1827. I am inclined to
think that " 1837 " should be 1827, for I cannot
find that Surgeon Whitfield was in Ceylon in 1838.
In memory of Mrs. E. Rudd, who died May 3,
1838, aged 35 years.
Henry Rudd married at Colombo, December 20,
1817, Elizabeth Briggs, by whom he had a son, Henry,
who married Emma Piachaud, and had by her three
sons, H. P. and Louis, planters, and Walter, late
Colonial Surgeon of Jaffna, and several daughters, two
of whom married well-known planters (C. Spearman
Armstrong and T. C. Owen). H. Rudd senior's young-
est daughter, Angelina, married, 27th December,
1849, John Stephens of Kurunduwatta, also a well-
known planter in his day, and his daughter, Lucinda,
married James Strachan, founder of the Colombo
firm of Carey, Strachan & Co. The Strachans'
daughter, Alice, married Lawrence St. George Carey,
one of the principal coffee estate proprietors of the
seventies. H. Rudd's nephew, William Rudd, was
assistant to George Bird, the first coffee planter, on
Sinhepitiya estate, Gampola, the first coffee estate,
and afterwards himself an estate proprietor.
pREDEEiKA Antoinetta Roosmalecocq, wife of
Robert Roosmalecocq. Born 17th September,
1801. Died 18th February, 1841.
Erected by her sorroAAdng husband.
Sh^ was a daughter of Andreas WUhehnus Mottau
of Wezel by Ehzabeth PetroneUa Kofferman, and
married Robert Carl Roosmalecocq on September 17,
1821. Their son was Andrew Henry Roosmalecocq,
C.C.S., 1845-1883, who died in 1896. He had a son,
Gerard Charles Roosmalecocq, C.C.S., 1872-1896.
Robert Carl was second son of Petrus Jacobus by
his marriage, in 1783, with Susarma Henrietta Leem-
bruggen, was baptized at Galle on September 29,
1799, and died at Galle on April 19, 1852.
Andreas Wilhelmus Mottau was born in 1771 and
died at Batavia in October, 181.0. His wife's
parents were Hermanis Frederic Kofferman of
Baatbergen and Johanna Rodrigo. R. C. Roosmale-
cocq's daughter, Hannah Susan, married J. W. Little,
CCS. (No. 216). The first Roosmalecocq of whom
anything is known in Ceylon was Captain Ambrosius
Roosmalecocq of Dokhum, who was the father of
Pieter Jacobus and grandfather of Pieter Carolus,
Robert Carl, and Jacobus Ambrositis, all of whom
left descendants in Ceylon. Pieter Jacobus' wife was
a daughter of Henrious Leembruggen of Leyden, Chief
of the Cinnamon Department. (See Cotton, p. 334.)
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Serial No.
333 .,
Date.
March 6
1843
Name.
Charlotta Frederica Barber
334
1844
Anna Susanna Gogerly
Caroline Torriano
Charlotte Caroline Torriano
335
June 5
1847
Dec. 24
1828
William Henry Kelaart
Anna Jolianna Frederika
Kelaart
336
April 28
1851
Dec. 31
1852
Cliarles MoSat Young
Frederick Young
Inscription.
Here lies all that was mortal of Charlotta Fbedbb-
ICA, a truly pious and consistent Christian, wife of
Charles Arnold Barber, the only child of John
Appleton. Born 5th October, 1821, died 6th
March, 1843, aged 22 years 5 months and 1 day.
Fare thee well ! thou lovely stranger.
Guardian angels take your charge,
Freed at once from pain and danger,
Happy spirit, set at large.
In the silent tomb we leave thee
Till the resurrection mom.
When our Saviour will receive thee
And restore thy lovely form.
This monument was erected by the afflicted parents.
The monument, in the recently revived Gothic
style of the period, done in cement, is very conspicuous
at the corner of the ground near Main Street. It is
gradually crumbling away.
Sacred to the memory of Anna Susanna Gogeely.
Bom Van Lynden, wife of Rev. D. G. Gogerly ;
also of Caroline Torrlano and Charlotte
Cabolinb Torrl4.no, who all died in the faith of
the Gospel with a joyful hope of eternal life
through Jesus Christ. 1844.
Mrs. Gogerly was the eldest daughter of' Baron
Stephen van Lynden and widow of J. G. du Bois
de Lassossay (see No. 110).
His first wife died, September 20, 1821, at Madras,
where she had gone for the voyage. She had only
been a short time in Ceylon. " Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
Gogerly " are described as being during this period in
charge of the Printing Department of the Wesleyan
Mission. "Mrs. Torriano and Miss Gogerly" were
passengers by the ship Tigris for London, August 18,
1839. Robert Wells, C.C.S., retiring, was also a
passenger.
Sacred to the Memory of Willlam Henry Kelaart,
late Ceylon Civil Service, who departed this life on
the 5th June, 1847, aged 58 Years. And of his
beloved wife Anna Johanna Fredbbika, Eldest
daughter of Johannes Jacobtjs Meyer of Berlin,
who departed this hfe on the 24th December, 1828,
aged 33.
He was in the Medical Department, not in the Civil
Service, and was an " Assistant Apothecary to the
Forces" at Colombo in 1839 (Bennett, p. 114) and
" Apothecary" in 1846. He was a son of Johannes
Jeronymus Kelaart of Colombo, by his wife Johanna
Eugenia Koenders of Colombo, and was baptized there
February 15, 1789. His son. Staff Surgeon Edward
Frederick Kelaart, M.D., wrote much on natural
history and geology in the Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch, the " Ceylon
Calendars," &c., 1850-9, also Prodromas Faunae
Zeylanicce, Colombo, 1852. He died at sea on board
the ss. Bipon, August 31, 1860. His family have
settled in England.
Sacred to the memory of Charles Moffat, son of
Surgeon W. H. Young, Ceylon Rifle Regt., and
Mary Anne, his wife, who died 28th Apnl, 1851.
Aged 2 years and nine months. Also of Frederick
their son, who died Dec. 31st, 1852, aged 2 months.
William Henry Young was a son of John Young,
Senior Surgeon to the Hull General Infirmary for half
a century, who died March 24, 1832. He was Staff
Assistant Surgeon, and succeeded Dr. Tod as Acting
Surgeon of the 83rd Regiment at Trincomalee in
1823, and was one of the medical men who attended
Quartermaster Hall in his last illness at Trincomalee
in September, 1823. He was gazetted Surgeon to the
Ceylon Rifles, September 4, 1828. He married a
Miss Dent. His son, Mr. John Dent Young, formerly
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Pettah Burial Gvound—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
336 ,.
April 28 .
1851, &c.
. . Charles MoQat Young, &c,
contd.
337 ..
May 24
1858
. . Francis Dicli
338
339
Oct. 19
1863
May 27
1865
John Ellis
Herbert Springett
Inscription. *
of the Public Works Department, says : " The last
descendant of her family was my cousin, Capt. M.
Dent, 21st Madras Native Infantry, who died at
Aden on his way home on sick leave." (Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., p. 327.)
Beneath are deposited the remains of Feanois
Dick, died 24th May, 1853.
Aet. XXIV.
Tliis memorial is raised by a few of his friends.
"The brothers Dick, sons of a wealthy Highland
land owner ". The younger brother was glad
to take a subordinate situation in Baker's Nuwara
Bliya establishment, and the last time I saw him he
was in cliarge of that gentleman's hounds." [Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., p. 282.)
A Francis W. Dick was fined £5 and sentenced to
seven days' imprisonment, October 22, 1846, for an
assault on Lieutenant John Anthony Layard, C.R.R.
He was in Colombo, 1844-1850, possibly longer. He
may have been the brother of Frederick Lacy Dick
alluded to by William Boyd. (See imder " Holy
Trinity Church, Colombo.")
John Ellis of Barrington, N.S., who died 19th
October, 1863, aged 16 years.
Hebbbet, third son of the late Willm. S. Pitt
Speingett, Esq. , of Worthing^ Sussex. Born April
13th, 1849, Biddenden, Kent. Died May 27th,
1865, Colombo.
St. Paul's Burial Ground, Colombo.
St. Paul's Burial Ground is just opposite Wolvendaal Church on the other side of the road which skirts
the back of the church. It was consecrated on May 29, 1821 , by Bishop Middleton. Though next to Wolvendaal,
it was the churchyard of St. Paul's Church, which was opened on September 1, 1816, consecrated on September 25,
1821, re-opened on July 5, 1846, having been rebuilt after a fire, and was much in favour as a church in the forties
a ad fifties.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
340 ..
Nov. 4
Wilhelmina Catherina Dam-
1822
man
June 6
1827
Wilhelmina Caroline Armour
Inscription.
To the memory of Wllhelmina Catheeina, widow
of August Feedeic Dammaist, Junior Merchant,
Dutch East India Company, wto died 4th No-
vember, 1822, aged 65 years.
She was a Meyer, and she and her husband appear
to have settled at Tuticorin, where he was Mint
Master. Their daughter married Bev. A. Armour.
This tablet and those to Armour and his wife were
all built into the walls of a masonry tomb, which is
falling to pieces. This one had fallen out, and was
buried face downwards in front of the tomb ; that to
Armour was found near by, hidden by rank grass.
Here lieth Wilhelmina Caeoline, her daughter,
wife of Rev. A. Aemoue, who died 6th June, 1827,
aged 49 years.
She was a daughter of August Frederic Damman,
and was baptized at Tuticorin, March 10, 1776. She
was the third wife of the Rev. A. Armoiu-.
" Mrs. Armour's funeral was attended by the
Governor and many gentlemen, civil, military, and
clerical. Mrs. Armour was a pattern of sincerity,
openness, and candour, and detested duplicity and
dissimulation in every form. To the indigent she was
benevolent and liberal, and to all she delighted to be
kind and good. Though death in her was infinite gain,
yet her removal will long be lamented by many who
knew her, and especially by her family connections,
for whom her affection and love were unbounded, for
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St. Paul's Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
340 ..
Nov. 4
1822, &c.
Name.
Wilhelmina Catherina Dam-
man, &c. — contd.
Nov. 30
1828
Andrew Armour
Inscription.
' When such friends part, 'tis the survivor dies.' "
{Gazette, Jime 9, 1827.)
" Mrs. Armour was one of those good Dutch house-
wives, famous for the making of pleasant sweetmeats
and savoiiry curries." (" Jubilee Memorials of the
Wesleyan Mission, 1814r-1864," by R. Spence Hardy,
p. 69.)
In memory of the Rev. A. Ahmotjb, Colonial Chaplain
of St. Paul's Church, who died 30th Ncvember,
1828. Aged 59 years.
Andrew Armour, a Scotchman, born near Glasgow,
enlisted at seventeen years of age, served in the
suppression of the rebellion in Ireland of 1 798. There
is a story which was told some years ago by the late
Mr. Charles Liesching, C.C.S., in the ooluimis of the
Ceylon Observer, of his having been condemned by a
court-martial to be shot, on the ground that he had
been secretly attending meetings of the rebels, when
he had really only been going daily to say his prayers
in a retired spot, and of his having been saved from
death by the General in command, who was convinced
of his honesty and set aside the finding and sentence
of the court-martial. He went to Gibraltar with the
51st Regiment, and Ijecame a Sergeant. He came out
with the regiment to Madras in 1 7 9 8 , where he ac quired
a knowledge of Tamil and other languages. In 1800
he came to Colombo with the 51st Regiment, and
was appointed Interpreter of the Supreme Court at
Colombo. Soon afterwards he obtained his discharge.
He also took charge of the Seminary at St. Sebastian's.
He was a widower, when on January 17, 1802, he
married Petronella Sauwer, or Sauer, probably a
daughter of John GodUeb Sauer and Sarah Elizabeth
Honter , who was baptized at Tuticorin, April 11,1781,
as Anna Petronella Sauer. On November 5, 1809, he
with his family arrived at Colombo from Tuticorin by
the sloop Oertruyda (see No. 308), and was appointed
" a Proponent to the Caffres in the Portuguese
language, and English Proponent to the Cinglese " —
a curious jumble of races and tongues. He wished
also to be appointed, says Archdeacon Twisleton,
" Proponent to the Portuguese, a neglected body of
persons in the Pettah." By 1815 he had been
appointed " First English Teacher on the School
Establishment " and was headmaster of the Colombo
Seminary, which stood on the site of AE Saints'
Church, Hulftsdorp. On October 22, 1816, he
preached before Bishop Middleton, who had arrived
the previous day by the cruiser Aurora, accompanied
by Mrs. Middleton and the Ven. Mr. Barnes, Arch-
deacon of Bombay, and was stopping at King's House.
" His Lordship was particularly condescending in his
obliging notice of the Rev. Mr. Armour," says the
Gazette. In 1821, on Bishop Middleton's second visit
to the Island, he was ordained deacon, and in 1825
priest by Bishop Heber on his visit. He became
Chaplain of St. Paul's Church, which had been opened
on September 1, 1816, and was for years afterwards
known as " Armour's Church." " He was able to
preach in Sinhalese, TamU, Dutch, and Portuguese,
and it is said that he was acquainted with thirteen
different languages." (SpenceHardy,p. 67.) He was
one of the band who helped to complete Tolfrey's
translation of the Bible, and also was one of the
translators of the New Testament and Psalms into
Indo-Portuguese. {Ibid). " Armour Street," leading
from Silversmith street to Grandpass, where he resided
for many years in a big corner house now used as a
dispensaiy, is a reminder of his good services. The
Govemmeni Gazette said of him at his death : ' ' He was
a man highly esteemed and beloved by all Classes o E
Society, and particularly by the Dutch and Portuguese
inhabitants of this Settlement, among whom his
labovu-s were chiefly exercised and to whom he proved
himself a most faithful and valuable Minister and
an affectionate and sincere friend, and whose spiritual
and temporal interests he at all times laboured to
promote, both in his public and private character."
(December 6, 1828.)
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St. Paul's Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
341 ..
March 29 .
1825
John Morris
342
M3rch 3
1829
Henry Pennell
343
March 21
1831
AprU 12
1832
Emily Jane Selkirk
John Selkirk
344
Aug. 6
1834
George Alexander Staples.
Inscription .
Sacred to the memory of John Mobbis, late Com-
mander of the Government brig Hebe, who died
on the 29th March, 1825. Aged 63 years.
Morris succeeded Mathew Frewyer in the command
of the Government cutter Wilhelmina in 1813. She
was 60 tons burthen. It is interesting to find that
in April, 1816, the Wilhelmina called at that benighted
port, MuUaittivu. The same year Morris was
appointed to the Government brig Hebe, and was
succeeded by N. Onetto. The Wilhelmina was
advertised for sale on September 11, 1817, but
whether she was sold or not does not appear. In any
case her subsequent fate was tragic. In January,
1819, while she was on a voyage, the Javanese crew
mutinied, massacred the Captain N. Onetto, his wife,
and the rest of the crew, plundered the vessel, and
scuttled her. They then landed in the jolly boat " on
the Pedir coast in the Port of Mordoo." Sonie of
them were captured by the King of Acheen, who
handed them over to Sir Stamford Raffles. The Hebe
was advertised for sale, " as she now lays with aU her
stores," in the Colombo Roads at the end of 1818.
Morris left a widow and two sons and three
daughters. The eldest son, John, married Johanna
Romana Christofielsz. He died early, and his only
daughter, Mary Ann, married H. W. Andree. The
other son, Henry, was a coffee planter, and was killed
by the fall of a tree while superintending felling oper-
ations on Madawalatenna estate on September 8, 1842.
In Jime of the following year another superintendent
named Page was killed in the same way on the same
estate. The eldest daughter, Catherine, married
Luke PhiUp Christoftelsz, the next, Ann, married
Charles van Dort of the Royal Engineers' Depart-
ment, and the third, Eliza, married (1 ) Henry Mylius,
grandson of Baron von Mylius, and (2) W. Herft.
In memory of Heney Pennell, Son of Hbney
Pennell, Esq., and Maby Susannah, his wife.
He died on the 3rd March, 1829, in the 3rd year of
his age.
Henry PenneU was in the Civil Service from June 8,
181.4, thl October 1, 1829, when he' retired on a
pension of £500 a year, which he drew until his death
in 1885 — altogether a sum of £28,000. He held
revenue appointments in Nuwarakalawiya, at Batti-
caloa, Trincomalee, and Kandy, and was Provincial
Judge of Matara and TangaUa, and at the time of his
retirement and of the death of this child, of Colombo.
The " Cej'lon Almanac" of 1824 contains a notice of
the death at Lyme Regis on September 26, 1823, of
" Mrs. PenneU, relict of the late Lovell Pennell, and
mother of Lady Giffard." Hardinge Giffard, Advo-
cate Fiscal, arrived in Ceylon in October, 1810, and
so did Miss Pennell, whom I take to have been a sister
of Mrs. , afterwards Lady, Giffard. Add to this, that
at the baptism of this chUd, who was born October 27,
1826, at Trincomalee, Sir Hardinge Giffard was a
sponsor (by proxy), and I infer from these facts
that Henry PenneU was a son of LoveU Pennell, and
brother-in-law of Sir Hardinge Giffard.
Sacred to the memory of Emily Jane, daughter of
the Revd. J. Selkiek and Anne his wife, died
March 21st, 1831, aged 9 months.
Also John, their infant son, died April 12th, 1832,
aged 2 days.
The Rev. James Selkirk belonged to the Church
Missionary Society, and was the author of a book
called " Recollections of Ceylon," which was published
in London in 1844.
Geoege Alexandee Staples, third son of John
Staples, Esq., Qr. Mr. of H. M. 2nd Ceylon
Regt., who departed this life on the 6th day of
August, 1834. Aged 29 years 8 months 9 days.
(See Nos. 184, 205, and 346.)
He at one time kept an " Academy for Boys " at
Colombo.
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St. Paul's Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
345 ..
Date.
Jan. 12
1835
Name.
William George Norris
346
347
Jan. 24
1838
Aug. 26
1839
Caroline Staples
John Staples
348
April 20
1841
William Stewart
349
March 28
1843
James Stewart
Inscription.
William George, the first-born son of the Hon'ble
William Noeeis, Esq., Second Puisne Justice of
the Supreme Court, and Feabne, his wife. Bom
8th March, 1832, died 12th January, 1835,
aged 2 years and 9 months.
He died at Maradana, where Mr. Norris liad a house.
Another son is the well-known novelist, William
Edward Norris. The only daughter, Anne Grace,
married on August 15, 1871, Sir Arthur Havelock,
Governor of Ceylon, 1 890-6. The Hon. WiUiam Norris
was Second Puisne Justice, 1834-6, Chief Justice
1836, when he was appointed to the Recordership of
Penang. In 1835 Mr. Justice Norris presided at
Kandy at the trial of the Chief Mohgoda Disawa and
five other Kandyans, including Dunuwila Disawa
and two Buddhist priests, for raising rebellion. The
trial lasted six days (January 12-17), and ended
in an acquittal. On the jury were Henry Wright,
C.C.S., W. H. Whiting, C.C.S., George Bird, E. J.
Darley, W. Ridsdale, C.M.S., and J. G. Watson,
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and seven
natives. George Turnour, Government Agent of
Kandy, was a witness. W. O. Carr, the King's
Advocate, was the prosecutor, and H. J. Staples
defended. Major Skinner says of the Adigar and his
trial : " The Government felt obliged to bring his
case before judicial investigation, but the Supreme
Court, I was happy to find, fully acquitted him and
all the others who had been, I believe, maliciously
reported to be implicated with him " (p. 190).
Sacred to the Memory of Caeollne, second daughter
of Quarter Master J. Staples, who d.eparted this
life on the 24th January, 1838. Aged 31 years.
Sacred to the Memory of John Staples, Esq., late of
H. M. 2nd Ceylon Regt., who was born at Ring-
wood in the County of Hampshire, England^, 8th
October, 1770, and died at Colombo, 26th August,
1839, aged 69 years.
He was tried with Captain Parker in 1811 on
accoimt of the Parker-Brown duel, in which he .acted
as second to Captain Parker. He was acquitted.
His yoimgest daughter, Jemima, married at Colombo,
in May, 1837, George Howard. His eldest son was
H. J. Staples, his second son J. J. Staples.
Sacred to the memory of William Stewart, Esq.,
late a Lieutenant H. M. 2nd C.R. Bom 25th
September, 1793. Died 20th April, 1841.
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Ceylon,
August 2, 1811, 1st Lieutenant 2nd Ceylon, Septem-
ber 18,1818. He was , I think , a brother of Lieutenant
James Stewart (No. 349). After his retirement he
became an oil merchant and had a chekku mill, and
was known in consequence as " Vanniya Stewart."
He married a native of the Island. His daughter,
Sophia, born 1824, married at Colombo, January 11,
1847, John William Marshall of the Colombo
Customs, and brother of Henry Thomas Marshall of
the P. andO., Galle. She died September 2, 1906.
Sacred to the memory of Capt. James Stewart,
H. M. Ceylon Rifle Regt., and Assistant Commis-
sary-General. Bom on the 19th December, 1794.
Died on the 28th March, 1843, aged 48 years 3
months and 9 days.
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon,
August 3, 1811 (the day after 2nd Lieutenant William
Stewart's appointment to a cormnission in the same
regiment).
He was Assistant Conunissary-General at Ruwan-
wella in 1817-1818. Like his brother, he married
a native. His eldest son, James, became Queen's
Advocate (see No. 351). His son, Charles Henry,
became Senior Puisne Justice, and for a short time
acted as Chief Justice, was made a C.M.G., and in
.Tune, 1878, was offered, but declitied, the Chief
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St. Paul's Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No
Date.
Name.
349 ..
March 28 .
1843
James Stewart— co?i«rf.
350
351
Feb. 13
1850
Nov. 18
1851
Frederic Assat
James Stewart
Insoriptioa.
Justiceship of the Straits Settlements. One daughter,
Louisa, married George Alexander Mackenzie, another,
Catherine Lydia, married C. R. Curgenven, C.C.S.,
and a third married Christoffelsz de Saram, CCS.
(184.5-1870).
Pkedebio Assat. Born at Wampoa in China on
the 14th July, 1787. Died at Colombo, Ceylon, on
the ISTebniary, 1850, aged 63 years and 7 months.
In memoria in etema erit justuB.
Sacred to the memory of the Hon'ble Jambs Stewart,
Esquire, Acting Queen's Advocate, eldest son of
the late Capt. James Stev^aet, C.R.R. Born at
Colombo, March 24th, 1821. Died November
18th, 1851.
A tablet to his memory, paid for by public subscrip-
tion, was lost with the Sumatra on the Basses in 1858
or 1859. James Stewart was the eldest son of Captain
James Stewart, C.R.R. (see No. 349). He was bom
March 24, 1821, educated at the Colombo Academy
under the Rev. Joseph Marsh, and admitted a Proctor
of the Supreme Court at the age of nineteen, and was
appointed Deputy Queen's Advocate for the Midland
Circuit on the death of William Gardiner Cumming ia
1843, on the recommendation of Sir Arthur BuUer,
the Queen's Advocate. On the division of the Bar
into advocates and proctors, he was enrolled advocate
in December, 1844. He became Deputy Queen's
Advocate for the Island on the appointment of Sir
Arthur Buller to the Calcutta Bench in November,
1848, H. C. Selby being promoted to the office of
Queen's Advocate. He succeeded Selby as Queen's
Advocate and Member of the Executive and Legis-
lative Councils in December, 1849, thus attaining
this position in his 29th year. " Of the manner in
which he presided over his important department and
regulated the machinery of the whole it is impossible
to speak in terms of too great admiration
His practice as a private advocate increased rapidly.
He was the standing counsel of the great
majority of mercantile houses and proprietors of
estates and of the banks His skill in narrat-
ing facts, in arguing upon probabilities, in marshal-
ling and sifting evidence, shone brilliantly in cases of
fact and in his openings and replies in criminal trials."
(Digby, vol. I., pp. 206-7.) But his health
broke down from overwork — " debility induced by
constant exercise of mind and deep and anxious
thought, and to his want of due sustenance and rest —
for so intense was the interest that he took in business
that he utterly neglected both whenever any matter
of importance engaged his attention — so that it was a
matter of constant occurrence with him whenever
he had a case in Court or any other serious engage-
ment to attend to, to leave home and remain the
whole day without a single morsel of food to support
him." After a short illness he finally sank on Novem-
ber 18 without a struggle. He was given a public
fimeral. A contemporary newspaper writer said of
him: "His great eminence as a lawyer, his spotless
integrity as a man, made his services inestimable and
his life invaluable to the Government and the country.
His immensurable superiority to all his compeers,
without any patronage bestowed on him or interest
in his favour, by the plain force of his own brilliant
yet self -acquired talents, Mr. Stewart achieved a high
position for hiniself He was only thirty years
of age when he died, and he acquired his knowledge in
this country, where the means of obtaining a general,
much less a legal, education were few and humble.
Is it surprising under such circumstances that his
countrymen should point to his career with pride,
and should feel a satisfaction in extoUing the merits of
an individual, who with all the difficulties which lay
in his path, and in spite of the disadvantages under
which he laboured, attained a distinction and wrought
his way to official rank, such as was gained by no
Euro-Asiatic before him, either here or on the conti-
nent of India ? "
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
351 ..
Nor. 18 .
1851
. James Stewart— cowici.
{ 101 )
St. Paul's Burial Ground— co^fri.
Inscription.
" He wag a slightly built young man, with a warm
brown complexion and bright intelligent eyes, which
told of the Southern blood which was mixed with the
cold Northern stream flowing through his veins."
(William Boyd, Ceylon Literary Reqister, vol. III.,
p. 312.)
352 .. Ja^„24 .. John Gualterus Kats .. Inmemoryof the Rev. J. C.Kats, Colonial Chaplain,
^'*"* who officiated at St. Paul's Church since 26 Sep-
tember, 1843, and died on the 24th January, 1864.
He was appointed Catechist in September, 1842;
ordained Deacon, May 29, 1843, by Dr. Spencer,
Bishop of Madras, and Priest on November 17, 1844 ;
appointed Colonial Chaplain from November 1, 1843,
succeeding the Rev. J. C. Arndt at St. Paul's. He
was an extempore and able preacher. It is said that
during his time the number of persons at the services
in Portuguese amounted to over 400 and frequently
more In his days St. Paul's witnessed the
days of her prosperity It was resorted to
by persons of all nationalities. (Monthly Literary
Register, vol. III., p. 87.)
His wife died at Trincomalee in 1831. He was at
that time in charge of the Wesleyan Chapel there.
Wolvendaal Church, Colombo.
The name " Wolvendaal" is the Dutch rendering of the Portuguese " Agoa de Loupe" (modern loho),
meaning " The dale of -vyolves," i.e., a marsh or swamp frequented by jackals.* The hill on which the church
standi must have taken its name from the surrounding low ground. The church was built in 1749, probablyon
the site of an older building , Portuguese or Dutch . There was certainly a Portuguese ' ' cloister ' ' here , and no doubt
a church. It is supposed to have been originally intended as a church for the native adherents of the reformed
church, but, if so, that intention was not kept, and owing no doubt to the ruinous condition of the church in the
Fort, it superseded the latter as the official church of the Dutch Company, and special pews were provided in it
for the Governor and the other high officials. It was dedicated on March 6, 1757. It occupies a commanding site
on a hill overlooking the harboiu", from which, with its squat central lantern covered with slates, it is a conspicuous
object. Percival refers to it as "a very handsome and spacious church in the Black Town, about a mile distant
from the Fort," but it is described by another writer as " a massive building of very heavy architecture, with
enormously thick walls, as if intended to stand a siege." (Digby, vol. I., p. 183.) Meanwhile the church which
stood on the open space now known as the Gordon Gardens in the Fort, which had been built by the Portuguese,
and had been the chief church of the Company until the opening of Wolvendaal, gradually went to decay, and
at the time of the British occupation appears to have been roofless. The tombs which it contained "were
consequently exposed to the destructive violence of the tropical rains, which they were neither constructed or
intended to resist," though it had still with its crypt and vaults continued to be used as a place of sepulture after
the opening of Wolvendaal. In 1813 "the British authorities, after consultation with the principal Dutch
inhabitants and with their consent and approbation," determined to remove the bodies to the church at Wolvendaal,
where proper vaults were prepared for their reception. Accordingly, the remains of five Dutch Governors and of
their wives and families, altogether of two dozen or more persons, were ren^oved to Wolvendaal Church with
considerable pomp. The ceremony took place on the night of September 4, 1813, by torchlight, and the procedure
which was to be followed was prescribed by an order published in the Gazette of September 2. In most cases the
tombstones appertaining to the distinguished persons whose remains were thus removed no doubt followed them
within a short time, and probably also there were removed to the new church the tombstones of other officials whose
names are not mentioned in the list published in the Gazette. This would account for the fourteen tombstones
inside and the five outside Wolvendaal Church, which date from 1662 to 1736, i.e. , from a period before the present
church was built, but which do not appertain to persons whose remains are mentioned as having been removed
to it in 1813. There are, in addition, twelve tombstones inside and two outside the church which did so appertain,
' and seven monuments were erected inside the church during the thirty-nine years of Dutch rule, which remained
after the opening of the church. The seven Dutch tombstones outside the church, which for nearly ninety years
lay lust as they had been dumped down in the churchyard, have in recent years been erected against the outer
walls of the church.
* In a chart in Baldseus, page 105 (Beschryving der Oost-Indische Kusten Malabar en Choromandel als cock Cejlon.
Amatfirdam Ao 1672) explanatory of the siege of Colombo, Ao. 1656, there is shown " de Kerck Agoa de Loepo zjnde 't
1 Zr,r,fl,rt ^fl'n de Heer Maioor Jan van der Laan " (the church Agoa de Loepo being the quarters of Major Jan van der Laan). At
logement van «« ^^fj^^^J j^ ^"^lled the " heuvel van Agaa de Lupe " (the hill of Agua de Lupe).
another pla^ (page ll^O)^^^^^^ ^^^^^ Simonsz' report, Colombo, January 28, 1707, he says (Ceylon, Frangois Valentjn, p. 315):
.,m ■ „„J^»rnf Wolvendaal aroot bvna 13 morgen alwaar 'tPortugees klooster AgadaLupa nogstaat. Dog zo vermaakt dat
- Tuin g«'i*^*^^^^°',7^gXndi^ word gehoudon." (Garden called Wolvendaal, in extent about 13 morgen, where
th Prtuauese cloister Agada Lupa still stands, but so altered that it is now used as the residence of the Kandyan Ambassadors.)
82-09
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Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
As regards at least five of the eminent persons whose ashes were removed to Wolvendaal, whatever memorials
there were have disappeared. They were either " lost in transit " or appropriated to other uses — a conamon fate
of tombstones. The most noteworthy of these memorials was the monument of General HuKt , who commanded the
Dutch forces at the siege of Colomho in 1656, for in all probability the name Hoist given in the Government Gazette
of September 2, 1813, is a mistake for HuLft. His body lay for some time, during the continuance of the siege, at
the " Groote Kerk " at GaUe, and was in 1658 removed to Colombo and laid under a stately mausoleum. Every
vestige of this has disappeared, though there is a rumour that the stone which bore the inscription was used,
turned the other way, for Sir WiUiam Coke's monument, which was erected five years after the removal from the
Fort church to Wolvendaal. Possibly it was used, three months after such removal, for lady Louisa Rodney's.
Another disappearance stiU more to be regretted was a stone containing an inscription " in pure Portuguese over
a King of Cotta, who was converted to the Catholic Faith in 1550, who died in 1607." This refers to Don Juan-
Dharmapala, 1542-1581. There are also missing the memorials of Adam de Lannoy of Breda, Koopman and
" Soldy-boekhouder of Colombo," and of his wife Theodora Wilhelmina Theobeeren of Soerabaiya, who died
in 1794 and 1776 respectively, relatives of Governor van Eck, as well as those of Colonel Paravicini di Capelle,
whose hatchment stands over the organ loft, and of his second wife, the widow of Governor Falck. Of the three
other hatchments in the church whicli have always been in Wolvendaal, one is that of the wife of the last Governor,
Johan Gerard van Angelbeek. She died in 1793, but has no other memorial, while her husband, who died in 1799,
has neither tomb nor hatchment. It is probable that none was ever erected, and the same is probably the case
with regard to the sons of Commandeur Fretz , whose remains with those of Governor Angelbeek and his wife
were also among those removed to Wolvendaal.
The three hatchments in Wolvendaal, though they aU commemorate persons buried in the Fort, no doubt
were originally placed in Wolvendaal, and were not removed there in 1813. The Fort church was roofless, and
could afford no protection for such memorials. In fact it is known from the Wolvendaal registers that the two
commemorating the wives of Governors van de Graaffi and van Angelbeek were placed in the church in 1805 by
the Hon. George Melville Leslie, Paymaster-General, who had married a daughter of Governor van de Graaff.
The burial register goes back to 1803 only.
Captain Anderson, who has been already quoted, tells, in his " Wanderer in Ceylon," the following
tale of a lady buried in Wolvendaal Church, which he states is a " melancholy fact." It is impossible to
identify her ; there is no inscription that suits. These verses must be her only commemoration : —
Yon shady slope then let me gain. To one, a soldier from his yoUth :
And view that unassuming fane. Whose modest worth, unknown to fame.
That monument of pious hands. With no proud lineage grac'd his name !
A Christian church in heathen lands. What pen can paint the throes of pride
WTien first the tearful, trembling bride,
Her lowly lover's nam.6 reveal'd,
And own'd their Nuptial faith was sealed ?
The rising wrath the father felt
As still the lovely pleader knelt,
" A parent's curse attend thy bed,
(Thus to the shudd'ring bride he said)
" Degenerate girl ! now hear thy doom,
" Thy future joyless years consume :
" And wither that too-fatal bloom,
' ' Where noxious exhalations rise 1
" In Java's pestilential skies ! "
Then fiu'ious, rising from his seat,
He spm-n'd the victim from his feet.
Fain would I image the despair,
The comfortless, distracted air.
The changing passions that assail
The lover at the harrowing tale !
How swift he flew, how gently prest
The hopeless sufferer to his breast !
" Albert," the moxu-ner faintly said,
" A father's curse is on my head !
" Oh, were my sainted mother here,
" Her daughter's breaking heart to cheer ! "
Again he strained her to his heart,
" Clara, be mine that grateful part ;
" Perhaps my unremitting love
" The barbed arrow may remove !
" In my fidelity be found
" A balsam for the ranlding wound ! "
Brief be the melancholy tale !
The watchful father's pow'rs prevail.
His sleepless vengeance quickly found
A warlike bark to Java bound :
Six tedious months had nearly wan'd
Before the destin'd port they gain'd :
And time's smooth balsam slow but sure
Had staunch' d the wound it could not cure !
But Java's unrelenting sky
Soon stole the lustre from her eye.
An hectic tinge, a fiery glow,
Declar'd the footsteps of the foe ;
Yet, tho' she felt the coming stroke.
No murmur from the sufferer broke ;
Within that solemn pile are laid
The ashes of a high-born maid,
A victim of imhallow'd scorn,
Tho' once to princely titles bom.
And of each female grace possest
That could adorn the gentle breast.
Where Rhine's majestic current flows.
Her patrimonial tow'rs arose.
And there beneath a mother's view,
The apple of her eye she grew !
There as along her evening walk.
She pluck' d the flow' ret from its stalk.
And heard the murmiu-s of the tide.
And saw the purple shadows glide.
When eve's rich colours, bright but brief.
Were hung on every growing leaf.
In such an hour, in such a scene.
Well might the doating mother ween.
Nor hall, nor palace, cot, nor bow'r.
Could boast a fairer, sweeter flow'r !
Had that fond parent lived to know
The hand that dealt the vital blow,
Oh, had she thought her riper years
Were doom'd to banishment and tears.
And that an equatorial sky
Should dim the sparkle of that eye !
But heav'n in mercy from her sight.
The future kindly veiled in night ;
The smiling mother sunk to rest.
Upon her darUng daughter's breast.
Her father, haughty, selfish, old,
Of look austere, deportment cold ;
Whose avaricious hopes and fears.
Increased with his increasing years.
Now sternly bade her plight her hand.
To one, the wealthiest of the land,
But of a base unfeehng mind,
A temper sordid and unkind,
Who strove the shrinking maid to buy.
Nor sought for kindness in her eye :
But she had pledged her virgin troth ,
( 103 ,
Wolvendaal Burial Ground— cow^rf.
Not Albert's teuderness could savo
The victim from an early grave ;
One hope seem'd only to remain,
To trust the ocean wave again,
And try if some more genial shore
To her flush' d cheek could health restoi^' !
To renovate her sinking frame
Hither the woe-worn wand'rer came.
But where can human science find
An opiate for a womided mind ?
Like a gaunfc fiend, upon her breast,
That fatal curse still hourly prest ;
Fast sinka the poor, heart-stricken maid.
Vain, vain, is every earthly aid !
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
353 ..
March 3 .
1662
Ina Bosemis
354
June 26
1662
SiblUa de Leeuw
355
Juno 25
1663
Sigismundus Monitanier
356
May 24
1664
Hercules Lindebora
She bless'd her parent, clos'd her eyes.
And sought her mother in the sides !
Albert appeared to meet his lot
At first as if he felt it not ;
But in the wandering of his eye
A soleraa purpose you might spy,
A fearful wildness dwelling there,
Resulting from confirm' d despair ;
An agonizing, bitter scorn,*
That told how deep the rankling thorn !
Slowly he left the sacred shade,
Where all his soul's best hopes were laid,
Return' d to Java, fought and died.
And joined once more his injur'd bride I
Inscription.
Ika VAif DER HoOL. Out 22 jaars huysvrouwe v.
WiLHBLM Bosemis, in den Heere gerust den 3 Maar,
Ao. 1662.
Arms. — Dexter shield a heart saignant, a
canton gules.
Crest. — A cross.
Sinister shield. — Partyperpale: (l)perfess, vert and
argent, in base an anchor ; (2) vert, a cross couped
argent.
Greet. — A plume of ostrich feathers (?).
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 223, 264.)
SiBiLLA DE Leeuw. Obiit den 26 Juny, Ao. 1662.
Sibilla de Leeuw, baptized at Colombo, Dacember,
1661, was the daughter of Adriaan de Leeuw of Har-
lingen (Friesland) and Maria Dureus of Batavia,
perhaps the daughter of Andries Dureus of Scotland,
who was Chief Surgeon in Batavia ( 1 625-37 ). Andries
Dureus was married (1), Batavia, February 27, 162.5,
to Sara Seroyen of Amsterdam, (2), Batavia, February
15, 1629, to Anna van Nederhoven of Dordrecht, and
(3), Batavia, August 20, 1637, CatharinaStroombergen
of Campen, the widow of Pieter Nannielsz, Koopman.
Dureus is the Latinized form of Dure (Durkee).
There was an Andries Dure in Colombo in 1 657 , who
appears as a sponsor at a baptism, on September 13,
1657, with Magdalena Dure, evidently his wife. He
was most probably the son of the Chief Sm^geon and
father of Maria Dure (Durhee) , born 1 652, died October
2, 1686, the wife of Anthony Mooyaart of Amsterdam,
born 1639, who came out as an Under Surgeon
to Ceylon. He was the grandfather of Anthony
Mooyaart, Commandeur of Jaffna.
SibiUa de Leeuw's godmother was Sibilla Scholten,
tbe wife, no doubt, of Marten Scholten, who was
marrid to Sibilla Herverdonck.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 218 ; vol. XVIL, p. 12.)
Hier leit Sigismundus Monitaniee. Out 12 jaar, 2
maanden. Gestorven den 25 Ju., 1663.
(Ibid., vol. XVIL, pp. 14, 15, 27.)
He was, perhaps, the son of Frangois Monitanier,
tlie Fiscaal of Colombo, who married Dorothea
Schatvelt. Isabella Margareta Monitanier of Delft waa
married at Colombo, 1671, to Johan Marten Franoen
of Anhalt, Chief Surgeon of Colombo.
Hier leyt begraven den E. Hercules Lindbborn in
zyn leeven vrycoopman kapiteyn der burgerye
ende viesepresis van't Civile Collegie deser stat
Colombo. Geboortich van Drontem out 42 jaren
7/m. en 11 dagen. Overleeden den 24 Mev, anno
1664.
Arms. — On a mound a (linden) tree.
Crest. — A tree, as in the arms.
Hercules Lindeborn was married to Johanna Linde-
born. Two of his daughters, Sara and Ehzabeth,
are buried at Pulicat. ("Indian Monumental In-
scriptions," Cotton, p. 189.) There was a Lindeborn,
Chief of Honimoa (1708). " Drontem " is Drontheim
in Norway.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 219; vol. XVIL, p. 12.)
This tomb is outside the church. It was moved here
from the Fort Dutch Chwch in 1813.
( 104 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
357 ..
Jan. 3
1667
. Jacomina van Goens
June 22
Esther van Goens
1668
358
Sept. 23
1684
Adriana Blom
359
Dec. 3
1686
(Marten) Scholte
Inscription.
Hier rast Jacomina Rosegaabd en Esther de
SoLBMNE huysvrouwen van Ryckxof van Goens,
raed ord. van India, Gouvemerend, Ceylon,
Malabaer en Madure. Overleden den 3 Janu,
Ac. 1667, d'ander 22 Juny, 1668.
^rms.— Quarterly of four. (1) Party per pale (a)
azure, an eagle displayed issuing from the pale line,
(6) a stag springing contourne. (2) Party per pale
(a) azure, the sun in his glory, (6) barruly of eleven,
gules and argent, the 6th charged with 5 mallets. (3)
Gules, an hour glass fesseways. (4) Party per pale (a)
party per pale, [aa) gules, a flevu?-de-lys issuing from
the pale line, (66) barruly of eleven, gules and argent,
(6) gules, a baton argent, sin?tout, a lion rampant.
Jacomina Rosegaard was bom in Leyden in 1616,
being the daughter of Bartholomeus Rosegaard. She
was married (1) to Lieutenant Jan Lievens and (2) at
Batavia, September 13, 1640, to Rycklof van Goens
(senior). Governor of Ceylon. Esther de Solemne, the
second wife of Rycklof van Goens, born in 1640, was
the daughter of Captain David de Solemne and
Catherina Malbergh. Rycklof van Goens (junior)
was a child of the second marriage, having been born
at Batavia, June 11, 1642. He was Governor of
Ceylon April 12, 1675, to December 3, 1679 ; was twice
married, (1) at Colombo, March 17, 1667, to Louisa
Brasser of Dantzio, and (2) to Catharina van
Adrichem, daughter of Dirk van Adrichem, Director
of Surat.
p. 219;
394.)
vol.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV.,
XVIL, pp. 13, 66, 67 ; vol. XVIIL, p.
Outside the church. Probably removed here from
the Fort Dutch Church.
Hier leyt begraven de eerbare juf . Adeiana Alebos,
huysvrouwe van den koopman en secre. des
gouvernements v. Ceyln. Flobis Blom, gebooren
in Tayouan,op'teylandt Formosa, den 13Decembr.,
Ac. 1656, en sterft den 23 Sepr., 1684, in't Casteel
Colombo.
In the " Lapidarium Zeylanicum " there is next to
this epitaph (p. 5) a coat of arms as follows : —
Party per pale : (1) Three birds rousant ; (2) a cross
hiomette in chief and five lozenges in base.
Crest. — A bird, as in the arms.
• (Ihid., vol. XV., pp. 219, 256, 257 ; vol. XVIL, pp.
13,26.)
Adriana Alebos was evidently the sister of Nicolaas
Alebos of Tayouan (Formosa), Dissave of Colombo.
FIorisBlom was a native of Zaardam (N. Holland).
This tombstone is outside the church. It was
removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Hier n dit kleyn vertregk, leyt den vermaerden belt,
die Scholte die weleer, gloekmoedigh sloegvytvelt,
den trotsen loysatien, en vyt haer stergke stede,
wien ziel rust nu by God, ind' aerde zyne leede.
Geboore den 12 Novemb. , Ao. 1620, obyt 3 Desemb.
Ao. 1686.
Arms a bunch of grapes between four
vine leaves conjoined saltirewise.
Crest. — A plume of ostrich feathers.
This epitaph evidently refers to Captain Marten
Scholten. He was married to SibUla Hervendonk,
perhaps daughter of Joris Herverdonk, Resident of
Eandy. (Baldseus's " Ceylon," p. 66.)
(Ihid., vol. XL, p. 63; vol. XV., p. 218; vol.
XVIL, p. 12.)
At the siege of Colombo by the Dutch, Marten
Scholtes (Scholte), Lieutenant of the Galle Rifles,
Captain of Galle, and renowned in the Sinhalese and
Malabar wars, was the first to scale the walls (March
6, 1656) of the bastion St. Joan. He was wounded in
the arm in the encounter. (Baldseus's " Ceylon,"
p. 122.) In 1665 he was sent to the King of Kandy's
territories with Captain du Pont and the Koopman
van Goens, to take possession of certain provinces.
( 105 )
Wolvendaal Burial Gvouni—contd.
erial No.
Date.
Name.
359 ..
Dec. 3
1686
. . (Marten) Scholte— cowitZ.
360
Aug. 19
1690
Joan van Vliet
361
Oct. 4
1695
Johanna Margarita van Toll
362
Oct. 24
1696
Henrietta van Rhee
Inscription.
The epitaph is an attempt at versification, as indi-
cated by the commas.
This stone is outside the church. It was probably
removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
This will be seen by the following rendering in
modern Dutch : —
Hier in dit Klein vertrek
Ligt de vermaard held
Die Scholte die weleer
Kloekmoedig sloeg uit veld
Den trotsehe Lus'tanien
En uit hare sterke stede
Wiens ziel rust nu by God
In d'aarde zyne leede (sic)
Leede is an archaic word introduced for purposes of
rhythm in place of lyh (body). The Portuguese in
the East were often called " the haughty Lusitanians."
The epitaph may be translated: "Here, in this
small recess, lies the famed hero, that Scholte who
long since vanquished the haughty Lusitanians and
drove them out of their fortress. His soul rests with
God, his body in the earth." As an example of a
vainglorious epitaph it may be compared with No.
1,242 on page 125 in Cotton's List.
Hier rust d'E. Joan van Vliet in syn leven opper-
coopman en hooft op Tutucoryn. Geboren 11
January, Ao. 1656. Obyt 19 Augusto, 1690, out
synde 34 jaren 7 maanden en 8 dagen.
Arms. — Azure, three spears placed bendwise, points
directed sinister.
Crest. — A spear erect.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 222; vol.
XVII., pp. 13-14 ; vol. XVIII. , p. 53.)
Joan van Vliet was a native of Schiedam, and
married (1) at Tuticorin, June 2, 1676, Susanna
Alvarez, perhaps daughter of Fernandez Alvarez,
Dissave (Valentyn's " Ceylon," p. 154), (2) Maria van
Rhee, (3) at Colombo, August 16, 1682, Wilhelmina
de Witt of Utrecht, widow of WUlem van Dielen of
Haarlem, Opperkoopman.
Outside the church. Probably from the Fort Dutch
Church.
Hier rust d'eerbare jufEr. Johanna Margarita
SCHILHOORN in haar leven warde huysvrouw van
den oppercoopman Gerrit van Toll. Out 17
jaren 9 m. 11 dagen. Geboren tot Batavia, over-
leden den 4 en October, Ao. 1695.
[Ihid., vol. XV., p. 223; vol. XVIL, p. 14 ; vol.
XVIIL.p. 60.)
Johanna Margarita Schilhoorn was the first wife of
Gerrit van Toll of Utrecht (married at Colombo, June
13, 1694). His second wife (married at Colombo,
January 1, 1697) was Catharina Constantia van Vhet
of Tutucorin, the daughter of Joan van Vhet and
Maria van Rhee.
Hier legt begraven Henrietta van Kriekenbebk
huysvrouwe van Thomas van Rhee, Raad extra-
ordinair van India, Gouvernr. en Directr. des
Eylands Ceylon en obiit 24 Octr., setatis 56 jaren.
Arms. — Party per pale: (1) three stags' heads, the
two in chief a£front6. (2) Nine escutcheons (?) 3.3.3,
a chief sable.
(76id., vol. XV., pp. 223, 224, 247, 258 ; vol. XVIL,
pp. 13, 14, 22, 49, 50, 69.)
Henrietta van Kriekenbeek, born October 1, 1640,
at Wyk by Duiorstede (Province of Utrecht), was the
daughter of Rutgerus van Kriekenbeek of the same
town, the founder of the family in Ceylon. She came
out to Ceylon with her father in 1659 in the ship
Zeelandia, and was married at Galle, August 1,
1661, to Thomas van Rhee of Wyk by Duurstede,
born December 16, 1634, died at Batavia, March 31,
1701. Thomas van Rhee was probably the son of
Captain Willem van Rhee (Artillery), bom 1697, died
( 106 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
362 ..
Oct. 24
1696
. . Henrietta van Rhee contd.
363 ..
Nov. 5
1700
. . Willem van Rhee
April 23 .
. Catliarina Aflricana van
1700
Dielen
364
March 31
1702
Barbara Margarita van der
Duym
365
Nov. 26
1702
Gerrit de Heere
366
Feb. 28
1709
Abigail Strick
Inscription.
at Wyk by Duurstede, March 10, 1667, by his wif»
Margarita van Hengst, bom at Wyk by Duurstede,
December 12, 1598, died there April 28, 1667.
Outside the church. Probably removed here from
the Fort Dutch Church.
Hier leggen begraven den E. Heer Willbm van Rhee
in zyn leven oppercoopman en hoofd-administra-
teur des Ceylonsen G-ouvernements, en desselfs
huysvrouw d'eerbare Cathabina Affbica2^a van
Dielen, de laarste geboren den 7 Juny., Ao. 1670,.
en overleden den 23 April, 1700, mitsgaders den
eersten geboren primo December, Ao. 1663, en
overleden den 5 November des opgem>3lten jaars-
1700.
Arms. — Dexter shield (van Rhee). — Gules, three
stags' heads argent.
Sinister shield (van Dielen). — On a fess azure,
three stars or, the chief party per pale ; (1) or, a tre&
debruised by a stag courant contoum^ ; (2) gules, a
pascal lamb passant argent. In base, or, a lion
couchant guardant giiles, armed and langued azure,
holding in his paws a ball azure.
Crest (over the two shields). — A stag issuant.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 223, 224, 247,.
258; vol. XVII.,pp. 13, 14, 22, 26, 43, 69.)
Willem van Rhee was born at Negapatnam, being
the son of Thomas van Rhee and Henrietta van
Kriekenbeek. He married Catharina Africana van
Dielen of Haarlem at Colombo on April 13, 1687.
She was no doubt of the same family as Willem
van Dielen of Haarlem, Chief of Masuhpatnam.
(born August 5, 1650, died at Pulicat, October 13,
1688), who married at Colombo, January 9, 1678,.
WiUiehnina de Witt of Utrecht (Cotton, p. 192),
and as Johanna van Dielen of Haarlem, who married
at Colombo, March 17, 1686, Lodewyk van Raben-
haupt of Nymegen (a town on the river Waal in
Holland, South of Arnhem). Isaac van Dielen
(Cotton, p. 269) no doubt belonged to the same family.
Ter gedachtenisse van Mejuffrouvw Baebaea Mak-
gaeita Cadensky huysvrouw van D.' E. Adam
VAN DEE Dtjym geboren tot Coohim, anno 1678,
den 11 Augustus, obiit ultmo. maert 1702, out 23
jaeren 7 maenden 20 dagen.
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 226 ; vol. XVII, p. 14.)
Barbara Margarita Cadensky was perhaps the sister
of Pieter Cadensky of Cochin, Assistent, who married.
May 2, 1706, Johanna Lodewyks of Negapatnam.
Adam van der Duym was Commandeiu: of Jafina
(1705-08). It was during his term of office that thfr
Dutch Church there was built by Martinus-Leusekam.
Hier onder rust den wel. Edele Heer Geeeit de
Hebee in zyn leeven extraordinie. raad van
Nederlands India, Gouverneur en Directeur van't
Eyland Ceylon, de custe Madure ext. Obiit Colombo
den 26 Novembr., Ao. 1702, out 45 jaaren 8/m en-
26 dagen.
Arms. — . ... an eight-spoked wheel.
Crest. — A plume of ostrich feathers.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 225.)
Gerrit de Heere was born in Amsterdam, March 1,
1657, and married, at Batavia, Johanna Maria van
Riebeek, the daughter of the Governor-General
Abraham van Riebeek and Elisabeth van Osten of
Delft, and granddaughter of Johan van Riebeek, the
founder of Cape Colony, and Maria Quevellerius. De*
Heere's widow married the Governor-General Joan
van Hoorn.
Hier onder rust het lyck van mejuffrw. Abigail.
Keetlaae laast wedwe. van den oppercoopm. «o.
dessave der Colombose landen Hr. Coenblis Stbick
zalr., geboren Ter Goes den Isen. January, 1639, en
overleden ult., Februar., Ao. 1709, oud 70 jaren 7
maenden 10 dagen.
( 107 )
Wolvendaal Burial GrouM—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
366 ..
Feb. 28 .
1709
. Abigail Strick
-contd.
367
April 26
1719
Cornells van der Parra
368
Sept. 25
1714
Susanna Margarita Sehorer
369
April 16
and 25
and May 7
1719
Constantia Moll
Adriana Henrietta Moll
Bitterina Moll
(Children of Arnold Moll
and Christina van Reede}
370
April 7
1722
Francois van Beaumont
Inscription.
Arms. — Vair-taille, five lozenges conjoined bend-
wise.
Crest. — A plume of ostrich feathers.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B. , vol. XV. , pp.225, 285,286;
vol. XVII., pp. 14, 15, 22, 30, 32 ; vol. XVIII. , p. 63.)
Ter Goes is the capital of the island of South
Beveland (Zeeland).
Hier rust den E. Coenblis van der Pabra in syn
leeven coopmn. en sekretars. dieses eylants Ceylon,
alhier tot Colombo geboren Ao. 1687 den 31
Januari, obit Ao. 1719 den 26 April, oudt synde
32 jaaren, 2 maenden en 26 daagen.
Cornells van der Parra, baptized at Colombo.
February 6, 1687, was the son of Rombout van der
Parra of Amsterdam, Dissave of Colombo, by his wife
Maria Strick of Colombo, whom he married there on
July 11, 1683. Ronxbout married (2) at Colombo.
1695, Henrietta Wiokelman (Winkeknan?) of Galle.
Comelis married at Colombo, October 26, 1709,
Gertruida Susanna Spannuyt of Amsterdam, and
these were the parents of Petrus Albertus van der
Parra, born at Colombo, September 29, 1714,
Governor-General of the Dutch Indies.
Mitsgaders zyne dogter Susanna Margar. huys-
vrouwe van den ondercoopman en dispencier
Daniel Schorer. Geboren den 5den April, 1696,
oud 19 jaar, 5 maanden 20 dag. en overleden 25en
Septr. , 1714, soo mede haar dogtertje.
Arms (van der Parra). — Per fess, or and azure,
in chief an eagle displayed sable, in base a chevron
argent between three pears of the last.
Grest. — An eagle, as in the arms.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 227, 262, 263; vol. XVII.,
p. 16.)
There is no connection between this tombstone
and No. 367. Daniel (Bernardszoon) Schorer was a
native of Ter Goes (Beveland), and came out to the
Indies in the ship Serjeantsland in 1705.
Rust plaats der 3 gesusterjes Constantia tot Jaff.
geb. den 27 May, 1711, Adriana Henrietta dto.
den 27 April, 1712, Bitterina tot gale dto. den
4 Augo., 1714. Overleden den 16 en 25 April en
7 May, 1719, alien Kinderen van de Hr. Arnold
Moll opperk. en Ceylons hoofd administrat. en
mejoffrou Christina vait Reede.
Arms. — Party per fess, in chief three moles, in base,
argent, two barrulets dancette sable.
(Ihid., vol. XV., pp. 229, 230, 236, 265, 277 ; vol.
XVII., pp. 16, 27, 29.)
Christina van Reede died at Batavia, April 13, 1731 ,
was the daughter of Gerard van Rhee. The strange
name Bitterina is a feminine form of Bitter — a name
of frequent occurrence in the van Reede family.
There was a Lieutenant Bitter van Reede in Ceylon
in 1693.
Outside the church. Probably removed here from
the Port Dutch Church.
Hier rust jonckheer Francois van Beaumont oud 24
jaaren vyf. maanden en 7 dagen. Overleeden den
7 April, 1722.
Arm^. — Azure, a ship in full sail, or ; on a chief or,
a lion passant, sable.
Grest. — ^A Uon issuant, sable, armed and langued
gules, between a pair of wings or and sable.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 229, 235 ; vol. XVII., pp. Iti,
18.)
Frangois van Beaumont was perhaps the son of
Cornells van Beaumont of Breda, Fiscaal, Cape^ and
Dehana Blesius, daughter of Johannes Blesius of
Breukelen (N. Holland), Fiscaal, Cape, and
granddaughter of Rev. Dominions Blesius of
Breukelen.
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Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
371 .. June 11 .. Isaac August Rumpf .. Inluctuossimumobitumprsenobilisetinoomparabilis
1723 viri domiiu et magistri Is. Aug. Rttmpf, ordinarii
(dum viveret) concilii Ind. Orient, membri et
gubematoris per universam insularu CeyloimanseDa.
Conditur hoc tumulo illustris pars infima Rumpfi
Spiritus aethereos pervolat usque polos Occidit janL
nostro corruscans lumine cselo Sol sed heu miseroa
nos manet atra dies, Ille gubemandis populis
miserisque juvandis Natus amor nostri temporis
ecce jacet Vos Ceylonnenses saxum quoties videatis
Fundite vos lacrymas, nam pater interiit. Natus,.
Ao. 1673 vigesimo primo Novembr., denatus Ao.
1723, undecimo Juny.
Arms. — Quarterly of four : 1 and 4 gules, a
five-pointed star or, 2 and 3 party per bend
wavy, or and azure, a rose counterchanged. Over
aU, on an inescutcheon argent, a bull rampant langued
gules.
Crest. — A bull affront^.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 228,229;.
vol. XVII., pp. 16, 58 ; vol. XVIII., pp. 68, 325.)
The earliest known ancestor of this fajnily was
Johannes Rumpf, Baron of Weilros, a Colonel in the
Regiment of Emperor Maximiliaan II. , who died in
action in the year 1566. He was the grandfather of
the great-grandfather of Isaac Augustyn Rumpf, who
was bom in The Hague, November 21 , 1673. He was
a Doctor of Laws of Leyden University, and arrived
in the Indies in 1707 in the ship H Huis ter Loo for
the chamber Amsterdam, and succeeded Hendrik
Bekker as Governor on December 5, 1716. He was
the son of Christiaan Constantyn Rumpf and Anna
Margarita Bee , and married Gysberta Johaima Blesius,.
the sister of Deliana Blesius, wife of Cornelis van
Beaumont. Gysberta Johaima Blesius married, as
the widow Rumpf, at Batavia, on March 16, 1726,
Mr. Everhard Kraayvanger of Macassar, Advocate
Fiscaal of India, and widower of Maria Catharina
de Vos.
This epitaph was versified in English with consider-
able skill by the late Mr. E. C. Dumbleton, Crown
Counsel, as foUows : —
Hidden beneath this tombstone's shade
The mortal part of Rumpf is laid.
Illustrious dust ! His spirit high
Now flits beyond the ethereal sky ;
Sunk is the sun that gleamed so bright.
Changed is our day to " Death's Dark Night."
Born to command and grief assuage —
The fondest hope of this our age !
Lo, Ceylonese, lo ! Here he lies, —
Whene'er this stone confronts your eyes,
Grudge not the tribute of a tear
To parent worth that's buried here !
372 . Oct. 19 . . Johannes Hertenberg . . Hier legt begraven den Edelen groot agtbaaren Heer
1745 Johannes Hebtenbbbg, raad extraordinaris van
Nederlands India, Gouvemeur en Directeur desea
Eylands Ceylon en deszelfs onderhorigheden etc.
Gebooren t'Oudkarspel Ao. 1668, d. 15 April. Obiit
op Colombo d. 19 Octob. 1725, out 56 jaaren 6
maanden 4 dagen.
Arms. — On a fess, between a stag courant in chief
and three hills in base, three trefoils.
Crest. — A stag's head.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 231 ; vol. XVII., p. 53.)
Johannes Hertenberg came out to the Indies in the
ship De Oroote Vischery as Third Surgeon in 1687.
He was Commandeur of Galle, 1713, and Governor of
Ceylon from January 12, 1724. Oudkarspel is a small
town to the north of Alkmaar , but his birthplace is
given also as Enkhuyzen. Onderhorigheden is the
modern " dependencies."
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
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Wolvendaal Burial Ground— cowfi.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
373 ..
Feb. 22
1735
. . Jacob Hals
Nov. 16
. . Johannes Adrien Overbeek
1733
(grandson)
Inscription.
Ter gedagtenisse Van Jacob Hals oudt Capitain der
Colombose burgerye, geboren tot Amsterdam den
6 May, amio 1668, overleeden tot Colombo den 22
February, Ao. 1735, oudt 66 jaaren, 9 maanden en
17 dagen, mitsds. g. ds. selfs. klynsoon Johans.
Adbibn Oveebeek, geboren tot Tutucoryn,
dn. 3 Febry.,Ao. 1725, ovrldn. tot Colbo.dn. 163
Novr., Ao. 1733, oudt 8 jaaren 9 maanden en 1
dagen.
Arms.—Fer fess, in chief a crowned figure consisting
of a ball covered with two leaves, in base three arrow
heads fessways and directed vertically downwards
issuing from the fess line.
Crest. — ^A helmet between a pair of wings.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 232, 251, 2-5
287 ; vol. XVIL.pp. 18, 24 ; vol. XVIII., p. 56.)
Jacob Hals married, (1) Dominga Suarus at
Colombo, February 19, 1696. His daughter of this
marriage, Elisabeth, was the wife of Daniel Overbeek,
Governor of Ceylon. Hals married, (2) March 15,
1722, Sophia van Giethoom of Colombo, widow of
Nicolaas Moor and daughter of Hermanus Albertsz
van. Giethoorn.
374 . . Dec. 13 . . Jacobus Wilhelmus Baltha^
1736 zarus, Baron von Imhoff
Jacobo Wilhelmo Balthazabi W. Bar. von Imhoff
Gtjstav Wilhelm ex Cath. Magdal. Huysman,
fil. nat. min. plur. da. nat. Batavia 20 Mart, 1735,
denat. Colombo 13 Decemb. 1736, aetat. mens. 20,
dies 23 parent, moestiss. pos.
Arms. — Quarterly of four : 1 and 4, gules, a lion
marine, or (Imhoff) ; 2 and 3, party per pale, gules and
argent, an annulet counterchanged (Gundelfinger).
Over all : an inescutcheon or, on which a crowned
double-headed eagle displayed, sable.
Crest. — A crowned double-headed eagle displayed,
sable.
The arms on the 16 shields on the sides of the stone
are as follows : —
Dexter.
Imhoff. — (Already blazoned. )
Boreel. — Argent, a chevron sable between three
hunting-horns sable ; on a chief gules a lion passant,
guardant, or.
Imhoff. — (Already blazoned.)
Corel. — Azure, on a mount, a tree or.
Lewezoven. — Argent, a portcullis gules.
Coy mans. — Quarterly : 1 and 4 barry of 6, argent
and azure, on a chief gules, three bessHits or ; 2 and 3,
or, 3 bulls' heads sable.
Lewezoven. — (Already blazoned. )
Trip. — Gules, 3 pattens or.
Sinister.
Huysman. — Per fess, in chief, two prongs argent,
placed saltire-wise ; in base a bull arrets gules.
Pelgrom. — Quarterly: (1) argent, a double-headed
eagle displayed gules, beaked and membered azure ;
(2) two weasels rampant and affront^, gules ; (3)
argent, three six-spoked wheels sable; (4) or, a pine
tree eradicated, vert.
Waegberg. — Or, a crowned Uon rampant, sable.
Everson. — Argent, a drake contourn^.
Hasfeley.—QuaTterly : 1 and 4, argent, a chevron
between three five-pointed stars ; 2 and 3, argent,
five billets (2 and 3).
Pigeon. — Argent, three lance-heads gules.
Emougher. — Quarterly : 1 and 4 argent, 2 boar
spears adoss6 ; 2 and 3, argent, a chevron between
three fieurs-de-Iys.
Hebert. — ^Argent.
{Ibid., vol XV., pp. 232, 233, 234, 258, 287;
vol. XVII., p. 27 ; vol. XVHI., p. 59.)
Gustaaf Wellem Baron von Imhoff was born at
Leer on the Eems (Westphalia, East Friesland) on
August 8, 1705, and was the son of WeUem Hendrik
Baron von Imhoff and Isabella Sophia Boreel. He
82-09
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Wolvendaal Burial GiouM—contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
374 . . Dec. 13 . . Jacobus Wilhelmus Balthazarus, entered the service of the Dutch Bast India Company
1736 Baron von ImhoS — contd. in 1725 as onderkoopman, was Governor of Ceylon
July 23, 1736, to March 12, 1740, and appointed
Governor-General December 2, 1740. On the orders
of Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier he was
placed xmder arrest and sent back to Holland, where
he arrived on September 19, 1741, but the States-
General confirmed him in his office. He died in
Batavia, November 1, 1760. He married in 1734
Catharina Magdalena Huysman (who died at Batavia,
July 22, 1744), daughter of the Director-General
Antony Huysman and Johanna Catharina Pelgrom.
Jacob Wilhelm Balthazar was the only child of this
marriage.
The sixteen quarterings on the tombstone are
explained as follows in the Journal of the Dutch
Burgher Union of Ceylon, vol. II., p. 91 : —
Willem Boreel was the son of Jacob Boreel, Burgo-
master of Bergen-op-Zoom, who died in 1636 at the
age of 84. He was himself a Burgomaster, viz., of
Middelburg, and died at Paris, where he was the
Ambassador, on September 29, 1668, his wife Jacoba
Carel having predeceased him there on January 17,
1657. Jacob Boreel, their son, was born on March 1,
1630, and died on August 21, 1697. He was Burgo-
master of Amsterdam, and married Isabella Coymans,
the daughter of Balthazar Coymans and Maria Trip,
the daughter of Elias Trip, a Director of the Dutch
East India Company, and Alette Adriaansz. Their
daughter Isabella Sophia Boreel married WiUem
Hendriok Baron van Imhoff , " Geheimraad van der
Vorst van Oostfriesland en Drost van Lieroost."
These were the parents of the Governor of Ceylon,
whose wife Catharina Magdalena Huysman derives
from a family long settled in the East. Antony
Huysman of Rotterdam sailed for Batavia in 1646
with his wife Lea van Waesberg, taking with them
their four children, of whom one was Marten Huys-
man, born at Rotterdam in 1635. Lea van Waesberg
died on the voyage, and Antony Huysman at
Batavia, 1673. Marten Huysman rose to be the
Director-General of Bengal, where he died in 1684,
having married at Batavia, 1664, Magdalena
Chastelyn, born 1644, died at Batavia, 1698. Antony
Huysman (the son of Marten) was born at Jaffna in
1668, and died at Batavia, September 19, 1728, as
Director-General of the Dutch Indies. Johanna
Catharina Pelgrom of Amsterdam, born October 20,
1686, was his second wife, he having married her in
Bengal on October 20, 1686. She was the daughter
of the " ontvanger generaal " of the Dutch Indies,
Jacob Jacobszoon Pelgrom (whose mother was SibUla
Everson) , and Catharina Pigou, ' ' Vrouw der Miljaad."
The daughter of Antony Huysman was Catharina
Magdalena Huysman, born in Bengal, June 11, 1708.
She was married to the Governor of Ceylon (after-
wards Governor-General) at Ba!tavia, April 20, 1727.
It may be noted that Lowezoven, Waegberg, Haste-
ley, Pigeou, and Emougher on the tombstone should
be Van Levetzow, Waesberg, Chastelyn, Pigou, and
De Moucheron.
375 . . Dec. 19 . . Josina Jacoba Crytsman . . Hier lyden rust mejuffrouw Josina Jacoba van
1736 Wynbbegen huysvrouw van het Ponnecail's hoofd
Johannes Ferdinandtts Crytsman. Geboren
den 22 September, Ao. 1709. Overleden den 19
December, 1736. Out 27 jaaren 2 maanden en 28
daagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 231, 232, 256,
286; vol. XVIL, pp. 17, 26.)
Josina Jacoba Wynbergen was born in The Hague,
and was married to Johannes Ferdinandus Crytsman
at Colombo on May 15, 1735. Johannes Ferdinandus
Crytsman, born at Colombo in 1709, was the son of
Johannes Crytsman of Breslau, Commissioner of the
Arecanut Department, Colombo, by his fourth wife
Gertruida de Haau. "Ponnecail's hoofd" means
Chief of Pondekayl, a small Dutch mttloment in those
days to the south of Tutucorin.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
376 ..
Dec. 27
. Diederiek Christiaan
van
1741
Domburgh
377
Oct. 13
1749
Richard van Minnen
378
Feb. 26
1752
Geraard Johan Vreland
379
Aug. 10
1755
July 30
1755
Anna Henrietta Loten
Albert Anthoni Cornells van
der Brughen
Inscription.
Hier onder legt en rust het lyk van den Jonkheer
DiERK. Cheistit. vn. DoMBimGH eenigste soon van
den Eden. Hear Mr. Didertk van Dombuegh, in
leven Gouverneur en Directr. van't Byland Ceylon
met dies resorts en Mevrwe. Euphemia Engelbert
egteleeden. Geboren in't Casteel Colombo den
4en. October, Ao. 1734. Overleeden den 27en.
December, 1741 , oud zynde 7 jaaren, 2 maenden en
23 dagen.
Arms. — Quarterly of four : 1 and 4, harry of six,
argent and gules ; 2 and 3, argent, three fishes ranged
fessways, embowed, and haurient.
Crest. — A fish's head (?) between a pair of wings.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 231 ; vol.
XVII., pp. 17, 63.)
Diederiek van Domburg was born in Utrecht in
1685, being the son of the Raadsheer Cornells van
Domburg. He was Governor of Ceylon from January
21, 1734, to Jixne 7, 1736. Euphemia Engelbert was
born on March 4, 1711, being the daughter of
Heinrich Engelbert (van Beveroorde). Met dies
resorts, i.e., with the dependencies thereof.
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Hier rust den opperkoopman en Ceylons hoofd
administrateur D. E. Heer Richard van Minnen,
gebooren te Amersvoort den 6 November, Ao. 1706.
Overleeden den 13 Octbr., 1749, oud Z3mde 42
jaaren 11 maanden en 7 dagen.
Arms. — Party per pale , ( 1 ) half of the double-headed
eagle displayed issuing from the pale line ; (2) per
fess, 6 rosebuds, three in chief and three in base.
Crest. — A double-headed eagle displayed.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 234, 285 ; vol. XVII., pp. 18, 32.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Richard van Minnen was married, (1) November 29,
1739, to Johanna Hester Mooyaarfc, the eldest
daughter of Anthony Mooyastrt, Commandeur of
Jaffna, and Elisabeth Ursula Woutersz, and, (2)
November 27, 1743, to Rachel Steiger of Batavia,
who died August 15, 1776, after having contracted
two marriages , one with Warner Berghuys of Jaffna,
and another with David Boelen of Amsterdam.
Amersvoort is a town in the Province of Utrecht.
Hier rust het lyk van den Wei Edele Groot Agtbaare
Heer Geraard Johan Vreland , raad extraordinair
van Nederlands India, Gouverneur en Directeur
van het eyland Ceylon, de custe Madure en de
verdere onderhoorigheden. Gebooren tot Utrecht
den 24 September, Ao. 1711. Overleeden tot
Colombo den 26 February, Ao. 1752, oud zynde
40 jaaren 5 maanden en 2 dagen.
Arms. — On a mount three trees ranged fesswise.
Crest. — A tree, as in the arms.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 234; vol. XVII., pp. 17, 18,44;
vol. XVIII., p. 408.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church in 1813.
Gerard Johan Vreeland came out to the Indies in
1739 in the Knappenhoff as an assistent. He wtis
the son of Gerard Vreeland and Petronella van
Romont. He married Susanna Petronella Visboom,
born in Colombo, 1687, the daughter of Marcus
Visboom of Colombo and Cornelia van Wynbergen,
and granddaughter of Johannes Visboom of Amster-
dam, Commissioner of the Aiecanut Department,
and Anna Margarita Mazius of Cochin. Vreeland
was Governor of Ceylon from March 6, 1751.
(See No. 384.)
Hier verwachten eene verheerlykte opstandinge de
sterfelyke overblyf sels van wylen de welgeboore
vrouwe Anna Henrietta van Beaumont gemaa-
linnevan Joan Gideon Loten, raad ordinair van
Nederlands India, Gouverneur van't Eyland Ceylon
met dies onderhoorighed en. Gebooren aan Caap de
Goede Hoop den 13 November, 1716, in den eght
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Wolvendaal Burial Ground— cow^c?.
Serial No.
379 ..
Date.
Aug. 10
1755, &c.
Name.
Anna Henrietta Loten, &c.
— contd.
380
March 29
1760
May 29
1759
Susanna Engelberta Sehreu-
der
Huybert Joan Schreuder
Inscription.
381
May 24
1761
Sept. 14
1761
Dec. 9
1761
Susanna Adriana Moens . .
Petronella Adriana Moens
Johannes Godefridus Moens
getreeden te Batavia den 24 Augustus, 1733, en
ontslaapen te Colombo den 10 Augustus, 1755
Als meede van haar welgeboorens eenige doghter's
zoontje Job. Albebt Anthoni Coknelis van dek
Bbughen te Colombo gebooren den 24en. Maart,
1754, en overleden den 30 July, 1755.
Arms.— Party per pale: (1) {Loten) Or, 3 buds
vert, ranged 2 and 1, the stalks of the two in chief
issuing from the bud in base ; (2) (van Beaumont)
(already blazoned).
Crest. — A pair of wings.
(Journal, E.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 229, 235;
vol. XVII., pp. 16, 18; vol. XIX., pp. 217-271.)
Removed here from the Port Dutch Church.
Anna Henrietta van Beaumont was the daughter of
Comelis van Beaumont, Independent Fiscaal, Cape,
and Deliana Blesius.
Joan Gideon Loten, " the naturalist Governor of
Ceylon," was a native of Utrecht, where he was bom
on May 16, 1710, being the son of Jan Carel Loten
and Maria Aartsen van Juchem. He married (2) in
Bansted (Surrey), July 4, 1766, Letitia Cotes,
daughter of Rev. Dr. Digby Cotes and Elisabeth
Bannister. He died in Utrecht on February 25,
1789, and his second wife on June 11, 1810, at New
Burlington street, London. She was niece to the
Coxmtess of Northington, and granddaughter of
William, Lord Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire,
Prebendary of Litchfield and Principal of Magdalen
Hall, Oxford. Dirk WUlem van der Brughen of
Bergen-op-Zoom (North Brabant) married in Batavia,
July 19, 1752, Amoldina Deliana Cornelia Loten of
Samarang, the daughter of the Governor. Albert
Anthoni Cornells van der Brughen was a son of this
marriage. Loten was Governor of Ceylon from
September 30, 1752, to March 17, 1757.
Hier onder rusten de lyken van de welgeboore
jonkvrouw Susanna Engelbebta Schbeudek geb.
te Souratta den 30 April, 1743, en overl. te Colombo
den 29 Maart, 1760, en jonkheer Htttbebt Joan
SoHEEUDEE, geb. te Colombo den 4en. Febr. 1759
en gest. den 29 Mey desselven jaars, benevens nog
een jong geboore dogtertje, kinderen van Joan
ScHEEtTDEE, raad extraordin. van Nederl. India,
Gouverneur en Directeur van't Byland Ceylon met
dies onder horigheden.
Arms. — A sheaf of three branches, two saltire- and
one pale-ways.
Crest. — ^A branch as in the arms, between a pair of
wings.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 235.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Joan Schreuder was bom in Hamburg on February
12, 1704, and died in Batavia January 16, 1764. He
married in Batavia (as widower of Johanna Gode-
frieda de la Fontaine), on May 12, 1737, Maria
WUhelmina Lammens of Cloosterzande, aged 25 years.
Schreuder was Governor of Ceylon from March 17,
1757, to November 11, 1762.
A daughter of Governor Schreuder's, Wilhelmina
Johanna, married (1) Dirk van der Sluys, and (2)
Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Coro-
mandel. She died in 1804.
Hier legt begraaven Susanna Adbiana Potkbn huis-
vTouw van den onderkoopman en oud eerste clerq
van Politie Ahriaan Moens gebooren te Colombo
den 27 Augs., 1726, en daar overleeden den 24 Meyr
1761,nevens hun dogtertje Pbteonblla Adbiana
gebooren te Colombo den 30 April, 1760, en daar
overleeden den 14 Septembr. 1761, en zoontje
Johannes Godefridus gebooren te Colombo den
7 Mey, 1761, en daar overleeden den 9 December
daaraan.
( 113 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
381 ..
May 24 .
1761. &c.
. Susanna Adriana Moens, &e,
contd.
382
April 1
1765
Lubbert Jan Baron van Eck
383
April 2
1768
May 3
1765
Sara Maria Moens
Adriana Maria Moens
Inscription.
— Arms : Dexter shield (Moens, already blazoned).
Sinister shield.— Ov , a pot
Arms round the shields.
Potken. — (As above.)
Munts. — Argent, a pelican in her piety.
Ecoma. — A female head between four bells (?).
Van der Putte. — Gules, three annulets or.
(Journal, R.A.S.,C.B., vol. XV., pp. 230,236,261;
vol. XVII., pp. 16, 19, 27, 28 ; vol. XVIII., p. 72.)
Susanna Adriana Potken was the daughter of Rev.
Gerrardus Potken of Oldenzaal (Overysel) and Sophia
Magdalena Ecoma. She was first married to Rev.
Mattheus Wermelskircher. Rev. Gerrardus Potken
was evidently the son of Gabriel Potken and Agnita.
Muntz. Gerrard Willem Stork (from whom the Stork
family of Ceylon derive). Burgomaster of Oldenzaal,
married, in 1717, Agnita Potken, the daughter of
Gabriel Potken and Agnita Muntz. Adriaan Moens
was a native of Middelburg.
Hier legt begraven de Hoog Welgeboren Heer
Ltjbbert Jan Baeon van Eck, Heer van Overbeek,
raad extraordr. van Nederlands India, Gouverneur
en Directeur van het Eyland Ceylon met dies on-
derhorigheeden, hier te Colombo overleden den
1 April, 1765, nae van bevorens het genoegzaam
ontoegankelyk en door de natur als onverwinnelyk
ryk van Candia met dies hoofdstad in perzoon voor
de Compagnie ingenomen en dies Koning op de
vlugt verdreeven te hebben.
Arms. — Party per pale vert and gules, a bend
argent.
Supporters. — Two lions or, langued gules, re-
guardant.
Motto. — " Vincere aut mori."
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 236; vol. XVII., p. 19; vol.
XVIIL, pp. 63, 73, 118.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Lubbert Jan Baron van Eck was bom at Velp, a
village in Gelderland, east of Arnhem, on March 26,
1719. He was the son of Samuel Baron van Eck and
Jacoba Wilhelmina Maria Coutis. Van Eck was
Governorof Ceylon from November 11, 1762, to May 13,
1765. The principal event during his administration
was the invasion of Kandy by the Dutch, referred
to in the epitaph.
Hier legt begraven Saba Maria Raket huysvrouw
van den opperkoopman en zoldy boekhouder
Adriaan Moens, geboren te JafEanapatnam den
13 May, 1734, en te Colombo overleeden den 2
April, 1768, neevens hun dogtertje Adriana Maria
geboren te Colombo den 25 April, 1765, en daar
overleeden den 3 Mey daaraan.
Arms : JJexter shield (Moens). — Gules, a chevron
or between three trefoils argent.
Sinister shield (Raket). — A cross engrailed sable,
cantoned ( 1 and 4) by two pairs of antlers sable.
Side shields.
Rahet. — (As above.)
Sandra. — Quarterly of ioxvc. 1 and 4 barry of
four 2 and 3 argent, a lion rampant.
Surtout. — An inescutcheon charged with the sun in
his splendour.
Swinnas. — Argent, on a mount a tree and a stag (?)
courant.
Verwyk. — ^Argent, in chief, between two palms,
a house, approached by an avenue of palms.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 230, 236, 264; vol. XVII.,
pp. 16, 19; vol. XVIIL, p. 73.)
Sara Maria Raket was the second wife of Adriaan
Moens (married on May 22, 1763). She was probably
the daughter of Jan Helfrig Raket, Chief of Mannar,
1743, and Magdalena Swinnas.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
384 ..
Oct. 4
1768
. . Pieter Libert Schmidt
( 114 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Inscription.
. . Hier rust Pieter Libert Schmidt, opperkoopmair
en Ceilons hoofd Administrateur. Geboren te
Utrecht, d. 15 Maart, 1723, overleeden d. 4
October, 1768.
Arms. — Party per fess, azure and gules, iu chief
three roses, in base three stars (5).
Crest. — A rose (?) between a pair of wings.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 230; voL
XVII., p. 17.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Pieter Libert Schmidt was married on July 4, 1758,
to Susanna Petronella Visboom, widow of Gerard
Johan Vreeland. (See No. 378.)
385 . . June 22 . . Agnita Clara van de Graaff Hier rust vrouwe Agnita Clara Samlandt waarde
1773 en seer geliefde egtgenoot van Willem Jacob van
DE Graafi' opperkoopman en secunde van Komps.
Etavelissement en op de Mallabaar. Gebooren
den 29 Deoembr., 1745, overleeden den 22 Juny,.
1773.
Arms : Dexter shield ( Van de Gfraaff). — Argent,
two fesses battled-counter-embattled sable, on a
canton or, a double eagle displayed of the second.
Sinister shield (Samlandt). — Gules between a beam
(?) or fess ways, three standing pillars or.
Arms on the side shields.
Samlandt. — (As above.)
Emans. — Vert, two standing pillars or, the upper
part of the sinister pillar falling behind the other.
Bierens. — Argent, three bells
Toorse. — Party per pale, (1) argent two escallops
placed palewise ; (2) per fess argent and gules, in chief
a fess battled-counter-battled.
(Ihid., vol. XV., pp. 226, 240, 248; vol., XVII.„
pp. 15, 26, 47, 51, 67; vol. XVIII., pp. 69, 70.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Willem Jacob van de Graaff (bom May 28, 1737, at
Huysen in Gelderland) was the son of Sebastiaan van
de Graaff (born 1705 at Rotterdam, died 1767 at
Leerdam), a Major in the Dragoons, and Gertruida van
Vinceler, and grandson of Cornells van de Graaff (bom
1647 at Dordrecht, died 1729 at Portsmouth, as
Commander of the frigate Starrenburg) and Anna
Lucia van Lidth de Jeude. He was Governor of
Ceylon from February 7, 1785, to August 1, 1794
Agnita Clara Samlandt was the first wife of the-
Governor, the marriage having taken place in Galle
on March 7, 1762. She was the daughter of Abraham
Samlandt, Commandeur of Galle, and Maria Agnita
Bierens, the daughter of Dirk Bierens and Catharina
Toorzee, and granddaughter of Jan Bierens of Amster-
dam, Chief of Madura, and Anthonica Magnus.
Abraham Samlandt was the son of Barent Samlandt
and Johanna Clara Erhans, and grandson of Barent
Barentsz Samlandt of Haarlem and Hester Schatteman.
386 .. April 22 .. Gerard Reynier de Cock .. Den22April,Ao. 1777, is hier ter rust gelegt Gerard
1777 Reynier de Cock onderkoopman en als gewezen
Gaalse erste pakhuysmeester naar Nederland
veriest.
Arms. — Argent, a unicorn
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 237 ; vol. XVII., p. 19.)
387 . . June 15 . . Henrietta Tugendreicli, Den 15 Juny, Ao. 1778, is hier ter ruste gelegt
1778 Baroness de Reder Henrietta Tugendreioh Baronesse de Rbdee
beminde egt-genoote van Cobnelis de Cock,
opperkoopman en Dessave der Colombosche omme-
landen.
Ommelanden (lit. , sxirrounding lands) was the name
given to the low lands of the Province of Groningen,
to distinguish them from the city. The whole is
known as Groningen en ommelanden or Stad en Land
van Groningen. The Dutch seem to have adopted the
expression in Ceylon. Cf. also Gommandeur der Stad
en Landen van Gale.
Arms. — Argent, an eight-spoked wheel.
Supporters. — ^Two unicorns.
( 115 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground— contd.
Serial No.
387 ..
Date.
June 15
1778
Name.
Henrietta Tugendreich, Baron-
ess de Reder — contd.
388
June 15
1781
Susanna Philipsz
389
Sept. 9
1782
Judith Charlotta Mekern
390
Feb. 6
1785
Iman Willem Falek
Inscription.
Crest. — A wheel, as in the shield.
(Journal, E.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 237, 260; voL
XVII., pp. 19, 28 ; vol. XVIII., p. 63.)
Cornells de Cock, Private Secretary (1766) to
Governor Falck, was a native of Embden (Hanover),
and married at Colombo, February 1, 1766, Henrietta
Tugendreich , Baroness de Reder of Liohnitz. She was
no doubt the daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron de
Reder, Commandant of Jaffna, and sister of Constantia
Agnita and Maria Helena Classina de Reder.
Constantia Agnita, Baroness de Reder, was born at
Zutphen(Gelderland), September 13, 1741, and married
at Batavia, January 23, 1763, Dr. Christiaan Rose
of Neu-Riippin (Middelmark, Brandenburg), Comman-
deur of Jaffna. Maria Helena Classina, Baroness de
Reder of Zutphen , was married ( 1 ) to Thomas Thornton ,
Chief of Calpentyn, and (2) at Colombo, January 21
1770, to General Arnoldus Franckena of Yselmtmden
(a small town south of Rotterdam).
Den 15 Juny, 1781, is hier ter ruste gelegt 't leyk van
mejufirouw Susanna Schaeff waarde huysYrouw
van den Predikant alhier Heneictjs Philipsz.
Arms.- — AzuJi, a dexter hand holding a sabre.
Crest. — An arm, as in the shield.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 237, 239 ; vol. XVII., pp. 19,
20, 29, 31.)
Jan Christoffel Scharff of Sangerhausen (Upper
Saxony, Thuringia) married at Colombo, March 21,
1734, Elisabeth de Saram of Colombo. Their
daughter Susanna was baptized at Colombo, Decem-
ber 8, 1743, and married there on November 4, 1759,
Rev. Henrious Philipsz.
Hier rust Judith Chaelotta Levee in leeven
huysvrouw van Maetintjs Mekben, opperkoopman
en opperhoofd van Tutukoryn. Geboren te
Bergen-opden-Zoom den 11 Januari, 1753, en over-
laden te Kolombo den 9 September, 1782.
Arms : Dexter shield (Mekern). — Argent, three
greyhounds courant.
Crest. — A bird.
Sinister shield. — On a fess, between a horse coiirant
in chief and six besants 3.2.1 in base, ten besants
ranged fessways.
Crest. — A horse's head.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 238, 240, 241, 271, 272;
vol. XVII., pp. 20, 67.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Martinus Mekern was a native of Groningen, and
married Judith Charlotta Lever at Colombo on March
29, 1772. Their daughters Eva and Anna Helena were
the wives of Johann Friedrich Conradi of HUdersheim
(Treves) and Lieutenant (Navy) Perius Muntz of
Harlingen (Friesland). Bergen-op-den-Zoom (Bergen-
op-Zoom) is a town in North Brabant, 23 miles south-
west of Breda.
Hier is ter ruste gelegd 't lyk van den wel Edelen
grootagtbaaren Heer Mr. Iman Willem Falck,
Raad Ordinair van Nederlands India, Gouvemeur
en Direeteur van 't eiland Ceilon en resort van dien.
Grebooren te Kolombo in den jaare 1736, en over-
ledenden6Febr.,1785.
Arms. — Gules,' a falcon with wings expanded or.
Crest. — A falcon, as in the arms.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 238, 239, 255; vol. XVIL,
pp. 20, 25, 47, 68 ; vol. XVIIL, pp. 73, 75, 76.)
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Iman Willem Falck was the son of Frans Willem
Falck of Keulen, Dissave of Matara, and Adriana
Gobius of Samarang, the daughter of Johan Frederick
Gobius , Governor of Malacca, and Margaritha Elisabeth
Heynen. Iman Willem Falck married in Batavia,
February 19, 1763, Theodora Rudolphina de Wendt
of Batavia , daughter of the Brigadier Gerardiis Bylanus
de Wendt and Johanna Wilhelmina Muntz. Falck
was Governor of Ceylon from August 9, 1765.
( 116
Wolvendaal Burial Ground — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
390 ..
Feb. 6
1785
Name.
Iman Willem Falck — contd.
Inscription.
Ter gedagtenisse van den Wei Edelen groot agtbaaren
Heer Iman Willem Falck, in 't leeven Raad Ord.,
van Nederlands Indien, Gouvemeur en Directeur
van 't eiland Ceylon en resorte van dien. Geb. te
Kolumbo den 25 Maart, Ao^ 1736, overleeden te-
Kolumbo den 6 Feb., Ao. 1785.
A wooden hatchment ( Wapenbord).
391
July 4
1789
Catharina Camp
392
May 19
1790
Rev. Henricus Phillpsz
Hier rust ter algemeene opstanding mejuffr. Catha-
rina Bosch in haar Edel. leven gelievde egtgenote
van den Eerw. Heer Chbistianits Camp. Was-
gebooren te Amsterdam den 12 December, 1747,
alhier ontslaapen den 4 July, 1789, in den ouderdom
41 jaaren 6 maanden en 22 dagen.
Op Jesus 't vaste fondament
Haar hoop alleen was heengewent.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pj 239 ; voL
XVII., p. 32.)
En den wel Eerwaarde Heer Heneicits Philtpsz
leeraar in de gereformeerde gemeente alliier. Ge-
boren den Ao. 1733, en, na een 32 jaarig predik-
ampt, overleden den 19 May, 1790.
Artns. — Argent, a naked woman standing with her
left arm over the back of a unicorn passant and
brochant sur le tout. In base the word yiXXfTcrco?.
Crest. — Out of a coronet a unicorn's head.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 237, 238, 239, 241, 242 ; voL
XVII., pp. 20, 21 ; vol. XVIII., pp. 72, 77.)
Rev. Henricus Phihpsz was the son of Lienege
Philip Philipsz Wijecoon Panditaratne, Maha Mudali-
yar. He was educated at the Colombo Seminary, and
afterwards sent to Holland with Willem Jurgen
Ondaatje.
They both studied at Utrecht. PhiKpsz was in
Amsterdam before he left for Utrecht, as appears
from his "attestation" dated October 5, 1752. He
returned to Ceylon with W. J. Ondaatje, and was
stationed at Colombo as Predikant. He preached
in Sinhalese and Dutch.
Philipsz married at Colombo, November 4, 1759,
Susanna Scharff. Their son Gerardus Phihpsz was
also educated in Holland, and returned to Ceylon as
Predikant. He married on July 29, 1792, Johanna
Adriana van Dort. Cornelia Henrica Philipsz, the
daughter of Henricus Philipsz, married (1) July 26,
1789, AdoliDh Marten Heyman of Leeuwestein (Fran-
conia), and (2) October 20, 1793, Christof!el de Saram
Wanigesekera Ekenaike, fourth Maha MudaUyar,
the son Of Domingo de Saram Wanigesekera
Ekenaike.
393 . . 1790 Cornelia Reyniera Fretz . .
1806 . . Johanna Catharina Hen-
rietta Meyer
Overl. Ao. 1790. Hier onder rusten Cornelia
Reyniera Fretz, gebooren vanSanden, Johanna
Catharina Henrietta Meyer en haare breeder,
Ao. 1806 overl.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 240, 269, 270.)
Dietrich Thomas Fretz, the last Commandeur of
Galle, and husband of Cornelia Beyniera van Sanden
of Jaffna, was the son of Jan Frans Fretz of Hessen
and Anna Gertruida Herpel.
Johanna Catharina Henrietta Meyer, bom at
Colombo, 1800, was the daughter of Rev. David
Meyer of Ham (Westphalia) and Justina Susanna
Fretz, the daughter of Diederich Thomas Fretz of
St. Goar (Hesse-Nassau), Commandeur of Galle, and
Cornelia Reyniera van Sanden of Jaffna, and grand-
daughter of Jan Frems Fretz of Hesse and Anna
Gertruida Herpel. The brother referred to in the
epitaph was perhaps Diederich Thomas Meyer, bom
in 1797.
Diederich Thomas Fretz married (2) Gertruida
Henrietta Bartels of Tutucorin, the daughter o£
Jeronymus Bartels and Natalia Gomes.
( 117 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground, Colombo— cow^cZ.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
394 ..
June 18
. Christina Elizabetli van de
1792
Graaff
395
June 18
1792
Christina Elizabeth van de
GraafI
396
Feb. 13
1793
Jakomina van Angelbeek
397
£
Inscription.
Hier rust vrouwe Christina Elizabeth van Angel-
beek waarde en zeer geliefde egtgenoote van
WiLLEM Jakob van de Graaff raad-ordinair van
Nederlands India en Gouverneur van Geilon.
Geboren den 30 January, 1756, en overleeden den
18Juny, 1792.
Arms : Dexter shield {Van de Oraaff). — Already
blazoned.
Sinister shield {an Anglebeek). — Party per fess,
barry-wavy of 4, azure and sable, in chief, three fish-
hooks fessways, the points turned to the sinister.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 226, 240,
241 ; vol. XVII., pp. 23, 26, 47, 67 ; vol. XVIII., pp.
69, 70.)
Willem Jacob van de Graafi, born May 28, 1737,
was the son of Captain Sebastiaan van de Graaff and
Gertruida van Viaceler. His brother was Adriaan
Sebastiaan van de Graafi, " Directeur der Cultures
op Ceylon," who was married to Maria Agnita Baatke,
daughter of the Commandant of Jaffna. A sister,
Anna Lucia, who died in Ceylon, 1791, was the wife
of Johan Hendrik Willem de Ranitz. Another sister,
Maria Aletta, was the wife of Johan Christiaan van
Angelbeek, son of Johan Gerrard van Angelbeek and
Jacomina Lever. A niece of Willem Jakob van de
Graafi, Agnita Clara, was married to Friedrich
Heinrich Baron von Mylius, who died in Matara,
August 14, 1807, as Judge of the Provincial Court of
Galle. Christina Elizabeth van Angelbeek, the second
wife of Willem Jakob van de Graaff, was the sister of
his brother-in-law.
Removed here from the Fort Dutch Church.
Ter gedachtenis van Vrouwe Christina Elizabeth
van Angelbeek, gemaaten van den Heer Willem
Jakob van de Graaff, Raad-Ordinair van
Nederlands Indien, Gouverneur en Directeur van
Ceylon. Gebooren den 30 Jan., 1756. Gestorven
den (18) Juny, 1792.
Arms. — ^Van de Graafi and van Angelbeek impaled.
A wooden hatchment.
This was erected in 1805 in Wolvendaal Church by
the Hon. George MelvUle Leslie, Paymaster-General
(1802-7), son of the Earl of Leven and Melville, who
had married at Colombo on November 27, 1802,
Jacomina Gertruida, daughter of Governor van de
Graaff. She was born in 1787, so that she was fifteen
at the time of her marriage. She had a daughter,
Marie Christina, at Colombo, November 10, 1803. A
brother of Governor van de Graaff of Ceylon, Cornehs
Jacob van de Graaff, was Governor of the Cape.
A daughter of his married Baron F. Mylius, who died
at Matara in 1807.
Ter gedachtenis van Vrouwe Jakomina Lever
echtgenoote van den Heer Johan Gerard van
Angelbeek, Raad-Ordinair van Indien, Gouver-
neur van Malabar. Gebooren aan de Kaap de
Groede Hoop den 18 Augt., 1732. Overleeden te
Kolumbo den 13 Eebr., 1793.
Arm,s. — Van Angelbeek and Lever impaled.
A wooden hatchment.
This was also erected by the Hon. George Melville
Leslie in 1805.
It is ctirious that very little is known genealogically
of Johan Gerard van Angelbeek. He was a native of
West Friesland, and came out to the Indies in the ship
Schakenbos as a Cadet in 1751. Jakomina Lever was
the daughter of Abraham Lever of Amsterdam and
Margarita Paasen. Van Angelbeek was Governor of
Ceylon from August 1, 1794.
The Family Vault of
Capt. Gaxiltebus Schneider.
Buried :
Louisa Maria van Conrady, Granddaughter of
Capt. Schneider, died 28th January, 1817. Aged
7 months and 4 days. A son of Baron van
Conrady and Grandson of Capt. S.. died 16th
82-^9
( 118 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground, Colombo — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
397 — contd. .. .. .. May, 1818. Aged 3 days. Johanna Geetrttyda
Baroness van Conrady, eldest daughter of Capt.
S. , died 21st July, 1822. Aged 24 years 8 months
16 days. Henby Schneideb. Eoosmalb Cocq,
Grandson of Capt. S., died 4th December, 1829.
Aged 2 years 7 months. Sophia Magadalena
Schneider, well beloved wife of Capt. S., died
20th Deer., 1830. Aged 30 years 8 months and
29 days. Charles Fredrick Baron van Con-
rady, Son-in-law of Capt. S., died 11th January,
1833. Aged 57 years 4 months and 8 days.
Stephen Hendrick Roosmale Cocq, Son-in-law
of Capt. S., died 29th May, 1833. Aged 40 years
4 months 11 days.
Captain Schneider was born at Jaffna, November
23, 1772, and died at Colombo, September 10, 1841.
He was a son of Lieutenant Johan Hendrik Schneider
of Kirchheim, Hesse Cassel (who was born July 15,
1753, and died at Chilaw), by his wife Christina
Elizabeth Schoorman, who was born on June 1, 1749,
and died January 29, 1779. Captain Schneider
married (1), February 5, 1797, Sophia Magdalena
Staats, who was born on March 21, 1780, and died
on December 20, 1830. She was a daughter of
Jacobus WiUielmus Staats and Anna Gertruida Runs-
dorff. His eldest daughter married Baron Charles
von Conrady on February 7, 1813, at Colombo. He
at first held a Commission in the 60th Regiment, but
was gazetted 1st Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon, on March
20, 1806, and was appointed to the command of
Kalutara, November 1, 1808, and to be Fort Adjutant
of Matara, TangaUa, and Hambantota on September
5, 1812. His second daughter, Maria Henrietta, born
November 10, 1805, married on September 14, 1817,
S. H. Roosmale Cocq, who was Sitting Magistrate of
Kalutara from 1823 to 1827, and of' Negombo from
1827 until his death. He was a son of Pieter Jacobus
Roosmale Cocq of Dokhum in Friesland, Sitting
Magistrate of Ambalangoda (see No. 332).
Captain Schneider married (2), on May 19, 1831, i.e.,
five months after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth
Catherine Stewart, daughter of James Titterton (see
No. 112). He had been in the Dutch service, and
took charge of the Colonial Engineer's and Sxu'veyor-
General's Department on the departure of George
Atkinson in 1810. Atkinson retired January 1, 1811,
and Schneider succeeded him, holding the appoint-
ment imtil the arrival of P. B. Norris in 1833. He
wrote a report on the tanks in the Wanny in 1807,
and also one on the Galle, Matara, and Hambantota
Districts in 1808, and was the compiler of the "first
map of Ceylon of any value in the British period."
Spence Hardy praises him: "A name we cannot
mention without a record of the high respect in which
he was held by all classes in the Colony. In his
attendance at worship, including an early morning
service, he was most exemplary. To all places he was
accompanied by a half-wit, who quietly remained at
the door imtil his master's return, however long the
detention or late the hour." (" Jubilee Memorials,"
p. 80.)
The Wesleyan Missionaries presented him in 1817
with a silver cup bearing a suitable inscription, as a
memorial of his " services in superintending the
erection of the Wesleyan Mission Estate in Colombo."
His first wife, too, was the subject, even at a
comparatively mature period of its career, when it was
becoming more official and matter of fact, of a long
and eulogistic notice in the Gazette, which contains
the following obituary : —
"At Grand Pass on Monday Morning the 20th
Instant, Mrs. S. M. Schneider, the Wife of Captain
Schneider, Colonial Engineer and Sm^veyor-General.
" The many excellencies which shone in the charac-
ter of this Lady and so eminently adorned the sphere
in which she moved, demand from her bereaved
family and friends something more than a passing
tribute of regret.
( 119 )
Wolvendaal Burial Ground, Colombo— cowM.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
a97 — contd. . . . . . . <' Mrs. Schneider was a bright example of all the
amiable qualities of her sex, gentle and unobtrusive,
yet accomplished and prepossessing in her manners,
she uniformly obtained the respect and esteem of
strangers; whilst fidehty, affection, and watchful
solicitude rendered her in no ordinary degree the
object of admiration and endearment in the domestic
circle. Nor can the truly charitable disposition of the
deceased be lost sight of. Providence had placed this
excellent Lady in affluent circumstances, and she
experienced the highest gratification in relieving the
destitute and comfortiag the sorrowful. Amongst
the numerous survivors whom her lamented death has
overwhelmed with grief there are not wanting the
poor and the afflicted, whose distress and calamities
her kindness and bounty have often soothed and
mitigated.
" Another distinguished trait in Mrs. Schneider's
character was the genuineness and permanence of her
friendship. Her esteem was not rashly tendered, but
when once obtained, nothing but baseness or ingrati-
tude coxild ever remove it. She was no " summer
friend," but adhered to those whose worth she knew
in the winter of their troubles as well as in the sun-
shine of their prosperity.
" For the last two or three years of her life, Mrs.
Schneider was seldom free from suffering, but
resignation to the will of Heaven has rarely been
more steadily and perseveringly displayed. As her
end approached, she earnestly sought the deep and
holy comforts of rehgion. Nor did she seek in vain.
Her confidence in the Redeemer was distinctly
expressed, and with a mind at Peace with God and all
her fellow-creatures, she calmly sunk into the sleep
of death.
" Her memory wiU long be cherished with deep
regret and melancholy tenderness . " ( Gazette , Decem-
ber 25, 1830.)
There appear to have been three families named
Von Conrady in Ceylon. The others were represented
by Johan Priedrich Conradiof Kirchheim, 1776-1802,
and Carl August Conrady of Kirchheim, 1802-1808.
Probably these two were brothers, and aU three
families were connected. (See No. 101.)
398 . . 1822 . . Johanna Jacoba Palm (born Hier onder rast Johanna Jacoba Palm, geb. Boo-
Boogaard) gaard, overl. 1822 in troostvolle verzekering van't
eeuwig wederzien in haar lykheid betreuren wy
achtergelaten niet als hoopeloozen hetzy belyke
verlifE deeze dierbare beminde huysvrouw en
waardege moeder, oud 38 jaaren, van Rotterdam.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 241.)
Johanna Jacoba Boogaard was the wife of the Rev.
Johan David Pahn, a German, who started life as a
weaver. He was sent out by the London Society
(Londensch Genootschap) in 1803. His daughter by
his first marriage, Maria Christina Gerrardina, born
in Jaffna, October 9, 1805, was the wife of Henry
Theodore Ebell. He married, secondly, Elizabeth
Lloyd, and had by her {i.a.) Sophia Margarita, born
at Colombo, August 20, 1814, married there, January
14, 1829, Rev. Thomas Salmon, Missionary, Sxzrat ;
and Dorothea Frederica, born Colombo, January
10, 1818, married September 11, 1845, W. H. Clarke.
His son by the second marriage. Rev. John David
Palm, was born in Colombo, November 14, 1815,
and married there, January 20, 1845, Louisa Anna
Wells.
Jolm David Pakn died September 10, 1842, but
there is no inscription to his memory. Wilham
Henry Clarke, B.C.L., was eldest son of the Rev. W.
Clarke, Rector of St. John's, Chester. He became an
Advocate of the Supreme Court, February 20, and
was afterwards successively Police Magistrate of Ben-
tota (Balapitimodera) , District Judge of Kurunegala,
and Recorder of Rangoon. Dr. Clarke is described as
"of Queens' College, Cambridge," but the B.C.L
was an Oxford degree.
Serial So.
Date.
Name.
399 ..
April 9
1824 ,
. . Cornelia Henrietta de Saram
( 120 }
Wolvendaal Burial Ground, Colombo— con^d
Inscription.
Hier onder legt begraven Cornelia Henrietta
Philipsz, dogter van den Eerwaarde Heer Henri-
KTjs Philipsz, echtgenoote van Christoftel de
[ Saeam vierde Maha-Modlier van 'S Gouverneurs
Porta. Overleeden 9 April, 1824, oud 59 jaaren,
4 maaden en 8 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 241 ; vol.
XVTL, pp.. 20, 21 ; vol. XVIII., pp. 72, 77.)
400 . . July 30 . . Albertus Cornells de Vos . . Hier rust het lyk van den Heer ALBERTtrs Cornelis
1827 de Vos. Geboren te Gale den 8ste. February,
1774, overladen te Colombo den 30ste. July, 1827.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 241, 272.)
Albertus Cornelis de Vos was the brother of Johannes
Andreas de Vos. The family derives from Victor de
Vos, who married at Bruges, December 27, 1642,
Maria, born 1614, the daughter of Josse Jooris and
Marie Bussier.
Holy Trinity Church, St. Sebastian's Hill, Colombo.
This Church was consecrated on January 1, 1847, by Bishop Chapman. It was for some time
pre-eminently the Civil Service Church, as it is now that of the Burgher community.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
401 .. Aug. 29 .. Frederick Lacy Dick .. In memory of Frederick Lacy Dick, the fourth son
1847 of Samuel and Mary Sherson Dick of Upper
Mount, Bonchiu-ch, Isle of Wight. He was Magis-
trate of the District Court of Negombo in this
Island, and on the evening of the 29th August,
1847, was assassinated in the 32nd year of his age,
leaving a widow, who four months afterwards gave
birth to a son. Accompanied by a few of the police
he went to a lone house in the country to recapture
a notorious criminal whom the native police feared
to encounter, and was shot through a window by
an unseen hand. He was an upright and zealous
Magistrate and greatly esteemed within his juris-
diction. Also Frederick Lacy Dick, son of the
above , born 8th January , 1848 , and died at Colombo
21st March in the same year.
Also Adeline, born 30th March, 1847, at Negombo,
and died six days after her birth.
Also inscription on tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
William Boyd has the following references to the
Dicks in his "Autobiography" : —
" Whilst lingering on the espla.nade, I was joined by
an old friend, Mr. George Hicks, formerly a brother
planter, who like myself had suffered from, the hard
times,' and who, instead of reaping a handsome in-
come from his coffee estates, had been glad to obtain
a situation under Government as PoUce Magistrate of
Negombo. After the usual greetings we adjourned to
his house, close at hand, where I was introduced to
his newly-wedded wife, a handsome, bright-eyed
English girl." (" Autobiography," p. 617.)
In his " Ceylon and its Pioneers," there is another
allusion to the circumstances under which Dick
became PoUce Magistrate of Negombo, and here he is
given bis proper surname, but the wrong Christian
name is retained. It shows Boyd's extraordinary
capacity for mixing up facts and fancies, people
and things, that in the " Autobiography " he had
abeady used the name " Hicks " to denote another
PoUce Magistrate, viz., "the Police Magistrate of
Ricklagasgodde " (" Autobiography," p. 556), and
that, as a matter of fact, there was a Police Magistrate
of RikiUgasgoda in 1845 named William Fiedeno
Hicks, who was appointed to that Court on the same
day that F. L. Dick was appointed to Negombo, viz.,
October 1, 1845. (Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III.,
p. 321.)
( 121 )
Holy Trinity Cliureh, St. Sebastian's HiU, Colombo— contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
401 .. Aug. 29 .. Frederick Lacy Dick— conid. " The brothers Dick, sons of a wealthy Highland
1847 landowner (who served in Mauritius — Ed., Ceylon
Literary Register), spent many thousands of pounds
on Attaltenna, and when the crash came they lost it
all. The eldest, George, got a Government situation
as Police Magistrate at Negombo. Shortly after
' receiving this appointment he went with some of his
peons to apprehend a criminal who escaped from
prison. Trying to force an entrance through a
window he was shot through the throat, and was
carried home a corpse to his newly-mamed wife,
whom he had left only a few hours before." {Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., p. 282.)
In the " Autobiography," too, there is a highly
coloured account of the shooting of Dick, pp. 628-9,
which is attributed to the act of the criminal whom he
went to arrest, but this is not correct. The following
account of it appeared in the Colombo Observer,
September 2, 1847, into which it was copied from the
Ceylon Times. The editor remarks that it appears
to be a correct account, and that the conclusion to
be drawn from it is that Mr. Dick fell a victim to
over-zeal, amounting to imprudence : —
" The melancholy fate of Mr. Dick, the Police
Magistrate at Negombo, who was killed on Friday
evening last by a shot fired by a native of the name
of Singo Appoo, whilst in search of a man who had
escaped from custody under a charge of felony, has
given rise to so many contradictory explanations of
the tragical occurrence that we feel it our duty to
devote most of our editorial space to a report of the
circumstances of the occurrence, vouching at the
same time for its perfect authenticity.
" It would appear that in the course of Friday, Mr.
Dick from the Bench had inflicted a fine of £5 each on
four of the Aratohchies or Peons who had allowed one
Daniel Appoo, a suspected robber, to escape from
their custody. The Aratchchies stimulated to exertion
by this merited punishment, reported on the evening
of Friday that the thief Daniel Appoo was at a place
called Wellikanai but that he had armed himself and
had declared that he would not be taken alive. Mr.
Dick on hearing this determined in person to appre-
hend a man who thus so daringly set the laws at public
defiance, and having armed himself with pistols,
accompanied by Mr. Northmore (a civilian then
staying with him) and a few constables, proceeded in
search of the robber Daniel Appoo.
"As the circumstances of this case so deeply affect all
classes here, and proximately the Government also in
the proper administration of its executive enactments,
we think it will be not uninteresting (as we have the
valuable opportunity) to give as far as we can an
account of the proceedings sUghtly in extenso. A
witness Don Juan Appoo said that on Friday evening,
about 7 P.M., he was sent for by the Magistrate's
Interpreter, Mr. Pereira, who desired him to go to a
place called Pallanchena with Mr. Dick to assist in
capturing a robber called Daniel Appoo. He went
with the deceased, who was also accompanied by Mr.
Northmore, one Oodooma Lebbe, a Police Sergeant,
and another constable ; this constable, Pedro, was
asked to show the party the way to Wellikana — the
suspected retreat of the thief Daniel — and on arriving
there they surrounded one house, and the party
ordered some of the inmates of the house to light their
lamp and open the door ; this being done, the occu-
pants were found to be two women and some men,
who after having their abode searched were allowed
to go to rest. Mr. Dick, then accompanied by Mr.
Northmore and the peon, proceeded to a house in the
vicinity which was inhabited by one Juan Appoo (the
thief's father). The inmates of this house having been
roused, Juanis Appoo was desired to get a light from
an adjoining cottage to enable the Magistrate to
search the house, but as Mr. Dick thought the man
might take an opportimity to escape, it was thought
necessary that Mr. Northmore should accompany
him the distance, about 200 yards. During Mr. N.'s
absence Mr. Dick, having left some peons round the
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
401 ..
Aug. 29
1847
. . Frederick Lacy Dick — ccmtd.
( 122 )
Holy Trinity Church, St. Sebastian's Hill, CoXomho—contd.
Inscription,
house, was induced to search the adjoining house-
situated in a betelnut plantation a short distance off ^
in the hope of finding the thief. With this view, and
with some of the peons, Mr. Dick jumped over a fence
and approached the house cautiously. Hearing
people conversing, he left Juan Appoo in front of the
house, whilst he went to the rear to reconnoitre ; after
tliis he knocked at the back door, when a woman
inside in a loud tone of voice demanded the cause of
the noise. On her caUing out " Who's there ? " Juan
Appoo, the constable, told her not to be afraid as it
was the PoUce Magistrate of Negombo ; the woman
then made use of an indecent expression ; Mr. Dick
then, it is supposed, not finding the door opened,
proceeded to an adjoining small window to which
there were a few wooden bars, and whilst looking
through them the woman said "What are you looking
at ? Take the gun and shoot him! " Juan called out
" Don't fire, it is the Magistrate of Negombo " ; he had
barely uttered these words when, hearing the report
of a gun fired from the inside, he ran round to the
back of the house and found Mr. Dick lying on his-
back on the ground bleeding excessively from a
wound in his neck ; he once opened his eyes and then
closed them in death. The report of the gun speedily
brought Mr. Northmore to the spot, and eventually ,-
after unavailing me ans were taken t o render assistance ,
the corpse was taken in a cart to the Police Station in
Negombo."
It was stated in the Observer of September 8, 1847,-
that the Governor had granted a pension of £100 per
annum to the widow. Mrs. Dick was Anne Elizabeth ,
daughter of Charles Edward Layard, C.C.S., born
November 21, 1824, married F. L. Dick on March
16, 1846, at Colombo. She married (2) on October
28, 1852, Major RoUeston, 84th Regiment, and they
went through the Mutiny. She died at Pembroke
Dock, October 24, 1860.
402 . . July 3 . . Emily Roosmalecocq . . Sacred to the memory of Emily, the beloved wife of
1855 Robert Charles Roosmalecocq of Tuticurin
in Southern India and eldest daughter of the late-
Samuel Giedlestone, Esqr., Q. C, Bencher of the
Middle Temple. She departed this life on the 3rd
July, 1855, at Colombo, aged 30, and is interred
in the family vault in Wolfendal Church. This
tablet is erected by her alHicted husband near this
spot where they often worshipped God.
She is buried (Outside Wolvendaal Church, where
there is a tombstone with inscription which gives the
date of her birth, which took place in London, as
June 21, 1825. She was the first wife of R. C.
Roosmalecocq, who was a son of Jacobus Ambrosius,
the third son of Pieter Jacobus Roosmalecocq and
therefore nephew of Robert Carl Roosmalecocq (see
No. 332). Robert Charles Roosmalecocq married (2)
Susanna Caroline Winter, who when left a widow
married (2) Edward Cosby Daly, and (3) General John
Thornhill Bushby. She was a daughter of George
Winter of Baddegama. R. C. Roosmalecocq was in
the cotton trade. He died December 25, 1866, at
Torquay.
403 . . Jan. 27 . . Richard Francis Morgan . . In memory of Sir Richard Francis Morgan, Kt. ,
1876 Queen's Advocate of Ceylon, born 21st February, >
1821, died 27th January, 1876.
Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Mat. 11, 21.
(The verse should be 26, not 21.)
" About the middle of the eighteenth century a.
Welshman named Morgan, of an adventurous turn of
mind, tired of the dullness and seclusion of the
Cambrian principality, and attrsicted possibly by
reports of the famed pagoda tree of the East, sailed
for Hindustan He accepted office under the
Madras Government, married in India, and wa&
eventually laid to rest in its soil. His children,
meanwhile, had grown up around him, and were
filling posts of usefulness in Southern India, som&
( 123 )
Holy Trinity Church, St. Sebastian's Hill, Colombo— conic^.
arial No.
Date.
Name.
403 ..
Jan. 27
1876
. , Richard Francis Morgan—
contd.
Inscription,
being in office in Travanoore. One of them, Richard
Morgan, owing to the presence of the Dutch at
Tuticorin and other ports in the south, had acquired a
knowledge of the Dutch language ...... When in 1796
the British had taken possession of the Island the
Indian Presidencies had to be indented on for officials
Richard Morgan found his opportunity, passed
over the narrow Straits of Manaar, and took office
as Dutch translator to the Government. He
subsequently arranged and classified the State records,
and prepared the translation of Van Leeuwen's
Roman-Dutch Law into Enghsh He was chiefly
instrumental in 1816 in getting up the petition to the
Prince Regent for the manumission of slaves. He
was for a time master of the Colombo Seminary, which
was estabUshed by the Dutch towards the end of the
eighteenth century — the only superior school at this
time in the Colony. He next became a Proctor of the
Supreme Court and afterwards Port Magistrate.
"Richard Morgan married (1804) Behrana Lucretia
Lourens, daughter of Dr. Jan Lourens, who lived at
Whist Bungalow, which during a cholera epidemic he
turned into a hospital, and who himself feU a victim
to that disease. The house obtained its name from
having been chosen by a whist club of British officers,
who in the earliest years of the century to while away
the tedium of garrison duty met at this bungalow on
certain days in the week to feast and play.' ' ' ' Life of
Sir Richard Morgan," by Wm. Digby (vol. I., p. 66).
The Whist Bungalow is alluded to by Cordiner. Sir
Richard Morgan's biographer is mistaken in leaving
it to be inferred that Dr. Lourensz was living at Whist
Bungalow at the time of his daughter's marriage,
which took place in 1804, to Richard Morgan, senior,
for in the Oovernment Gazette of 1821 we find an
advertisement of "an Elegant Fete " which is to take
place " at Whist Bungalow Club on 23 Nov."
Dinner was to be served " at the bungalow on the
bank of the Mutwal River," followed by " a Ball at
Mr. Byrne's new house." Mr. Henry Byrne was the
Puisne Justice, 1819-1820, who succeeded Sir William
Coke. Dr. Lourensz must have purchased the bunga-
low some years afterwards. With his death it passed
into the possession of the Morgan family, and with
brief intervals it was their residence up to 1876. It
stUl retains its name.
Richard Owen Morgan of Masulipatnam was married
to Behrania Lucretia Lourensz at Colombo on
June 10, 1804. She was the daughter of Jan Henricus
Lourensz, third Sm-geon of the Colombo Hospital, and
Martha Elisabeth Jinke. He had four sons, of whom
Richard Francis Morgan, bom February 21, 1821, in
Prince's street, was the youngest. He died a month
after the birth of his youngest son. R. P. Morgan
attended a Dame's school kept by a Mrs. Taylor,
" presumably wife or widow of a non-commissioned
officer in one of the many regiments which then
garrisoned Ceylon." (Digby.) This was no doubt
the widow of Quartermaster Thomas Taylor,
Paymaster of the Caffre Corps. He ne*t went to
" George Staples' Academy," and afterwards was a
pupU at Cotta and at Colombo of the Rev. Joseph
Marsh, the first principal of the Colombo Academy.
He was in England in March-July, 1840, became a
proctor, 1841, then advocate when the two branches
of the lawyers' profession were separated (1835-1841).
On December 19, 1844, at Wolvendaal Church, he
married Classina Joceline Sissouw, a grand niece of
Mr. Justice Hillebrand's, of whom "it is credibly
recorded that being very anxious to acquire the
English language, as soon as the capitulation was
effected, he made the acquaintance of the more
intelligent men among the soldiers, and by bribes of
drink and food obtained from them a knowledge of
the English tongue." (Digby, p. 18.) He appeared
for the O. B. C. in the great Rajawella case.
R. F. Morgan was made an Unofficial Member of
the Legislative Council representing the Burghers in
1851. He became District Judge of Colombo, October,
1856 ; Acting Junior Puisne Justice, December, 1856 ;
Acting Queen's Advocate, November, 1857 ; and
( 124 )
Holy Trinity Church, St. Sebastian's Hill, Colombo— cowM.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
403 ..
Jan. 27 .
1876
Richard Francis Morgan
contd.
Inscription.
Queen's Advocate on January 1, 1863, an appointment
which he held until his death. He was acting as Chief
Justice in 1874^5, and was offered the permanent
appointment, but deoUned it on the score of health.
He was " the first of Her Majesty's Eurasian subjects-
to be knighted." (Digby, vol. I., p. 33.) "One
who was honoured as no Burgher before him had been
honoured." (Ibid., Preface.) "Both he (Lorenz) and
Sir Richard Morgan were of vital importance to the
Burgher community the event (of his death) of
Sir Richard was indeed a loss to that community
generally, but a fatal one to that highly intelligent
and respectable community, whose interests he fear-
lessly advocated," so wrote General Studholme
Hodgson in October, 1876.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
404 ..
Aug. 14
1866
. Georgina Skinner
Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo.
This church was opened on October 13, 1853. It lasted for forty-six years, when it was pulled down
and a new church built following the lines of the first building. It was opened on March 18, 1899.
Inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory of Geoegiana, the beloved,
and honoured wife of Major T. Skinner, Com-
missioner of Public Works, Ceylon, daughter of the
late Lieut.-General Bueebll, C.B. Bom 20th
June, 1818, died in the Red Sea (Lat. 25-04 N.,
Long. 35-16E.) 14 Aug., 1866. A true and devoted
wife, an exemplary mother, a sincere friend, she
Uved in spotless honour and consistent truthfulness
of character, strong in the faith of her Saviour's
love and in the ef&cacy of His atonement. She
hved in the assured hope of a resurrection to-
eternal Hf e through the sacrifice and the righteous-
ness of the Blessed Redeemer. That her seven
children may honour her memory in striving by
God's help to follow her precepts and to emulate
her example, that her love of truth in thought,
word, and action, and her uncompromising and
endearing virtues may shed an illumination on her
descendants for generations yet to come, and that
England may long be blessed with such mothers
for her sons is the earnest prayer of her bereaved
husband.
Lieutenant-Colonel Burrell was in command of the
18th Royal Irish Regiment in Ceylon in the thirties.
His daughter married Captain T. Skinner, Ceylon
Rifles , then acting as Surveyor-General, at Colombo on
December 19, 1838. Their son, Thomas Skinner, was
in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1860-1896, retiring as
Postmaster-General. A daughter married Mr. M. H.
Thomas of Galheriya, well known as a coffee, and
later as a tea, planter of Galheriya, Kelebokke Valley.
Major Skinner was a son of Captain Skinner, R.A.^
who was stationed at Trincomalee, 1812-1820 or there-
abouts, and was born May 20, 1804. He joined the 1st
Ceylon Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant on December 2,
1819. He was the great road maker of Ceylon. He
has left an account of his work in his " Fifty Years
in Ceylon — ^An Autobiography," published in 1891.
When he finally left the Island in 1867, his fifty years
of incessant work were thus summarized in the Ceylon
Observer ; — " He has survived to see a magnificent net-
work of roads spread over the country, from the sea
level to the passes of our highest mountain ranges ;
and instead of dangerous fords and ferries, where
property often suffered and life was too frequently
sacrificed, he has lived to see every principal stream
in Ceylon substantially bridged or about to be spanned
by structures of stone or iron. Whereas before his
time there were strictly no roads in the Island, Ceylon,
( 125 )
Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo— contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
404 ..
Aug. 14
1866
Georgina Skinner
-contd.
405
July 25
1866
May 31
1866
May 21
1866
James Cameron Fielding
William Guy
Thomas Miller
406
July 5
1868
George Alexander Mackenzie
407
May 18
1869
Aug. 8
1860
Catherine Rossiter
Mary Ellen Ladbrooke
Rossiter
Inscription,
with an area of 25,000 miles, can now count nearly
3,000 miles of made roads, one-fifth of which consist
of first class metal roads, and another fifth of excellent
gravelled high ways. Add to this the restoration of
inland navigation — the canal system — and the impetus
given to many another public work, and we have the
bare outline of such a life of unselfish usefxilness to
his fellow-men as few have been privileged to show."
(Quoted in " Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. I.,
p. 179.)
In memory of Captain J. C. Fielding, Ceylon Rifles,
who died at Sea on passage to Japan, 25 July,
1866. Aged 35 years 7 months. Also of Lieut,
and Adjt. William Gtty, Ceylon Rifles, who died
at Sea on passage to England, 31 May, 1866.
Aged 49 years 9 months. And of Quartermaster
T. Miller, Ceylon Rifles, who died at Stoke,
Devon, 21 May, 1866. Aged 58 years 11 months.
This tablet is erected by their brother offlcers.
Captain Fielding joined the Rifles, April 10, 1849,
as 2nd Lieutenant; Lieutenant March 16, 1855;
Captain August 15, 1859; and was Commandant of
Puttalam 1857 ; on leave to England in 1859-1860.
He married, on February 10, 1869, at Pussellawa,
Charlotte Mann, third daughter of Gother Mann
Parsons (No. 209).
Lieutenant Guy was Adjutant from October 1,
1858 ; on leave to England in 1859-1860.
Quartermaster Miller joined the regiment on
December 11, 1846, and became Quartermaster July 5,
1853. His daughter, Elizabeth Ann, married at
Colombo, May 8, 1861, D. G. Mantell, who retired as
Surveyor-General.
Luceo non uro.
In memory of Geobge Alexander Mackenzie ,Esqr. ,
of Dundonnell, Rosshire, Scotland, for many years
a resident of this town and a member of the firm
of George Stewart & Co. He departed this life
on the 5th July, 1868. Aged 50 years.
This tablet is erected by his bereaved widow, Louisa,
daughter of the late Captain Stewart, C.R.R., in
affectionate remembrance of a loving and devoted
husband.
The date of their marriage was February 23, 1853,
and it took place at Colombo. I have heard that after
her husband's death she married his brother, which
seems impossible. Another sister married C. R.
Curgenven, and a third Christoffelsz de Saram (see
No. 349). A brother of hers was for a time Police
Magistrate of Calpentyn and of Kandy.
Catherine, the beloved wife of Tho. Rossiter, who
died at Colombo on the 18th of May, 1859. Aged
28 years. Also of Mary Ellen Ladbrooke, her
infant daughter, who died at Colombo on the 8th
of June, 1860. Aged 15 months. *
Also an inscription on tomb in Galle Face Cemetery.
He died in January, 1867, at the residence of his
son-in-law, Mr. Darlington, at Dundrum, County
Dublin.
The first appearance of the name Rossiter in Ceylon
is in the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1846, which gives
" J. W. Rossiter " as a planter at " WUpitte, Matale."
He does not appear in that of 1847, but there is a " J.
Rossiter " at Galle in 1847-1849, but his occupation
is not given. In the Almanac of 1852 a " T. Rossiter "
appears as Inspector of Police at Galle, and lie was
there in that capacity until 1854 (T. W. Rossiter).
In the Almanac of 1855-9 there is no T. W. Rossiter,
but " J. M. Rossiter " is on Orokande estate. Central
Province. In 1860 he disappears, arid in his stead " E.
Rossiter " is on Orokande, and another " Rossiter"
in Ambegamuwa. In 1861 E. M. Rossiter is at
Kurunegala, E. Rossiter at Kegalla, and we learn that
the Ambegamuwa planter was " J. Rossiter." In
1862 he was still there, but the Kurunegala Rossiter
82-09
( 126 )
Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo — contd.
Serial No.
407 ..
Date.
May 18
1869, &c.
Name.
Catherine Rossiter, &c.
408
Nov. 10
1860
Henry Whitley
409
May 16
1881
Robert Vetch Dunlop
410
April 18
1896
John Davies Thomas
411
1831-1903
Inscription.
-contd. was " E. A." In 1863 E. M. Rossiter was stiU on
" Oorakanda " and J. A. Rossiter in Ambegamuwa
(Tellisingala) , and T. W. Rossiter, the former Inspector
of Police, re-appears as a planter. In Peterson's
Almanac for 1869 his name appears as "Thomas
Wrixon Rossiter," with the note that he had gone to
ETirope, and with this Almanac his name disappears
from the Island. In 1869-1870 E. M. Rossiter was
on Dmisinane, Pundalu-oya, and J. A. Rossiter on
Rathnelikelle, Dimbula.
. . To the memory of the Rev. Henby Whitley, M.A.,
Queen's (sic) College, Cambridge, Missionary of the
Church Missionary Society, Pastor of this Church
in which for 5 years he ministered to congregations
worshipping in three different languages, Enghsh,
Sinhalese, and Tamil; he was also a faithful and
earnest preacher of the Gospel to the heathen
population of the town and a valued fellow-labourer
with his missionary brethren, by whom he was
esteemed and sincerely loved. He died in the
adjoining Mission house of fatal injuries received
through the falling of a wall in the Church premises
on the 10th November, 1860. This tablet was
erected by the members of his congregation, in
testimony of the respect and admiration of his
character which they shared with all that knew
him. And of their own deep affection for him as
their Pastor and unfading remembrance of his
Christian ministrations.
There is also an inscription on his tomb in the Galle
Face Cemetery. His age was 34.
. . The Rev. Robert Vetch Dttnlop, Incumbent of
Holy Trinity, Scarborough, and for 20 years con-
nected with the Oriental Bank. Bom Oct. 8, 1834,
and entered into rest May 16, 1881.
He married Frances Elizabeth,. daughter of Sir
Charles Peter Layard, on July 10, 1862.
. . The Rev. J. Davibs Thomas, for 33 years a
missionary of the Church Missionary Society in
South India and Ceylon. Died at Colombo on
April 18, 1896. Aged 56 years.
He was a son of the Rev. John Thomas of Megnana-
puram in the Tinnevelly District, a well-known
C. M. S. Missionary in his time, who introduced the
English parochial system, working from the centre he
had chosen among the hundreds of villages that lay
scattered all round — a man of many gifts and accom-
plishments. He had been brought up " as a
solicitor, and was an excellent lawyer. He was an
excellent singer, a good musician, and well acquainted
with the science of music. As a builder he had no
equal in Tinnevelly." (Bishop Caldwell, quoted in
Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., pp. 397-8.)
. . In loving memory of C. M. S. Missionaries who hav
worked in Ceylon and entered into rest.
Rev. J. Marsh, 1831 Rev. B. Ward,
Rev. T. Browning, 1838
Rev. J. Knight, 1840
Rev. J. Bailey, 1844
Rev. R. Mayor, 1846
Rev. C.Greenwood, 1850
Rev. P. Haslam, 1850
Rev. S. Lambrick, 1854
Rev. H. Collins, 1860
Rev. W. Whitley, 1860
Rev. A.D.Gordon, 1865
Rev. G. Parsons, 1866
Rev. J.T.Johnston, 1871
Rev. G. S. Faught, 1873
Rev. G. Pettitt, 1873
1879
Rev. E. Blackmoee, 1879
Rev. G. 0. Trimnell, 1880
Rev. J. Selkirk, 1880
Rev. J. PicKFORD, 1882
Rev. R. Brent, 1885
Rev. W. Oakley, 1886
Rev. W. Adley, 1887
Rev. P. W. Taylor, 1887
Rev. J. Allcock, 1888
Rev. J. Wood, 1889
Rev. E. M. Griffith, 1890
Rev. R. W. Perry, 1890
Rev. C. C. Macarthue, 1892
Rev. J. O'Nbil, 1896
Serial No. Date.
411 .. 1831-1903— con/d
( 127 )
Christ Church, Galle Face, Colombo— contd.
Inscription.
.. Rev. J. D. Thomas, 1896
Rev. G. T. Fleming, 1896
Rev. S. HoBBS, 1898
Rev. H. Powell, 1898
Rev. R. Collins, 1900
Name.
412
1825-1905
Rev.R.T.DowBiGGiN, 1901
Rev. E. T. HiGGENS, 1901
Rev. S. Coles, 1901
Rev. A. A. PiLSON, 1902
Rev. J. Ireland Jones , 1 903
" Their works do follow them."
A brass tablet in chancel, erected by C. M.
S.
Missionaries. Of those named, Messrs. Greenwood,
Haslam, Whitley, Parsons, Knight, Bailey, Black-
more, Oakley, Allcock, Griffith, Perry, Thomas,
Fleming, Dowbiggin, Pilson, and Ireland Jones died
in Ceylon.
In loving memory of C. M. S. Missionaries who have
worked in Ceylon and entered into rest.
Mrs. J. Bailey, 1825 Mrs. J. Sblkiek, 1876
Mrs. J.Ireland Jones, 1877
1839
1845
1852
Mrs. T. Browning,
Mrs. J. Knight,
Mrs. P. Haslam,
Mrs. E. T. HiGGENS, 1854
Mrs. S. Lambriok, 1860
Mrs. G.C.Trbvenell, 1861
Mrs. B. Waud, 1864
Mrs. W. Oakley, 1866
Mrs.^J. PiGKFORD, 1866
Mrs. G. S. Paught, 1870
Mrs. R. Mayor, 1870
Mrs. C. Greenwood, 1872
Mrs. J. Wood, 1873
Mrs. W. Adley, 1880
Mrs. P. Glanville, 1883
Mrs. G. Parsons, 1896
Mrs. S. Coles, 1898
Miss H. M. Spreat, 1898
Mrs. J. Allcock, 1899
Mrs.J.lRELAND Jones, 1899
Mrs. J. Carter, 1899
Mrs. W. Clark, 1900
Mrs. R. Parqiter, 1900
Mrs. J. D. Simmons, 1900
Mrs. J. Ilsley, 1905
" Wliose faith follow."
A brass tablet in chancel, erected by 0. M. S.
Missionaries. Of those named, Mrs. Knight, Haslam,
Higgens, Oakley, and Carter died in Ceylon.
Mrs. O'Neil has been omitted, who died at Jaffna
in 1848. The name on the tablet in St. James's
Church, Nellore, Jaffna, is spelt " O'NeiU." Mrs.
Pargiter, the first wife of the Rev. R: Pargiter, is
also omitted: She died at Jaffna in 1849.
Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colombo.
" On the 23rd December, 1816, the chapel in the Pettah was completed and opened for public worship.
It was erected after the model of Brunswick Chapel, Liverpool. The gentleman who acted as master builder was
Captain Gualterus Schneider of the Royal Engineers The purchase of the site and the erection of the
various buildings cost upwards of Rs. 30,000 The entire establishment consisted of a place of worship, a
dwelling house for two famOies, a large schoolroom, printing and bookbinding offices, a type foundry, and
warehouses. The first sermon at the opening of the chapel was preached by Mr. Clough from Psalm CXXII., 16,
and in the evening Mr. Harvard officiated, preaching from Luke II., 14, when the Governor was present, also Lady
Brownrigg, and nearly all the principal Europeans in Colombo The chapel, as described in the Government
Gazette, was almost an amphitheatre, with three rows of elevated seats nearly all round. The same building is still
the principal place of worship for the Wesleyans in the Pettah In 1863, under the direction of Mr. Bough,
the arrangement of the seats was altered, and all are now placed upon the same level . . ^ . . . The pulpit was
formerly at the same end as the entrance porch. There are mural monuments to the memory of Dr. Coke and
Mr. Ault and of Mrs. Clough and Mrs. Scott, the wives of Missionaries." (Hardy, pp. 80-1.)
Inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory qf the late Revd. Thomas
Coke, LL.D., of the University of Oxford,
General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Metho-
dist Missions, who was an ardent lover of immortal
souls, and a zealous and persevering Friend and
Advocate of Christian Missions among the Heathen.
By his Instrumentality, Liberahty, and Personal
Exertion, the Wesleyan Methodist Missions were
introduced and established in all the four Quarters
of the Globe ! Their success in the Conversion of
Sinners lay nearest his heart, and was one of the
chief sources of his joy while on earth.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
413 ..
May 3
1814
Thomas Coke
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Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colombo— contd.
Serial No.
413 ..
Date.
May 3
1814
Name.
Thomas Coke — contd.
414
April 1
1815
William Ault
Inscription.
Thousands of Real Converts will hail him blessed in
the Great Day. His last principal Undertaking
was the Introduction of the Mission to Asia. For
this purpose, Uke that primitive and eminent
Missionary St. Paul, he mthstood the earnest
entreaties of his numerous Friends, and at the
advanced age of 67 years he left his native
and much beloved Country under the express
sanction of the British Government, and bearing
Letters testimonial from several of the principal
Characters in the State, being accompanied by Six
other missionaries, the Revd. Messrs. Lynch, Ault,
Erskine, Harvard, Squance, and Clough, and
burning with fervent zeal for the Conversion of the
Inhabitants of India, he was followed by the tears
and prayers of anxious multitudes. His consti-
tution, however, sunk under the Change of Chmate,
and from intense Application to preparatory
Studies, he died on the Voyage, May the 3rd, 1814,
Happy in that Saviour whom he had so success-
fully preached to others ; and his mortal Remains
were interred at sea in lat. 2° 29' South, and long.
59° 29' East.
This tablet, inscribed by his surviving missionary
Companions and Sons in the Ministry, is designed
as a pubUc and constant Memorial of their
unceasing respect, affection, and reverence for his
Person and Character.
August, 1816.
Dr. Coke was a native of Brecon, and was for a time
curate at South Petherton. In 1809 Sir Alexander
Johnston, Chief Justice of Ceylon, visited England,
and was instrumental in procuring the establishment
of a mission in Ceylon, and his attention was directed
by Wilberforce to the Wesleyan Methodists as being
the most likely to assist him in the execution of his
plans. The result was the despatch of Dr. Coke
and his companions. An interview with Surgeon
Morton, R.A. , who had resided some years in
Ceylon, determined him to undertake this mission.
Dr. Coke, Mr. Harvard, and Mr. Clough embarked on
December 30, 1813, at Portsmouth in the Gahalon, a,nd
the rest in the Lady Melville. One day in the Indian
Ocean Dr. Coke was found dead in his cabin. The
rest of the party arrived at Bombay, on May 21. On
June 20 they embarked for Ceylon, leaving Mr.
Harvard at Bombay, and arrived at Galle, June 29.
The Rev. George Bisset, the Governor's Private
Secretary, was sent from Colombo to bid them
welcome to the Island. It was recommended that
they should occupy the principal sub-stations and
commence the teaching of schools in the English
language, for which a small allowance would be made.
Accordingly Messrs. Lynch and Squance proceeded
to Jaffna, Mr. Ault to Batticaloa, Mr. Erskine to
Matara, and Mr. Clough remained at Galle.
Sacred to the Memory of the Reverend William
Ault, Wesleyan Methodist missionary, who
having laboured with great acceptance in England
as a Minister of the Gospel for many years,
voluntarily Sacrificed the scenes of Popularity
and Friendship with which he was surrounded for
the arduous and less flattering Occupation of a
Christian Missionary. On his Arrival in Ceylon
his sphere of Labour was Batticaloa and its
Environs (on the Eastward of the Island). His
anxious Exertions for the Spiritual Good of the
Natives of that Place Evidenced the Purity of the
Motive which introduced him into the Missionary
Work. Every Cottage in his District had received
his Pastoral Visits, and had echoed with his
affectionate, famihar, and efi&cacious Advice !
Even the heathen beheld him — revered him —
loved him, and committed their Children to his
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Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colomho—contd.
Serial No. Date. Name.
Tnsoiiption.
414 . . April 1 . . William Ault—contd. . . Care, consenting to their use of the Bible as their
°-^" principal School Book ! His Missionary race was
short : He died among the People of his Charge,
" in sure and certain Hope," April the 1st, 1815,
after labouring among them only eight months !
Over his Grave the Inhabitants of Batticaloa erected
at their own Expense a monument of his Worth,
and of the Admiration with which he had inspired
them. He was beloved and respected by all
Descriptions of Men from the most inferior Member
of his Flock to the highest existing Authorities in
the Island, They aU paid a Tribute to his Memory.
This stone was erected by his affectionate surviving
Fellow-Labourers, the Wesleyan Methodist Mis-
sionaries in Ceylon, as a lasting Token of their
warmest regard.
August, 1816. •
" On the 30th of December, 1813, Dr. Coke, Mr.
Harvard, and Mr. Clough embarked at Portsmouth
in the Cahalon, and the rest of the party with
Captain Loohner intYiS Lady Melville, both Indiamen.
Mr. Harvard and Mr. Ault were accompanied by their
wives On the 21st of May they entered the
harbour of Bombay On the 20th of June all
the missionaries, with the exception of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvard, embarked for Ceylon, and on the 29th they
arrived at Galle , after a rapid passage. W. C. Gibson,
the then Master Attendant, was the first person to
welcome them to the Island The first to land
were Messrs. Lynch, Squance, and Clough ; Messrs.
Ault and Erskine were detained somewhat longer on
board, during which period the ship was driven further
to sea, so that when they left in the luggage boat it was
impossible to make the harbour of Galle, and they had
to direct their course towards Belligam. At this time
their situation was well calculated to produce alarm.
They were unable to say a single word to the unknown
natives in whose hands their lives were placed. Mr.
Ault became nervous, under the impression that the
boatmen were about to run them ashore in some
unfrequented spot, and murder them. However,
they had no such intention, and in the middle of the
night they landed safely at Belligam, where they were
hospitably entertained by the Magistrate, and then
assisted on their way to Galle." (" Jubilee Memo-
rials," pp. 64-5.) The Commandant of GaUe was
Lord Molesworth, who joined in the general pleasure
expressed at the arrival of the missionaries
The Bev. George Bisset, the Governor's Private Secre-
tary, was sent from Colombo to bid them welcome to
the Island it was agreed " at a meeting that
Mr. Lynch and Mr. Squance should go to Jaffna,
Mr. Ault to Batticaloa, Mr. Erskine to Matara, and
that Mr. Clough should remain at Galle."
Mr. Ault was eight days in reaching Batticaloa by
dliony. In giving an account of his voyage he says,
" I had a very unpleasant voyage. Our food as well
as our water fell short. I have been twice in the sea,
but happily escaped with life. I fell overboard from
the dhoney ; and on landing at Batticaloa in a small
canoe, it swamped. I jumped out and reached the
land the best way I was able."
The tombstone at Batticaloa disappeared " about
40 years ago." (See under " Batticaloa.")
415 June 30 . . Margaret Clough . . Margaret, Wife of Benjamin Clough, Wesleyan
jg27 Missionary, and only daughter of William Moely
of Doncaster in the County of York. This monu-
ment is erected by her sorrowing friends desirous of
paying a tribute of respect to the character of a
truly pious and consistent Christian who died at
Colombo, the 30th day of June, in the year 1827.
Aged 24 years.
The first minister resident here was Mr. Harvard,
who was succeeded by Mr. Clough.
Next to Gogerly " the man who has exercised the
greatest influence upon the interests of the Island
among the departed members of the mission is
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Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colombo — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
415 ..
June 30
1827
Margaret Clongh—coTdd.
416
July 13
1829
Sarah Rebecca Ladbrook
Hume
417
Oct. 4
1829
Richard Stoup
Inscription.
Benjamin Clough. He was born at Bradford in-
Yorkshire ; won the esteem of Dr. Coke and became
his most constant companion A vessel in
which he sailed from Colombo to Galle in 1822 struck
on a rock about five miles out from Gindura, and
when the Captain reached the Galle harbour there
were four feet of water in the hold and it became a
wreck He was seized with jungle fever when
on an official visit to Jaffna about the year 1837, soon
after which he finally left Ceylon, and in 1853, April
13, he died suddenly at Southwark in the sixty-second
year of his age." (Hardy, p. 303.)
He published " A Dictionary, English and Singha^
lese," in 1830, and " A Pali Grammar and Vocabu-
lary " in 1824 ; also translated the Pali work " Kama-
wachan," under the name of "The Ritual of the
Buddhist Priesthood," which was printed by the
Royal Asiatic Society.
"In 1821 an English and Sinhalese Dictionary
was published by Mr. Clough, extending to 628 pages
Svo. and containing about 25,000 words. Nine years
afterwards the same indefatigable student published
a Sinhalese and Bnghsh Dictionary, extending to
852 pages and containing about 40,000 words. Both
volumes were dedicated to Sir Edward Barnes. The-
Government paid for the expense of printing and
binding and received without payment 100 copies of
the work." (Hardy, p. 227.)
The history of the compilation of this Sinhalese
Dictionary is as follows, according to Spence Hardy.
" A collection of Singhalese works had been made by
Mr. Samuel ToHrey of the Civil Service, which, on his
return to England, he presented to the Government
and received in return a handsome remuneration.
On his death soon afterwards Sir John D'Oyly was-
requested to prepare the work for the press, but this
he declined, as it contained only a small portion of
the words in the Singhalese language and scarcely
any of the high words ; it having been compiled
for the purpose of assisting the servants of Govern-
ment in the daily routine of office, without any
reference to the literature of the coimtry. The under-
taking was declined by the compiler's brother on the
same ground. The arrangement was defective ; the
words were multiplied to an unnecessary extent by
appearing many times over, with only different
terminations ; and no attempt was made to discover
the root of the word. The assistance received from,
this source was therefore small, and whatever credit
the work is entitled to must be given to Mr. Clough."
(Hardy, pp. 277-8.) Hardy is wrong in thinking (1)'
that Samuel Tolfrey was the brother of WiUiam ; (2)
that the book was handed over to Government on
the death of Samuel. Samuel did not die until 1830,
in retirement. Sir John D'Oyly died in 1824.
Sarah Rebecca Ladbeook, daughter of Mr. W.
Fuller of London, and Wife of Alexander
Hume , Wesleyan Missionary. She died at Colombo
on the 13th July, 1829. Aged 29 years. In life
unaffected and deep piety, and a conduct regulated
by an uncommon mildness, fidelity, and prudence
marked her character. In death she exemplified
entire resignation to the mil of God, the enjoyment
of a well grounded faith.
Partly illegible. She was married to Mr. Hume-
at St. Paul's, Pettah, Colombo, on December 29, 1824.
" On 9th of Aug. (1819) the foundation stone of
the chapel at Negumbo was laid by Mr. Hume, who
had recently arrived from England, and he gave an
animated address." (" Jubilee Memorials," p. 105.)-
Sacred to the memory of Rev. Rd. Stotjp, Wesleyan
Missionary, who departed this Hfe at Colombo on
Sunday the 4th October, 1829. Aged 28 years.
As a man he was characterised by simplicity of
manners and gentleness of disposition ; As a
Christian by fervent piety and devotion ; As a
minister of the Gospel by faithfulness and love tO'
the souls of men ; As a missionary by diligence
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SeriaS No.
417 ..
1829
Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colombo— coti^cZ.
Date. Name. Inscription.
Oct. 4 . . Richard Stoup— cowfei. . . and zeal. The Dutch and Burgher inhabitants
of Galle among whom he laboured for upwards of
three years have erected this tablet as a memorial
of affection and esteem.
There is a copy of the inscription in ' ' Jubilee Memo-
rials," p. 216.
" Richard Stoup was born at Boston in Lincoln-
shire, and educated at the Grammar School of that
town. After a residence in Ceylon of nearly six years
he died at Colombo on the 5th of October, 1829,
having previously suffered months of intense pain
from indurated liver He was buried in St.
Paul's graveyard, where the tower of the Dutch Church
throws its shadow on his grave at eventide." (Hardy,
p. 301.)
418
Sept. 11
1859
Mary Jane Scott
419
Sept. 6
1862
Daniel Gogerly
Mary Jane, Wife of Rev. John Scott, Wesleyan
Missionary. She died September 11th, 1859.
Aged 25 years.
She was a daughter of Mr. WilHam Ford, and
married the Rev. J. Scott at Colombo on October 30,
1858. Mr. Scott was in Ceylon 1866-64. He was
Missionary at Galle 1 860-64. He opened the Wesleyan
Chapel at Moratuwa in 1859.
In memory of the Revd. Daniel Gogeely, for
twenty-four years the General Superintendent of
the Wesleyan Ministry in South Ceylon. He was
a profound Oriental Scholar, a wise administrator,
and an eminent preacher of the Gospel. To him
the Churches of the Island are deeply indebted for
his exertions in promoting education, his exposure
of the errors of Buddhism, and his labours as a
translator of the Holy Scriptures.
After a residence of 44 years in Ceylon he died
venerated and beloved.
September 6th, 1862. Aged 70 years.
His tombstone in the Pettah Burial Ground makes
him 72 (see No. 334). According to the "Jubilee
Memorials" he was born in London in 1792. He
arrived in Ceylon in 1818, and took charge of the
mission press.
In 1823 he was accepted as a missionary, and fifteen
years later was appointed Chairman of the Sinhalese
District. He died September 6, 1862, in the 71st
year of his age. " Mr. Gogerly gained an extensive
acquaintance with Buddhism. He had a profound
knowledge of Pali and of the voluminous works in
that dialect. He wrote numerous papers in the
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch)
" On Buddhism," &c., and these and otliers have
recently been collected and republished. Mr. Gogerly
resided for some time at Dondra before he became
the general superintendent of the mission. It was
here that he matru'ed his knowledge of PaU, as he took
advantage of being in the neighbourhood of the
learned priests of the district to enter upon the study
of the more abstruse parts of the Buddhistical
system. The mission library at Colombo is
indebted to him for some of the most valuable of the
Buddhistical works that it contains, which were
written for him at the temple during his residence
at Dondra." (Hardy, p. 239.)
" It was necessary for the missionaries to acquire
as intimate a knowledge as possible of the very volu-
minous sacred books. During forty-four years of
mission life Mr. Gogerly toiled at this labour of love,
producing his first book on the subject in 1848, and
persevering until his death in 1862."
' ' When he first propounded his discoveries as to the
real doctrine of primitive Buddhism, he was assailed
by nearly every Pali scholar in the' Island, and his
conclusions totally denied. But he calmly
defended his position, and by numerous quotations
from their most authoritative writings this solitary
Western student was able to lead the most profound
expositors of Buddhism into its deepest mysteries,
and prove that they were utterly wrong in their
estimate of its niost essential principles." (Miss
Gordon Cumming, vol. I., pp. 289-90.)
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Wesleyan Chapel, Dam Street, Pettah, Colombo — contd.
Serial No.
420 .
Date.
April 16
1868
Name.
Robert Spence Hardy
421
Nov. 25
1885
Samuel Hill
Inscription.
In memory of the Rev. Robert Spence Hardy^
Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic
Society and late General Superintendent of the
Wesleyan Mission in South Ceylon. As a devoted
Christian, the author of many works of learning
and piety, and an able and zealous Minister of
Christ, he glorified God and promoted the welfare
of mankind. After labouring as a missionary in
Ceylon for 22 years and making fuU proof of his
ministry in various parts of Great Britain, he died
at Headingley, near Leeds, April 16th, 1868>
Aged 64 years.
Robert Spence Hardy wrote several books and
papers on Buddhism, e.g., " Eastern Monachism " in
1850; "A Manual of Buddhism" in 1853; "The
Sacred Book of the Buddhists " in 1863 ; the article
on " Gotama Buddha " in the "Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica" ; " A Word Book in Three Parts in EngUsh and
Singhalese" in 1843; "Jubilee Memorials of the
Wesleyan Mission in Ceylon " in 1864.
In 1865 he returned to England, " leaving behind
him a reputation for profound scholarly learning.
His works were among the first to awaken the interest
in the faith of 470,000,000 of their feUow men." (Miss
Gordon Gumming, vol. I., p. 291.)
Rev. Samuel Hill, Principal of Wesley College and
Superintendent of this circuit. He died November
25th, 1885, aged 31, after an earnest and success-
full career as a Missionary for Christ.
Baptist Church, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo.
422
June 2
1844
Ebenezer Daniel
423
Nov. 2
1849
Jacob Davies
In gratitude to Almighty God and in affectionatfr
remembrance of the eminent virtues of the Revd.
Ebenezer Daniel, Minister of the Gospel in
connection with the Baptist Mission, who after a
period of 14 years' labour in Ceylon
In joumeyings often
In weariness and painfulness
In watchings often
In hunger and thirst
In fastings often
In cold and nakedness
died at Colombo
on the 2nd day of June, 1844, in tne sixtiecn year
of his age.
This tablet was erected from the voluntary subscrip-
tions of christians of all denominations. The
surplus was by the desire of the subscribers
remitted to his orphan children.
This tablet was removed from the Baptist Chapel
in Prince street, Pettah, when that building was
closed in 1905. The remains were at the same time
removed to the General Cemetery.
" Chater, om- pioneer Missionary of the B.M.S.,
was followed by Ebenezer Daniel, called the ' Apostle
of Ceylon.' When exhuming the remains in May
last for re-interment in the Cemetery, curiously
enough a gentleman's glove in good preservation was
found in the grave. It is believed to have been a
custom when the Governor of the Colony attended a
funeral for him to throw his glove in the grave above
the coffin. We shall be glad if any of our readers
can enlighten us further as to this." (" Baptist
Intelligencer " for November, 1905.)
In affectionate remembrance of the eminent piety
and learning of The Revd, Jacob Davies, Baptist
Missionary, who after a period of 5 years' labour
in Ceylon died at Colombo on the 2nd of November,
1849, in the 34th year of his age.
This tablet has been erected by christians of all
denominations who attend his preaching and
exhortations.
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Baptist Church, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo— cowirf.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
423 ..
Nov. 2
1849
. . Jacob I>a,vies—contd.
424
May 22
1859
Christopher Elliott
Inscription.
He is buried outside Wolvendaal Cliurch, where
there is a tombstone with inscription which states
that his age was 38. According to the newspapers
ho died of cholera, which had been raging among
the men of the 37th Regiment at Colombo.
In February, 1849, the Rev. Jacob Davies
espoused the cause of the Kandyans against
Lord Torfington's Government and the new taxes.
His son, James Acworth Davies, was the most
eminent Judge of his time in the Madras Civil
Service (1868-1906), and died as Sir J. A.
Davies, September 17, 1906, after serving many
years as a Judge of the High Court, Madras.
" Poor Mr. Davies of the Baptist Mission died
on February the 2nd, and was buried at the
Wolfendal Church yesterday, Mr. Palm officiating.
He suffered much from the climate, and the
immediate cause of his death was an attack
of dysentery I have often heard the truth
revealed by him with a clearness, force, and
eloquence that seemed to be peculiar to him, and
in which he was unrivalled." (" Sir R. Morgan,"
by Wm. Digby, pp. 157-58.)
In memory of Christopher Elliott, M.D. , Principal
Civil Medical Officer, a deacon of this church, and
a preacher of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
to the congregations assembling in this place.
As a servant of Christ
An enlightened citizen
A discerning philanthropist
And a skilful physician.
Having served his day and generation well — ^he died
in the Lord at Colombo, on May 22nd, 1859, aged
49 years. This tablet is erected by the members
of the church and congregation with whom he was
wont to worship.
He was born at Clonmore in the barony of
Ivert, County Kilkenny. He married (1) in
1837 Jessie Selina, daughter of Mr. William
Clark, a merchant who was the first to import
Manchester goods into Ceylon, and (2) in.l858 Miss
Bessie Scott of Woodstown, County Waterford.
He is buried outside Wolvendaal Church, where
there is a tombstone with inscription to himself
and his wife Jessie, "who died 7th March, 1855,
aged 47."
"Before the advent of a free press in 1834,
in the shape of the Observer, the Colombo Journal
had been issued from the Government Printing
Office, and was the repertory of much valuable
information. Besides the Governor, his son-in-law
Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. George Lee, the Post-
master-General, wrote for the paper, and so
did many officials. When the Journal was stopped
by order of the Home Government and the
Chronicle established to oppose the Observer,
under the editorship of the late Mr. C. ElUott,
Mr. George Lee was constituted editor of the
Chronicle, and wrote with much smartness
Dr. BlHott, Mr. Lee's opponent in the press,
and the opponent of the Governor, whom the
latter certainly did not surprise, was an Irishman
of much ability and strong convictions, which
he expressed with the warmth natural to his
countrymen. As a journalist he may, like the rest
of us, have sometimes erred, but he was always
honestly anxious for the welfare of his adopted
country and the cause of justice, truth, and pure
Christianity. In private life he was a good man,
humane and charitable to a degree, and ever
ready to help the poor, the friendless, and
the oppressed. This is but an inadequate tribute
to the memory of one with whom for many
years I was most intimately associated, and
to whose post in the press of Ceylon I
succeeded when he was appointed the first Principal
Civil Medical Officer of Ceylon, dying too soon
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Baptist Church, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
424 . . May 22 . . Christopher Elliott — conld. . . thereafter for the interests of the country and
2859 people he loved so warmly and served so well.
Although Messrs. E. J. Darby and George Winter
had preceded him in the editorship of the Observer,
Dr. Elliott was really the father of the free
press in Ceylon, and as such, as well as Christian
philanthrophist and useful medical man, was
worthy of having his memory held in high
honour." (Mr. A. M. Ferguson, C.M.G., in a
lecture given in 1886, published at the Ceylon
Observer Office.)
" Dr. C. Elliott, who was then the proprietor
and chief conductor of the Observer. A warm-
hearted Irishman, our late friend threw the
whole energy of his nature into whatever cause
he advocated, and I do not think I exceed the
truth when I say that mainly to his personal
influence and efforts were due the attention
which Ceylon affairs then received in the
Parliament and Press of Britain, culminating in
the recall of the Governor, the Colonial Secretary
(Sir J. E. Teiment), and Mr. (now Sir Philip)
Wodehouse. It is very true that Mr. Henry
Baillie in leading the movement, and Mr. Disraeli
and others in supporting it, may have had party
objects in view to some extent. But no charge
of this nature could he against such men as the
late Robert Peel, Gladstone, John Bright,
Joseph Hume, and other independent statesmen.
A flood of light was, by means of the evidence
taken by the Parhamentary Committee and the
papers produced, thrown on many social and
political questions of great interest connected
with Ceylon, and one great principle was decided
on, — that, at whatever cost, the agents of Govern-
ment through whom the people were ruled and
through whom justice was administered should be
spread over the land, until it would be impossible
again for any large section of the people to be
able to say, as many of the Matale rebels said, that
they had never seen the face of a white man.
" The lectvu'er, having been Dr. Elliott's asso-
ciate, and having fought by his side all through the
exciting period of 1848-50, may not be supposed
capable of delivering an impartial opinion on the
part which Dr. Elliott and the Observer took in the
controversies of that day. But, while admitting
that errors were committed and some things
written which were afterwards regretted, I think
I may claim that we were actuated by a desire
to vindicate justice and right, and to promote
the best interests of the country of our adoption.
Lord Torrington, who several times consulted his
Council as to the expediency of arresting the
conductors of the Observer, subsequently. met Dr.
Elliott on terms of cordial goodwill, while Sir
Emerson Tennent has acknowledged in his
published works such aid as the lecturer, his old
political opponent, was able to render him in his
great and greatly successful efforts to illustrate the
history, progress, and position of Ceylon. He
carried to his grave the respect of rulers and
people." {Ibid.)
He came out to Ceylon in 1834, and was
stationed at Badulla. He resigned this appoint-
ment in 1836, for private practice and a guarantee
of £300 a year as Editor of the Golombo Observer.
Like his successor in the editorship , he certainly
had a bitter tongue, and during his regime the
Observer was almost entirely taken up with
vehement attacks on most of the more prominent
European officials of the time. From the Colonial
Secretary (Mr. P. Anstruther) down, no one escaped.
Sir Arthur BuUer, Mr. Saunders, Mr. Cripps, &c.,
all had their turn, and so had the " Puseyites "
among the Government chaplains, who preached
in " white gowns," or had choral services. He was
appointed Principal Civil Medical Officer in 1858,
when the department was freed from military
control. He was succeeded by Dr. W. P. Charsley.
He was the father of Edward Elhott, C.C.S.,
1863-97.
( 135 )
Baptist Church, Cinnamon Gardens, Colomho—contd.
Serial No.
425 .
Date.
April 30
1866
Name.
James Allen
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. James Allen^
who, after a laborious career of twenty years in
this Island, as a missionary of the Gospel in
connection with the Baptist Missionary Society,
died at Colombo on April 30th, 1866, aged 56 years.
At the time of his death, as for many years pre-
viously, he was pastor of the church meeting in
this place, and was to its members and to all whom
his ministry reached a faithful and eloquent
preacher of the Gospel of the Grace of God. The
church and congregation to whom he so long
ministered have erected this tablet in affectionate
regard to his memory.
" Mr. Allen preached a very impressive sermon"
at the funeral of the Rev. Mr. Davies at Wolvendaal.
" Heard of Mr. Allen's death after five days' fever.
A good man is lost to the world ; but he has become
one of the garnered treasures of heaven." (" Sir R.
Morgan," Digby, p. 313.)
St. Lucia's Cathedral, Colombo.
426
July 5
1905
Theophili Andrese Melizan .
Heic. Sita. Sunt. Ossa.
Theophili Andrew Melizan
Gongr. Oblrum B.M.V.I.
Archiepi, Columben. Seeundi
E Galha Flagitante. Populo
Translata
Magno Xti fidehum Concursu
X Kal Jan MCMVI. Sepulta
Qui Massihee V. Kal. Oct. MDCCCXLIV. Natus
Ecclesiis Jaffnensi Decem
Columbensi Duodecim Annis
Faustissime Rectis
A. Pio P.P.X. Pontificio SoUo Assistens
Romanusque Comes Creatus
Dilectus Deo et Hominibus
Tolosse Obiit V Kal Jul MCMV
R.I.P.
St. Philip Neri's Church, Pettah, Colombo.
427
Aug. 15
1860
Guiseppe Maria Bravi
Heic situs est in pace Christi
JosEPHUS Maeia Bkavi
domo monte sancto in Piceno
ab adolescentia alumnus famihse Silvestrin.
episcopus Columbi in insula Ceylana
cujus eximia virtus
in Indis ab errore ad Evangelii legem vertendis
fructus uberes tuUt
morbo quo conflictabatur
decessit in Erythrseo ItaUam repetens
An. MDCCCLX. die festo D.N. Marise in coelum receptae
quo die quindecim ante annis
Ceylanum littus attigerat
annum agebat XLVII.
Vive in Deo
eique bonas pro tuis Indis preces
ad.move.
He died on board the Nubia, near Suez. He was
Bishop of Tipasa, i.p.i., and Vicar Apostolic of
Colombo.
" Sunday, 13th January, 1850. — ^Attended St.
Lucia's Cathedral to witness the consecration of my
friend Bravi Bishop Gaetano Antonio officiated
as consecrator. " (" Diary of Sir Richard Morgan' .s
Life," vol. I., p. 163.)
( 136 )
St. Mary's Church, Bolawatta, Colombo.
Serial No.
428 ..
Date.
Aug. 7
1857
Name.
Horatius Bettachini
Inscription.
Hie jacet
HoEATius Bettachini
Italus
Ep Torons. et Primus
Jaffnse V. Ap.
Qui multis laboribus et contrariets. non paues. eum,
ad, Per D. Js. Xum. mores, reformum. lucmg.
Evangm. intr. pagas. propagm. per 14 ans. et 10
mens, sincro. zelo et frucu. laborans, tandem
post diutm. crudelm. hecticam invic. patienta.
latam, pane coel. dev. refects. Redemptori suo
animam tradidit VII. Kal. Aug. A.D. 1857.
R.I.P.
He was Bishop of Torona, i.p.i. , and Vicar Apostolic
of Jaffna.
St. Anthony's Church, Kochchikade, Colombo.
429
Aug. 3
1892
Christopher Ernest Bonjean
Hie jacet
Cheistophortjs Eenesttts Bonjeatst
Congr. Oblrum Marise Immtse
Archiepiscopus Columbensis primus
pontificio soUo assistens
comes romanus
pastor vigUantissimus
scriptis, verbo et opere clarus
veritatis ardens propugnator
christianse Juventutis pie educandae
f autor assiduus
e Ricomago Arvernorum
oriilndus
rexit
Jafeiensem ecclesiam quindecim
Columbensem annis novem
Obiit Columbi die III., Aug. MDCCCXCII.
Jlltatis suse anno LXIX.
R.I.P.
General Cemetery, Colombo.
430
431
May 5
1866
Jan. 5
1867
Fanny Caley
Henry Byerley Thompson
Sacred to. the Memory of Fanny, wife of J. A.
Caley, Esq. , CCS. , died 5th May, 1866. Aged 32.
James Augustus Caley was in the PubUc Works
Department, 1844-68, and retired as Assistant Civil
Engineer. This was the first burial in the new
cemetery.
In memory of The Honourable Heney Byerley
Thompson, late Puisne Justice of the Supreme
Court. Died 5th January, 1867.
He was a son of Dr. Anthony Todd Thompson, and
married at Brighton on June 3, 1858, Sarita, daughter
of Count de Beaumont. He had been appointed
Queen's Advocate, Ceylon, on May 3 of that year.
He acted as Junior Puisne Justice in 1861-62, and was
confirmed in that office on January 1, 1863. The
circumstances attending his death were tragic. His
body was found on the sand of the seabeach opposite
the residence of Sir E. B. Creasy at Wellawatta,
where he had been residing diMUxg the absence of the
latter. " The body lay on the sand with the waves
dashing over it. The probability seems to be that
having deposited his hat and umbrella on the beach,
and stooping to bathe his face with the sea water, he
had fallen forward, and from the state of his health
was unable to recover himself and so was drowned.
The verdict at the inquest was fotind drowned. The
idea of suicide seems out of the question." The
Ceylon Observer adds : " The state of Mr. Thompson's
( 137
General Cemetery, Colombo— co^^ri.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
431 ..
Jan. 5
1867
. . Henry Byerley Thompson
contd.
432
Sept. 10
1869
Francis Edward Hall
433
April 18
1870
Prideaux Selby
434
Dec. 20
1873
Arthur Mainwaring
Inscription,
general healtla — indicated by his appearance — ^was
such as to show how hazardous the experiment of his
return to this climate was. • For some time before his
death he liad suffered from fever and sleeplessness , to
relieve which he imprudently resorted to opiates
So has passed away a man originally of fine parts,
of considerable learning and fair ability as a writer.
He was the author of several works, prominent among
which was a clever book, ' The Choice of a Profession.' ' '
{Ceylon Obsemer, January 7, 1867.) His age was 44.
He also compiled " The Institutes of the Laws of
Ceylon," published in 1866, a book that used to be
useful for Civil Service examinations in Ceylon. His
youngest brother, JohnCockburn, was drowned while
batning in the sea at Tenby in South Wales on May
26, 1860.
Francis Edward Hall, Madras C.S., born 26th
December, 1843, died 10th September, 1869.
He was Assistant Collector of South Arcot, and he
died at the Seamen's Hospital, Colombo. He had
embarked on the Mahratta atMangalore on September
3, en route to North Arcot, and landed at Colombo on
September 8 suffering from fever. There was some
difficulty about procuring his speedy admission into
hospital , which gave rise to comments in the papers
and an official inquiry, in which Dr. Willisford was
involved.
Sacred to the memory of Prideaux Selby, of the
Ceylon Civil Service, and eldest son of the late
Henry Collin gwood Selby, Esq., Queen's Ad-
vocate of the Island, who died suddenly in
Colombo, April 18th, 1870. Aged 26.
Prideaux Selby was in the Civil Service 1865-
1870. He was acting as Police Magistrate, &c., of
Point Pedro from May 16, 1863, when he was on
March 2, 1865, appointed to a Writership. He
acted as PoUce Magistrate at Jaffna from December
16, 1865, to February 1 , 1866. He obtained the fixed
appointment at Point Pedro on February 1, 1866,
and that of Assistant Government Agent, Kurunegala,
on August 1, 1867. He acted as District Judge,
Matara, from January 1 to April 7, 1868, when
he was appointed to act at Colombo as Police
Magistrate until June 30, 1868. He was the son of
Henry Collingwood Selby, Queen's Advocate, 1848-
1858, who came from the Cape with Sir Anthony
OHphant, Chief Justice, 1840-1854. H. C. Selby's
wife was a lady of Dutch descent from the Cape. He
was highly respected in the Island. He had a brother ,
John Selby, who was an Advocate in Ceylon, and
was associated with Dr. Elliott in the agitation
against Lord Torrington and Sir James Emer-
son Tennent, which arose over the seq\iel of the
Matale rebellion of 1848. Another brother was an
actor at the Adelphi Theatre when Benjamin Webster
was lessee. A third brother was in the Indian Navy.
Sacred to the memory of Arthur Mainwaring,
Ceylon Civil Service. Died at Colombo, 20th
December, 1873. Aged 30.
Arthur Mainwaring was the eldest son of the Rev.
John Mainwaring, M.A. , and married Mary Char-
lotte, second daughter of Colonel Hamilton, C.B. ,
D.A.G.,late of the 78th Regiment, on June 17, 1867.
He was Private Secretary to the 'Senior Puisne
Justice, Mr. P. J. Sterling, in 1862, and in the Civil
Service from 1865-1873. He was Registrar of
Lands, North -Western Province, December 15, 1863.
He acted as Commissioner of Requests and Police
Magistrate, Harispattu (Galagedara), from November
1, 1865, and was appointed a Writer, December 19,
1865 ; Joint Police Magistrate, Kurunegala, April 1,
1865 ; Police Magistrate, Haputale, December 17,1867 ;
Acting Assistant Goverimient Agent, Kandy, June
16, 1867 ; Landing and Tide Surveyor, Galle, February
1, 1868; and Acting Landing Surveyor, Colombo,
September 15, 1869.
( 138 )
General Cemetery, Colombo— cow^cZ.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
435 ..
Feb. 21 .
1874
. Johan Nietner
436
April 3
1874
Thomas McConnell
John Rose Bain
James Laing
437
438
Feb. 21
1884
Sept. 28
1884
439 . . July 18
1886
440 . . July 31
1887
John Alexander Bell
John Woodcock
Edward Seymour Fowler
William Ferguson
441
April 1
1889
John Studholme Brownrigg
Inscription.
J. NlETNEE. 1874.
He was a planter and proprietor with Mr. Staniforth
Green of Fernlands estate, Pundalu-oya, and was of
considerable attainment as an entomologist. He
contributed varioiis "Entomological Papers," being
descriptions of a new Ceylon Coleoptera, to the Journal
of the Bengal Asiatic Society of 1856-57, and to the
Journal of the Ceylon Asiatic iSooiety, 1856-58. He
wrote a pamphlet , ' ' The Coffee Tree and its Enemies ,' '
which was pubhshed in 1858 and again in 1880. He
arrived at Colombo by the Bteaxnev Manchester , Captain
J. Donnan, from Tuticorin, March 14, 1868, but this
was not his first appearance in the Island, as he was
in Colombo in the firm of A. and R. Crowe & Co. as
early as 1853. In 1857 he became a planter and pro-
prietor of Fernlands estate, Pundalu-oya, where he
lived as superintendent.
In memory of Thomas McConnell, who lost his Ufe
whilst bathing near Mount Lavinia on 3rd April,
1874. Aged 29 years.
John Rose Bain, who lost his life on 3rd April,
1874, trying to save his friend from drowning.
Aged 34 years.
James Laing, who lost his life on 3rd April, 1874,
trying to save his friends from drowning.
They were in this life true and happy friends even
unto death, and now God with Thee they rest.
Erected by their sincere friend D. Mackintosh.
McConnell of Glasgow was of Messrs. Alstons,
Scott & Co.'s milla at Borella ; Bain, of Tain,
Rosshire, was Manager of the Ceylon Company's
mills ; and Laing, whose age was 59, an Aberdeenshioe
man, was Superintendent of the Bridge of Boats at
Grandpass. McCormeU got into difficulties while
bathing in the sea, and Bain and then Laing went to
his assistance.
John Alexander Bell.
He was a planter on Hillside, Dolosbage, in the
sixties ; afterwards Police Magistrate of Dimbula,
" the planter magistrate."
John Woodcock, Assistant Resident Engineer of the
Minicoy Lighthouse, who died at Colombo from
fever contracted in the erection of the above light-
house, aged 43.
Edwaed Seymour Fowler, C.C.S., 4th son of the
Rev. Robert Fowler, M.A. , of Tunbridge Wells,
Kent.
This stone is raised by his mother and by his
friends in Colombo, where he died aged 22.
He had only been out a few months.
William Feegitson, F.L.S., who died at Kelvin
Grove, Colombo, aged 67.
William Ferguson joined the Survey Department in
1839. "He devoted his leisure to botany and ento-
mology, and his knowledge of the plants and insects of
Ceylon became most intimate. Many of his papers
appeared in the Ceylon Observer and in the ' Tropical
Agriculturist.' He pubhshed at Colombo 'The
Scripture Botany of Ceylon,' n.d. ; ' Description of the
Palmyra Palm,' 1850 ; 'The Timber Trees of Ceylon,'
1863; 'Notes on Ceylon Ferns,' 1880; and ui the
Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society, an ' En\uneration of Ceylon Grasses,' 1880.'
(See Trimen, vol. V., p. 375.)
He was for many years Superintendent of Works
under the Colombo MunicipaUty.
" A distinguished botanist and a keen lover of
natural history in all its branches. " (" Two Happy
Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 73.)
General John Studholme Brownrigg, C.B. Born
September, 1814.
He was a son of John Studholme Brownrigg,
M.P. for Boston, eldest brother of Governor Sir
Robert Brownrigg. General J. S. Brownrigg was
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
441
AprU 1 .
1889
. John Studholme Brownrigg —
contd.
( 139 )
General Cemetery, Colombo — contd.
Inscription.
Colonel of the 95th Regiment with which regiment he
was in Ceylon in the forties. He married on September
11, 1840, Katherine, second daughter of Sir W. H.
William8Wynne,K.C.H. ,and (2) Beatrice Laura, the
daughter of Chevalier L. des Anges. She married (2)
Chas. Fitzroy Alox. Halifax Bagot.
442 . . May 23 . . Anne Ferguson - . . Sacred to the memory of Anne Mackeeeas, the
1890 beloved wife of A. M. Fbegtjson, who died at
Dec. 26 . . Alastair Mackenzie Ferguson Colombo, aged 74. Her dying testimony was,
1892 " I have known Christ for 60 years."
Also Alastaie Mackenzie Feegtjson. Born at
Cannon Bridge, Rossshire, Scotland, Jan. 23, 1816.
" A ready writer." Ps. 45, 1.
He " after he had served his own generation by the
Will of God feU on sleep." Acts. 13, 36.
A. M. Ferguson arrived with Governor Stewart
Mackenzie by the ship Malabar, which left Byde on
August 4, and arrived in Colombo roadstead on
November 7, 1837. He opened an " Auction and
Retail Commission Room" at Colombo on April 16,
1838 ; he was shortly afterwards in the Survey De-
partment, and was Acting PoUce Magistrate of Point
Pedro when.onAugust 20, 1844, at Jaffna, he married
Anne Mackerras of Colombo. He was in the Jaffna
peninsula from June, 1841, to February, 1846, and it
was while he was hving in 2nd Cross street with
Richard Rudd that he and his brother William had
a fracas with James Byles, Lieutenant John Brewse
Kersteman of the Ceylon Rifles, the Commandant,
and Daniel Quinton, the svirveyor who made a survey
of Delft island. The rest of his Ufe may be said to
be the history of the Ceylon Observer.
Miss Gordon Cumming says of him, writing in 1891
("Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 72,
1892) :—
" A name closely associated with Ceylon for the last
fifty years has been that of Mr. A. M. Ferguson, who
for forty-four years has ably edited the leading news-
paper of the Colony, The Ceylon Observer, and whose
knowledge on all subjects connected with the Isle
causes him to be regarded as a sort of Ceylonese Ency-
clopaedia."
The following account of the paper and his con-
nection with it is taken from a recent issue : —
" The Ceylon (as the Colombo) Observer was started,
on 4th February, 1834, by the Colombo merchants
as an organ to open for public criticism the Govern-
ment of Sir R. Wilmo1>Horton, who had virtually
established an official organ in the Colombo Journal,
later changed, by orders from home, into the Oovern-
ment Gazette. The late Mr. B. J. Darley, one of the
founders of Messrs. Darley, Butler & Co., was for
some time editor, but not so long as Mr. George
Winter, formder of the well-known Baddegama firm
and property. The merchants, getting tired of the
press management, very soon sold the concern to
the late Dr. Christopher Elliott. Dr. Elliott
continued to be sole editor (as well as proprietor) of
the little weekly, and, later, bi-weekly sheet, until
1846, when he appointed as his editor Mr. A. M. Fer-
guson, who had been a regular contributor, both in
prose and poetry, from the day of his arrival in the
Island in 1837. One of the greatest triumphs of the
paper of Dr. Elliott and his editor was found in the
Parliamentary inquiry, which resulted in the recall of
Governor Lord Torrington and the resignation of
Sir Emerson Tennent in 1849-50 ; and a unique
service, we believe, in the history of the world's
Newspaper Press, was the Observer ' Carrier Pigeon '
service, carried on for mail purposes, once a fortnight
between Point de Galle and Colombo, the pigeons
bringing two columns of news in from | hour to IJ
hour for over 7 years — 1850 to 1857— the ' Fall of
Sebastopol ' being thereby announced and a salute
for the same fired from the Colombo ramparts many
hours before the coach arrived with the steamer's
mails. In 1859 Dr. Elhott was appointed the first
" Principal Civil Medical OfiScer " of Ceylon, and had,
( 140 )
General Cemetery, Colombo — contd.
Serial X'..
Date.
Name.
442 ..
May 23 .
1890, &c.
Anne Ferguson, &c,
-contd.
443
June 21
1892
Thomas McCausland Twigg
444
1888-1892
Men of the Gordon High-
landers
445
Sept. 28
1893
Marcus Synnot Crawford
446
March 7
1899
Hayman Thornhill
Inscription.
accordingly, to sever his connection with the press,.
and so sold the Observer and its business to Mr. A. M.
Ferguson, who, in November, 1861 , got out his nephew
as assistant editor and reporter. It was still the
day of small things in Colombo — no Reuter's tele-
grams, a fortnightly mail from Europe ; and yet the
community enjoyed the luxury of a daily newspaper
after a varied fashion ; for the Observer came out on
Monday and Thursday, the ' Times ' on Tuesday
and Friday, and the ' Examiner ' on Wednesday and
Saturday. This continued for several years ; but in
1867 at our suggestion the ' Colombo ' was changed
to the Ceylon Observer and a tri-weekly issue begun ;
while some years later it became a daily. The com-
mencement of the Observer ' Hansard ' dates from
1868, when verbatim reports of the Legislative Council
proceedings were published Mr. A. M.
Ferguson continued to be the active editor of the
Observer (with latterly frequent intervals ' on the
hills ' of ' Abbotsford ' which he loved so well) up
to 1879, when he finally vacated his chair in the
Observer office ; but he continued to read and write for
the paper, wherever he was, up to the day of his
lamented death in December, 1892, in his 77th year
— completing 55 years' residence in the Colony, 33 as
working editor and 46 in connection with the Observer
altogether. And so when the Melbourne Exhibition
came on in 1881, he was by one acclaim called to be
' Commissioner,' and on his return was presented «vith
a splendid testimonial, gold watch, plate, and purse,
by the planters and merchants, while soon after came
the honour of ' C.M.G.' "
Mr. A. M. Ferguson, the proprietor of Abbotsford
estate, Dimbula, is a son of Mr. A. M. Ferguson.
Another son, Mr. Donald W. Ferguson, who died at
Croydon on June 29, 1910, is well known as a writer on
antiquarian and literary subjects, chiefly Portuguese
and Dutch, connected with the Island, and as a
contributor of various papers to the Royal Asiatic
Society and to the Ceylon Branch of it.
Thojmas McCausland Twigg, C.C.S., Eldest son of
Rev. T. Twigg, Vicar of Swords, Ireland. Born in
Dublin, 8th May, 1856. Died in Colombo
Pater moerens posuit.
He joined the Civil Service in 1878. He was Office
Assistant to the Government Agent, Western Province,
at the time of his death. He had been Commissioner
of Requests, Colombo. He was of Trinity College,
Dublin.
In memory of Colour Sergeant G. Foot, Corporal J.
HiTCHm, Lc. Corporals D. McLottghlin, E. H.
Fabvell, Mc McDonotjgh (here follow the names
of 23 privates).
Erected by the OfiScers, Warrant Officers, Non-Com-
missioned Officers, and Men of the 1st Battalion
Gordon Highlanders, Ceylon. December, 1888, to
January, 1892, Colombo, Kandy, Trincomalee.
Marcus Synnot Crawford, of the Ceylon Civil
Service, who was accidentally drowned while
bathing at Mount Lavinia. Aged 38 years.
Civil Service 1878-1893. Grain Commissioner.
First Pohce Magistrate of Hatton, 1885.
He was educated at Sherborne School and a scholar
of Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a fffst
class in classics at moderations and a second class
at his degree examination in 1878. His father was
Rector of Cookstown in Ireland, and commuted at
the time of the disestabhshment of the Irish Church,
and afterwards held the living of Milton Abbas. The
father was a noted Trinity College, Dublin, scholar,
and philologist of the old-fashioned school.
In memory of Dr. Hayman Thornhill, B.A., M.B.,
the beloved husband of Cecelia Augusta Thorn-
hill. Born 3rd May, 1849.
At Rest.
Erected by his brother officers in the Civil Medical
Department.
{ 141 )
General Cemetery, Colombo— con/c/.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
446 ..
March 7
1899
Hayman Thornhill-
447
Dec. 4
1899
Lionel Frederick Lee
448
Nov. 21
1900
James Meaden
At'
■■/"
rfa
449
April 1
1901
Harold L. Lowrie
450
Nov. 26
1901
Charles Stuart Knox
Inscription.
-contd. He was originally in the Naval Medical Service , and
married on December 7, 1874, Cecilia Augusta,
daughter of Mr. John S. Harper, Naval Storekeeper
of Trincomalee. He was of Trinity College, Dublin,
and son of William Johnstone Thornhill, Prebendary
of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rector of Rathcoob,
Diocese of Dublin, by his first wife Mary Anne
Young; his second wife, whom he married at St.
Andrew's, Dublin, on September 6, 1871, being
Louiza Augusta Grove Annesley, daughter of
Lieutenant-General Arthur Grove Annesley.
. . In memory of Lionel Feedebick Leb, Treasurer of
this Colony. Born Deer. 4th, 1845. Entered into
rest Deer. 4th, 1899. ' '
The Lord is good and His mercy is everlasting.
This stone is erected by his brother Civil Servants
and many other friends iatoken of the high regard
in which theyheld him.
He was in the Civil Service, 1864-1899, and was
Superintendent of the Census of 1881 and of 1891,
when acting as Registrar-General. He served at
Kegalla, Tangalla, Galle, Matara, and Jaffna as Dis-
trict Judge, and as Principal Collector of Customs and
as Fiscal at Colombo and Kandy. He was a son of
George Lee, C.C.S., 1831-1860. George Lee was a
highly accomplished literary man, son of an Amster-
dam merchant who came out in 1831 on the staff of
Sir R. Wihnot Horton, and was " Superintendent of
the Printing Press ' ' and editor of the Ceylon Chronicle ,
which was started on May 3, 1837, and discontinued
on September 3, 1838. He was Postmaster-General
from 1844 to 1860. He married Miss Martha Austin,
daughter of James Austin and Sophia Hill, at Kandy,
on October 2, 1841, who had come out in the same
ship with him in that year, and another of his sons
is Henry Austin Lee, of the Forejgn Office. Lionel
Lee married, on August 1, 1868, EUen Annie, fourth
daughter of Robert Wright Norfor, Commissioner of
Stamps, Madras.
. . Lt.-Col. J. Meaden, of the Ceylon Rifles and late
57th Regt. Died at Colombo aged 69.
He was a son of Captain David Meaden (No. 175),
and was born April 21, 1831. He joined the Ceylon
Rifles as 2nd Lieutenant, February 27, 1852 ; Captain,
May 19, 1857 ; was stationed at Trincomalee when the
regiment was reduced in 1870. "When Colonel
Meaden was stationed at Trincomalee in 1872, within
easy reach of the brackish lake Tamblegam, he went
out snipe shooting on seventeen days between January
and April and bagged 482^- couple, the highest record
being fifty-two couple one day, the lowest being two
couple." (" Two Happy Years," vol. II., p. 90.)
He married at Galle, November 16, 1861, Susan,
third daughter of John Joachim Vanderspar of Galle.
"Had not Captain Meaden, whilst digging the
foundation of his house near the lake of Kandy, also
discovered hidden wealth of fabulous amount, and
from being a very poor man had he not suddenly
become a very rich man ? " (" Autobiography of a
Periya Durai," p. 388.) Whether there is any truth
in this story the compiler knows not. There is some
corroboration of it. Is there not land at Kandy still
described in deeds as " Captain Meaden's land" ?
. . Habgld L. Lowhib, 3rd Engineer, H. M. Transport
Atlantian, who was killed by a shark whilst bathing
in Colombo Harbour, aged 25 years.
Erected as a token of respect by members of the
crew and a few friends.
His leg was bitten off. He was picked up and taken
on board the P. & O. ss. Borne , but died the same day
on board the Atlantian.
. . Captain Charles Sttjabt Knox, The Gloucestershire
Regt. B. 22nd September, 1872 Erected
by his Brother Officers.
The 1st Battahon Gloucestershire Regiment,
formerly the 28th Foot, came to Ceylon from South
Africa in 1900 in charge of Boer prisoners, and was
stationed at Diyatalawa and Ragama Camps.
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Serial No.
Datp.
Name.
451 ..
March 22 .
1627
Philip de Oliveyra
Colombo Museum.
There are four Portuguese tombstones at the Colombo Museum, and another stone with a Portuguese
inscription. The stones which bore the first two inscriptions given below have upfortunately disappeared.
Inscription.
. . SEPULTTTEA DO CAPITAO MOE E GOVEENADOK DESTE
EEYNO PHELIPE DB OUVEYEA, CONQT7ISTADOE
d'elle, e fttndadoe de TODAS SUAS IGEEJAS.
goveenotj nove anos, nos quaes venceo em
batalha tees EEYS. FOY SETJ FALECIMENTO
COERENDO A EEA, PE. 1627, OS DIAS, A 22 DE
MARCO ; SENDO DE IDADE DB 53 AJSTOS. DEYXOXT O
EBYNO i^ PAZ, E QUIETACAO, A SETJ DEOS, E A
SETT EEY.
" The grave of the Captain Major and Governor of
this Kingdom, Phelipe de OUvejrra, the conqueror
thereof and the founder of all its churches. He held
the Government for nine years, in the course of which
he conquered three kings in battle. His death occurred
on March 22, 1627, when he was 53 years of age. He
left the kingdom at peace and in tranquiUity, to his
God and to his King."
Phelipe de Oliveyra was buried in the middle of
the Capela Mor, close to the steps of (the image of ?)
Our Lady of Miracles (presumably in the church called
after her). After a year it was proposed to transfer
his bones to the Convent of St. Francis in Colombo,
but finally they were placed in an urn which was let
into a wall of the chapel and closed with a block of
stone. At the top of this were inscribed his arms, at
the bottom 3 crowns and the royal sceptres. In the
middle, on an azure ground, was engraved the inscrip-
tion given above.
The information is taken from De Queyroz, book
IV., chap. 6. (Conquista Temporal e. Espiritua)
de Ceilao.)
452
1536
Lulz Monteiro
Aqvi iaz Lviz Monteiro de Setvvel
o primerio vigairo confirmado e primaz
nesta ilha de Ceilao
qve edefiqvov esta terra de igreias e cristaos
e fez Sao L90 e esta casa
com aiutorio dos fies cristaos e sev.
Ho gram iuizo esperamdo
iaco aqui nesta morada
da vida camsada
descamsaodo
e dos gramdes trabalhos e desaras de Ceilao
na era de 1536.
The above is Mr. D. W. Ferguson's reading of the
inscription on a tombstone which, in 1836, was
discovered at the Battenberg basticyi in the Fort,
Colombo, by some workmen engaged in clearing
away some accumulated rubbish and remains of old
buildings. The stone has since disappeared. Mr.
Ferguson remarks : —
" The only word I am doubtful about in the above
is ' Lviz . ' Cunha Rivara' s version reads ' Luiz , ' which
seems the best solution. The correct translation is
as follows : —
" Here lies Luiz (?) Monteiro of Setuvel, the first
confirmed vicar and primate in this island of Ceylon,
who edified (or built up) this land with churches and
Christians, and built Saint Lawrence and this house
with the help of the faithful Christians and his own.
' Awaiting the great judgment,
I lie here in this abode.
From toilsome life
Resting.'
And from the great labours (or troubles) and dis-
honours of Ceylon, in the year 1536.
"Regarding Lmz (?) Monteiro, I have failed to
obtain any information beside what is told us in his
epitaph. The church of Sao Lourenjo, or Saint
Lawrence, was the oldest in Colombo, and stood near
where the root of the breakwater now is, and where
the Battenberg bastion used to be ; in fact, where the
stone was discovered. It and the ' house ' connected
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Colombo Museum— contd.
■Serial No.
452 .
Date.
1536
Name.
Luiz Monteiro — contd.
453
June 23
1565
Fernando Rodriguez
Inscription,
with it are shown, I think, in Ressende's plan of
Colombo. The church gave its name to the older of
the two parishes into which the Portuguese city was
divided (Ribeii'o , I. , xii. ) . It will be noticed that in the
epitaph occur foui' lines of verse, rhyming 1, 2, 2, 1,
and here comes in a very curious fact, to which Mr.
David Lopes of Lisbon drew my attention some years
ago. It is that on the tombstone of the great
Portuguese poet Gil Vicente the very same lines (with
a slight difference) are found."
For a further discussion as to how these lines came
to be used on stones so far apart as Evora and
Colombo, and as to the fate of the Colombo stone,
see Journal R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., pp. 362-6.
Aqui jaz Helena Roiz molher que foy de Pernao
Roiz qus mataras em Berberim Falaceo a 23 de
Junho de 1565 Anos.
[Here lies Helena Roiz, who was wife' of Fbenando
Roiz, whom they murdered at Berberim. Died
on the 23rd of Jime in the year 1665.]
This stone was dug up near the site of the Batten-
berg battery in the Fort of Colombo nearly thirty
years ago, when the Breakwater works were
begun. (See Journal R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII.,
p. 360.)
He probably met his death " in the general mas-
sacre by Tribuli Pondar " at Beruwala. (Donald
Ferguson.) »■
454
March 19
1624
Bras Munes
Pater Noster Ave Maria Pola alma de Bkas Munes
que faleceo em 19 de Marco de 1624 esta he sua
sepultura e de seus herdeiros.
[A pater noster, an ave Maria, for the soul of Beas
MoNiz, who died on the 19th ctf March, 1624. This
is his tomb and that of his heirs.]
This stone was discovered a few years ago near the
site of the Battenberg battery in the Fort. (See
Journal B.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., p. 360.)
455
1646
Joana Godinho
ESTA SEPVLTVEA HE DE lOANA GODINHA E DE SEVS
EEDEIEOS O QUAL FES HVM FO POE NOME JOAO DA
FOCA.
" This tomb is of Joana Godinho and of her heirs,
which was made by one named Joao da Fonseca."
The contraction " Foca " evidently represents " Fon-
seca," and Mr. F. H. de Vos has identified the arms
as those of Joan de Fonseca. " Godinha " is a
mistake of the engraver for "Godinho," and " o qual"
for " a qual."
Inscription under a coat of arms consisting of a
shield charged with five stars arranged 2,1, 2, and
underneath the shield the date 1646.
This stone was disinterred some fifteen years ago
from an old well near the Gordon Gardens in Colombo
' Fort, which was formerly a burial ground.
456
1647
" Capella dos irmaos da confraria do santiss Rosario
seu arco novamente feito na era de 1647 sendo
prezidente Balthzar da Veiga."
[" Chapel of the Brethren of the Confraternity of the
most Holy Rosary. Its arch was rebuilt in. the
year 1647, Balthzar da Veiga being President."]
Inscription showing that it once stood (over the
main doorway probably) in the wall of the chapel of
a Portuguese religious house.
" In the 17th century there was in India a Portu-
guese, wealthy and pious, it seems, named Balthazar da
Veiga, much affectioned to the Jesuits, who died 14th
January, 1652, and his remains lie in the Sacristy of
the well-known Church of Bom Jesus,, Old Goa, on a
sarcophagus, with epitaph, granted by the Society of
Jesus. (Professor Graeias of New Goa.)"
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Colombo Museum— contd.
Serial No.
457 ..
Date.
July 14
1648
Name.
Paulo Gomes Maria de
Miranda
Inscription.
" Esta sepultra he de Po Gomes e de su (a molher)
Maria de Miranda falesco A 14 de Julho de 1648
(An) OS."
[" This tomb is of Paulo Gomes and of his (wife)
Maria de Miranda, died on the 14th July, 1648
"]
This stone had apparently, after its removal from
the Portuguese church or burial ground in the Fort,
where it was originally placed, been used for some
building demolished probably at the time the Break-
water was begun ; for it has two holes drilled across
the surface of the face of the stone, one transversely
and the other longitudinally at the foot.
Junction of Queen Street and Prince Street, Fort, Colombo.
458
March 19
1838
Edward Barnes
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.B.,
K.M.T., K.S.A.
Erected by the European and native inhabitants of
Cejlon and friends in Ceylon and India to testify
their respect and affection for his person and to
perpetuate the memory of his distinguished mih-
tary services and the important benefits conferred
by him upon this Colony during his administra-
tion of the Government from 1820 to 1822 and
from 1824^1831. He died March, 1838. Aged
62 years.
He died on March 19. This statue stands at the
end of Prince street, and facing down it as the begin-
ning of the road from Colombo to Kandy, which was
made during Sir Edward Barnes' administration and
at his initiation. It is said that when it was objected
that there were mountains and rivers in the way, his
answer was, "Blast the rocks and dam the rivers."
The statue is by Weeks, and was erected on June 18,
1847. There is a painting of him in the Kandy
Library, which was subscribed for by tlie members
in 1838.
He arrived at GaUe by the Dauntless on July 19,
1819, and took command as Commander-in-Chief of
the Forces in Ceylon, and was appointed Lieutenant-
Governor, February 1, 1820, on the departure of
Governor Brownrigg. He left in 1822.
He had been in the 31st and 99th Regiments ;
served on the staff in Spain and Portugal, and was in
command of a brigade at the battles of Vittoria, the
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Mve', and Orthes, also in the
Netherlands campaign and France in 1818; was
severely wounded at Waterloo. He was a Knight of
the Austrian Order of Maria Theresa and of the First
Class of St. Anne of Russia.
He was appointed Governor, and arrived by the
Hercules on January 18, 1824, and assumed the
Government. He left for Calcutta on October 13,
1831, having been appointed Commander-in-Chief in
India. He was recalled in 1834 " in consequence of a
difference of opinion with the Viceroy on the subject
of the necessity for an army of exercise in the North-
west Provinces diaring the cool season."
He married, July 3, 1823, Maria, eldest daughter of
Walter Fawkes, Esq., of Famley Hall, Yorkshire.
Their youngest daughter, Amelia Henrietta, married
the Rev. William Parry, vicar of Timsbury, Hants.
She died at Sork-el-Gharb, Mount Lebanon, Ss^ria,
March 30, 1874.
" Such a true soldier as Sir Edward Barnes, whose
equal for largeness of heart, generosity, and nobleness
of mind I have never known in my position of life.
He was a commander for whom any soldier would
have considered it the highest privilege to have served
even unto death. It was impossible to ride in his.
cortige without being inspired with the most devote
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
458 ..
March 19 .
1838
. Edward Barnes — contd
Junction of Queen Street and Prince Street, Fort, Colomho— contd.
Inscription,
enthusiasm. How weU any raan who ever served
under that perfect soldier can realize the description
the late Sir Robert Arbuthnot gave of a desperate
attack which he once saw Sir Edward make on a
French position. The scene of the attack was an
orchard, walled all round, to which he took his brigade
up in open columns of companies ; and then having
fired his men with his own enthusiasm, he rode his
charger on the wall, cocked hat in hand, and cleared
it in the most splendid style. Sir Robert Arbuthnot
said it was the finest sight and most effective attack
he had ever witnessed. Sir Edward was at the time an
exceedingly fine, handsome man." (Skinner, p. 67.)
In the Museum Grounds, Colombo.
459
1892
William Henry Gregory . ,
The Right Honourable Sir William Gregoby,
K.C.M.G., Governor of Ceylon. Erected by the
inhabitants of the Island to commemorate the
many benefits conferred by him upon the Colony
durmg his administration of the Government from
1872 tp 1877. He died in 1892.
A statue. The creation of the North-Central
Province, the resuscitation of Anuradhapura, the
encouragement of irrigation, and the " Gregory Lake"
at NuwaraBliya were his most notable achievements
as Governor.
Sir William Gregory was the only son of Robert
Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Covmty Galway, by his
wife Elizabeth O'Hara of Rahoon. He says this of
his ancestry : " My great-grandfather was the son of
Henry Gregory, who hved in Galway. He seems to
have been a man of considerable vigour of character,
for he ran away from home, made his way to India,
got into the employment of the Bast India Company,
and therein made a very large fortune. In those daya
the pagoda tree had not shed all its golden fruit, and
my relative was certainly not behind his neighbours
in gathering it. He married in India — whom I do
not know ; but I strongly suspect the lady had a good
deal of native blood in her veins. He had three sons
in India: Robert, Richard, and William." (See his
"Autobiography," p. 2.)
He was a grandson of William, and was born at
Dublin, July 13, 1817. He was M.P. for Dublin,
1852-57, and for County Galway, 1857-72.
Church Missionary Society Churchyard, Cotta.
460
Oct. 11
1840
Joseph Knight
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Joseph Knight,
born Oct. XVII., A.D. 1787; died Oct. XI., A.D.
1840. He laboured as a Missionary in connec-
tion with the C. M. Society at Jaffna for more
than 20 years ; was wrecked off the Cape on his
way home in 1838, when he is thought to have
contracted an affection of the lungs, of which he
died shortly after his return to Ceylon.
His end was peace.
The Rev. Joseph Knight was one of the first mis-
sionaries of the Church Missionary Society, who
arrived in Ceylon on July 11, 1818, the others being
the Revs. R. Mayor, Samuel Lembrick, and Benjamin
Ward. In the preface to Winslow's " Comprehensive
Tamil and English Dictionary," published at Madras
in 1862, it is stated that " it was commenced
by the Rev. J. Knight, Church Missionary at Jaffna.
The plan embraced not only a TamU-Enghsh lexicon
of the common and poetic dialects, but, on a smaller
scale, an English-Tamil Dictionary, and one of Tamil
sjraonyms. Mr. Knight, who was an accurate Tamil
scholar, laboured diligently in collecting mate-
rials for these publications" (page vii.).
He married (1) Mrs. S. B. Richards, and (2) Mrs.
E. S. Nichols, both widows of American Missionaries.
By one of these marriages he became brother-in-law
of the Rev. Dr. Poor of the American Mission.
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Church Missionary Society Churchyard, Cotta — conid.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
461 ..
March 19 .
1844
Joseph Bailey
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Joseph Bailey
of Cotta, Senior Missionary, Chairman and Secre-
tary of the Church Mission in Ceylon, who died at
Cotta, March 19th, 1844, aged 47 years and 3
months. His brother missionaries and the cate-
chists and other native helpers connected with
the Mission have united with his sorrowing family
in erecting this tribute of affectionate regard and
esteem.
The obituary notice in the Golomho Observer states
that he died on March 20. He arrived in Ceylon
in 1821.
Wellawatta.
There is a banyan tree near " Layard's FoUy,". close to the roadside where the toll station stood, and
under it is a stone with the following inscription. The letters are inuch worn : —
462 . . 1820 . . . . . . To Him whose gracious aim in mercy bends
And light and shade to all alike extends
Who guards the traveller on his weary way
Shelters from storms and shades from solar ray
Breathe one kind wish for her, one pious prayer
Who made this sheltering tree her guardian care
Fenced in from rude attacks the pendent roots
Nourished and framed its tender infant shoots.
O traveller, if from milder climes you rove
How dearly will you prize this Indian grove.
Pause then awhile, and ere you pass it by
Give to Sophia's name one grateful sigh.
A.D. 1820.
Who the lady guardian of this tree was I have not
been able to discover. Possibly it was Mrs. Marshall.
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell refers in his " Excur-
sions " to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall's " charming abode
situated on the seashore about 3 miles from Colombo."
This was in 1821 or 1822, and the distance would make
WeUawatte their residence, taut I do not know Mrs.
Henry Augustus Marshall's Christian name. Mrs.
M. J. Smyth's name was Sophia, but her husband was
Collector, Galle, in 1817-20, and on leave in 1820-21.
Mr. and Mrs. Smyth came up to Colombo from Galle
in the ship Laura, December 15, 1818, and he died at
Colombo, August 20, 1824.
Lady Brownrigg was also " Sophia," but she left
with SirR. Brownrigg for England by the ship Eclipse
on February 1, 1820.
KALUTARA.
The Dutch Burial Ground.
There is only one Dutch inscription in this burial ground now discoverable, though there are several
dilapidated tombs buUt of cabook and plastered over, which doubtless date back to Dutch times. If they had
slabs bearing inscriptions they have lost them. There are other Dutch burial grounds in the Kalutara District,
at " LansipaDiya " (which means " the Dutch Church ") between Kalutara and Paiyagala, and at Beruwala (the
" Barberjn " of Portuguese and Dutch times) , but if there were any tombstones there they have disappeared or got
buried under the surface.
" Sixty years ago, at the time when there were no metalled roads and the interior was ruled by a native
king, Caltura, which is 26 miles from Colombo, was a favourite place of resort for the invalid and the hunter.
Wild animals, especially deer and hogs, abounded in the neighbourhood. There was a small garrison in the fort
' for the purpose of overawing the native Singhalese,' and to keep up the communication with the south. The
Commandant determined all the disputes among the peasants. There was a sugar plantation, and some Dutch-
men distilled rum. But all these are things of the past The old fort still stands, just in that
unintsresting position when a place is neither a residence nor a ruin, and a Commandant would be as much out of
place as tlie member of parHament once was for old Sarum. The waters of the river rush past it, after having
been crossed by their first and last bridge, and parted for a moment by a small green isle, but they have a most
decided objection to being lost in the sea, after coming from among the clouds that rest upon the highest peak
of the Island, and rolling over emeralds and rubies and sapphires, and passing places where Adam, if we may
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
463 ..
June 10
1803
Balthazar Rock
Dutch Burial Ground, Kalutara— cowii.
believe tradition, in the far awaj' time mingled his tears with their young rUls. They ought to enter the ocean
nearly opposite the fort, but instead of that they run a considerable distance southward, with only a narrow sand
bank between them and the breakers, and then, as if stealthily, and ashamed that they are obliged to do it, leave
the coconut trees that they have so long mirrored, and are soon lost in the mightier waters that receive them,
as they do the rain-drops, and with no more notice." (Hardy, pp. 197-8.)
Inscription.
Balthazae. Rock geb. te Mosbach Ac. 1751 d' 10
April, overl. 1803 d' 10 Juny.
(Journal, R. A.S. , C.B. , vol. XV. , p. 286 ; vol. XVTI. ,
p. 32.)
Balthazar Rock of Mosbach (a town close to
Manheim) was married, on February 5, 1786, to
Elisabeth Kerkhoven of Kalutara, daughter of Tobias
Kerkhoven and Gertruida Gysbertsz. Maria Rock,
the daughter of Balthazar Rock, was the wife of
George Wendt of Gross Breesen (Lauenburg, Prussian
Pomerania), who came out to Ceylon in the year
1 792 by the ship Vasco de Oama. He was the ancestor
of the Wendt family of Ceylon.
Sacred to the memory of Edward Aechbe Tuenour,
Esq., second son of the Honourable Gboegb
TuENOUE and grandson of Edwaed, First Earl of
Wmterton. Died 10th September, 1834. Aged 30
years.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Ceylon
Regiment on July 17, 1823. His mother was Maria
Emilie de Bausset.
464
Sept. 10
1834
Edward Archer Turnour
465
March 22
1861
Angus
466
Sept. 2
1861
Robert Farrance
467
Dec. 26
1881
Francis Graham Bell
Erected by the European Members of the Survey
Department in memory of Mrs. John Astgits, who
was cruelly miu:dered by her own Sinhalese servant
on the 22nd March, 1861, at the vUlage Dodan-
godde. The bereaved and disconsolate husband,
a Surveyor, unable to resume his duties, left
Ceylon, and soon afterwards was drowned at Sea.
Her Christian name is not given in the obituary
notice in the " Ceylon Almanac."
The murder was cormxiitted by the cook between
3 and 6 p.m., while Mr. Angus was away surveying.
All that was valuable in the house was stolen, chiefly
silver and a considerable amount in notes, including
the last remittance of public money for the payment
of cooKes, &c. Dodangala is 6 miles from Kalutara.
The cook confessed to the crime. So far as I have
been able to ascertain, this is the only instance of an
English woman being murdered by a native in Ceylon.
Robert Paeeancb Aged 55 years.
" He belonged to a well-to-do English family, but
was ' fast,' and enlisted in the 90th Light Infantry.
He was helped by Sir R. W. Horton, and Mr. Stewart
Mackenzie gave him a start in the Civil Engineer and
Smveyor-General's Department, where his prospects
were very good. But after a long struggle for
existence he died a broken-hearted man." (Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. V., p. 50.) He wrote an
account of the first ascent of Adam's Peak by a
British Governor, which is pubHshed in the Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. V., p. 50. This took place in
1837 (February 23), by Sir R. Wilmot Horton. He
was at Jaffna in 1839-40.
iiis father held a position in connection with the
Houses of Parhament, and he himself had been a tutor
in the family of Sir James Mackintosh. He had to
leave the Survey Department, and was for some time
connected with the Examiner newspaper, of which he
was the editor for ten years. He afterwards devoted
himself to private tuition. He was the editor of the
Examiner in 1856.
He married, at St. John's, Chimdikuh, Jaffna,
on June 5, 1839, EUza Maria Burke, a daughter of
Lieutenant Burke, C.R.R.
Feanois Graham Bell Aged 31 years.
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The Fort, Kalutara.
On the nortli-east angle of the ianer fort is a slab set in a pyramid of brick, with an inscription in memory
of a child of the Hon. John Rodney, who in the twenties had a house at Kalutara.
" Sixty years ago the only military (sic) men in the place (Kalutara) were the Hon. John Rodney, son of the
famous Lord Rodney, who was accustomed to fire salutes on great occasions from a bamboo battery, and his
friend Dr. De Hoedt of the medical staff, whose cheerful readiness to oblige travellers and strangers was greatly
appreciated." (Spence Hardy in " Jubilee Memorials," 1864.)
Inscription.
Respect and spare the remains of our lost child.
Aud may mercy avert from you a like affliction and
grief beyond words.
Edwabd Anthony, infant son of John Rodney and
Antoinette his wife. Departed this life the 20th
August, 1824. Aged 17 months and 24 days.
Be not grieved beyond measure for thy deceased child.
He is not dead, but has only finished that journey
which we ourselves must make to the general ren-
dezvous of manldnd, where under the mercy of God
we may yet Hve together in another state of being.
The Hon. J. G. Rodney married in 1815
Antoinette Elizabeth Rejme, born in 1799, daughter
of Benedict Edward Reyne and Hillegonda Rosetta
van Rossum (widow of J. H. Sohroter).
The Rodney family were living at Kalutara, 1826
(or earlier) to 1836.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
468 ..
Aug. 20
1824
Edward Anthony Rodney
Compound of St. John's Church, Kalutara.
469 . . Dec. 7 . . Lily Conolly . . In loving memory of Lily Conolly, wife of P. W.
1885 Conolly, Esq., who died at Kalutara, aged 33
years. Not lost but gone before.
Patrick William Conolly was in the Civil Service.
1866-1895, and was acting as District Judge of
Kalutara at the time of his wife's death.
The Cemetery, Kalutara.
470 .. June 22 Frances Field Wilmot .. Lilovingmemoryof Teances Field, wife of Colvillb
1902 Eaedley Wilmot, District Judge of Kalutara, &
daughter of James Beuyn Andrews, bom at New
York, 12th Jany., 1870, died at Kalutara
On the Earth the broken arcs.
In the Heaven a perfect round.
For the things which are seen are temporal.
But the things which are not seen are eternal.
C. Bardley Wilmot was in the Civil Service, 1879-
1905, and was District Judge of Kalutara at the time
of his wife's death.
BENTOTA.
471 , , .^ . . " Here there is a church built in precisely the same
style as the one at Ambalangoda. It stands a con-
siderable way inland, so that passengers by the train
who would wish to see it have to raake a slight
incursion into the country to do so. It is now used
as the Government Anglo-vernacular school. Over
the gateway is a stone slab bearing the following
inscription : —
FECIT
G:A:S
A.D. 1755
" ' Who was C. A. S.? ' is a question that has exer-
cised the minds of many of ova own generation. The
pious builder appears to have been careful to
hide his identity from posterity. But very recently
we were able to throw a Uttle hght upon this vexed
question. At a little distance from Bentota is a
village called Pitigala, where the Dutch had a miUtary
fort or redoubt and a garrison. Among the Com-
manders placed in charge here was, about the time
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B entota — contd.
"Serial No.
471 .
Date.
Name.
472
July 18
1764
Andreas Amabert
Inscription,
in question, a French or Swiss officer of the name of
Claude Antoine Scofi&er. He belonged to one of the
foreign regiments hired by the Dutch, but like many
of those who thus came out in the service of the East
India Company, he became a more or less naturalized
subject of the United Provinces, embraced the tenets
of the Heidelberg Catechism, and married a Dutch
lady of the name of Johanna Jacoba Heymans. It
seems more than probable that he was the builder of
the church. A tombstone placed in the middle of the
floor is inscribed with the name of Andreas Amabert,
a native of Dauphin6 in France. Several other stones
are said to have existed, but they are no longer to be
seen." (R. G. Anthonisz in Ceylon Literary Register,
vol. VI., pp. 285-6.)
Claude Antoine Scoffier, onderkoopman, was a
native of Middelburg, and married Johanna Jacoba
Heymans of Batavia, widow of Adriaan Mooyaart.
She married, thirdly, December 20, 1761, Johannes
.Jacobus ScharflE of Colombo.
Andreas Amabert van Grenoble in d' Dauphinery
deser Luytenant MUitair en Commandant te
Petegelle. Obijt den 18 July Anno Dom. 1764 te
Bentotte. Legt hier begraven. Wagt op d'
Zalige opstandinge.
(Journal, II.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 276; vol.
XVII., p. 31.)
NEGOMBO.
The Dutch Churchyard.
There stood within its walls the Dutch Church, demolished in all probabiUty early last century, after it
3iad fallen into disrepair.
Serial No.
473 .
Date.
1673
Name.
Sigismundus Monitanier
474
Jan. 29
1677
Elisabet Stuart
475
June 29
1677
Maria Mazius
Inscription.
Hier leit Sigismundus Monitanier out 12 jaar 11
maanden Gestorven den 22 in't jaar 1613.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 265.)
The year 1 61 3 is a mistake for perhaps 1 673. Sigis-
mundus was probably the son of Fran9ois Monitanier.
Fiscal, Colombo, 1658, and Dorothea Schatvelt.
Hier leyt begraven Elisabet Herris huysvrouw van
d. luyt LoDBWYK Stuart cut geweest 22 jaaren.
Gestorven den 29 Jany Anno 1677.
(Journal, R. A.S. , C.B. , vol. XV. , p. 265 ; vol. XVII. ,
p. 29.)
She was perhaps the daughter of Willem Herris,
who baptized a child, Joris, at Colombo, on Novem-
ber 29, 1657. Her husband must have been of Scotch
descent.
Hier rust de eerb. godtsal. juffr. Maria van Gbel
huisvr. van den Praedt. Marc. Mazius. Overleden
den 29 Jun. Anno 1677. 50 jaren oudt.
Godt was en is Haar lot.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 265.)
This stone lies close to that of Bemardus Manlych,
and they bear the same " holy text." Possibly this
inscription inspired the other.
Marcus Mazius was a native of Abbehausen in
Oldenburg, and was sent out to the Indies by the dassis
of Walcheren. He arrived in the Indies February 8,
1665, in the ship Den Swarten Bui. In June, 1655,
he was stationed in Formosa, and afterwards, 1666-74,
at Cochin, and at Negombo in 1676-91. From 1691
he was at Colombo. He resigned in 1693 at the age
of 80, and died at Colombo April 23, 1706. He was
one of those who escaped from the massacre of the
Dutch at Formosa in the vear 1661.
Serial No.
Date.
476 ..
June 3
1686
( 150 )
Dutch Churchyard, Jiegomho—contd.
Name. Inscription.
. . Rutgaert Frederik Wagman Hier leyt begraven Rtjtgabrt Fkbdk. Wagman^
vaendrich in dienst der E. Compy. Obit den
3 Juny, Ao. 1686 's avonds ten 6 uren.
(Journal. R.A.S.. C.B., vol. XV., p. 264.)
Ludovici only gives the shield, a crane holding in
its dexter claw a ball, but it is surmounted by a
helmet and crest — the latter the same flgin-e of a
crane as in the shield.
477 . . June 26 . . Bernardus Manlych . . Hier rust de konstryck Beknaedtjs Mastlych van
1687 Bordeaux, in syn leven opperchirurgus, oudt 55
jaar, obit ady 26 Juny 's avonds ten 9 uuren Ao.
1687.
Godt was en is syn lot.
" Here rests the skilful Bernardus Manlych of
Bordeaux, during his life chief surgeon, aged 65 years,
died on 26th June, in the evening at 9 o'clock, in the
year 1687. God was and is his lot."
Over it is a coat of arms, which is described by Mr.
F. H. de Vos as follows : —
" Party per fess : {1) [or ?} between the capital letters
S and H a demi-lion iss. [sa ?]. [2) [sa .?] five arrows
ranged in fess, heads in chief [the upper half of a water-
wheel, or]. Crest, a demi-lion." Mr. F. H. de Vos
says: " Reading the above, leaving out the words in
parentheses, it would be a description of the arms,,
but I have suggested tinctures and a demi-waterwheel
instead of arrows, as these are the colours and charge
on the arms of a noble family by name Mannlich.
The demi-waterwheel (demi roue de moulin) in the
Mannlich arms is the lower half of the wheel. I take
the arrows in the Manlych arms to be the teeth of the
demi-wheel. Yet even on this theory there is a
difference between the two coats, the Manlych arms
bearing the demi-waterwheel with its arc above the
diameter. The letters ' S H ' perhaps mean Salvo
Honore or Salvator Hominum, the latter perhaps as a
compliment to his surgical skill. Above the shield
are the initials B. M. (Bernardus Manlych)."
The custom of stating the exact hour of death is
foimd on this and another tombstone at Negombo
and on two others in the " Lapidaritim." The exact
age is nearly always given in years, months, and days.
This stone lies next to those of Constantia van Reede
and of the wife of Marc Mazius.
There are nine Dutch tombstones at Negombo ; of
these, Ludovici gives four only in his " Lapidarium
Zeylanicum," and strange to say he leaves out that
on the most elaborate tombstone of any, viz., that of
Bernardus Manlych, though he gives those on the
two stones next to it.
Bernardus Manlych had by his first wife Helena a
daughter, Helena, baptized at Negombo,' April 18,
1669, and by his second wife Antonioa a son, Ber-
nardus, baptized at Negombo, December 9, 1661.
This Bernardus married Louisa Douwe.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 266; vol.
XVII., p. 29.)
478 . . Sept. 12 . . Fran90is Meyndert van den Hier leyt begraven F. M. van den Beegh, gebooren
1695 Bergh op Colomb. den November en overfeed. 12'
September 95. zynde oudt gewe. 10 m. en
3. dagen.
"Here lies buried F. M. van der Bergh, born at
Colombo the 9th November, and died the 12th Sep-
tember, — 96, aged 10 months and 3 days."
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 274; voL
XVIL, p. 31.)
A flat stone lying next to that over the wife of
Lodewyk Stuart, the letters much worn. The first
two figures of the date are illegible.
Frangois Meyndert van den Bergh was bom at
Colombo on November 9, 1694, and baptized there
on November 18, 1694. He was the son of Antony
van den Bergh, assistent, baptized at Colombo,
May 20, 1660, and Maria Meindertsz CloppSnburg of
Colombo, his wife, whom he married on May 23, 1680.
Antony was the son of Francois van den Bergh and
Maria de Souza. The Cloppenburg family was from
ZwoU (Overyssel). Edward Hendrik Cloppenburg of
( 151 )
Dutch Churchyard, Negombo— co^^rf.
Serial No.
478 ,
Date,
Sept. 12
1695
Name.
Franyois Meyndert van den
Bergh — contd.
479
May 24
1695
Anthonie van der Veen
480
May 24
1695
Maria van Holten
481
Nov. 9
1698
Anna Constantia van Reede
482
Feb. 9
1796
Thomas Hetheringfon
483
Jan. 7
1813
Geliermis Cornells Koel-
meyer
Inscription.
Zwoll, boekhouder, married, 1696, Florentina Bloeme
of Colombo ; Anna Helena Cloppenburg of Zwol)
married at Colombo, May 5, 1680, Jacob Swart of
Amsterdam ; Wilhelmina Cloppenburg of Zwoll
married at Colombo, December, 1680, Gerrit Hofland
of Amsterdam , assistent ; Cornelia Elisabeth Clop-
penburg of Zwoll married at Colombo, Jime 5, 1689,
Gerrit van der Sohexir. Maria Meindertsz Cloppen-
burg was also probably from Zwoll, but inaccurately
stated in the marriage register as being of Colombo.
They were in all probability brother and sisters.
Obyt. Anthonie van deb Veen, overleden 24 Mey,
a. 1695.
" Anthonie van der Veen died 24th May, 1695."
This seems to be the work of an illiterate person.
The first word can stand for nothing but obiit,
a word which is superfluous, as overleden follows.
Anthonie van der Veen was probably the son of
Jillis Jillisz van der Veen and Pasquellade Silva,who
were in Colombo 1686-88. About this period one
Johanna van der Veen of Alkmaar was the wife of
Isaac van Hek of Schoonhoven, storekeeper, Colombo.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 275.)
Hier rust d. E. erbare godtzal. Mabia Betjton huisvr
van den sergiat Anthoni van Holten overleden
24 Mey an. 1695.
"Here rests the chaste, pious Maria Bruton, wife
of the Sergeant Anthoni van Holten, died the 24th
May, 1695."
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 275.)
It is noticeable that she and Anthonie van der Veen
died on the same day and are buried in adjoining
These are small headstones close together. They
had sunk considerably, and I had to get them raised
before I could decipher them.
Anna Constantia van Reede out 6 m. 0. den
9 Nov. 1696.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 265.)
Arms. — Argent two barrulets dancette, sable.
Ludovioi represents this stone as the same siz^ as
the one depicted at the top of the plate, but in reality
it is about half the size.
Anna Constantia van Reede was probably the
daughter of Bitter van Reede, Lieutenant, and Con-
stantia van Reede.
Here lyeth the remains of Lieuten. Thomas
Hetheeington, of his Majesty's 52nd Regmt. , who
departed this Life at Negombo the 6th day of Feb-
ruary, 1796, in the 24th year of his Age. iSinceiely
regretted by his friends and Brother Officers, who
have erected this to his Memory.
This is the earliest British tombstone, after the
British occupation, in the Island. The 52nd arrived
at Point Pedjo just after the capture of Trincomalee,
in August, 1795, from Negapatam, and joined the
troops that had taken part in that affair (the 72nd
and the flank companies of the 71st and 73rd, two
battalions of Sepoys, and a detachment of Artillery
and Pioneers), relieved the 72nd, which retxu-ned to
Negapatam, and took part in the assaults on Negombo
and Colombo.
Lieutenant Hetherington must have died on board
a troopship , or have only just landed. Negombo was
taken on the 9th, and Colombo exactly a week later.
There was no resistance at Negombo. The fort was
found abandoned, except for a few invaUds.
Hier leyd begraven Geliermis Coenelis zoon van
den Heer Leonaedtjs Theodositjs Koelmeyer.
Geb. den 10 Febr. 1803 en overleeden op den
7 Jan. 1813 in den ouderdom van 9 jaren 10 maan-
denen 17dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 275.)
( 152
Dutch Churchyard, Negombo— cow^(7.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
484 ..
June 10
1822
. . Joseph Clements
Inscription.
To the memory of Joseph Clements who was bom at
Ashlone July 19th, 1819, and drowned at Negombo
10th June, 1822.
Escaped to the mansions of hght and lodged in the
Eden of love.
The Rev. Samuel Allen caused this stone to be
erected.
By " Ashlone," of course Athlone is intended.
He was a son of Sergeant Clements of the 16th
Regiment, and was drowned " in a pool near the
town," probably the Kamachodai pond, the most
considerable " pool " in or near the town. There is a
superstition among the Moormen that a golden ship
sails on the pond every Friday night, and that this
ship is guarded by a devil who lives at the bottom of
the pond. If the ship be interfered with it will
disappear ; the de^dl will rise and invoke the aid of
the sea, which will then inundate the country and
destroy the inhabitants.
Sergeant Clements seems to have been afterwards
Sergeant-Major of the Ceylon Rifles. There was a
Sergeant-Major John Clements of the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment in 1837-38, whose eldest daughter, Jane,
married Colour-Sergeant Alexander Fisher of the
97th at Colombo, January 10, 1838.
485
June 5
1828
Aug. 7
1830
Leendart de Quaker
Maria Florentina de Quaker
486
June 26
1841
Thomas Oswin
In memory of Leendart de Quaker, Esqr., a mem-
ber of the late Landraad Court, born on the 18th
May, 1762, died on the 5th June, 1828, aged 66
years and 17 days ; and his wife Maria Florentina
La Hey, bom on the 16tb August, 1767, died on
the 7th August, 1830, aged 62 years 11 months and.
2 days.
(The Gazette gives the date of his death as July 6.)
The De Quakers appear to have been settled at
Negombo for two or three generations. Abraham
de Quaker, whose wife was Christina Pietersz, had two
sons: Pieter, born Jiily, 1719, and Leendert, bom
1722, both baptized at Negombo. This Leendart
must have been a son of one of them. C. D. de
Quaker, District Stuveyor, died at Colombo, October
10, 1839, aged 58.
La Hey should be De la Haye. A certain " Duo
Don Samuel de la Haye " married " Dona Maria,"
and had three sons, all Dons, and one daughter born
between 1773 and 1780.
Don Samuel was no doubt a descendant of one ot
the six ambassadors to Kandy who were left behind
there in 1672. De la Haye was the French Viceroy
hi the Indies, who was defeated by Van Goens in that
year. He had sent three ambassadors to Kandy, of
whom one was returned. He then sent a fourth
ambassador, Laisne de Nancler de LanaroUe, with
six other Frenchmen, who were detained at Kandy
and never left it. Of the six, four were living in
1707. One of the six was a De la Haye, probably a
relative of the Viceroy.
(See Journal, R.A.S., C.B., 1870, and a paper on
Frangois Carron by F. H. de Vos in a later Journal.)
To the memory of Thomas Oswln, District Judge at
this station, who departed this hfe on the 26th of
June, 1841. Aged 41 years.
He joined the Civil Service, April 23, 1833, and was
Sitting Magistrate and Custom Master of GaUe in that
year, and on August 1 was appointed Superintendent of
Police for the Fort and Gravets of Colombo. He was
appointed District Judge of Colombo No. 3 and
Assistant to the Government Agent of the Western
Province, February 17, 1838; also of Colombo No. 2
(Negombo) in 1839, and became a member of the
"New Civil Service" on January 1, 1841. He
married on May 5, 1835, at Peradeniya, Charlotte
Elizabeth Wright. Mrs. Oswin and family
England by the ship Euphrates on Decembe^
which also took away Mrs. Surgeon and
and two Misses Whiting.
a, »jnarioi-ijo
Qil^^ftfor
be^^^ta|k
M^^^H
( 153 )
Dutch Churchyard, Negombo — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
487 ..
Dec. 27
1853
Name.
Prederica Adolphina Pereira
488
Mawih 16
1873
Peter John RoosemaHe Cocq
489
Aug. 6
1877
Dorothea Jannetta Green
490
Jan. 29
1840
Peter Justinus Schwallle
Inscription.
In memory of Fkedbrica Adolphina, th6 beloved
wife of CoRNELitrs B. Pereira, daughter of Lieut.
Hedbbttrouw. Born 24 Aug., 1799 aged
54 years 4 m. 3 days.
This is inserted as it illustrates the case of a Dutch
woman marrjring a Sinhalese.
In lovmg memory of Peter John Roosemale Cocq,
born 1st Decembei, 1821 ; aged 51 years.
He was a son of Pieter Carolus Roosmalecocq,
and married Henrietta Dorothea, eldest daughter of
D. J. Fretz, Deputy Ordnance Storekeeper, on March
26, 1855. Pieter Carolus, who was baptized in 1791,
and who married a Von Banzow, was a son of
Pieter Jacobus Roosmalecocq, and grandson of
Ambrosius Roosmalecocq of Dokhum (see No. 332).
To the dear memory of Dorothea Jannetta,
daughter of Henry Watkins Green and Emily
Mary his wife. Bom Febr. 13th, 1877.
H. W. Green was in the Civil Service, 1870-95.
He was of Marlborough School and Lincoln College,
Oxford, and of a literary turn, and wrote a novel
called " Walter Lee," poems in the St. Thomas's
College Magazine, and a Primer of Agricultm-e.
He was Assistant Government Agent of Negombo,
1877-83, and has a road there called after him ;
Director of Public Instruction, 1883-88 ; and retired
as Principal Assistant to the Colonial Secretary.
Peter JirsTiNusScHWALLiE born Oct 6th, 1801, died
at Negombo, under his maternal roof, January
29th, 1840, aged 38 years 3 months.
Q. D. R.
" In one of my ramblings I alighted on a rock slab
in a garden at 2nd Division, Hunupitiya. As the
slab appeared to be a smooth one I examined it with
two others at close quarters, and found the slab
answering for the washing of clothes.
' ' At first I saw this stone about 57 years ago lying
under a nam-nam tree growing in the garden of
Widow Mrs. Hendrick Alphonso. This garden (on
which a Convent Church is now built) lies immediately
east of the present Negombo railway yard. Mrs.
Hendrick Alphonso was twice married. Her maiden
name was Petronella Potsnitz. Her first husband
was a Mr. Schwallie, a French descendant. He was
a Government sm^veyor, I believe,, and had a son,
Mr. Frank Schwallie, also a surveyor, stationed at
Colombo, and a daughter, who lived with her mother
at Negombo. Mr. Frank Schwallie, surveyor, was
often employed as surveyor to do District Court
work in Colombo in the later fifties, when the District
Court Bench was presided over successively by Mr..
R. F. Morgan, Mr. George Lawson, and Mr. C. H.
Stewart." {Ceylon Observer, August, 1910.)
There is a Schwallie mentioned in the list of Civil
Servants who had died before 1803, given by
Cordiner. He was a surveyor.
St. Mary's Church, Negombo.
491
March 19
1895
Giovanni Battista Vistarini
MONSIGNOR VlSTARIN-I.
The tombstone, with inscription recording merely
his name and the date of his death, was shattered
when the new dome of the church fell on April 29,
1901, and has been replaced by an altar. So great
was the fame of Monsignor Vistarini, who was- popu-
larly known as "the angelic priest," that there are
many pilgrims annually to this shrine.
He was born on September 1, 1817, at Lodi, near
B'lilan. His father. Signer Americo Vistarini, was
highly coimected, and was a judge. His mother,
Signora Camilla, was the daughter of a marquis and
niece of a Governor of Vienna. He was ordained
priest on June 13, 1840. He did not belong to any
82-09
( 154 )
St. Mary's Church, Hegomho—contd.
serial Nn.
Date.
Name.
491 .,
. March 19 .
. Giovanni Battista Vistarini —
1895
contd.
Inscription.
religious order, but was a secular priest. He was a
doctor in Theology and Philosophy. He arrived in
Ceylon on December 7, 1846, and began his labours
in the Northern Vicariate under Bishop Bettachini,
and in 1 857 was transferred to Colombo under Bishop
Bravi. Shortly afterwards he was appointed ,to the
Negombo Mission, and laboured there for 37 years,
where his name became a household word. He is
buried in St. Mary's.
The Cemetery, Negombo.
492
Aug. 22
1882
William Carry
493
Dec. 3
1896
Emily Amelia Carry
William Caeey, formerly of King's County, Ireland.
Aged 62 years. Deeply mourned.
He was Superintendent of the Orphan Asylum,
1852-53 ; in 1868 of Waljapola coconut estate, near
Minuwangoda, in the Negombo district; and later of
the cinnamon and coconut estate of Goluwapokuna,
near Negomibo.
Emily Amelia Caeey, widow of William Caeey, of
Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. Aged 72.
Esplanade, under the Banyan Tree, Negombo.
494
1863
Deus Nobis H^c Otia Fecit.
Arbori per annos XIV.
Summa cura servat hunc lapidem supposuit.
C. P. Layaed.
An. Dom. MDCOCLXIII.
( 15S )
GALLE.
The Dutch Church.
" In the Fort of Galle the large and airy structure in which the Dutch Burghers still hold their services was,
according to tradition, erected by a lady Gtertruyda Adriana le Grand, wife of the Commandeur Casparua de
Jong. The story goes that this lady, who had been childless for many years, made a vow that if she should ever
have a child she would build a church as a thank-offering to God. Her hopes being at length realized by the birth
of a daughter, the present church arose on the site of an ancient Portuguese Capuchin convent. All this is tradition.
No stone slab let into the wall or floor of the building, or any record among the archives of the Consistory, has yet
been found to corroborate the story, but there is a nameless painted hatchment on the wall, the oldest memorial
of its land in the building, which would appear to have been placed there in memory of its founder. The shield
of arms bears charges which have a striking resemblance to those of the family of the De Jongs to be found rudely '
sculptured on one or two tombstones in Galle and JaSna. The baton and other insignia of a Commandeur
displayed around the hatchment indicate that that person was a Commandeur, and the date 1758 was very
probably that .of the death of Commandeur Casparus de Jong. He appears to have been, about this time,
succeeded in office by the Commandeur Abraham Samlant. In an old German work, ' AUemeuste Geographisch
Oostindien,' published at Leipzig in 1767, a ground plan of the Fort of Galle is shown of the year 1736, in
which a piece of open ground occupies the site of the present Dutch Church. This may seem at first to contradict
the theory of the Portuguese convent, but it is reasonable to suppose that the convent had existed there at an
earlier time and been demoHshed by the Dutch in their well-known hatred of the Roman CathoHcs To refer
to some of the changes wrought in the interior of the building within the present century Perhaps the most
noticeable was the removal of the old Commandeur's pew, built of satinwood and velvet-hned. The last
to use this pew was the Commandeur Dietrich Thomas Fretz, who with his family continued to sit in it Sunday
after Sunday for many years after the British occupation. When he was removed the pew was closed for ever,
no one of inferior rank being allowed to occupy it. At length, being no longer of any practical use, it had to ;^aeld
to the vandalism which in our own times appears to have httle regard for the old things and the old ways of our
fathers. Another pew which stood against the wall of the north transept, used by the various boekhouders of
the Dutch East India Company, had to make room about fifty years ago for the platform and massive communion
rails required for the Episcopahan services, which were then held in this church. About the same time the huge
memorial tablet of Commandeur Samlant, resplendent in golden colours, which stood on the wall facing the
main entrance to the church, was moved to its present less prominent position, so that more Ught may be introduced
into the church by a window, which window was glazed with small panes in imitation of the old windows which
had existed from the Dutch times.
" In former times, but within the memory of old men of our own generation, the vaulted ceihng of the
church was of a beautiful celestial blue and studded with stars of gold to represent the canopy of heaven.
The blue is now quite faded, and the stars are no longer to be seen No true idea of the old place as it
stood say eighty years ago could be conveyed unless we referred to the benches and the stiff -backed chairs
which then filled the centre of the building. These were long ago replaced by slender movable pews or seats.
No reading desk like the one now used was then to be seen, and the floor was paved by small dark-coloured
bricks The large tombstones which He under the staircase were only placed there in 1881 , when the old graveyard
was dismantled and the bones removed to the church." (R. G. Anthonisz in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI.,
x)x> 253—4.)
Many of the tombstones in the church did not originally belong to it, and are not in situ. How they came
there is explained by Mr. F. H. de Vos in the following passage from an article of his on " Old Galle," which
• appeared in the Ceylon Literary Register (vol. II., pp. 341-2) :—
" Opposite the office of Messrs. J. J. Vanderspaar & Co., on the strip of ground now overgrown with grass
and having a few trees on it, stood in very early times the old Dutch Church, or the Groote Kerk- a.s it is called
in Valentyn The only traces of this church at one time discernible by people of the present century were a,
number of gravestones placed side by side and parallel to each other along the ground. In the year 1853, when
the Consistory of the Dutch Church decided on removmg the bodies of the Dutch interred ia the old cemetery to
the present church these stones were also removed, and were used to pave the floor of the building, where they
still lie It was in the Groote Kerk that the body of General Hulft was temporarUy laid durmg the contuiuance
of the siege of Colombo by the Dutch. The historian Baldseus relates that it was first deposited in a vault
underaroxmd evidently outside the church, and that in 1657, by order of the Governor Adriaan van der Meydeii,
it wa= interred with great ceremony inside the church near the pulpit, his arms, buckler, sword, and spurs
beine against the wall. The remains were afterwards, m the year 1658, after the capture of Colombo, removed
thither There is reason to beUeve that the old church occupied a much larger site than that sho^vn by the
small plot of grass-grown land now seen, and it is a curious fact that when a few years ago the drain under the small
cross road was laid open, several gravestones with uisoriptions and armorial bearings and dates correspondmg to
that of the church were found underground Underneath the floor of the (present) church , covermg the whole
area of the head of the cross, is the burial vault of the church. In the time of the Dutch, burials were regulated
bv a scale of fees • the highest fee being for a burial mside the vault, the next for a burial in graves dug in the
hodv of the church and the lowest for one in the vaults outside. After the British occupation it appears that a
fpw of the leading Dutch famiUes claimed the exclusive right of burial in the vault outside the church, from having
«nm p. member of the famfly buried there, and the fee was a high one, whfle burials ui the church contmued to be
alWed to those who chose to pay the fee, which, accordmg to Dr. Dahnaans, was one hundred rix-doUars m
Pnlnmbn The vault outsidc the church appears to have been hi disuse for a very long time. It extends from
the walls of the church to the parapet waU of the church garden and is roofed over with a pavement. It is
supposed to consist of two chambers ; the one on the church side has never been opened withm the memory of
3one living, but up to a few years ago the other chamber could have, at any time, been entered by an unaer-
ground flight of steps, though no traces of any burials were then visible. The last bunal in the vault inside the
church took place in 1863."
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Serial N...
Date.
Name.
495 ..
July 25
1662
Burchart Coq
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
' ' The church was built between the years 1752-54, and the painted hatchment referred to has subsequently
been discovered to contain the arms of the Commandeur Ras Maequet." (Journal, " Dutch Burgher Union of
Ceylon," vol. I., pp. 137, 175.)
Inscription.
. . Hier legt begraven Bubchaet Coq in syn leven
gewees. Capt. tot Galle in dienst der vereenigde
Nederlandtsche Oost Indische Comp. Out 63 jare.
Overleeden den 25 July, Ao. 1662.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XL, pp. 235, 279;
vol. XV., p. 267.)
Arms. — Argent, a castle
Crest. — A stag's head.
" Buchart Coq arrived ia Ceylon in the ship Huys
te Swieten, and was killed by a soldier at Galle. He
was sent as ambassador to the King of Kandy."
{Ceylon Monthly Literary Register, vol. I., p. 81.)
This tombstone was discovered on -the site of the
Oroote Kerk.
496
Aug. 28
1673
Johanna Maria van
Herental
497
Nov. 13
1684
Lourentius Hemling
498
July 3
1693
Susanna Wiehelman
Hier rust Johanna Maeia Bax gen. v. HbeentaIi,
sterf 28 Aug., 1673, oudt 10 maande en 5 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 279; vol. XVII., p. 31 ; vol.
XVIII., p. 78.)
Arms. — Quarterly 1 and 4. Or, three gourds vert,
2 and 3. Or, three closets azure, on a chief gules, a
lion rampant argent.
Surtout. — ^Argent, on a chief gules, a lion rampant
argent.
This tombstone was for years lying in the compound
of the old Kachpheri at Magalla, and was finally dis-
covered in a drain close to the staircase leading to
the District Court of Galle.
Johanna Maria Bax was baptized at Colombo on
October 27, 1672, being the daughter of Major Johan
Bax and Aletta van Hinlopen. Johan Bax belonged
to the family Bax called " van Herental" {genaamt
van Herental). He was afterwards Governor of the
Cape, where he died on June 29, 1678. Aletta Hin-
lopen was the daughter of Jacob Hinlopen, schepen
and raad of Amsterdam, and Maria Huydecoper van
Maarsseveen, who married (2), as widow Bax, Jan
van Leenen. The arms are tlae quartered shields of
the families of Bax van Herental and Bax de Hertoge,
with a shield of pretence bearing the arms on the
chief in the second and third quarterings.
Hier legt begraven den Eerwaerdigen GodzaUge Hoogh
geleerden Heer Lourentitts Hemung, in zyn leven
Bedienaer des Heyl Evangeliums in de gemeynte
Christe tot Gale. Overleden den 13 November,
Ao. 1684, out 42 jaren.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 280 ; vol. XVIII., p. 68.)
Arms. — Argent, a castle (?).
Lourentius Hemhng was a native of Leyden, was
educated in the " Staten CoUegie," and came out to
Ceylon in 1669.
This stone was fo\md built into a drain in the
street leading to the new gate from Chturch street,
Opposite the Police quarters.
Grafsteen dekkende 't doode hchaam van JufE
Susanna Dubhee, huysvrouw van den coopman
en Gaals Admimstrateur Magnus Wichelman.
Overleden den 3 July, 1693, cud geweest synde
42 jaaren en 3 maanden.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 268 ; vol. XVII., p. 30.)
Arms. — Quarterly 1 and 4. Argent,_^a castle....
2 and 3 argent, three birds contourn6.
Crest. — ^A castle as in the arms.
Fomid with Nos. 503 <van Leesten) and 610 (van
Lynden) in a drain in Leyn Bahn street, near the
site of the Oroote Kerk.
Susanna Durhee was in all probability the daughter
of AndriesDurhee andMagdalena Her sister,
Maria Durhee (bom December 23, 1651, died October
( 157 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
498 ..
July 3
1693
. . Susanna Wichelman — contd.
499
July 28
1697
March 25
1699
Willem Loquet
Maria Magdalena Loquet
500
Jan. 12
1697
Maria Magdalena Bolner
501
Oct. 21
1697
Joanna Maria Mode
502
Sept. 14
1698
Pieternella Verdonk
Inscription.
2, 1686), was the wife of the surgeon Anthony Mooy-
art of Amsterdam, who was stationed at Matara
(1669-73). Andries Durhee was most likely the son
of Andries Durseus (Latinized form of Durhee),
a Scotchman and doctor at Batavia (1628-48).
Professional men in early times, notably clergymen,
generally married into families, members of which
followed the same profession. Magnus Wichebnan
died as Director of Persia on July 8, 1705.
Dese sark bedekt de lichamen van Willem Loquet
VAN Rynbeek in zjoileven coopman en administra-
teur tot Gale. Geboren den 16 Juny, Anno 1659,
en overleden den 28 Juli, An. 1697. En desseKs
huysvrouw Maeia Magdalena Chebpentier van
WoEEDEN. Geboren den 10 Augusto An. 1648 en
overleden den 25 Maart, 1699.
( Journal, R.A.S.,C,B., vol. XV., p. 267 ; vol. XVII.,
p. 30.)
Arms. — Dexter shield (Loquet): a bull's head
affronts, collared and belled
Sinister shield (Oherpentier) : argent, three stars
(5)
Crest. — ^A bull's head as in the arms.
Maria Magdalena Oherpentier was first married, on
February 17, 1692, to Comelis Hannecop, Chief
of Calpentyn.
Hier leyt begraven jufE. Maeia Magdalena van
DEE Heyden Huysvrouw van den E. Heer
Carel Bolner Commandeur der stad en landen
van Gale, Mature. Overleeden den 12 Januario,
Ao. 1697.
Translation.— Rere lies buried Juff. Mabia Magda-
lena VAN DER Heyden, wife of the Hon. Caeel
Bolner, Commandeur of the Gitj and Lands of
Galle and Matara. Died on January 12, 1697.
Arms. — ^Argent, a bull's head affronts in chief,
and two horseshoes in base.
Carel Bolner was a native of Dantzic. He was
thrice married, (1) to Magdalena Snevens ; (2) at
Colombo, February 1, 1682, to Maria Magdalena van
der Heyden of Hoorn, by whom he had a daughter
baptized at Colombo, December 25, 1683 ; and (3) on
March 5, 1 702, to Susanna van Schayck (died Malacca,
February 4, 1707), widow of the Rev. Harmanus
Specht of Utrecht, who died at Colombo in 1697.
Susanna van Schayck was baptized at Colombo,
May 5, 1661, being the daughter of Andries van
Schayck of Utrecht and Abigail Ketelaar of Ter Goes,
daughter of Jan Ketelaar and Susanna Haringmans,
Susanna van Schayck' s first husband was Hendrik
Schook, koopman.
Hier legd begraven jufE. Joanna Maela Baalde,
huysvrouw van Mons. Willem Mode, ondercoop.
en Fiscaal tot Gale. Geboren tot Amsterdam den
2 Marty, Ao. 1664. Obiit den 21 October, Ano.
1697. Oud 33 jaren 7 maenden en 10 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 267 ; vol. XVn., p. 30.)
Arms. — Sable, a chevron or, between three fleurs-de-
lys argent -
Crest. — A fleur-de-lys as in the shield.
Joanna Maria Baalde was the daughter of
Baalde and Cornelia van OuweIand,and was previously
married to Johannes Brengman. Willem Mode married
(2) Susanna Mattheus. The arms on the stone are
the same as those of the Rev- Philip Baldseus, which
surname is the Latinized form of Baalde.
Gravesteen dekkende het doode lichaam van jufE-
Pieternella de Riddee wed. wylen den Capitein-
Luytenant Coenelis Verdonk. Overleden den
14 September, Anno 1698. Oud 24 jaaren en 8
maanden.
Translation. — Tombstone covering the dead body of
JufE. Pieternella db Ridder, widow of the late
Captain -Lieutenant Coenelis Verdonk. Died on
September 14, 1698. Aged 24 years and 8 months.
( 158 )
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
502 ..
Sept. 14 .
1698
. Pieternella Weidonk—contd.
503
Sept. 7
1702
Maria Elizabeth Agota
504
17.04
Christlaan Mulhousen
505
Jan. 1
1706
506
May 13
Liviiiia Valk
1708
April 8
. . Willem Valk
1708
607
Oct. 5
1709
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Inscription.
Arms. — (Verdonk.)
Azure, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued
gules.
Crest. — -A demi-lion issuant.
This tombstone, together with that of Maria
Magdalena van der Heyden, was recently found on
the site of the Oroote Kerk.
Hier onder leyt begraven mejuff Mabia Elizabeth
VAJsr Lbesten, huysvrouw van den Eerw. Febdrik:
NicoLAAS Agota. Obyt den 7 Septem., A. 1702,.
oudt zynde, 40 jaar.
(Journal, R.A.S. , C.B. , vol. XV., p. 268 ; vol. XVII. ^
p. 30.) .
Arms. — Gules, in chief three swords in pUe argent^
points downwards, pommeled and hUted of the
second ; in base, a bUlet between 8 fleiirs-de-lys, 3, 2, 3.
Crest. — An eagle's head.
Found with Nos. 498 and 510.
Fredrik Nicolaas Agota came out to the Indies in
the ship Bermster, and married (1) Sara Visvliet,
(2) Maria Elizabeth van Leesten, and (3) Louisa
Perpetua van Oudshoom van Sonnevelt, Maria
Elizabeth van Leesten was no doubt a relation of the
Rev, Johannes van Leesten stationed at Matara in 1 7 11 .
er rust Cheistiaan Mulhousen der
koopm e Compy en go des Cey
ernemen 6 January leden de
Ac. 1704 cud aren en
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 281.)
Found in the back yard of a house in Chandos
street in the Fort, built into the wall of a welL
Evidently from the old churchyard close by, which
is now the site of a Municipal market.
Sandrina Reets van Sonne- Hier onder leyt begraven mejufirouw Sajstdrina
velt Rests, geboren tot Uyttrecht den 7en AprU,
Anno 1668, waarde huysvrouw van D. E. Jacobus
VAN OuTSHOORN VAN SoNNEVELT, onderkcoopman
en soldy boekhouder alhier, mitsgaders oud Fiscl
der custe MaUabr. Overleden primo Januay
Ao. 1706, oud zynde 37 Iren, 8 maenden en 24 dagen.
[Ibid., vol. XV., p. 244.)
Arms. — Dexter shield : quarterly 1 and 4, gules
three hunting-horns argent. (Outshoorn) 2 and 3.
Or, three fleurs-de-lys gules (Sonnevelt).
Sinister shield : argent a dog ( ? ) rampant.
These spouses had a son, Alexander Nicolaas,
baptized soon after the death of the mother. Their
will (January 11, 1703) mentions- their children
Welhelmina, Welheknina Henrietta, Pieter Gabriel,
and Maria Henrietta.
Hier onder rusten de eerbaere Livinia Goutier,.
huysvrouw van de Ed. Aernout Valk, koopman
en administratetir des Gaalse Commandements,
Geboorentot Colombo den 2en October, Ao. 1672.
Obyt 13en May, Ao. 1708. Oud 35 jaren 7 maenden
en 11 dagen.
Zoomede haare zoon Willem Valk van Colombo,
gebooren den 18en Juny Ao. 1695. Obyt ady
8en April, Ao. 1708, oud 12 jaren lOmaandenen
20 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 245, 287 ; vol. XVII. , p. 21 ;.
vol. XVIIL, pp. 54, 56.)
Livinia Goutier, baptized at Colombo October 20,
1672, was the daughter of Johannes Goutier of Utrecht ,
vryburger, and Andreza Ferera. Aernout Valk was
perhaps the son of Adriaan Valk and Anna Gomez.
De erbare en deugderyke juffrouw Elizabeth van
Hees van Vlissingen, huysvrouw van den Fiscaal
Daniel Tistb, moeder van een kind is in haar
42ste jaar op den 5en October, Ao. 1709, zaKgh
overleden leght hier begraven en verwagt d' opstan-^
dinge.
Posuit superstes maritus.
Elizabeth Tiste
( 159
The Dutch Church, Galle— conicZ.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
507 ..
Oct. 5
1709
. . Elizabeth Tiste — conld
Inscription.
( Journal, B.A.S.,C.B., vol. XV., p. 278 ; vol.XVIL,
p. 31.)
Daniel Tiste of Stokholm married Elizabeth van
Hees of Flushing at Colombo, on September 25,
1701. The child referred to is perhaps Maria Sibilla,
baptized at Colombo, 1704, who married (1) at
Colombo, September 10, 1719, Jacobus Gast of
Tutucorin, and (2) at Colombo, February 8 , 1728,
Pieter van Dalen of London, Sergeant, who married
(2) at Colombo, October 14, 1731, Elisabeth Ravens of
Colombo.
508 . . Nov. 23 . . Joan van Velsen . . Hier onder rust in vrede het lyk van den E. Heer
1709 Joan van Velsen in zyn leven Commandeur der
Stad en landen van Gale, Mature, etc. Geboren
tot Leyden den 2 July, Anno 1655. Obyt den
23en Nov.., 1709, oud 54 jaren, 4 maenden en
21 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 243 ; vol. XVII., p. 21.)
Arms. — Argent, three bells
Crest. — A bell as in the arms.
Joan van Velsen was married to Anna Pyl and had
ason, Johan, whowas living at Leyden in 1712, and
afterwards left for Batavia as a cadet.
509 . . March 13 . . Richardina Magdalena Doude Hier onder rust 't lyk van Richabdina Magdalena
1710 DoTJDE, jonge dogter. Geboren tot. Jaffana-
patnam den 8ten October anno 1700 en in den
Heere ontslapen tot Gale den 13ten Maert anno
1710.
(J6id., vol. XV., p. 243.)
Arms. — Party per pale (1) a dexter arm holding a
hammer, (2) a hart's head eabossed.
She was no doubt the daughter of Rev. Gerrardus
Doude (D'Oude) of Leyden and Susanna Robertina
Collaart, as he was stationed at JaHna in 1700 in
succession to the Rector of the Seminary there, the
Rev. Adriaan de Mey.
510
May 15
1710
Joanna Henrietta Weyns
511
Jan. 17
1715
Don Theodose de Costa
helmet contourne between two
Heir onder rust 't lyk van D'Edele gebooren deugd en
zedenrycke juffrouw Joanna HbnbiettaCollabd
VAN Lynden, in haar leven waerde huysvrouw van
de Heer Isaac Weyns, opperkoopman en Dessave
tot Mature, mitsgaders secunde van't Gaalse
Commandement. Geboren tot Delft den 2en
October Ao. 1670 en salig in den Heere ontslapen
den 15 May Ao. 1710. Oud 39 jaer, seven maenden
en 13 dagen, zynde trouwd geweest 21 jaren,
maendn en 2 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 247.)
Arms. — Argent, a stag's head eabossed.
Crest. — An open
branches (?).
Found with Nos. 498 and 503.
There was a Sophia Weyns of Haarlem (widow of
Jan van Dam, boekhouder), who married at
Colombo, June 19, 1712, Michiel Panned of Middel-
burg, onderkoopman, Colombo.
Hier onder rust Don Theodose de Costa soons zoon
van de gewesen Banacke zaliger Don Joan de
Costa in syn leven geweest tolk Mohotiaar en
Mohandiram der inlandse guarde van de Heeren
Commandeurs tot Gale. Geboren den 18en May
Ao. 1672. Obyt 17en January anno 1715 oud
geweest zynde 42 jaern 7 maenden ende 30 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 246.)
" Grandson of the Banacke."
There was a Don Joan de Costa (junior) who was
Sabandhaar (Customs Officer) of GaUe, and married
(I) Dona Gimara, and (2), November 5, 1676, Anna
de Floris Perera. He was perhaps the son of
Don Joan de Costa, Sabandhaar, who accompanied
General Hulf t to the Kandyan court.
( 160 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
512 ..
Oct. 31
1716
Monica Winekelman
Inscription.
Onder dit sark in een kist leyd het doode leyk en rust
van Monica Roseboom in haar leven huysvrouw
van den opperchirurgn Fredbik Willem
WiNCKELMAN : natis op Gale Ao. 1688 den 22
October : Obyt Ao. 1716 ultmo October.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol, XV., p. 247.)
Perhaps daughter of Hendrik Roseboom and Isabella
Andriesz. Their daughter Magdalena Roseboom,.
baptized at Galle, December 8, 1696, married
Benjamin Cooymans.
513
June 5
1717
Gellius Geldesma
Hier onder rust den Eerwaarde Hr Gellius Geldesma^
bedienaar der geraeynte Jesu Ohristi. Overleden
den 5 Juny 1717, out 33 jaeren en 2 maanden.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 247 ; vol. XVII., p. 22.)
Gellius Geldesma was married to Johanna Jacoba
de Carpentier of Negapatnam. She married, as
■widow G«ldesma, on February 6, 1718, Jonker Joan
van Naarden of Utrecht, onderkoopman, Colombo.
Gellius Geldesma was a student at Franeker in 1696,
arrived at Java on February 10, 1713, and was sent
to Ceylon (GaUe) in 1715.
514
Dec. 25
1718
Jan Dondien
515
July 15
1719
Johanna Taay van Wezel . ,
516
July 30
1721
Nicolaas Brasser van Heuvel
617
April 28
1734
Adriana Berghuys
Hier rust 't lyck van den Eersamen Jan Dondien
in syn leven vrycoopman en sergeand der burgery
tot Gale. Geboren t' Antwerpen den 21 January
Ao. 1662. Overleden den 25 December Ao. 1718,
oud zynde 56 jaren 11 maanden en 5 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 248 ; vol. XVIT., p. 22.)
He married as a soldaat at Colombo on September
25, 1689, Maria Woutersz of Colombo.
Hier legt begraven Juffr Johanna van Rhee huys-
vrouw van den E. Heer Cobnelis Taay van
Wezel gewezen pi. gesaghebr. deses Commande-
ments en Dessave van Mature. Geboren tot Naga-
patnam den 19 Mey Ao. 1668 en gestorvendenl5
July Ao. 1719 out 46 jaren een maenden 26 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 247 ; vol. XVH., p. 22.)
• Arms. — Party per pale. (1) Van Rhee (already-
blazoned), (2) per fess, in chief a Hon rampant, in
base a shield coup6 between three stags" heads.
Johanna van Rhee was the daughter of Thomas
van Rhee of Wyk-ter-Duurstede, Governor of Ceylon,,
and Henrietta van Kriekenbeek of the same town.
Cornelis Taay van Wezel was a native of Dordrecht.
The name Taay van Wezel is due to a marriage of a
Mr. van Wezel with a Miss Taay. It is curious to-
note that one Maria Taay (born 1692), daughter of
Hendrik Taay and Anna van Wezel, was the wife of
Johan van den Burg, Heer van Naaldwyk (4 Wapen-
herut, p. 235).
Hier onder rust den Assistent Nicolaas Bkassbe
VAN Hetjvbl jongste en lievste soon van den
Commandeur Nicolaas van Hetjvel. Gebooren
den 15 Augs. Ao. 1701 tot Trinconamale, en over-
leden den 30en July Ao. 1721 tot Gale.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 250.)
Arms. — Party per fess : ( 1 ) party per pale, (a) argent
three nenuphar leaves, (6) argent harry of five,
argent and gules ; (2) azure, a boar's head argent,
flanked by two antlers argent paleways, the point of
the dexter directed downwards.
Crest. — A sinister hand holding an arrow directed
bendwise.
As an onderkoopman he was at Manaar in 1687,
where his wife, Ana van Cralen, lies buried.
Hier legt begraven Adbiana Swinnas huysvrouw
van den Gaals opperchirurgyn Diek Beeghuys.
Overleden den 28 April Ao. 1734, oud 44 jaren, 1.
maand, 20 dagen.
( 161
Serial No.
517 .
Date.
April 28
1734
The Dutch Church, Galle
Name.
Adriana Berghuys— c<m«rf.
-contd.
518
Dec. 4
1735
Elizabeth Margaritta de
Jong
519
April 11
1737
Gesina EUsabet Overbeek . .
520
Sept. 11
1737
Jaeobus van der Horst
521
Dec. 13
1737
Abraliam van der Hart
522
Dec. 28
1738
Elizabeth Overbeek
623
Dec. 13
1739
Carel Pieter Swensen
Inscription.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 249; vol.
XVII., p. 23.)
Adriana Swinnas, Magdalena Swinnas (wife of Jan
Helfrig Raket), Maria Swinnas (wife of van
Buren) were evidently sisters of Hubertus Swinnas
of Rotterdam, an onderkoopman at Negapatnaro,
1739.
Hier onder legd begraven het lyk van Elizabeth
Makgaeitta Hbywen vrouw van de Glials gerag-
hebber Imajst de Jong, gebooren te Batavia 29
Maert Anno 1689 en overleden in het rusthuys van
^^blangodde, onder het district van Gale op den 4
)eceniber 1735 en begraven den 5 daeraan, oud
Vnde 45 jaaren 8 maanden en 5 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 242 ; vol. XVIIL, p. 395.)
4rms.— Quarterly : ( 1) or, a doe rampant (Heynen) ;
(2) argent, three roses gules (van Nes) ; (3) or, an eagle
displayed gules (Roman) ; (4) azure, a lion rampant
argent, armed and langued gules.
Crest. — A Uon as in the arms.
She was the daughter of Johannes Heynen
and Welheknina van Nes, and granddaughter of the
Rev. Bartholomeus He5m6n and Margareta Roman,
daughter of Rev. Johan Roman of Haarlem, Predikant
at Batavia. She married, (1) at Batavia, May 5,
1707, Johan Fredrik Gobius; and (2) at Malacca,
October 7, 1730, Iman de Jong of Zierikzee, son of
Johan de Jong of Zierikzee and Sara Daneken. He
was Commandeur of Galle, 1737, and dieid at Jaffna,
December 13, 1737, as Commandeur there.
Ter gedagtenisse van Gesina ELis.ffBET Overbeek.
Gebooren tot Tutucoryn den 11 September Anno
1734 en overleden tot Gale den 11 April 1737 oud
twee jaren en seven maanden.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 252.)
Gesina Elisabet Overbeek was the daughter of
Daniel Overbeek of Amsterdam, Commandeur of
Galle, and Elisabeth Hals of Colombo.
Hier onder leyd begraven den Capitein der Burgeryen
alhier D. E. Jacobtts van dee Horst. Overleeden
den 11 September 1737.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 252.)
Arms. — Party per saltire, or, 1, 2, 3 a trefoil; 4,
a pigeon volant holding in its beak a twig.
Crest. — A demi-pegasus.
Ter gedagtenisse van Abraham van der Hart in zyn
leeven schipper in den dienst der E. Compagnio
laatste bescheyden geweest op 't sehip "St.
Laurens." Gebooren tot Maaslandsluys den Anno
overleden tot Gale den 13Decembr Ao.l737
oud jaaren maanden en
daagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 251.)
Arms. — Argent, a heart pierced by two arrows
saltirewise, the arrow heads in base.
Crest. — A heart pierced as in the arms, but the
arrow heads directed upwards.
Ter gedagtenisse van juffrouw^ Elizabeth Hals
huysvrouvire van den Commandeur Daniel Over-
beek. Geboren den 20 Aug. 1701, overleeden den
28 Deer. 1738 oud seven en dertig jaaren vier
maanden en agt dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 251 ; vol. XVIL, p. 24; vol.
XVIIL, p. 55.)
Daughter of Jacob Hals of Amsterdam, Captain of
the Bxjrgery, and Dominga Suarus.
Ter gedagtenisse van D. E. Carel Pieter Swensen
schipper en equipagiemeester tot Gale. Geboren
tot Colombo den 18 Juny Ao. 1691, overleden
tot Gale den 13 December 1739, oud 48 jarea
6 maanden en 4 dagen.
82-09
( 162 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
523 ..
Dec. 13 .
1739
Card Pieter Swensen-
-contd.
524
Feb. 7
1743
Nov. 17
1743
April 23
1751
Joan Mattheus Nieper
Catharina Agnita Nieper
Jacob Fredrick Nieper
525
Oct. 21
1747
Elizabeth de Jong
626
April 13
1758
(Ras Macquet)
Inscription.
(Journal, R.A.S.,C.B., vol. XV., p. 282; vol. XVII.,
p. 32.)
Arms. — The same as those on the tombstone of
Maria Sophia Ravens.
This tomb was found buried in the groimd, with
only a small portion of one corner emerging from it,
at the Municipal market in Pedlar street in 1898,
Carel Pieter Swensen was the son of Pieter Swensen
of Calmar (?), schoolmaster, and Isabella Pieris.
He was married to Maria Sophia Ravens of Jaffna,
who was afterwards the wife of Jacob de Jong,
Commandeur of Jaffna.
" Equipagiemeester " = Master Attendant.
Hier onder rust Joan Mattheus Nieper geboren Ac.
1742 den 15 December : gestorven den 7 February
Ao. 1743. Catharina Agnita Nibpee geboren
den 1 July 1743, gestorven den 17 November in het
selfde jaar. Jacob Fredrick Nieper geboren
den 2 October Ao. 1744, in den Heere ontslapen
den 23 April Ao. 1751 in ouderdom van 6 jaren
en 6 maanden en 25 daagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 252; vol. XVII. , p. 24.)
Arms. — Party per fess, gules, in chief three ducks
fessways.
Children of Jan Willem Nieper of Verden, Surgeon-
Major, Galle, and Johanna Isabel Fockes.
Hier legt het lichaam onder verslonden door de doot
maar egter leeit de ziel by God in Abrams schoot
van Mejuffrouw Elizabeth Mooyaabt in den
Heere ontslapen op Saterdag voor de middag
omtrent de Klokke elf unzen den 21 October Anno
1747 in den ouderdom van 47 jaaren 5 maanden en
11 dagen zynde in haar leeve gemalinne van den
E. Agtb : Heer Jacob de Jong Commandeur der
Stad en Landen van Gp-le Mature.
salige matroon hier rust gy in den Heer
, Die nu U misse moet die vind U weleens weer
Wanneer het lichaams stof verheerlyk rysen sal '
Dat is een iders lot by 't salig sterf geval.
Job. 19, vers. 25.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 250 ; vol. XVII. , p. 23.)
Arms. — Quarterly: (1) two tridents saltirewise ; (2)
a mermaid (?) ; (3) a barrel fessways ; (4) the letters
E. M.
Crests. — Dexter : the tridents as in the arms.
Sinister : a mermaid (?) holding a trident.
The following contemporaneous record of the death
of Elizabeth Mooyaart is taken from the family
papers of the Mooyaart family : —
"On the 21st Oct., 1747, there slept in the Lord
in Galle our very dear and most worthy sister, Eliza-
beth Mooyaart, who was married to the Commandeur
there, the Hon. Jacob de Jong, and this whilst in
good health and up and doing, she was seized with
a fit whilst opening a box and expired immediately.
Although this is a hard and cruel blow to us, we must
resign ourselves to the will and pleasLwe of the Lord."
The passage is, of course, in Dutch.
Elizabeth Mooyaart was the daughter of Mcolaas
Mooyaart and Johanna van Esohweiler. Jacob de
Jong was bom at Mannar, and was the son of Jacob
de Jong of Ter Veer and Johanna Pasque de
Chavonnes of Hulst.
Obiit den 13 April Ao. 1758, setat .50 j. 2 m. 19 d.
{Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 24.)
Arms. — (Macquet.) Azure, two arrows tipped or,
placetl saltirewise and directed downwards ; in chief,
a star (5) of the second.
Crest. — A sinister arm embowed and vambraced
azure, holding an arrow as in the arms, directed
dexter.
A hatchment (wapenbord).
Arms of Ras Macquet, Commandeur of Galle. He
was married to Johanna Corneha Takel, bom at
Colombo, 1718, daughter of Cornells Takel of Amster-.
dam, onderkoopman, and Maria Sager of Colombo.
( 163
The Dutch Church, Guile— contd.
Serial No.
Date.
527 ..
Oct. 7
1764
Name.
Anna Maria Schuttrup
528
529
May 3
1766
May 8
1766
Abraham Samlant
Abraham Samlant
530
Aug. 5
1785
Maria Cornelia de I^y
531
Oct. 11
1785
Anna Jacoba Kraayenhoff
Inscription.
Hier legt begraven mejuffrouwe Anna Mabia van
DER Linden weduwe van wylen Den E. Heer
PiETEB Eldbes Schutteup, oppcrkoopman en
Colombose Dessave. Geb. te Batavia den 14 Septr.
1719. Obiit den 7 Octobr. 1764 eene vrouwe die
door veele deugden haar by God en menschen
heeft aangenaam gemaakt. Zalig zynde die in den
heere sterven.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 253.)
Arms. — Dexter shield (Schuttrup) : a tower of four
stages, the first and fourth mounted each with two
guns pointed dexter and sinister.
Sinister shield (van der Linden) : argent, on a mount
vert, a linden- tree proper.
Daughter of Johannes van der Linden, onderkoop-
man, Batavia. Pieter Elders Schuttrup was the son
of Abraham Schuttrvip of Amsterdam and ComeUa
Elders.
Hier legt begraven den Wei Edelen Agtbaaren
Hr. Abraham Samlant Commandeur der Stad en
Landen van Gale en Mate. Geb. den 12 Aug. 1713
en hier t'Gale overln. den 3 Mey 1766.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 226, 248.)
Ter gedachtenis van den Wl. Ed. Ag. Hr. Abraham
Samlant van Colombo. Geboren den 12 Aug.
1713 en als Gommandeur te Gale overleden den
8 May 1766.
Arms. — Centre shield (Samlant) : already blazoned.
Two dexter shields on the side.
Samlant. — (As above.)
Lerrvmens. — Vert, a fess gules between three lozenges
or, two in chief and one in base.
Two sinister shields.
Emans. — (Already blazoned.)
Martiens. — Vert three roses argent.
A hatchment.
Barent Barentsz Samlant of Haarlem, Vryburger,
married at Colombo, August 10, 1687, Hester Schatte-
man of Colombo, and had by her Barent Samlant,
bom at Colombo, 1688, married, 1712, Johanna Clara
Emans, daughter of Abraham Emans of Amsterdam,
Chief of the Cinnamon Department. Their son was
Abraham Samlant, who married Agneta Bierens,
daughter of Dirk Bierens and Catherina Toorzee.
Hier legt begraaven Vrouwe Maria Cornelia
Schuttrup, gemaabnne van den Raad Extraordi-
nair van Nederlands India en Kommandeur alhier
Arnoldus de Ly. Was gebooren te Gale 30 Nov.
1742, gehuwt te Colo. 7 Nov. 1756, overleeden
den 5 Aug. 1785, eene dogter van wylen den oppcr-
koopman en Colombo's Dessave Pibter Elders
Schuttrup en Ajtna Maria van der Linden.
ZaUg zyn de dooden die in den Heere sterven.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 248 ; vol. XVII., p. 23.)
Arm^. — Dexter shield (De Ly) : quarterly 1 and
2 sable, a chevron or, between three fleura-de-lys or :
2 and 3, party per pale (1) sable, two stars (5) or,
paleways (2) gules, a pine argent.
Sinister shield (Schuttrup) : already blazoned.
Amoldus de Ly was a native of Bergen-op-Zoom.
His son, Andreas Everardus de Ly, studied at
Harderwyk (1776), returned to Ceylon, and married
Dorothea Petronella van der Spar. Their daughters
were Arnoldina Johanna and Dorothea Agatha. The
former married George Laughton of London, Customs
Master, and the latter married (1) Captain John
William Young, and (2) Captain Edward Lockyer,
19th Regiment.
Ter gedagtenisse van de waardige en ooyt volvreede
vrouwe Anna Jacoba van db Leur, teeder
beminde en dierbare egtgenote van den Heere
Cornelius Dionysius Keaayenhofp, opper-
coopman en gezaghebber der stad en landen van.
( 164 )
The Dutch Church, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
531 ..
Oct. 11
1785
Anna Jaeoba Kraayenhofl—
contd.
532
July 4
1790
Johan Fredrik Andrae
533
Nov. 26
1791
Clara Josina Sluysken
534
June 30
1800
Theobald von Hugel
Inscription.
Gale en Mature. Gebooren den 12 April, 1747, en
tot bitter leedweezen van alien die haare deugden
en groote zielshoedanigheeden bekend waeren
zaJig in den Heeren ontslapen den 11 October,
Ao. 1785.
{Journal, B.A.8., C.B., vol. XV., p. 249; vol.
XVIL.p. 23.)
Arms. — Dexter shield (Krayenhoff) : argent three
rooks sable.
Sinister shield (Van de Leur) : quarterly : 1 and
4 azure a swan argent, 2 and 3 or, 3 pots sable.
Anna Jaeoba van de Leur was a native of Oude-
tong, and married at Colombo, December 8, 1765,
Major Pierre Duflo of Kouen. She married (2),
December 17, 1769, Cornelius Dionysius KrayeuhoH
of Hoorn, who, after her death, married in 1788
Appollonia Magdalena van Angelbeek of Batavia,
widow of Frederik Jacob Billing, Dissave of Colombo.
Hier rust het lyk van -wylen den Wei Edelen Man-
hafte Hear Johan Fredrik Andeab in leeven
Capityn-Luytenant der Honorable Militie te
Cochin. Geboren te Golding in Saxen den 5 Maart
1752, gestorve hier te Gale den 4 July, 1790, in den
ouderdom van 38 jaaren en 4 maanden. Zjn Wei
Edele Manhafte was hier te Gale kort voor desselfs
overlyden aangekomen om na Europa zyn vader-
land terug te keeren edog wierd het tydelyk teegen
het eeuwige verwisselend ende in deeze aangename
hoop bedroogen.
Mensch meest bereyd te sterven.
{lUd., vol. XV., p. 249.)
Arms. — A shield charged with a representation of
St. Andrew bearing his cross.
Crest. — -A wreath (?).
Johan Fredrik Andrae was married to Josina
Magdalena van Haren of Cochin, and had a daughter,
Maria EUzabeth, born at Cochin, January 10, 1788;
died Galle, April 22, 1809; married at Galle, March
29, 1805, Johan Friedrich Lorenz of Tempelburg,
Police Magistrate of Matara.
Aftother daughter, Wilhelmina Magdalena Andrae,
was the wife of John Godheb Buttenmuller of Lud-
wigsburg, Lieutenant, Wm'temburg Regiment.
Josina Magdalena van Haren married (2) at Galle,
February 27, 1791, Dirk Haiting. She was most pro-
bably the daughter of Reynier van Haren of Carapen,
hoofd administrateur of Cochin, where he died on
March 16, 1789, aged 55 years.
Ter gedagtenisse van de Eersame jongvrouwe Claea
JosnsTA teedergeUefde en dierbare dogter van den
Wei Edelen Achtbare Heer Pieter Slxjysken,
Commandeur der Stad Gale en landen van Mature,
etca. Geboren den 14 May, 1776, en tot bitter
leedwezen vanaUe die hare deugden en zielhoedanig-
heeden bekend waren zalig in den Heeren onts-
lapen den 26 November, 1791, in den ouderdom
van 15 jaren 4 maanden en 12 dagen.
Met luister kon haar harte en yder streele
En in haar vaders borst de diepste wonde heele.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 244 ; vol. XVIL, p. 36.)
Arms. — Azure a greyhound sejant and contourn6
argent, collared or.
Crest. — A greyhound as in the arms.
Clara Josina Sluysken was bom at Colombo, and
was the daughter of Pieter Sluysken of Amsterdam
and Susanna Petronella Medeler, the daughter of
Major Hendrik Medeler of Braekel and Gertruida
Augustin of Batavia.
Hier rust het lyk van wylen den Hoog Wei Gebooren'
Heer Theobald von Hugel in leeven Colonel
en Commandt van het Hertoglr. Wurtemberse
Regimt., ChevaUer de I'ordre militaire pour le
merite. Gebooren te Strasburg den 20 April, 1739,
Overleedn. te Gale den 30 Juny, 1800.
(" Lapidarium Zeylanioum," p. 64.)
( 165 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
534 ..
June 30
1800
Name.
Theobald von Hugel — contd.
535
June 30
1800
Theobald von Hugel
536
Jan. 26
1801
Grace Beck
537
Nov. 24
1806
Mattheus van dei- Spar
Inscription.
The former Queen's House at Galle, now belonging
to Messrs. Clark, Spenoe & Co. , was at the time when
Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell landed at Galle
in 1819 said to be haunted by the ghost of Colonel
von Hugel. " Here the reputed ghost is that of
an old fat Dutch colonel, who died many years
ago when Commandant of Galle ; and his spurs (he
having been a knight) still hang up in the church
upon a finely decked escutcheon. I have not as yet
had a visit from Heer von Hugel." (" Excursions,
Adventures, and Field Sports in Ceylon," by
Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell, vol. I., p. 99.)
A Lieutenant von Hugel left Ceylon for Calcutta
on March 27, 1817.
Ter gedachtenis van den Hoogwelgebooren Heer
Theobald von Htjgel, Colonel, Commandant van
het Regiment van Wurtemberg, Chevalier de
I'ordre Militair pour le merite. Gebooren te Stras-
burg d. 20 April, 1739. Overleeden, den 30 Junv,
Ao. 1800.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 253; vol.
XVII., p. 25.)
Arms. — Quarterly : 1 and 4 gules, 6 cannon balls
heaped 1, 2, 3. 2 and 3 azure, a sinister hand
embowed and vambraced, sable, issuing out of clouds
and holding a sword, sable.
Supporter {dexter). — A greyhound regardant, argent,
collared or.
A hatchment.
One Johan Christiaan von Hugel, Captain, Wur-
temburg Regiment, married at the Cape, February
15, 1789, Alberta Elizabeth AUeman. Possibly a son.
To the memory of Mrs. Geace Beck, who departed
this life in the thirty- eighth year of her age on the
26th January, 1801. To commemorate her amiable
virtue as an affectionate and fond wife, a tender
step-mother, a warm and steady friend, her dis-
consolate husband hath caused this tablet to be
placed over her ever to be revered remains.
Conjugam optima, muUerum amantissama Vale.
Hier onder legt begraven Mattheus van dee Spar,
Koopman en gewezen administrateur des Gaalsch
Commandements in dienst van de Nederlandsche
Oost Indiasche Maatschappy. Gebooren te Jaffana-
patnam den 19 May, 1730, gestorven te Gale den
24 November, 1806.
Hy- die de dood verwon.
Zal onze leydsman zyn
En geven in der nacht
Een holder zonneschyn.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 243; vol. XVII., p. 21.)
Arms. — Party per pale ( 1 ) per f ess in chief a star ( 6) ,
in base an anchor (2) per bend sinister and two bend-
lets.
Crest. — A star as in the arms.
Mattheus van der Spar was the son of Johannes
van der Spar and Johanna Coorn. There were
many persons of the name of van der Spar settled in
the north of the Island from early times. With the
disappearance of the old Dutch Church registers it is
now somewhat difficult to connect these persons with
each other, but piecing together genealogical scraps
collected from other sources the following result can
be obtained : —
Johannes van der Spar : opperhoofd, Manaar ;
Administrateur, GaUe, 1717; married Anna Verwyk,
the daughter of Jurgen Verwyk, Vryburger, Jaffna,
and had by her the following children : —
1. Jurgen, Opperkoopman and Hoofd-adminis-
trateiw, Colombo ; Raad Ordinair, Batavia. Born at
Jaffna; died Batavia, February 6, 1766; married (1)
Anna Adriana Woutersz, died 1738, daughter of
Gualterus Woutersz, Commandeur of Jaffna; (2) at
Batavia, March 6, 1756, Johanna Fluyt of Nega-
patnam, the widow of Christoffel MoU. Of the first
marsi^ge, Johannes Gualterus, born at Jaffna, died
( 166 )
The Dutch Church, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
537 .
Date.
Nov. 24
1806
Name.
Mattheus van der Spar-
Inscription.
-contd. before November 19, 1759, married at Batavia,
September 24, 1757, Henrica van de Polder of
Utrecht.
2. Maria Magdalena, baptized at Colombo,
December 24, 1711.
3. Philippus, alive in 1760, Administrateur ,
Jaffna, died there 1762, married Johanna Maria
Brengman.
4. Johannes, Consumptie-boekhouder, Mannar,
married Johanna Coorn.
Anrui, baptized at Colombo, June 23, 1715.
Juatinus, married Maria Petronella Dormieux.
Laurens, baptized at Galle, September 21,
538
Sept. 21
1812
Catherina van Schuler
539
Jan. 18
1816
John Twisleton Harvard
540
Oct. 11
1819
Elizabeth Kadensk;^
1746,
5.
6.
7.
1716.
Ter gedagtenis van Mejuff Catherina Mabtheze
gehuwd geweest met den Heer Elias van Schtjlee.
Gebooren den 2 November, 1783, en overleede te
Gale den 21 September, 1812.
Haare goede en lieflyke hoedaanigheeden maakten
haar by een ider bemind en haar vroegtydig verlies
verwekt een hartgrievend smert aan haaren on-
troostbaaren echtgenoot en onnoozel dogtertje.
Uxor amata vale ! Sed quis tua busta rigamus has
lachrymas nostre pignus amorie habe.
(Journal, R.A.S.. C.B., vol. XV., p. 245; vol.
XVII., p. 22.)
Arms. — (Van Schuler.) Or, a fess embattled —
counter-embattled sable.
Crest. — A peacock's feather.
Supporters. — Two griffins or.
These are the Van Schuler arms.
Catherina (Francina) Martheze was married to Elisis
van Schuler at Matara on September 4, 1811.
She was the daughter of Nicolaas Bemardus
Martheze of Galle (born 1750), boekhouder, by his
second wife Francina Gerardina Solomina Kersee of
Jaffna, and the granddaughter of Bartholomeus
Martheze of Jaffna and Elizabeth Bernarda Truyns
of Galle.
Elias van Schuler (baptized at Galle, March 17,
1793, died April 3, 1817) was the son of Pieter
Wilem Ferdinand Adriaan van Schuler of Utrecht,
Dissave of Matara, and Wilhelmina Catharina
Leembruggen, and grandson of Jan van Schuler of
Amsterdam, a Receiver-General of Utrecht, and
Baroness Adriana Sophia vanReede vanOudshoom.
(" Nederlandsche Leeuw," vol. XXVI., p. 294.)
In memory of John Twisleton Harvard, infant
son of the Revd. W. M. Harvard, Missionary,
who was born at Colombo, November 4th, 1815,
and died at this place January 18th, 1816.
Named after the Archdeacon.
" Associated with Mr. Clough in the first years of
the mission was William Martin Harvard. He was in
Ceylon 1813-1818, and died in 1857. He wrote 'A
Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the
Mission to Ceylon and India,' published in 1823.
The history of the commencement of the mission
was written by him in a work of great
interest, one of the first narratives of any
length published on modern missions," (Hardy,
p. 303.)
" On 15th of January, 1815, Mr. andMrs. Harvard,
with their infant, left the harbour of Bombay and
embarked for Ceylon, but they had a long and
dangerous passage, and did not reach Ceylon until the
23rd of February. They met with the same kind
reception, particularly from Lord and Lady Moles-
worth, who were about to embark for England in the
transport Amiston, in which the Molesworths were
lost." (Ihid., p. 69.)
Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Kadensky.
Born 11th January, 1767. Died 11th October,
1819.
Perhaps a daughter of Johan Pieter Kadensky and
Ester Henrietta Theodora Bagman of Galle.
( 167 )
Serial No.
Date.
541 ..
June 15
1829
The Dutch Church, Galle
Name.
Ana Benjamina Barendsz
-contd.
542
Aug. 9
1832
Mary MeKenny
Robert Newton MeKenny
643 . . Oct. 6
1835
Jan Marten Wittensleger
644 . . Jan. 6
Johannes
645
Mlehiel Adriaens
Inscription.
Hier leyd begraven Mejuffrouw Ana Benjamina
Gereitsz weduwe van den te Colombo overleeden
boekhouder de Heer Johannes Barendsz. Over-
leeden op Gale den 15 June 1829 in haar ouderdom
van 89 jaaren.
Zy verwagt nu de zalige opstandinge der dooden.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 245 ; vol. XVII.,
p. 22.)
Ana Benjamina Gerritsz married Johaones
Barendsz on November 30, 1755.
In memory of Mary, wife of John McKenny, Wes-
leyan Missionary. Who died the 9th of August,
1832. Aged 48 years. And likewise her son
Robert Newton.
" John MeKenny was born at Coleraine, and was
one of the men chosen for the rrussionary work by
Dr. Coke. He was first stationed at the Cape of Good
Hope, but as he was not allowed to exercise his
ministry in that Colony, he came forward to Ceylon.
He was the means of the erection of several chapels
in the Island, and was for some time the Chairman
of the District. He was in Ceylon 1816-1834. In
1832 he was appointed to superintend the Wesleyan
churches in Australia. He died 1847." (Hardy,
p. 302.)
" On the 6th of July, 1820, the chapel atNegombo
was consecrated to the service of God In the
evening Mr. McKenny preached." (Hardy, p. 106.)
He was afterwards stationed at Siduwa in Negombo
District. He opened a school at Wekade, a mile
beyond Panadure, in 1822.
Mary Smyth was married to Rev. John McKenny
at St. A,ndrews, Dublin, on December 22, 1813. He
had by her two sons, bom at Jaffna, viz., William
Smyth and Robert. John McKenny married (2) at
Colombo, July 8, 1833, " Sarah, relict of the late
James Macrae."
Tot gezegent aandenken van wylen den Eerwaarden
Heer Jan Marten Wittensleger, gebooren te
Galle den J3 May, 1763. Overleeden den 6 October
1835.
Hy wJerd voor de Gemeente alliier bevestigt als
diaken in 1804, als ouderUng in 1812 en als propo-
nent in 1823. In deze ampten heeft de zalige zich
loffelyk gekweten en de Gemeente riiim 28 jaaren
gesticht met onvermoeyden vlyt in leere en in
lev en. Zyn nederige wandel was steeds opregt,
gepaart met edela zugt y ver en lief de voor Gods eer.
En voor't heil zyner mede menschen, zyae gezind-
heid en handelwyze deed hem onder ons uitmun-
ten in eJke zyner levens betrekkingen.
Als een waardig man, als een edele Vriend, als een
waar Christen, als een trouwe dienaar en naar-
volger van Jesus zynen God en Heer.
Gesticht door de gemeente te Galle 1836.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 246, 279.)
He was the sonof Jan Wittensleger of Amsterdam
and Arembewellege Junesa.
Hier end Johannes \ an Nieuwcas
boekhoude dienst der Ed Obyt 6
Janua Zynde 28 jaar dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 281.)
Found at the same time and place as No. 506.
Hier onder leyt begraven den E. Michibl Adriaens
in syn l3ven coopman en administrateur \a,n Gale
is in d ;n Heer gerust den 5 anno
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 279; vol. XVIL, p. 31 ;
vol. XVIIL.p. 67.)
Found at the same time and place as No. 497.
Miohiel Adriaens of Hertogenbosch was married
to Maria de Cunha, by whom he had a son, Michiel,
baptized at Colombo on August 18, 1658, and a
( 168 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
545
Date.
Name.
Miehiel Adriaens — contd.
546
Nov. 21
1838
George Hay Boyd
547
March 18
1840
Gertruida Petronella Sehroter
Inscription,
daughter, Lucretia, baptized at Colombo, Februarys,
1661. There is no date on the stone. Perhaps the
Administrateur was the son.
The arms are difficult to blazon. In chief there
are ranged, f ess- wise, a' sun in his splendour, a
scroU(?), a hand issuing out of clouds holding a
wreath ( ?). In base a human figure holding in his ( ?)
dexter hand a flag, and in the sinister a ball sur-
mounted by a crescent decrescent. The human
figure is riding on what appears to be a flying griffln.
The crest is a dog (?).
Perhaps the arms were suggested by Revelation,
chap. XII.
In Memory of Geoegb Hay Boyd, a native of
Crimond, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and Fourteen
years Merchant in Colombo. Who died at Galle,
21st November, 1838. Aged 42 Years.
He left Colombo on November 15, 1838, by the
Caroline, with Mrs. Boyd and family, his partner,
Mr. George Ackland, and Dr.Dodsworth, intending to
l^proceed to England, but he died on board the vessel
in Galle harbour on the 21st. The Caroline left for
the Cape on the 27th, taking Lieutenant Ostheyden,
C.R.R., as a passenger for that place, and the Rev.
Mr. TrimneU to England. Mrs. Boyd remained
behind. She had a son at Colombo on January
15, 1839. His only daughter Mary married at North
Silver street, Aberdeen, September 12, 1861, Rev.
Alexander Cumming. He belonged to the firm of
Ackland & Boyd.
His namesake, WilUam Boyd, gives the following
account of him in the Ceylon Literary Register : —
" He was a son of the Rev. William Boyd of Cri-
mond, and a partner in the flrm of Ackland & Boyd
of Calcutta and Colombo, represented in Ceylon now
by Messrs. Darley, Butler & Co. The firm started in
April, 1829, and suspended payment in the great coffee
monetary crash of 1848. Mr. George Ackland was a
merchant in Colombo as early as 1828, andMr. George
Boyd must have been there as early as 1824.
' ' At the time of Capt. Bird's happy venture in coffee
planting, he saw at once that a new era was dawning
on that country, and he lost no time in communi-
cating his views to his kinsman and partner. Govern-
ment land was then selling at five shillings per acre,
and these three gentlemen immediately took measures
to purchase large tracks of many thousand acres in
all the most eligible districts in the interior. They
bought Moorootie in the Four Korales ; Kondesalle,
Salwattie, Galmadua Ugha Pettie, Pallikele, Degalle,
and Dodangolle in the Doombra Valley. They
bought the whole of theMadoolkelle, Oonangalle, and
Kelebokka valleys ; as also Wellakanda and Pitta-
kanda oh the HimasgLria range. They bought the
Mooragaha and Goomera valleys on the Knuckles,
besides large tracks of land in Saffragam, Hantane,
and Hewahettiya."
William Boyd describes him as "a tall, hand-
some, reserved-looking man, with a cahn, dignified
bearing." {Ibid, p. 389.)
' ' Mr. George Bird planted the greater part of
Kondesalle for the firm, whilst two young men,
Messrs. Hudson and Stephens, better known as
' Jerry ' and ' Stumps, ' began to clear Palhkelle
lander his direction, and Mr. R. B. Tytler, who had
some experience of coffee planting in Jamaica, was
engaged to take charge of the estates already opened,
and also those about to be opened for the firm in
Ceylon. Shortly after his arrival at Galle Mr. George
Boyd was thrown from his horse and died at Galle
from the effects."
As usual, William Boyd is romancing when he
professes to give the cause of his death. George
Boyd was a member of the first Legislative Council
of Ceylon in 1834. He came out to Ceylon as
Commander of an Indian trader, the Mary.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Gertruida Petro-
nella Gilbert, Widow of the Reverend Carl
Frederick Schroter. Born on the 18th Novem-
ber, 1774, and died on the 18th March, 1840.
( 169 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
547 ..
March 18 ,
1840
. Gertruida Petronella Schroter—
contd.
Inscription,
a daughter of Jan
548
Feb. ii
1845
Blanche Fredrika Cripps
549
Sept. 18
1845
Mary Ann Garstin
550
May 9
1847
John Henry Rabinel
551
May 18
1849
Anne Rabinel
552
Feb. 19
1850
Johanna Plantina Rabinel
She was a daughter of Jan Jacob Gilbert of
Gertruidenberg, boekhouder, by his marriage with
Bernarda Susanna KJriekenbeek. Her brother. Jaco-
bus Cornells, married Charlotta Thomasina Nagel,
and had a son, Thomas Bernard, who married the
widow of Lieutenant Burke, 2nd Ceylon Regiment,
who was a Miss Bridgetina (Biddy) Prior, and married
Lieutenant Burke on May 26, 1813. Thomas
Bernard's eldest daughter, Victoria MoNaghten,
married on December 28, at Galle, Ebenezer Gracie,
eldest son of Rev. Robert Gracie, M.A. , of Hastings.
The Rev. Carl Frederick Schroter was the son of
Carl Fredrick Schroter of Hildesheim, Dissave of
Jaffna, and Helena Cornelia Kriekenbeek. Dissave
Carl Fredrick Schroter came out to the Indies in 1751
in the ship Spandewaal, and died at Colombo in 1805.
Sacred to the Memory of Blanche Fbbdbika Cbepps ,
who departed this life on the 22nd February, 1845.
Aged 18 months.
Her father, George Hinde Cripps, was in the Civil
Service, 1822-32, and was Government Agent of
the Southern Province from November 1, 1838, until
his retirement on June 16, 1852. He died in 1869.
George Hinde Cripps was married to Sarah
Elizabeth , and had three other children born
at Galle, viz., Laura Elizabeth (born 1837), Edward
Montagu (born 1839), whose godfather was Raymond
Cripps, George St. Vincent (bom in 1842). The
godfather of Blanche Fredrika was Frederick Cripps.
Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Maey Ann Garstin,
Wife of Lt.-Col. Gabstin of the Bengal Engineers,
who departed this life on the 18th of Septr., 1845.
Aged 27.
' The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away ;
blessed be the name of the Lord."
Whether Lieutenant-Colonel Garstin was related
to the Ceylon Garstins (No. 108) I do not know,
but it is probable.
Sacred to the Memory of John Hbnky Rabinel , Esq. ^
of the Ceylon Civil Service, who died May 9t.h,
1847. Aged 47 years.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
J. H. Rabinel, baptized at Matara, May 25, 1800,
was a son of John David Rabinel (see No. 552), and
was Police Magistrate of Galle at the time of his
death. He had been District Judge of Tangalla, to
which office he was appointed on August 1, 1844. In
1846 he was charged by Mrs. Sirr, wife of the Deputy
Queen's Advocate, who wrote a book about Ceylon,
with having shaken his fist at her.
Sacred to the Memory of Anne, Widow of John
Henby Rabinel, Esq., of the Ceylon Civil Service,
and eldest daughter of Edmond Larken, Esq., of
Bedford Square, London. She died on the 18th
of May, 1849. Aged 48 years. ■.
" Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
Saints." Ps. cxvi., ver. 15.
They were married on May 6, 1846. She was, I
think, his second wife.
Sacred to the Memory of Johanna Plantina de
MooB, Widow of John David Rabinel, Esq., of
Point De Galle. She died on tho 19th of February,
1850. Aged 73 years.
" The Memory of the Just is blessed."
She was a daughter of Pieter Arent de Moor,
boekhouder, by Christina Gertruida van Coeverden,
whom he married at Galle on August 16, 1767.
He was the son of Arent Pietersz de Moor, Fiscaal of
Galle, by his wife Agnita Maria Bierens. Arent
Pietersz was a son of Lieutenant Pieter de Moor of
The Hague by his wife Johanna Oberst. Johanna
Plantina's elder sister. Aima Cecilia , married Captain
Edward Graham. Bengal Artillery, of St. Andrews,
82-09
( 170 )
The Dutch Church, Galle — contd.
Serial Ko.
Date.
Name.
552 ..
Feb. 19
Johanna Plantina Rabinel —
1850
contd.
553
Nov. 12
1852
Henrietta Anne Vanderspar
554
Dec. 17
1852
Eliza Austin
555
Jan. 19
1853
Catherine Christoffelsz
Inscription.
Scotland. Another sister, Jolianna Maria, married
(1) Friederich Wilhelm Heinrich Gossewyn, Baron
von Marken, (2) Captain Lucas Aems on July 17,
1796, and (3) Johan Godlieb Buttenmuller of Lud-
wigsbuig, Lieutenant, W'urtemburg Regiment. John
David Rabinel belonged to Middelbm'g, and for some
time was a judge in the H.E.I.C.'s service
at Malacca. He had two sons, John Henry and
J. Marie. The latter became a sailor, and died in
India. There were three daughters : one married
Edward Sampson Waring, C.C.S., another G. S.
Brook, and the third R. Brook. In 1823 Mrs.
Rabinel sued M. J. Smyth, C.C.S., on a bond.
(Ra?nanathan's Reports, 1820-33, p. 70.)
Arms. — (Rabinel.) Party per pale, argent, a lion
rampant (2) ermine, three leopards' heads. A chief
party per pale (1) three stars (2) a leopard passant.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 273.)
Sacred to the Memory of Heneietta Anne, Wife of
Capt. Wm. C. Vandbrspae of the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, who died on the 12tli of November,
1852. Aged 25.
She was third daughter of E. S. Waring, C.C.S.,
and married Captain Vanderspar at Malale, August
12, 1845.
Here lie the Remains of Eliza, the beloved wife of
Wm. AtrsTHsr, Esq. Died 17th December, 1852,
aged 39 years.
Ehza was the daughter of Thomas Garvin and
Abigail Palm (born at Matara, November 12, 1790).
Abigail Palna was first married to James Eckley.
She was the daughter of Matthias Frederic Pahn of
Batavia, Doctor of Laws, " geauthorizeerde te
Matara." William Austin was the son of Nathaniel
Austin (see No. 557).
In Memory of Catherine Cheistofeblsz, tlie Beloved
wife of Luke Philip Christoffelsz and the eldist
daughter of Capt. John Morris, Commander of
the Government Brig Hebe. She was born on the
17th August, 1815, died at Colombo on the 19th
January, 1853, leaving five sons and two
daughters and many relations and friends to
deplore her loss. This tablet is erected by her
sorrowing Husband who mourns not without hope,
for "Blessed are the dead wlio die in the Lord."
Deu. xiv., 13.
Luke Philip Christoffelsz (born 1811) was the son
of Johannes Justinus Christoffelsz and Roemana
Boekholst.
5.56
Jan. 21
1853
J\me 12
1862
George Winter
Edward James Winter
Sacred to the Memory of George Winter, Esq., of
Baddagamma, near Galle, who departed this life
21st January, 1853. Aged 55 years.
Also of Edward Jajies Winter, second son of the
above, who died at Galle, 12th June, 1862. Aged
31 years.
This tribute of affection is raised to the memory of
those so dearly loved in life by those who are left
to mourntheir loss.
" The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away,
blessed be the name of the Lord."
There is an inscription on the tomb of George
Winter in the Churc-h of England cemetery ; also to
his widow, Sarah, who died January 7, 1892. He
was for a time editor of the Colombo Observer.
He wa.s in IX'l'.i supercargo of the ship
Clarke, Master, which arrived at Colombo
and went on to Calcutta, returning to Colq
December.
Clarke and Winter were . partners, and
bankruijt in February, 1825. Winter then
Messrs. jMuskett and Young in partnershi
became head of the firm in November, 1821
( 171
The Dutch Church, Gsille—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
556 ..
Jan. 21
1853, &c,
Name.
George Winter, &c.—contd.
Inscription,
firm of George Winter & Co. was dissolved, May 15,.
1828, and the business carried on by J. E. Young.
In 1834, with George Rivers and Nicholas Bergman,
the printers, he was tried before the Supreme Court
for a libel on Thomas Os*in, Superintendent of
Police, Colombo, whom, he had charged with gross
negligence and misconduct for having refused a
warrant of arrest against Rivers' servant, but
acquitted. Mr. Justice Rough, Senior Puisne Justice,
presided.
He was the pioneer of sugar cultivation and of
other enterprises in Ceylon. " He and his descendants
managed to make sugar cultivation pay on a small
scale on the banks of the Gindura river at Baddegama,
near Galle. So long as the great mail companies
made the latter port their headquarters, there was
always a steady and fauiy profitable demand for
raw sugar for the supply of the ships which brought
coal for the steamers." (A. M. Ferguson in Ceylon
Literary Register. Vol. II., p. 15.) George Winter
married Sarah Cressy. Their eldest son was George
Walter Winter. His eldest daughter, Sarah Aim,
married in April, 1844, at St. Brelades Church,
Jersey, Joseph Deslandes, junior, Swedish and Nor-
wegian Consul for this Island. Another daughter
married Robert Charles Roosmalecocq.
The following of his children were baptized in the
Church of England, Galle, viz. , Edward James (1830),
William Sextus (April 4, 1836). Lydia Septima (April
4, 1836), Alfred Octavius (September 26, 1836), Ellen
Nora (April 12. 1838), and Harriet Decima (July 14,
1839). LydiaSeptima Winter married at Baddegama,
January 6, 1858, Haverstock Hodsell Bowman.
Harriet Decima, who died at the Queen's Jubilee Hos-
pital, Earl's Court, August 4, 1906, was the wife of
William Elphinstcne Underwood.
557
June 7
1853
Nathaniel Austin
558
April 6
1853
Mary Cecilia Twynam
Here He the Eemains of Nathaniel Austin, Sr. , Esq. ,
for 31 Years Depty. Asst. Commissary of Galle.
Died 7th June, 1853. Aged 68 years.
He was Quarterinaster of the 3rd Ceylon Regiment,
and married Sophia Frederica, daughter of Frederick
Willem Calesky of Grandzee (Brandenburg), Ser-
geant of the Wm'tembiu-g Regiment, by Eliza Rodrigo,
his wife. A son, Nathaniel, died at Galle, January 7,
1855. He married at St. Paul's, Colombo, November
14, 1831, Elizabeth Hogg, daughter of Lieutenant
Hogg, C.R.R. , and they were the parents of Nathaniel
James Austin, the Proctor, ancl editor of the taw
reports known as Austin's^ Reports. Another son,
WiUiam, married January 2. 1832, Ehza Garvin, and
left mmaerous descendants at present settled in Galle.
Bennett describes an experiment in the hatching
of Hawk's bill turtles carried out by " a Portuguese
lady at Point de Galle, the wife of an officer of the
late 3rd Ceylon Regiment (Nicholas [sic) Austin,
Esquire, of the Colonial staff) " (p. 275).
In memory of Mary Cecilia Twynam, Wife of
Thomas H. Twynam, Esq., Master Attendant of
Pt. De GaUe.
This Tablet is erected by many Officers of the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, who desire by it to record the feelings of
gratitude and esteem which mingle with their
sorrow for her loss. Her hospitahty to them when
in health knew no bounds, and to her motherly
kindness many of them have been indebted for the
alleviation of their sufferings when in sickness.
They feel that in her they have lost a sincere
friend and kind comforter in the hour of trouble.
Died on the 6th day of April, 1853, in her 56th
year.
Also an inscription on her tomb in All Saints'
Cemetery.
She was a daughter of Major Thomas Summerfield
of the 83rd and widow of l^ieutenant Hawkins, R.N.,
who lost his life in the West Indies in trying to save
( 172 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
558 . . April 6 . . Mary Cecilia Twynam — contd. a man who had fallen overboard. She came out to
1853 Ceylon with her two children in a man-of-war, and one.
of the midshipmen on board was P. A. Dyke, then a
little boy, who used to come to Mrs. Hawkins in his
troubles with the other middies. One of the sons
entered the Royal Engineers and became Sir John
Hawkins, K.C.M.G. He served for some time in
Ceylon, and afterwards in Tasmania and Ireland, and
received his decoration for his services on the Bound-
ary Commission. Mrs. Hawkins married Captain
Tluomas HoUoway Twynam at Trincomalee on
July 8, 1823. He was in command of H. M.
schooner Cochin, which was at Galle on January 15,
1821, succeeded Edward Killwick as Master Attend-
ant, Trincomalee, in 1822, and Francis Dickson as
Master Attendant, Galle, in 1825. Major Summer-
field's fourth daughter, Letitia, married Captain
Hilton, Commanding Ceylon Light Dragoons, on
December 12, 1821, at Colombo; another, Alexander
(sic) Jessie, married at Colombo, March 18, 1824,
Captain WiUiam Cuthbert Ward, R.E., afterwards
General Ward ; another, Margaret James Knowles,
married Captain Peter Crofton, 1st Ceylon Regiment
(from whom Sir tWUliani Twynam got his second
name), on April 27, 1823, at Trincomalee; and a
fifth, Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, 83rd Regiment (see
No. 10).
Major Summerfleld had served through the Penin-
sula war, like most of the officers and men of the
83rd. He died at Limerick in 1832 or 1833, after
the return of the regiment. There is a tablet in a
Limerick church to his memory. He was a stern old
soldier and a strict disciplinarian. Mrs. Twynam
was devoted to him, and was in the Peninsula in the
camp when he was fighting in the front.
Thomas HoUoway was son of John Twynam of
Whitchurch Manor, bom 1760, died 1825, by liis
wife Elizabeth Talmadge. .John Twynam was at the
bombardment of Copenhagen in the Glattim, under
the Crown batteries, and gave an account of it to Sir
William Twynam and his brother. The Twynam
family settled in Hampshire circa 1560. It is
descended from Sir Robert Twynam, who was an
Admiral in the time of Richard I. He married (2)
Mary, daughter of the Ven. T. J. Twisleton and
widow of WUham Gisbome, C.C.S., who died in 1839.
She died December 17, 1873. T. H. Twynam, by his
first wife, was the father of Sir William Crofton
Twynam, K.C.M.G., -CCS. (retired).
559 . . July 2 . . Susanna Francina de Breard Sacred to the memory of Susanna Feancina,
1854 Daughter of the late Johanne.s Thbodositts
Rudolph, Esq., Widow of Mabib Joseph
Benjamin de Beeaed, Esquire, of Rochefort,
France, who died on the 2nd of July, 1854.
Aged 84.
She was the daughter of Johannes Theodosius
Rudolph of Wyenzee and Gertruida Wolff of
Colombo.
Marie Joseph Benjamin de Breard was the sixth
son of Nicolas Marcellin de Breard and Marie de
Gourville. He was a Captain in the De Meuron
Regiment.
560 . . Nov. 8 . . William Henry Trant . . Sacred to the memory of William Heney Teant,
1^^^ Esq., Deputy Storekeeper, Ordnance Dept., who
died on the 8th of Xovr., 1855, aged 47,
Cast down but not destroy'd. II. Cor. iv., ver. 9.
He died at Colpetty, Colombo, and is buried in
t/he Galle Face Cemetery, where there is a tombstone.
He was stationed at Galle horn 1831. He married
in Galle, July 30, 1835, Susan Margaret Giesler, the
daughter of Lieutenant Gerard Godfried Archibald
Giesler, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, and Dorothea Sophia
Susanna de Breard, and the granddaughter of Albert
Henry Giesler of Lisbon, a boekhouder in the Dutch
service, and Susanna Gertruida Staats.
He was a witness in tlie Walbeoff trial.
( 173 )
The Dutch Church, GaWe—contd.
Serial No.
561 .
Date.
March 31
1857
Name.
John Joachim Vanderspar
562
July 30
1857
George Bagenall
563
March 17
1858
Jemima Logan
Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of John Joachim Vandee-
SPAE, Esq., Justice of the Peace, Consul in Ceylon
for H. M. the King of the Netherlands, who died
at Galle on the 31st March, 1857. Aged 61.
Fear not : for I am with thee : I will bring thy seed
from the East and gather thee from the West, I
will say to the North, give up, and to the South,
keep not back, bring my sons from far, and my
daughters from the ends of the earth. — Isaiah
XLIII., 5, 6.
The same inscription is on his tomb in the Dutch
cemetery, where three infant sons — William Louis,
died December 27, 1825 ; Charles Benjamin, died
January 27, 1837 ; and Harold de Breard, died
September 19, 1840 — are buried.
He was the son of Mattheus Vanderspar, Ad-
ministrateur, GaUe, by his second wife Johanna
Gertruida Fybrandsz, the daughter of the Rev.
Johan Joachim Fybrandsz and Catharina Ehzabeth
Dormieux. He married at Colombo, June 1, 1818,
Dorothea Sophia Susanna de Breard, the daughter
of Marie Joseph Benjamin de Breard of Rochefort
and widow of Lieutenant G. Giesler.
J. J. Vanderspar was left an orphan in 1806 at the
age of 11, under the guardianship of Jacques David
d'Estandau, who had married his haK-sister Johanna
Arnoldina de Bordes. " Out of a large patrimony,
to which he should have siicceeded on coming of
age, but a trifle it appears actually came to him. It
was therefore under great hardship and by dint of
untiring energy that he gradually amassed the wealth
and built up the fortune which he left to his sons
and daughters." {Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III.,
p. 399.)
Susanna Francina Rudolph (wife of Marie Benjamin
de Breard) was one of the thirteen children of Jan
Theodosius Rudolph of Wyenzee, who married in 1760
Gertruida Wolf.
In memory of George Bagenall, Lieut. H. M. 37th
(North Hampshire) Regt., who fell in action near
Arrah, Bengal, 30 July, 1857, aged 20 years.
This tablet has been erected by his comrades left in
garrison at Galle and other sincere friends as a
tribute of their esteem and affectionate regard.
Yotmgest son of Captain J. D. Bagenall (see No.
128). He joined the 37th as an Ensign on July 21,
1854.
George Bagenall was a subaltern of the company
of the 37th Regiment stationed at Galle, which was
commanded by Captain H. P. Harrison, who married
Miss Fanny Twynam, a sister of Sir WUham Twjmam.
This company formed part of the wing of the regiment
sent to Calcutta by Governor Sir Henry Ward when
the mutiny broke out. Captain Harrison took his
company with young Bagenall as one of his subalterns ,
as part of the detachment sent to the relief of Arrah.
It fell into an ambush in the night, in which many men
were shot down in the dark. Captain Harrison and
Ensign Bagenall managed to reach the river, and
were swimming to the boat when Harrison was shot
through the arm, but managed to reach the boat.
Bagenall was also shot and went down in the river.
Sir William Twynam says : "I saw the GaUe company
in 1856, and a finer body of men you could not wish
to see — fine well-set-up men. The advance from the
boats in the dark night was opposed by Harrison and
other officers, who advised waiting for daylight, but
the Commanding Officer was obdurate, and hence the
terrible disaster."
Sacred to the memory of Jeivitma, the wife of James
M. LoGAiif, Esquire, of GaUe, and daughter of the
late Stephen Claek Noeeis, Esquire, of London,
who died on the 17th March, 1858,- in the Slst
year of her age.
( 174 )
The Dutch Church, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
563 ..
March 17 .
1858
. Jemima Logan — contd.
Inscription.
Also an inscription identical with this on her tomb
in the Church of England cemetery at GaUe.
Jemima was the second daughter of Stephen Clark
Norris. She married James Murray McGregor Logan
at Galle, on October 21, 1857.
J. M. Logan was manager of the branch of the O.B.C.
at Galle.
564
Aug. 28
1858
Nov. 3
1858
Robert Balkhuysen
Boyle Balkhuysen
In memory of Robeet Balkhuysen, late Medical
Assistant, who died at Hambantota on the 28th
August, 1858, in the 39th year of his age. And
his brother Boyle Balkhttysen, late a student,
Medical CoUege, Calcutta, where he died on the
3rd November, 1858, in the 20th year of his age.
This tablet is erected by their afflicted friends in
token of their esteem and affection.
565
March 12
1861
William Charles Vanderspar
Sacred to the Memory of William Chables Vander-
spar, Major, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died at
Galle on the 12th of March, 1861, aged 39 years.
" In the midst of life we are in death."
He joined the Rifles as 2nd Lieutenant, October 9,
1842, and was gazetted Captain and Brevet-Major,
September 28, 1847.
He was a son of J. J. Vanderspar (No. 561).
His first wife died at Galle (see Na. 553), and he
married (2), while Commandant at Galle, on Novem-
ber 9, 1859, Georgiana Margaret, youngest daughter
of J. Avarne, Esq., R.N., at Galle. A daughter by
his first wife married Luke Kelly (see No. 146).
566
March 16
1868
Henrietta Sophia Vanderspar
567
June 12
1903
Peter Daniel Anthonisz
Sacred to the Memory of Henrietta Sophia, eldest
daughter of the late Major Vanderspar, Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, who died at Galle on the 16th of
March, 1868, aged 21 Years.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
Rev., xiv. chap., 13 ver.
Mourn not the dead, 'tis they alone
Who are the peaceful and the free.
The purest oHve branch is known
To twine about the cypress tree.
In piam oeternamque memoriam viri doctrina
benignitate amore in patriam insignis Petri
Danielis Anthonisz. Medicinse doctoris necnon
illustrissime ordinis sanctorum MichseHs et Georgii
socii, qui natus XXV. Junii, MDCCCXXII., sevi
spatium finivit XII. Junii, MCMIII.
A hatchment.
There is an inscription on his tomb at the Dutch
burial ground, Galle (see No. 645).
The hatchment is of wood, painted in colours and
gilded. It is nearly 10 feet in height. The prevailing
colour is a light stone, relieved in parts by brown or
chocolate. The upper part contains the emblem of
medical science, a snake entwined on a cross. It is
borne on a shield of light blue supported on either
side by ecclesiastical figures carved in high relief, and
painted flesh tint, with wings of gold. The figures
rest on white flags tipped with gold ; each one has a
branch of pahn leaves, while the one on the right is
shown blowing a trumpet, and that on the left dis-
playing a garland. The lower portion of the tablet
is taken up with a slab bearing the epitaph. Over
this hangs a heraldic hatchment beariag the family
arms of the deceased emblazoned in gold and colours,
from which the Star of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George is suspended. The inscription is of gold
on a dark ground.
( 175 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle.
" The Dutch kerkhof is outside the Port, and bears the comparatively recent date 1786 and the words
Memento Mori on the quaint lychgate. It was opened when for sanitary and other reasons it was thought
proper to close the old cemetery within the Fort, which stood where the Municipal markets now stand, and bore
on a stone slab over its gateway the date 1710. The larger number of the epitaphs found here are in EngUsh, but
a few Dutch stones are to be seen mth one or two armorial escutcheons." (F. H. de Vos in Ceylon Literary
iJegrisier, vol. II., p. 356.)
The burial ground is crowded mth vaults and tombs of the later Dutch fashion, the former almost on the
surface of the ground, and the latter large and tasteless structures ornamented with masonry imitations of coffins
on the top, sloping down to the foot ; and Bennett, writing in the first quarter of last century, has some strong
remarks upon the proximity of the burial ground to the high road : "A very great nuisance, for during the
prevalence of the south-west monsoon the pestiferous stench that is diffused by the abominable custom of allowing
coffins to be laid one over the other in the tombs, and considerably above the surface, is indescribable."
(Bennett, p. 357.)
Serial No.
568 .
Date.
Aug. 18
1789
Name.
Adrianus Cornelius Lever.
Inscription.
Hier rust den Edele gestrenge Heer Adbiantjs
CoENELiusLBVEBin zyu leven Major en Command-
ant der Militie te Gale, gebooren te Breda in den
jaare 1746 den 2 November. Overleeden den 18
Augustus Anno 1789 in denouderdom van 42
jaar 9 maand en 16 daagen.
(Journal, R. A.S.,C.B.,vol. XV., p. 271 ; vol. XVII.,
p. 31.)
Arms. — Dexter shield (Lever) : already blazoned
(see No. 396).
Sinister shield (Oostdyk): or, an anchor renverse
sable between two escallops of the second.
JC/. Cotton, "Indian Monumental Inscriptions,"
p.' 37.)
Adriaan ' Cornelis Lever married, April 1, 1770,
Susanna Isabella Oostdyk and predeceased her. She
afterwards married at Galle, December 13, 1789,
Isaac de Miron du Rocliat of Neuchatel, a Captain
in the Meuron Regiment stationed at Galle, and, after
his death, J. G. Gr adman. She was the daughter of
Adriaan Oostdyk of Zierikzee, Superintendent of the
Galle Corle, and Maria Byl.
569 . . May 21 . . Fredrick Christiaan von
1791 Mullertsz
Hier onder legd begraven het lyk van den Heer
Feedeick Cheistiaan von MtTLLEETZ, gebooren
te Kolding in Judland den 7 JanuaTy 1753 in
leeven Lieutenant en Commandant te Crangeanoor,
overleeden op de 21 Mayl791 ter stede Gale in den
ouderdom van 38 jaaren vier maenden en ses
daagen.
Nog rust hy hier naarby het lyk van zyn Edele beide
kinderen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 269; vol. XVIL. p. 30.)
Fredrick Christiaan voii Mullertsz was married to
Anna Gertruida Elizabeth Medeler, the daughter of
Major .Jan Hendrik Medeler and Gertruida Augustin.
A daughter of Fredrick Christiaan von Mullertsz,
Petronella Charlotta Gertruida, was married, JuIjj^ 22,
1804, to Adriaan Hendrik Ebell. Another daughter,
Gertruida Elizabeth, married Lieutenant Charles von
Drieberg, 1810. *
570
Oct. 4
1791
Jean Chevret
Hier rust het lyk van wylen den Weledele Manhafte
Heer Jean Cheveet, Capitein Commandant der
Artillerie alhier. Geboren te Parys den 25
December en overleden den 4 October 1791 in den
ouderdom van 57 jaren 9 maanden en 10 dagen.
{Ibid.,vo]. XV., p. 271.)
571
Nov. 9
1795
Wiliam Kirton
Here repose the body of Capityn Wiliam Kieton,
late Commander of the Hon'ble English Company's
snow Elizabeth. Deceased the 9th day of
November, 1795. Aged 42 years.
The engraving was probably done by a Dutch
stone-cutter who knew little or no English. The
word before " Ehzabeth " appears to be "snow,"
which was a term a^jplied in the 18th and early 19th
centuries to ships of a certain kind.
( 176 )
Serial No.
Date.
572 ..
July 30
1804
Dutch Cemetery, Galle—contd.
Name.
Frederic Conrad Worsley . . F. C. Woesley.
months.
573
Sept. 16
1804
Carl Christiaan Conradi
574
Nov. 24
1804
Barend Nicholas Degen
575
May 9
1805
Lucas Aems
576
1805
Thomas Sansony
Inscription.
Died 30th. July, 1804, aged 4
577
Aug. 19
1806
Petronella Henrietta Smitz
Son of Captain Edward Worsley, R.A. , and Mary,
his wife, baptized June 28, 1804. They arrived by
the Windham, which brought the first detachment of
Royal Artillery to Ceylon in June, 1803. Captain
Worsley was appointed Commandant of Matara in
September. 1805.
Hier rust Gael Christiaan Conradi geb den 18
Maart 1802, en overladen 16 Sept., 1804, Kleinzoon
van Diet. Thom. Feetz.
(Joui-nal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 268.)
Diedi'ich Thomas Fretz of St. Goar, Hesse Nassau,
was the last Commandeur of Galle. By his second
wife, Gertrmda Henrietta Bartels of Tuticorin,he had
a daughter, Maria Sophia, who married Carl August
Conradi. These were the parents of Carl Christiaan.
Sacred to the memory of Baebnd Nicholas Degen,
who expired on the 24th of November, 1804, aged
49 years 3 months and 7 days.
I see the Lord of Glory come
And flaming guards around
The skies divide to make Him room
The trumpet shakes the ground
I hear the voice " Ye dead arise "
And so the graves obey
And waking saints with jayful eyes
Salute the expected day
Why should our moxxrning thoughts delight
To grovel in the dust
Or why should streams of tears unite
Around the expiring just ?
He was "assistent " at Galle, March 7, 1784, when
he married Elizabeth Magdalena de Haan, widow of
Abraham Walles , boekhouder. He was no doubt a son
of Johan Jacobus Degen and Theodora Molenhouwer.
Hier rusten de waerdige overblyfsels eens brave mans
LtrCAS Aems in leeven Capt. der Zee in dienst van
het Nederl. Indiasch. bewind en equipagie meester
deser plaetze. Grebooren te Amsterdam den 25 Mel,
overleeden den 9 Mai 1805.
{Tbid., vol. XT., p. 273 ; vol. XVIL, p. 31.)
A perpendicular granite slab "ornamented " with a
death's head.
Lucas Aems married, July 17, 1796, Justina Maria
de Moor, widow of Baron von Marken. She was a
daughter of Pieter Arent de Moor and Christina
Gertruida van Coeverden (see No. 552).
D. O. M. Thomae Sansony fiUo amatissimo parentes
moetissimi. H.P.M., A.D. MDCCCV.
D. O. M. = Deo Optimo maximo.
H. P. M. = Hie or hoc posuerunt monumentum or
mortuum,.
The inscription is almost illegible.
Thomas Sansony or Sansoni was the fourth son of
Joseph Sansoni, senior.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Petronella
Henrietta Smitz, who departed this life in the
25th Year 3 months and 9 days of her age on the
19th of August, 1806. To commemorate her
amiable virtues as an affectionate and fond wife
and tender mother, a warm and steady friend, her
disconsolate husband hath ca.used this tablet to
be placed over hel' ever to be revered remains.
Conjugum optima mulierum amantissima vale.
(Found fallen into the vault to which it belonged.)
A grim vault surmounted by a brickwork imitation
of a coffin, in accordance with the fashion of the time.
She was the second wife of Joseph Smitz, and was
a daughter of Henricus Vollenhoven of Utrecht.
Joseph Smitz of Dusseldorp was Agent of Revenue at
( 177 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
577 ..
Aug. 19 .
. Petronella Henrietta Smitz
1806
— contd.
578
March 24
1810
James Townsend Harding
579
Feb. 18
1811
Sept. 13
1816
Dorothea Petronella de Ly .
Dorothea Agatha Loekyer
580
Oct. 15
1811
Johanna Gertrude Vander-
spaar
2b
Inscription.
Galle, 1801-3 ; Acting ditto at Batbicaloa , August 29,
1803, where he led a most successful expedition
against the Kandyans (see Cordiner). He left
Batticnloa about 1805, and went to Hambartota as
Agent for Salt, which appointment he held until his
death on June 27, 1812. He had been in the
employment of the Dutch and English Governments
in the Island for upwards of 25 years. His first wife
was Maria Christina Haas, whom he married at
Colombo on September 12, 1790 ; and he married a
third wife on December 3, 1809, viz., Caroline
Elizabeth Niesing Francke of Tuticorin, who after
his death married an Englishman named Read.
His eldest daughter, Dorothea Carolina, married at
Galle, on November 3, 1812, Assistant Surgeon Hugh
Rose, of the 3rd Ceylon Regiment, who died at
Trincomalee a little more than 18 months afterwards.
Another daughter, Editha Petronella Elizabeth,
married at Galle, on July 19, 1820, Andreas Cornelius
de Vos, a grand-imcle of Mr. F. H. de Vos.
The body of James Townsend Harding, aged 15
years, lies buried here. He was unfortunately
drowned on the 24th March, 1810, to the great
regret of his master, Lieut. Sweedland, R.N., who
for his faithful services raises this monument to
his memory.
A circular slab. ' ' There is no raised monument to
be seen : if such there was, it has fallen and mixed
with the dust, as probably has been the case with
manv." (Article in the Ceylon Review, May-July,
1895")
Ter zaliger gedachtenis van Mejuff. Dorothea
Petronella van dee Spar, huysvrouw van den
Heer A. E. de Ly, geb. den 12 May, 1764, engest
den 18 February, 1811, en Mejuff. Dorothea
Agatha de Ly, huysvrouw van Capt. Edmd.
LocKYEE, geb. den 21 January, 1790, en gest. den
13 September, 1816.
Hier verwagten zy de opstandinge der dooden en
zalig zyn zy die in den Heeren stervern.
Dorothea Petronella van der Spar was the daughter
of Matheusvan der Spar, Administrateur, Galle, and
Dorothea Cornelia van Dam, his first wife.
Andreas Everardus de Ly was the son of Arnoldus
deLy of Bergen-op-Zoom, Commandeur of Galle, and
Maria Cornelia Sohuttrup. He studied at Harder-
wyk in 1776. His eldest daughter, Arnoldina
Joharma, was the wife of George Laughton of
London, Customs Master, GaUe. His second
daughter was Dorothea Agatha, who was married (1)
to Captain John William Young, and (2) to Captain
Edmund Loekyer, 19th Regiment, on August 12,
1806. Captain Loekyer married (2) Sarah, second
daughter of John Morris, Esq., of Pljrmouth, on
• October 6, 1816, *.e., in less than a month after the
death of his first wife, which seems extraordinary,
but is true, for on December 19, 1813, Mrs. Dorothy
Loekyer arrived from England by the Monarch
transport with two children, and on December 19,
1817, Captain and Mrs. Loekyer arrived at Colombo
by the Ajax with three children, Mrs. Loekyer
having had one on the voyage out from England.
Andreas Everardus de Ly married (2) at Galle,
1818, EKsabeth Theresia HoUebeek.
Sacred to the memory of Johanna Gertrude,
daughter of the late Revd. J. J. Fybrandsz,
Widow of Matthew Vandeespaar, Esqre. , Senior
Merchant of the Dutch Bast India Company
Service, who died on the 15th October, 1811,^
aged 55 years.
Joan Joachim Fybrandsz, baptized at Colombo,
March 5, 1724, was the son of Joan Fybrandsz and.
Anna de Silva (d' Almeida). He was married to
Catharina Elizabeth Donnieux. Johanna Gertrude,
their daughter, married (1), February 17, 1771,
Jacobus de Bordes of Amsterdam, and (2), July 29,
1781, Matthew Vanderspaar.
82-09
( 178 )
Duteh Cemetery, GaMe—contd.
Serial No.
580 .
Date.
Oct. 15
1811
Name.
Johanna Gertrude Vander-
spaar — contd.
581
Oct. 23
1811
Johanna Elizabeth Fretz . .
582
583
July 30
1813
June 17
1814
Anthony R. O'Donnell
George B. More
584
June 20
18)5
Johanna Gerrardina de Vos
585 ..
586 ..
587 .,
Oct. 24
1815
May 28
1817
Sept. 27
1818
George Aldons
John Cassidy
Ralph CoxoD
Inscription.
The Rev, J. J. Fybrandsz was sent to be educated
at the Dutch Company's expense at the University of
Leyden.
' ' Biographisch Woordenboek van Oost-Indische
Predikanten (C. A. L. van T. de Bruyn)," p. 140. De
Hervormde Kerk in " Ned. Oost-Indie (de Bruyn),"
p. 618.
Ter gedachtenisse van wylen Mejuf Johanna
Elizabeth d'Estandau gehuwd geweest aan den
Heer Dieterich Cornelius Fretz. Geboren te
Gale 18 Augustus, 1789, overleeden den 23 October,
1811, in den ouderdom van 22 jaaren 2 maanden
en 10 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 270.)
Johanna Ehzabeth d'Estandau was the daughter
of Jean Jacques David d'Estandau of Rynsberg and
Johanna Amoldina Ehsabeth de Bordes. Dieterich
Cornelius Fretz, bom at Matara, May 6, 1787, was
the son of Dieterich Thomas Fretz, Commandeur of
Galle, and Cornelia Reyneira van Sanden of Jaffna.
He married (2) Sophia Adriana van Schuler, and (3)
Johanna Gertruida WUhelmina Mottau.
Johanna Elizabeth d'Estandau married D. C. Fretz,
October 19, 1808.
Lieut. A. R. O'Donnell, of His Majesty's First
Ceylon Regiment, died 30th July, 1813, aged 27
years.
Lieutenant O'Donnell joined the 1st Ceylon as a
2nd Lieutenant, July 19, 1810.
Lieut. G. B. More, of His Majesty's First Ceylon
Regiment, who died 17th of June, 1814, aged 33
years.
A stone, over which the pathway runs, and which
is therefore covered with sand.
He joined in 1811. The register of the Dutch
Church records the burial on June 20 of " the English
Lieutenant More," which looks as if he haA died
at an outstation.
Hier legt mejuff Johanna Gerraedina Krygek
huisvrouw van den Heer Johannes Andreas de
Vos. Overleeden den 20 Juny 1815 in den onder-
dom van 43 jaren 9 maenden en 15 dagen. Zy
verwagt nu de zalige opstanding van den dood.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 272.)
Johanna Gerrardina Kryger was born at Tuticorin ,
being the daughter of Comehs Kryger and Maria
Ehsabeth Broeckman.
Johannes Andrias de Vos was the son of Pieter de
Vos , onderkoopman , and Magdalena Meyer , and great-
grandson of the original settler Oliver de Vos of
Bruges (Belgium).
Hier Onder Rust George Aldons Geboren Den 4
Juny 1813 en overleden Den 24 October 1815.
Sacred to the memory of John Cassidx, Esq.,
Surgeon of H. M.'s 1st Ceylon Regiment, departed
this life on the 28 Maj , 1817, aged 27 years.
He was appointed Surgeon, 1st Ceylon Regiment,
on November 1, 1816, from the late 4th Ceylon,
'vice White retired on half pay.
Sacred to the memory of Major R. CoxoN of 1st
Ceylon Regt., who died at Aliput in the Kandian
Provinces, on the 27th September, 1818, aged 41
years.
"An erection six feet high composed of polished
granite slabs. There are four walls and a roof sloping
in the four directions." Possibly this is only a
cenotaph. .
He arrived with Assistant Surgeon McNulty — also
destined to a very short career in the Island, for he
was Idlled in the Uva rebellion — by the Prince Regent
transport in May, 1816. On June 21 they both
went from Trinoomalee to Colombo in the Kandyan.
( 179 )
Serial No.
587 .
Date.
Sept. 27
1818
Dutch Cemetery, Galle
Name.
Ralph Coxon — contd.
-contd.
588
Apnll2
1819
Charles H. Hay Fane
589
Aug. 28
1819
Robert NichoUs
590
Nov. 15
1819
Donald MeBean
Inscription.
There is no entry of burial, though the register
goes back further than 1818. One wonders how the
body was removed from AUput to Galle, if it was
removed. Captain Coxon was appointed A.D.C. to
the Governor Sir Thomas Maitland on December 3,
1810; Major of Brigade on October 3, 1811; Assist-
ant Quartermaster-General and attached to the 4th
Division of the army proceeding to Kandy January 20,
1815. On the (Outbreak of the Uva rebellion he
was jDut in command of Alupota, and he had some
fighting in the jungle near there on Januarj^ 23, 1818.
His work there is described in the obituary notice
which appeared in the Gazette : —
" In our last paper we mentioned with regxet that
Major Coxon was so much out of order as that it was
judged necessary for him to go tb the Sea Coast, but
in fact he had been long ill, and ought many weeks
ago to have removed from Alipoot to a better climate,
if zeal for the public service had not quite overpower-
ed in his mind every consideration for his own safety.
He had begun and carried on with singular ability the
difficult work of pacifying and conciliating the people
of that part of Ouva, and his ardent desire to complete
his object led him, in spite of several warnings
of severe illness, to neglect his own life. Amongst
all the officers who had distinguished themselves
in this varied and difficult warfare, Major Coxon set
the example of treating the Kandyans with that
happy mixture of firmness and levity which secured
a punctual obedience without diminishing their
friendly disposition ; he possessed a thorough know-
ledge of the native character, and he availed himself
of it with so much temper and skill as to gain their
confidence and attach them to his person ; he found
the people around him all hostile : he prevailed upon
them to abandon their jungles, build huts, and live
under their protection, and he was the first who made
advantageous use of the rebels whom he reclaimed
by persuading them to labour for a moderate hire in
clearing the roads, cutting down the jungle, and other
important works. Major Coxon by continuing,
debilitated as he was from long severe illness in the
unwholesome climate of Alipoot, exposed his life to
as much risk as he who faced the cannon or stood
the charge at Waterloo, with the prospect before him
of a far less glorious death. Were the Kandyan war
to continue, his loss would be severely felt, and a
generous public will not the less regret his death
because his eminent services have contributed to a
final success which wiU preclude the demand for such
meritorious exertions." {Gazette, October 3, 1818.)
Mrs. Coxon left for England by the Vittoria oh
January 1, 1819, with the Misses Cleather.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Oh. H. Hay Fane,
H. M. 73 Reg. , who was suddenly carried off by spas-
modic cholera, 12th April, A.D. 1819, Aet. 31 Ann.
Hie disconsolate widow raised this monument as
a memorial of the irreconcilable loss herself and
infant son have sustained.
This tombstone was found in November, 1910,
after it had been buried for years.
Sacred to the memory of Robt. Nicholls, Esqre.,
late Paymaster of the H. M. XIX. Regiment.
Died 28th August, 1819, aged 69 years.
He was appointed Paymaster on April 14, 1803,
and had served in the 19th Regiment " upwards of
16 years, and by amiable and affable virtues had
endeared himself to the Colony at large, but only
those who were intimately acquainted with him could
know his worth." [Gazette, September 4, 1819.)
Sacred to the memory of Donald McBean, Lieut.-
Col. 19th Regt. of Inf., Ob. 15th November,
1819. ^tat Ann. 64. Who had during 42 years
nobly borne the Commissions conferred on him
by our Gracious Sovereign Geoege the 3rd,
finished his Military career as Commandant of
Point de GaUe.
( 180 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
590 ..
Nov. 15
1819
Donald McBean
-contd.
591
June 8
1822
Ellen Maria Templer
592
Sept. 14
1821
Sarah Wilhelmina Stroeff
593
Sept. 16
1825
James Rowland Morgan
Inscription.
An obelisk about 24 feet in height, surmounted by
an urn, the most conspicuous monument in the
cemetery.
Lieutenant-Colonel McBean arrived with the 89th
Regiment, to which he then belonged, in 1809.
He exchanged with Lieutenant-Colonel Rainsford,
November 1, 1817. The 89th lost both its senior
officers in Ceylon: Major Hilliard in conmiand, who
died httle more than a fortnight after he landed, and
Lieutenant-Colonel McBean, who took the place of
Major Millier, and was in command as senior officer on
duty in the garrison, five days after the 89th landed.
To the memory of Ellen Mabia, infant daughter of
F. J. Templee, Esq., of H. M. Civil Service, and
Elienoee Templeb, his wife. Bom October 10th,
1821.
"A two-foot erection of brickwork, on which a
granite slab has been plastered horizontally. The
tomb is neglected and is coming down." (Ceylon
Review, July, 1895.)
Francis James Templer was in the Civil Service,
1817-47. He came out with Mrs. Templer and
family by the ship Alexander, which left on July 5 and
arrived at Colombo on November 13, 1817. He had
married at Falmouth on April 16, 1816. He was
successively Provincial Judge, Calpentyn; Agent of
Government, Ratnapupa ; Sitting Magistrate,
Colombo ; Collector of Chilaw ; Collector of Colombo
and Government Agent, 1833-43; Fiscal, Jaffna,
1845: Treasurer, October 1, 1846. He was Agent of
Government at Ratnapura at the time of this child's
death. He died in October, 1854. He was father of
Francis BuUer Templer, CCS.
His eldest daughter, Catherine Mary, married
Philip E. Wodehouse, C.C.S., afterwards Sir Philip
Wodehouse, Governor of the Cape, on December 19,
1834. His daughter Annie Henrietta married
ArthiM William Buller, afterwards Sir Arthur BuUer,
Queen's Advocate.
Sacred to the memory of Sabah Wilhelmina
Beechmajst, Widow of Anthoni Stboeff, 'who
died on the 14th September, 1821.
A stone vault. " It is a capacious one, and is
ornamented with masonry on its roof. That it was
intended to serve a family is apparent." (Ceylon
Review, loc. ait.)
She was a daughter of Frederic Brechman and his
wife Maria Elizabeth Claasz, and granddaughter of
Johannes Brechman and his wife Catharina Malyn.
She was baptized at Galle, October 17, 1761, and
married Anthoni Stroeff at Galle, September 14. 1771.
He was probably a son of Ernst Stroeff of Straelsund,
" Baas van de Scheeps en Huistimmerlieden " (Baas
of the Ships and House Carpenters).
The " Stroeff s not being now known at Galle, and
the name being absent from Ferguson's Directory,
I suppose the family is extinct." (Ceylon Review,
loo. cit.) W. Stroeff was a signatory to the petition
for the emancipation of slave children in 1818.
(Regulation 9, 1818.)
Sacred to the memory of James Rowland Morgan,
Esq., Assistant Staff Surgeon to the Forces, who
died at Galle, the 16th September, 1825, aged
Thirty-one years.
The inliabitants of Galle and Matara have erected this
humble tribute of their grateful respect for departed
worth. By profession fitted for the noblest offices
of humanity, Mr. Morgan ever devoted himself
to their exercise in the hour of sickness and distress
to all in need of his assistance, whether rich or
poor, white or black. No consideration of
trouble or inconvenience interposed bet
and that which he had marked out as 1;
duty towards his fellow creatures. His
afforded the best proof of his real princi
him the last Enemy had no terrors, and
( 181 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
oys .. Sept. 16 .. James Rowland Morgan — cow<d. the best hope, he bowed with resignation to the will
1825 of his Creator and left this world of trial under the
blessed influence of faith in Christ.
Globia Deo.
Bennett refers to his tomb as " remarkable for its
architecture," and relates the sad circumstancea
which marked the commencement of his short career
in Ceylon : —
" On the 27th of June, 1823, Mr. Morgan arrived in
Colombo Roads with his wife and tlu'ee little children,
♦ two of whom were girls and the other an infant boy.
He soon afterwards landed, and having made the
requisite arrangements for their reception returned to
the wharf for the piu-pose of going on board for his
family ; but the wind blew dead upon the land, it being
the south-west monsoon , and not a boat would venture
out. Soon afterwards two boats were observed ,to
leave the ship, of which, when about midway, one
was upset, and Mr. Morgan liberally offered money
and used every entreaty in his power to urge the native
boatmen to goto the assistaneeof their fellow creatures,
Uttle imagining that at the time he was so zealous iu
humanity's cause the chief sufferers were those most
dear to himself, until the other boat reached the shore,
when the first objects that met his view were his two
apparently lifeless children and the corpse of the poor
child's maid with the dead infant in her arm in the
bottom of the boat, but the body of his wife had
disappeared. The two children, both girls, survived
the dreadful catastrophe. For a time the effect upon
Mr. Morgan's mind was so great that the very worst
consequences were dreaded, but his naturally robust
constitution and rehgious temperament enabled
him to weather the storm, and he gradually acquired
the tranquilhty so necessary for the prosecution of his
professional duties; but in little more than two years
that constitution which had been gratuitously and
constantly exposed to all the vicissitudes of weather
and a tropical sun through his zeal for the benefit of
his suffering fellow creatures sunk under the intense
exertions of philanthropy ; and the gratitude of the
inhabitants of the district of Galle and Matura was
thus publicly acknowledged in honour of his memory."
(Bennett's " Capabilities of Ceylon," p. 358.)
Possibly he was a son of the Rev. Rowland Morgan,
Rector of Wattisfield and Vicar of Rendham in
Suffolk, a friend of Bennett's (p. 296).
He attended in 1824, whUe a Hospital Assistant at
Hambantota, Archdeacon Twisleton when he returned
to that station iU, after travelling to the eastward of
it. While at Hambantota he had for a neighbour
Bennett.
594
1826
George Tower
695
April 13
1827
Mary Annie Catherine
Twynam
596
June 23
1827
Charles Scott
George Towee, Esqre., Assistant Surgeon, H. M.
45th Kegiment. Died 1826. Aged 29.
" A year after the last mentioned ; both young
men, and probably comrades and victims together to
the effects of an unaccustomed Eastern climate."
[Ceylon Review, loc. cit.)
Sacred to the Memory of Maky Annie Catheeine,
daughter of Thos. H. Twynam, Esqre., who
departed this life April 13th, 1827, aged 1 year
5 months and 18 days.
Daughter of Thomas HoUoway Twynam and Maria
Cecilia Summerfield.
Sacred to the memory of Charles Scott, Esquire, of
the Ceylon Civil Service and late Provincial Judge
of Galle and Matura, who died at Galle on the
23rd of June, 1827, aged 36 years.
" A tomb cut of granite slabs cemented together
and forming four walls and a roof, the inscription
being cut on one of the slabs." (Ceylon Beview.)
Charles Scott was appointed a Writer, February 1 ,
1808, arrived by H. M. S. Belliqueux, August 26,
1808 (transferred from the H. C. ship Bengal), and
was appointed 2nd Assistant in the Commissioners
( 182 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle—contd.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
596 ..
June 23 .
1827
. Charles Scott
-contd.
Inscription.
of Revenue Office, June 11, 1809 ; Assistant, Janu-
ary 31, 1810; Assistant to the Collector, Jaffna, and-
Fiscal, Jaffna, March 27, 1811 ; Vice-President of the.
Land Raad at Matara, December 25, 1811 ; Provin-
cial Judge, GaUe, March 25, 1812 ; ditto at Trine o-
malee, 1815-17; was on leave, March 1, 1817;
Provincial Judge, Colombo, 1820-22 ; Collector of
Jaffna, February 6, 1822 ; Provincial Judge, Galle
and Matara, 1825. While holding this appointment,
on January 19, 1815, the same ship Bengal (by which
he had come out to the Island in 1808) took fire and
^ent down in Galle Roads. He was dining on board
at the time with the Captain (NichoUs). He helped
to get the passengers into boats, but twenty lives
were lost, including those of Captain NeweU of the
Alexander, Lieutenant Daniels, Mr. Loane, Master of
the Malacca, and Mr. Baxter, 2nd Mate of the Surrey.
The Gazette contained the following obituary notice : —
" A Civil Servant of nineteen years' standing, during
which period he had filled the situation of Provincial
Judge in most of the ijrincipal Districts in the Island,
and administered his official duties with no less satis-
faction to those over whom his jxu'isdiction extended,
than with honour to the purity of his own heart and
credit to the soxmdness and rectitude of his judgment.
Generous, independent, hospitable, and kind, his
name is ever associated with the best feeling of human
nature, and we are assured that society at large will
join with us in sincerely deploring his untimeljr
death. The deceased has left an amiable and dis-
consolate widow to mourn his loss, who in life was
an affectionate son, a tender husband, and a warnx
friend." (June 30, 1827.) He was a very big man,
and there is a chair in the Jaffna Kachcheri, of the
circular Dutch office-chair pattern, which is said to
have been his.
Sir William Twynam told me a story of Scott and
James Agnew Farrell of the CivU Service, who was
Provincial Judge of Jaffna when Scott was Collector
there, being great friends and both sceptics, and
having made a compact that if there were a really
Supreme Being, the one that died first would appear
to the other after death. Presumably, though at
this point the story stops short, Scott appeared to
Farrell, who was at the time of Scott's death Pro-
vincial Judge of Colombo. There is a reference to
Scott in Cordiner, vol. II., p. 243.
597
Aug. 8
1827
Jacobus Zybrandsz
To the memory of Mr. Jacobus Zybeandsz, late
Vaccinator of Galle, who departed this life on the
8th August, 1827, aged 52 years.
! Death where is thy sting,
O ! Grave where thy victory.
I. Cor. 15, 55.
598
Dec. 6
1827
Horace Ximenes
599
Jan. 14
1831
July 18
1832
July 20
1S32
Margaret Mary Durand
Deacon
Edward Durand Deacon
Henry Augustus Durand
Deacon
Sacred to the memory of Horace Ximenes, youngest
son of Colonel Ximenes, 16th Infy. Born 10th
July, 1827. Died 6th December, 1827.
Colonel and Mrs. Eliza Ximenes arrived by the
ship Hihherts from London on March 1,1826. He was
Commandant at Galle. He and Mrs. Ximenes left
Galle for Calcutta by the H. C. C.'s ship James Sib-
bald in November, 1828, arriving at Calcutta on
January 11 , 1829. An address was presented to him
by the Burgher inhabitants of Galle signed by 40, and
another by the Dutch inhabitants signed by 36. This
was on November 14, 1828, on his departure.
Here lies the remains of Mabgaeet Mary Durand
Deacon, daughter of Lieut. Thomas Deacon,
Staff Officer at this Station, and of Martha Ann,
his Wife, who died Jany. 14th, 1831, aged IS
months and 12 days ; also of Edward Durand
Deacon, son of the above, who died 18th July,
1832, aged 18 months ; also of Henry Augustus
Durand Deacon, son of the above, who died 20th-
July, 1832, aged 2 months and 26 days.
( 183
Dutch Cemetery, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
599 ..
Jan. 14
1831, &e.
. Margaret Mary Durand
Deacon, &c. — contd.
Inscription.
Lieutenant Deacon belonged to the 73rd Regiment.
He was Fort Adjutant at Trincomalee, 1819-23, and
at Colombo, 1824-25. He was married £0 his wife
Martha Anne de Couoy at St. George's, Hanover
square, August 31, 1809. Another daughter married
William Moir, Pa5rmaster of the 16th and of the 2nd
Ceylon Regiments, in the Civil Service from July 1,
1825, to May 1, 1840, whose first wife had died at
Calcutta ia 1817, aged 31. He was the father by his
second wife of Robert Wilham Durand Moir, C.C.S.,
1864-92, who died in 1909, and of Mrs. Twynam,
wife of WilHam Crofton Twynam, CCS. Yet
another daughter married Wilham Steuart.
600
Feb. 10
1831
Louis Sanson!
Sacred to the memory of Louis Sansoni, Esqr., of
His Majesty's Civil Service and late Collector of
Point de Galle, who died on the 10th February,
1831.
A torub of the same type as Mr. Charles Scott's.
He was a brother of Joseph Sansom,who is described
as an Itahan. Joseph Sansoni was a medical man,
and was appointed to act as assistant to the Garrison
Surgeon, Colombo, January 30, 1803, and was in
medical charge of the Matara Garrison in 1804. He
married at Colombo, July 27, 1800, Johanna Dorothea
Juliana WiUiehnina Schorer, the widow of Captain
Samuel Peter Foenander, and died November 3, 1807.
Louis Sansoni married at GaUe, February 26, 1828,
Lydia Twynam, sister of Captain Thomas HoUoway
Twynam, then Master Attendant at Galle. Left a
widow in 1831, she returned to England by the ship
Symmetry, and in 1834 married Mr. Thomas
Swindale Harvey of the firm of Hancock and Harvey,
tea merchants, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate street.
She drew a pension of £300 a year from the old
Widows' Pension Fund for some 50 years or more,
she and Mrs. William Moir being the last two pen-
sioners. " Child as I then was, I recollect perfectly
Tindell's old ship the Symmetry, then one of the crack
passenger ships of Ceylon, coming off Galle on her
way to England to take my aunt on board." (Sir
William Twynam in 1909.) There were no children
by this marriage of Louis Sansoni's, and the family is
extinct in the male line.
Louis Sansoni was Customs Master, Jaffna, in
1813-15 ; Deputy Postmaster in Ceylon for the
General Post Office in London, September 1, 1816 ;
Postmaster-General, Ceylon, vice Egbert Bletterman,
October 1, 1816, which post he held till 1826, when
he was appointed Collector of GaUe and Matara.
He seems also to have held the office of Private
Secretary to two Puisne Justices (Sir W. Coke and
H. Bjrrne), 1816-19, though it is cxirious that it
should have been held with the Postmaster-General-
ship , though of course in those days the latter was not
an onerous post.
601
March 1
1831
Joseph Sansoni
Sacred to the memory of Joseph Sansoni, Esq.,
born 14th February, 1808. Died 1st March, 1831.
Aged 23 years and 18 days.
A tomb resembling the preceding.
He was a posthumous son of Joseph Sansoni.
Another son, James Rowland, was probably called
after Dr. James Rowland Morgan (see No. 593), bom
December 10, 1806, died November 8, 1837, at
Colombo ; with him the family became extinct in
the male line.
Sir William Twynam can just recollect his death.
Another Joseph Sansoni, probably a son of Louis,
married (1) Mary Elizabeth Atkinson, and (2) Sara
Henrietta Staats, July 7, 1832. He had two daughters
by his first wife, the younger of whom married H. A.
Foenander in 1852, and three daughters and a son by
his second. One of them also married a Foenander
in 1852. The son died young.
Serial N"o
Date.
Name.
602 ..
July 30
1832
William Carmichael Gibson
( 184 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of William Caemich^el
Gibson, Esqre, who departed this life on the 30th
July, 1832, aged 63 years.
Mors optima est perire dum lachrymantes sunt.
As there were two Layard brothers in the Civil
Service in the early years of British rule in Ceylon, so
there were two Gibson brothers in other branches of
Government service, and the two families soon became
doubly connected by marriage. William Carmichael
Gibson was Master Attendant at Galle from 1796 to
1803 and at Colombo till March 6, 1816, when he
retired "to follow mercantile pursuits." Gibson
must have originaUy " foUowed the sea," either as a
naval or mercantile commander, for he is spoken of
as " Captain Gibson," and while at Galle on July 11,
1805, at 8 A.M., he had the exciting experience of
seeing what he took to be " fom- ships of the enemy's
fleet " off the coast. He reported this to Colombo,
and said he would " despatch his boat to Trincomalie
with the intelhgence." They proved to be a French
ship of the line, supposed to be the Marengo, and a
French frigate in chase of the ship Sarah of Bombay,
bound to China, Captain C. Mackintosh, who ran
her ashore at Dodanduwa, rather than have her
captured. The fourth vessel was the H. E. I. C.'s
ship Brunswick, which was taken by the French.
He was the founder of one of the first Ceylon firms,
that of W. C. Gibson & Co., which at fh-st did business
at Galle, and afterwards started a branch of the firm
or removed altogether to Colombo. W. C. Gibson
seems to have continued to reside at Galle, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, in his "Excursions,
&c. ," refers to " Mr. and Mrs. Gibson and their dehght-
fully situated and agreeable mansion " (p. 324), which
I take to have been " Closenburg," afterwards the
residence of the P. & O. Company's agent. Captain
Bayley ; but the firm had a Colombo branch, and in
1843 Bennett refers to it as " the oldest commercial
firm in the Island." On the death of W. C. Gibson,
Joseph Read, the surviving partner of the firm,
carried on the business.
W. C. Gibson and his family went to England in
1810 in the same ship as Thomas Thackeray RenneU,
CCS. The Gibsons of Ceylon were sons of William
Gibson, a merchant of Edinburgh, by his wife Mary
Cecilia, daughter of James Balfour of Pihig. This
William Gibson was second son of John Gibson of
Durie, by Helen, daughter of the Hon. William
Carmichael of Diwie. John was son of Alexander
Gibson, who was second son of Sir Alexander Gibson
of Pentland and Adiston, one of the principal Clerks of
Session, descended from a Thomas Gibson of the time
of James IV. , who was a Baron of the County of Fife.
A younger brother of William Carmichael and Lewis
Gibson was Andrew Mitchell Gibson of the Naval Ser-
vice of the East India Company, who married Miss
Barbara Thompson at Colombo in 1818 (see No. 92).
603 . . Jan. 7 . . Maria Elizabeth Frith . . Sacred to the memory of Maeia Elizabeth Feith,
1833 who departed this life on the 7th January, 1833,
aged 24 years.
May 20 . Maria Carolina Frith . . To the Memory of Maeia Caeollna, her mfant
1833 daughter, who died at Bombay, May 20th, 1833,
aged 9 months and 3 days.
There was a Major John W. Frith in the 58th
Regunent, which was stationed ui Ceylon, 1828-37;
He arrived with a detachment of the regiment by the
transport Amity on October 28, 1828. A daughter
of C. E. Layard's, Carolina Louisa, married a Captain
John Griffith Frith on October 21, 1828, at Colombo.
604 , July 18 . . Fransina Maria Rose . . Hier legt begraven het lyk van de menschlievende
1833 echtgenote van den Hear Joseph Rose in name
Fransina Maria Baptist. Geboren den 4 Nov-
ember, 1762, overleden den 18 July, 1833, in den
onderdom van 70 jaaren 8 maanden en 14 dagen.
(Jomnal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 270.)
Fransina Maria Baptist was the daughter of Jacobus
Baptist and Elizabeth d'Almeda.
( 185 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
605 ..
Sept. 21
1834
. Daniel Loret
Oct. 20
1836
Frederick Loret
606
Feb. 14
1836
Gerald Benjamin Giesler
Inscription,
Sacred to the Memory of Daniel Lobet, who
departed his life at Galle on the 21st September,
1834, aged 57.
Filial Affection has caused this tablet to be placed
over the remains of departed worth.
Also sacred to the memory of Frbdekick Lobet,
who died at Galle on the 20th October, 1836,
aged 30 years.
GLOBIA DEO.
The Lorets were no doubt of French descent.
Daniel Loret married Helena Kale, by whom he had
a son, Augustus Frederick, born August 7, 1806. A
descendant of his was the owner of Loret's Hotel,
GaUe, opposite Ephraums' shop in Middle street.
" The gift of a harmonium valued at £75 " to the
Wesloyan Chapel by Mr. Loret is recorded by Mr.
SpenceHardy. ("Jubilee Memorials, "p. 216.) There
is a case Loret versus Vanderstraaten reported in
Ramanathan's Reports, 1820-33.
Gbeald Benjamin, son of the late Gebald Godebey
Abohibald Giesleb, Esqre., of the 2nd Ceylon
Regiment, who died on the 14th February, 1836,
aged 19.
Lieutenant Giesler of Mullaittivu married, on
March 27, 1814, Dorothea Sophia de Breard, who on
his death at Jaffna, which occurred on January 17,
1816, while he was Commandant of Mullaittivu,
married J. J. Vanderspar. This son was born at
Colombo on July 23, 1816, a posthumous child.
607
Oct. 6
1836
Jan Marten Wittensleger .
608
Oct. 10
1837
William Mason
Thomas Riehley
io
Tot gezegent aandenking.
Hier rusthet lyk van den Eerw. Heer Jan Mabten
WiTTENSLEGEB, Proponent van de Geref . gemeente
te Gale. Geb. te Galle den 13 May, 1763, over-
leden den 6 October, 1836, en de nakomelingen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 279.)
Sacred to the memory of Private William Mason,
aged 20, of the 90th L. Infantry, and Thos.
RiCHLEY, Seaman, aged 33, of the Hon. E. I. C.
Service, who were unfortunately upset in a boat
and drowned in the Harbour while returning from
the Hon'ble E. I. C. C. Surveying tender Gardiva
on the night of the 10th Oct., 1837. As a mark
of affection and regard for their comrade and
messmate and of sympathy for their fate, the
Detachment of the 90th Infantry stationed at
Galle, in conjunction with the Royal Tiger and her
tender, have caused this stone to be erected to
mark the spot where buried in one grave an able
seaman and a promising young soldier rest from
their labours.
Within the dark and silent grave,
Here lies a soldier and sailor just as brave,
And when the awful trumpet sounds
They axe for settled quarters, bound.
The surveying schooner Royal Tiger, F. F. Powell,
Indian Navy, Commander, arrived at GaUe from
Peres Banbos on January 14, 1837, and returned
there on February 6. She was at GaUe again on
May 29, and left for Chagos Archipelago on June 24.
She arrived at GaUe again on September 16 and left
for Palk's Bay on September 25. She was then
accompanied by the tender Maldivia, Midshipman
Fleming in command (see No. 135). On October 7
she was at Kayts, bound for Ramissaram. On
October 24 she arrived at GaUe from Palk's Bay.
The Cardiva, WUliam Christopher commanding,
arrived at Galle from the Chagos Archipelago on
October 8. Besides the surveying schooner Royal
Tiger and these two tenders, there were another
surveying schooner the Shannon and the surveying
ship Benares, aU belonging to the Indian Navy.
82-09
( 186 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
609 .
Date.
Jan. 10
1838
Name.
John Irwin Dalziel
610
May 25
1838
Willoughby Smith
611
612
Feb. 28
1840
Aug. 21
1842
Helena Pattison
Clement Stewart
613
May 2
1844
William Matthews
614
615
Feb. 21
1845
May 3
1845
Richard Henley Pally Clarke
Johann Friederich Wilhelm
Lorenz
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of John Iewtn, son of John
Dalziel, Esq., J. P., Police Magistrate of Coldinbo,
and Maey, his Wife. Bom at Trincomalee, 18th
Feby., 1833. Died at Galle, 10th January, 1838,
and buried here.
(See No. 167.)
A square brick pillar with granite slabs.
Sacred to the memory of WrLLOUGHBY Smith, Esqre. ,
Late Commander of the Barque Soobrow of
Bombay, who died at GaUe on the 25th May, 1838,
in the 28th year of his age.
This Tomb has been erected by his Widow as a
sincere tribute of her affectionate esteem for his
memory.
Helena, daughter of Lieut. Pattison, 10th Regt.,
'who died Feb. 28th, 1840, aged one year.
A granite slab.
She was the daughter of Lieutenant J.
Pattison, 10th Regiment, and Eliza Johanna.
R. G.
Clement, Son of Algernon Stewart, Esqre.,
Ceylon Civil Service. Died August 21st, 1842.
(See No. 122.) Algernon Stewart was District
Judge of GaUe, 1840-50. He retired February 18,
1 850. He was the son of the Hon. B. R. Stewart and
Lady Katherine Stewart.
Sacred to the memory of William Matthews, died
at GaUe on the 2nd May, 1844, in the 38th year of
his age.
This tomb is erected by Major-General Kennett, in
grateful remembrance of his service during 16
years.
Matthews was on Gallegodde estate, near Ambalan-
goda. General Brackley Kennett of the Bombay
Army was killed by his butler at Coonoor at the age
of 87, October 12, 1857 (see Cotton, p. 285).
Sacred to the memory of Richard Henley Pelly
Clarke, Late of the H. E. I. C. Bengal Civil
Service, who died at Galle on his way to England,
Feby. 21st, 1845, aged 35 years and 4 months.
A four-walled tomb with stone tablet. He was
Magistrate and Collector of Bareilly.
Sacred to the memory of Johann Friederich Wil-
helm Lorenz, late Sitting Magistrate of Matara.
Born at Tempelburg-in Prussian Pomerania, 25th
June, 1772. Died at Galle in Ceylon, 3 May,
1845.
He was the father of Charles Lorenz (see No. 39).
He married (1) at Galle, on July 12, 1801, Susanna
Wilhelmina Ludovioi ; (2) at Galle , on March 29, 1805,
Maria EHzabeth Andr6e ; (3) on September 21, 1813,
Anna Petronella Smith. Charles Lorenz was a son of
the third wife, the last of seven children and the
second of two sons. The other son, John Henry, was
in the Registrar of Lands Department. J. F. W.
Lorenz had an eventful career, as appears from the
following accoimt of it from the Ceylon Qtiarterly
Magazine (1871), quoted by Digby : —
" A native of Prussian Pomerania, (he) was born at
Templeburg in 1772 of parents in the middle rank
of life. The father, Jolm Andre Lorenz, a Captain
of the Schwartz Cuirassiers, having faUen in the
war raging at the time when his son was only five
years old, and his mother being dead, he was placed
at school in Potsdam, whence he was afterwards
transferred to the Military College in Berlin as a free
student, at the instance of his godfather, the <~
of his father's regiment. At college, while yet|
ten years of age, he gave promise of that vail
talent of which in after years and in a foreign I
gave such astonishing proofs. Among the in|
of his youthful experience, he used to relate
( 187 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
615 ..
May 3
1845
. . Johann Friederich Wilhelm
Lorenz — contd.
Inscription.
little satisfaction a visit of Frederick the Great to the
college. It was an examination day, and prizes were
to be distributed. Carlyle's hero-king, who, in addi-
tion to his other real accomplishments, pretended to
the gift of poetry, had composed some verses in
honour of the occasion. He called upon the dictation
class, and recited his own verses for the boys to write
them down, pronaising the boy who could do the
lires correctly the royal prize. The dux of the class
stepped forward and wrote off the lines correctly
enough, but the king detected a slight error, and asked
whether any of the boys found a mistake in the lines.
Young Lorenz then walked up, rubbed out the small 1
with which the initial word of the first line " Lieben "
was commenced, and wrote a capital L in its place.
The king was highly pleased, and handed him a book
of poetry bound in red morocco. Another of the
recollections of his early days was the death of
Frederick the Great in 1786, when all the students of
the Military College were marshalled in the palace
yard and moved in procession to vi6w the body laid
out in regal state.
"When he was closing his eighteenth year, ha made
up his mind to leave home and seek his fortune in the
Indies, that El Dorado which fired the imagination of
the adventurous youths of Europe with dreams of the
pagoda tree, which waited only to be shaken to scatter
a shower of golden wealth. An uncle of his, who had
left Germany many years previous, and who was
supposed to have settled in India, was an additional
inducement. He commenced his journey to the sea
coast in midwinter, a bundle on a stick over his
shoulder, very little cash in his purse, but with a
heart beating high with hope, willing to dare and able
to accomplish much. The perils and hardships of
that journey in winter's cold and amid winter's snow
he often used to recall, and none of the hardships or
privations to which he had to submit diu-ing the
earUer portion of his career in Ceylon, great and many
though they were, could compare with that first
winter jom-ney. He paid his way, as most German
youths on their travels do even at the present day, by
playing the flute "at the farmhouses where he sought
food and shelter. Some times a weU-to-do farmer
would ask him to rest a few days, and he repaid their
hospitality by giving the young maidens lessons in
music or ii writing, and helping the old people to
answer correspondence or in making up their accounts.
One day while passing a lonely snow-covered heath
he met an old Jew, who asked to tell his fortune for a
penny. Eminently dreamy and superstitious as is
the German mind, this encounter seemed to him a
special arrangement of Providence for giving him an
insight into that future w^hich, notwithstanding the
rosy hues in which a vivid imagination had pictured
it, was yet a mysterious blank to him. To penetrate
within the sanctuary of the future, to know something
of what was to be, was a temptation which, under
such circumstances, even a less superstitiously con-
stituted temper of mind could hardly resist, and
crossing his palm with the penny he held it out. The
Jew scanned the lines, and bid him beware of rivers
and streams, for death by drowning was written in the
map of destiny, unless a happy conjunction of the
stars sent a blade of grass to save him. This prophecy
of evil was not calculated to reassure his hopes, and
thoughtful and pensive he walked on. The country
was all covered with snow, and streams, rivers, and
bridges were undistinguishable under the white
shroud, in whioh winter had clothed the earth.
Picking his way as he best could he held on to what he
believed was the road, when towards evening, and
within sight of a sheltering farmhouse, he missed the
track, and breaking tlirough the soft crust of snow
fell into a stream and was carried away by the current.
A labourer passing by who had seen the accident ran
to his assistance, picked him up, and helped him to
reach the farmhouse, where, under the kind attentions
of the good people, he soon came round. On his
relating his adventure with the Jew, the labourer who
had assisted him out of the water was present, and
confirmed the prediction ; for, said he, it was the
188 )
Dutch Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
615 ..
May 3
1845
. . Johann Friederich Wilhelm
Lorenz — contd.
616
July 8
1845
Henry Agar
Inscription.
clump of rushes he had held on to that saved him
from dro-wTung. He left Europe, embarking at
Amsterdam in the year 1792, and after a perilous
voyage, which in those days could only be accom-
plished by doubUng the Cape of Storms, landed at
Galle the following year. Whatever may have been
his enthiosiasm on first setting foot on the Island which
was to be his home for aye, the reception he met with
from the Dutch authorities was not the most encoura-
ging. It was the transition period of their rule, and
coming events had already begua to cast their darken-
ing shadows over Dutch ascendency in the East. He ,
however, set to qualify himself for the futtire. His
first care was to learn Dutch, his second to acquire a
knowledge of Portuguese, and when the British took
possession of the Island he had no national prejudices
to prevent his giving his hearty allegiance to the
British Government. Under the new order of things,
he devoted his attention to the study of English, and
in the course of a few months he achieved so much
success that his talents were recognised by Mr. North
(afterwards the Earl of Guildford), then Governor of
Ceylon, who appointed him Fiscal of Colombo. He
was without doubt the most accomplished foreigner in
the British service of the time. His English was
perfectly idiomatic, though he spoke with a foreign
accent, while his Dutch and Portuguese were scarcely
less perfect. From Colombo his next appointment
was to the Sitting Magistracy of Morawa korale,
whence he was transferred to Gettemane, and finally
to Matara, where he continued till 1834, when he
retired on pension. Ho was highly esteemed by the
former Judges of the Supreme Court — Sir Hardinge
Giffard, Sir Richard Ottley, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir
Wilham Rough, and others — who always spoke in the
highest terms of Mr. Lorenz as an active, able, and
experienced Magistrate. During his tenure of office
under Government he made several valuable reports
on the agricultural condition of that part of the Island
with which he was more intimately famihar, and
Bennett, in his " Ceylon audits Capabilities," mentions
the fact that he was the first to try the cultivation of
the potato in the Island. His first experiment was
made at Beralapanatara, where also he tried to grow
wheat, but failed. The writer has seen the place
where, as Sitting Magistrate, he held his Court. The
old Magistrate's residence has now made way for a
resthouse, and the only evidences of his connection
with the place now left are some coconut trees and
a rambatum tree planted by him."
J. F. Lorenz -was appointed "Translator and Secre-
tary to the Fiscal, Galle," in Jime, 1801, and Secre-
tary of the Provincial Court of Matara, April 15, 1803.
Erected to the memory of Heney Agae, Esqre.,
Lieut., Ceylon Rifle Regt. Died at Galle on the
8th July, 1845. Aged 25 years. By Rowland
Agar, Staff Asst. Surgeon, August 31st, 1851.
De Mortuis Nil nisi bonum.
" The tomb is fom-- walled and roofed ; the record is
on a stone tablet." {Ceylon Review.)
According to the register his age was 27. The name
is spelt " Eagar " in the obituary annoimcement in the
Colombo Journal. Rowland Agar was buried in the
same cemetery on October 24, 1852. Henry Agar,
Lieutenant 90th Light Infantry, of the County of Kerry
and of Ceylon, married Miss Fanny Chamberlain, late
of Paris and of KiUarney, niece of the late Richard
Habnett, Esq. , Coimty of Cork, in 1840. Probably he
was a son of John Eagar, Esq. , of Ballybar and Sober, •
in the County Kerry, whose second daughter, Emily,
married at St. Peter's, Colombo, on November 29,
1843, W. B. Piu-neU, Esq., 90th Light Infantry,
second son of B. Purnell, Esq., of Stavenake Park,
Gloucestershire. The family settled in Ireland at the
time of Cromwell's occupation of it.
A daughter of Lieutenant Agar, Ceylon Rifles, died
at Kandy, March 10, 1843.
A tomb very like this one and that of R. H. P.
Clarke (No. 614) has lost the tablet that was once on
it. Possibly it is that of Dr. Agar.
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Dutch Cemetery, Gsd\e—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
617 ..
March 3
1846
Robert L. Craig
618
619
620
Aug. 21
1846
Oct. 11
1846
July 11
1847
William Hogg
Otto Hellefeld
John Baskerville Mortimer .
621
622
Aug. 1
1847
June 18
1848 •
Mary Ann Purchase
Courtenay Chambers
623
June 23
1849
Thomas Homfray Denham
624
Sept. 17
1850
Francis Brownrigg Bayly
625
Aug. 6
1853
Mary Murray Raitt
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Robert L. Ceaig, who died
March 3rd, 1846, aged 63 years.
"A vault, for a single interment, of pretentious
brickwork with a slab of slate plastered into it."
{Ceylon Review.) He died at Weligama.
" Mr. Robert Craig lost his money, and I may add
his life , from embarking in sugar culture. He worked
up a coffee estate in the Kadugarmawa District in the
early days of 10 cwt. an acre until he was able to sell
out for £12,000. To liim and to his family this was
considerable wealth , but he was unfortunately induced
to spend the price received for his coffee estate in
opening a sugar plantation near Matara. The enter-
prise was a failure, poor Craig had lost his all, and he
died like so many others from heart disease, the restilt
doubtless of anxiety and depression." (A. M. F.,
in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 15.)
Sacred to the memory of Mr. William Hogg, who
died on the 21st August, 1846.
This tomb has been erected by a few friends as a
token of respect.
Otto Hellefeld, Esq., of Hamburg, who died on
the passage from Calcutta to Bombay.
He was a partner in the firm of Huschke Wiltem-
bach & Co. , of Bombay and Calcutta.
Lieut. J. B. MoETiMEK, 34th Light Infantry, Madras
Army, who departed this lite on July 11th, 1847.
This monument has been erected as a token of
esteem by his brother officers.
" A small granite slab deposited on the gromid
carelessly." {Ceylon Review.) (It had, of course,
fallen down.) This was the state of the monument
in 1895; the stone has probably by this time dis-
appeared.
Maey Ann, the beloved wife of Joseph William
Purchase, who departed this Hfe 1st August,
1847, aged 37 years.
Sacred to the memory of Colonel Courtenay
Chambers, Lieut.-Colonel of the 25th Regiment of
the King's Own Borderers, who departed this life at
Point de Galle on the 18th June,1848, aged 50 years.
" A tablet of marble 18 inches square stands loosely
from the earth , in which it has been buried to a depth
of 2 inches." {Ceylon Review. )
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Homfray Denham,
youngest son of Capt. J. J. Denham, born 22nd
July, 1825, died 23rd June, 1849.
The newspaper gives June 22 as the date of death.
He came from Calcutta, and was a passenger by the
Bentinck steamer. Captain J. J. Denham was Com-
mander of the Shaw Allum in 1817 (see No. 110). J
Sacred to the memory of Francis Brownrigg Bayly ,
late Captain, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died
September 17th, 1850, aged 43 years.
Erected by his sister E. Bayly.
He was son of Major Bayly (see No. 95), and was
born at Colombo, October 28, 1807; 2nd Lieutenant,
C. R. R. , January 2, 1828; 1st Lieutenant, May 8, 1835 ;.
Captain, May 2, 1845 ; Commandant of Matara, 1833,
of Hambantota, 1843-44, of BaduUa, 1845-46 ; Staff
Officer of Galle, 1846-50.
Mary Murray, the beloved Wife of Captain Raitt,
16th Regt., N. I., aged 34 years, who departed this
life at Point de Galle on the morning of the 6th
August, 1853.
There was another Captain Raitt in the Ceylon
Rifles, 1839-49, who died in the latter year, but J
do not know whether they were related. He was
H. A. Raitt, and took a prominent part in Ceylon
racing. This Mrs. Raitt probably was on the voyage
home or out.
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Serial No.
626 .
627
Date.
Aug. 7
1854
Jan. 25
1855
Dutch Cemetery, Galle
Name.
Charles Edward Vanderspar
-contd.
Charles Brymner
628 .
. Aug. 2
1857
. . Thomas Gibson
629 .
. Oct. 2
1857
. . James Allen
630 .
. Feb. 23
1858
, . John Henderson
631
Aug. 25
1858
Margaret Gibson
632
Oct. 15
1858
June 22
1860
W. H. Denham
Elizabeth Mary Denham
633
634
635
Sept. 3
1864
Jan. 8
1867
Aug. 13
1868
Enos Hughes
Tempe Stanley Drew
Anne Steel
In.soi'iption.
Chaeles Edwaud, son of J. J. Vandeespak, Esq.^
who died on the 7th August, 1854, aged 30.
(See No. 561.)
iSacred to the memory of Ohakles Bkymnee, late
3rd Engineer of the P. & 0. Steam Ship Shanghai,
who departed tliis life on the 25th January, 1855,
aged 26 years.
This stone has been erected by his brother officers as
a token of respect and esteem.
Thomas Gibsoit, Merchant, Melbourne, son of the
late Thomas Gibson, Banker, Ayr, Scotland, died
at Galle, aged 24 years.
Aged 33.
A granite column broken off short.
Sacred to the memory of John Hbndekson, Late
Commander of the ship Lodore, who departed this
life 23rd February, 1858, aged 45 years.
This stone is erected by the merchants and his
brother ship masters, Galle.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mabgabet Gibson,
who died at Galle on the 25th day of August, 1858,
aged 85 years.
A tomb resembling that of Mr. Charles Scott.
She lived for many years at Gibson's Hill, Galle,
and founded the Buona Vista Orphanage. There is
a stained glass window to her memory in All Saints'
Church. She was a daughter of John Sharpe, Esq.,
of Madras, and married William Carmichael Gibson
at Madras in October, 1794.
They had two daughters, Margaret Cecilia, who on
Jime 19, 1812, married William Henry Hooper,
CCS. (1805-26), then Collector of Galle, and Mary,
who married on June 11, 1827, Captain Robert
Luxmoore, 16th Regiment.
Sacred to the memory of Revd. W. H. Denham, for
four years Pastor of the Baptist Church at Faver-
sham, Kent, and fourteen years Missionary at
Serampore and Theological Professor at the Mission
CoUege, who died at Galle on his way back to India
on October 15,1858, aged 48 ; and also Eliza-
beth Maey Denham, his Wife, who died 22nd June,
1860, and is interred at Abney Park Cemetery,
Stoke Newington.
Enos Htjghes, Bangor, North Wales; Master of
Ship Viscount Sandon.
This stone was raised as a tribute of affection by
the officers of the ship.
Sacred to the memory of Tempe Staj^ley, the beloved
wife of Capt. C. M. Drew, died at Galle.
Captain Drew was Superintendent of PoUce at Galle.
and died at Kandy, March 4, 1868.
In memory of my dear Nannie, 1868.
He gave thee
He took thee
And He will restore thee.
She was the wife of Donald Steel, a tea planter,
Caohar, Assam. She arrived at Galle from Calcutta
in the ss. Candda on August 10, 1868, and died there
of cholera on the 12th, aged 29 years.
She and he;r husband were on their way to Australia.
She was the daughter, born February 11, 1839, of
Richard Davis Webb, a master printer and publisher
of Dublin, belonging to a highly respected family of
Dublin Quakers. She married Donald Steel at Rath-
gar, on March 26, 1868. He was lost overboard near
Galle a few years after her death, on the voyage from
Calciitta to Australia.
( 191 )
Dutch Cemetery, Ga\\e—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
636 ..
Jan. 1
1873
Janie Grant
637
638
Aug, 8
1873
Sept. 5
1875
William Mcintosh
William Bruce Manson
639
Jan. 18
■ 1880
Dorothea Sophia Vanderspar
«40
641
Feb. 4
1883
Oct. 30
1883
Marcb 12
1854
George McRitchie Bisset ,
Frederick William de Vos .
Sophia Elizabeth de Vos
642
643
«44
Dec. 19 ,
1887
, . John Smith
July 3
1889
, . Lizzie Paterson
Nov. 21 ,
1885
. . Elsie Paterson
Oct. 29 .
1892
. Loringe Fosseth
645
June 12
1903
Peter Daniel Anthonisz
Inscription.
Janie, the beloved -wife of George Hugh Gbajstt of
Bhagulpore, Bengal, and daughter of Dr. & Mrs.
Keillee of Edinburgh. Born in Edinburgh, 26th
July, 1851, & died in Galle Harbour of fever
after a short illness.
WiUjIAM MoIntosh, of Dundee
ger, India Jute Coy.'s Mills,
Scotland, Mana-
Serampore, near
Calcutta, who died at Galle aged 35 years.
William Bbucb Manson, a native of Thurso, Scot-
land, Late Manager of Bagonbarry , the property of
his Uncle the late Kenneth Stttheeland Bkodie,
in the Presidency of Bengal, who died at Point De
Galle aged 40 years.
This tablet is placed here by his Uncle's Trustees in
testimony of his worth as a faithful and ef&cient
Manager.
Mbs. D. S. Vandbespak, born 11th June, 1799.
She was a daughter of Marie Joseph Benjamin de
Breard and his wife Susanna Franoina (see No. 559),
and married (1) on March 17, 1814, Lieutenant
Godfried Archibald Gerrit Benjamin Giesler, 2nd
Ceylon Regiment, who died at Jaffna on January
17, 1816; and (2) John Joachim Vanderspar (see
No. 661) on June 1, 1818. By her first husband
she had a son bom at Colombo, July 23, 1816.
Geoege MoRitchie Bisset, "beloved husband of
Rachel Ann Rab aged 42 years.
Bisset' s shop at Galle was well known in the seventies
and early eighties.
Feedeeick William de Vos. Born 22nd July,
1829
Requiescat in pace.
He was the son of Pieter Willem de Vos and
Charlotta Eliza von Hagt.
Sophia Elizabeth, the beloved wife of F. W. de
Vos, Esq., who died at GaUe aged 24 years.
This was the first wife of Mr. F. W. de Vos, a sister
of Dr. P. D. Anthonisz. They were the parents of
Mr. F. H. de Vos.
John Smith, only son of the late Rev. Wm. Smith,
Chapel of Garioch, Scotland, born Feb. 25th,
1841.
Erected by C. A . Paterson , Principal of the Church of ,
Scotland Mission CoUege, Madras, in memory of
Lizzie Watt, his wife, who died suddenly of
typhoid fever at GaUe, aged 32 years; and of
Elsie, their elder daughter, who died at Bridge
of Allan, Scotland aged 1 year.
Capt. Loeinge Fosseth, Master, American Barque
Normande. Born at Bristol, Maine, U.S.A., April
20th, 1835. Died at GaUe aged 57 years
6 months and 9 days.
Erected to his memory by his Officers and Crew.
Sacred to the memory of Peter Daniel Anthonisz,
M.D., F.R.C.S.E., M.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., Companion
of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael &
St. George. Bom 25th June, 1822
Arms — Argent, a lozenge gules between three
besants of the second, fracted on dexter side. Star
of the order suspended from shield.
Crest — A lozenge gules between a pair of wings
addorsed.
There is also a Latin inscription on a wapenbord
in the Dutch Church, Galle (see No. 567), and the
{ 192 )
Dutch Cemetery, GsiHe—contd.
Serial No,
Date.
Name.
645 ..
June 12 .
1903
. Peter Daniel Anthonisz
lasciription.
-contd. clock tower on the ramparts bears the following,
inscription : —
Anthonisz Clock Tower.
This tower erected by public subscription to the
perpetual memory of Peter Daniel Anthonisz.
(born in GaUe) in testimony of his skill and
benevolence in relieving human suffering.
The clock is the gift of Samson d'Abrew Rajapakse,
J.P., of Kosgoda.
MDCOCLXXXIII.
He entered the Medical Department in 1838 as a
Sub-Assistant, and by 1858 had risen to the position
of Colonial Surgeon. He made several visits to
England and walked the hospitals there and on the
Continent. He acted as Principal Civil Medical
Officer on three different occasions. He retired in
188C. He was for many years a member of the
Municipal Coimcil of Galle, and was also representative
of the Burgher community in the Legislative Council.
He was a man of genial disposition and unbounded
charity.
He was born at Galle, June 25, 1822, the eldest
son of Leonardus Henricus Anthonisz and Susanna
Dorothea Deutrom, only child of Johannes Jacobus
Deutrom and Anna Magdalena Kellar.
All Saints' Cemetery, Galle.
TMs is a few yards from the Dutch Kerkhof. Church of England people were for many years buried in
the latter, though the Church of England register was separately kept. This cemetery is in itself a visible
memorial of the time when GaUe was the point of call for steamers, for the majority of inscriptions in it refer to
persons who were merely passers by and had no connection with the Island. In fact, GaUe was so well known
as a point of call that it is generally referred to in early British times and untU later outside the Island as " Point
de GaUe," a -name under which the town was unknown to the Dutch. Nowadays no one in th.e Island talks
of it as " Point de GaUe." The burial register dates from 1815, and opens with some burials at Jaffna. The
earUest burial registered at Galle is dated April 30 in 1817. Until 1844 they took place at the Dutch Church or at
the Dutch Burial Ground, and there were some burials at the latter even after that year.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
^. 646 .. Aug. 19 .. John James Sargent .. Sacredtothememoryof Major John James Sabgbnt,
1844 late of H. M. 18th Royal Irish Regt., who died at
Point de GaUe on the 19th August, 1844, in the
54th year of his age, from the effects of fever
contracted while serving in China, where he was
also wounded in action.
This monument is erected by his bereaved children,
who lost in him an ever kind, affectionate, and
much-loved father.
His wife, Frances Matilda, died in March, 1841, at
Trincomalee. A daughter, Matilda, aged 17, died at
Kandy, December 22, 1842. (No inscription.) His
eldest daughter, Catherine Anne, married Lieutenant
William Twisleton Layard, C.R.R., August 11, 1834,
and his second daughter, Elizabeth, married (1)
Henry Warrington, Naval Officer at Trincomalee,
June 3, 1839, at Trincomalee, and (2) James Sinclair^
M.D., on March 16, 1857, at Colombo.
The 18th left Trincomalee for the China war by
H. M. S. Rattlesnake on May 3, 1840. Major Sargent
came out to Ceylon in the 58th Regiment, and in 1840,.'
as a Captain, was holding the appointment of Staff
Officer of Trincomalee, having succeeded Captain
Wynn, who died in 1838, and having " effected an
exchange into the 18th with a considerable loss to be
able to retain it." This was on December 14, 1838.
(" Miscellaneous Military Papers " in Ceylon Literary
Register, vol. V., p. 3.) He and his family are the
subject of one of William Boyd's stories, which, how-
ever, he says, was told him by an officer at Aldershot
in 1871. It refers to a " Capt. Sergeant of the 78th,
who died in Ceylon, leaving a son and daughter
entirely destitute. No one took any charge of, or
interest in, these two unfortunate waifs, and they
stood a very good chance of forming units amongst
the numerous army of lapsed masses, when McDonald,
who had been Pay Sergeant in their father's Company,
Serial No.
Date.
Nome.
646 ..
Aug. 19
1844
. . John James Sargent— confd.
( 193 )
All Saints' Cemetery, GaXle—contd.
Inscription,
took them in. hand, brought them up as the children
of a gentleman, clothed, educated, and waited on
them as if he had been their servant ; and when the
son. Jack Sergeant, arrived at man's estate, interest
was made with the Commander-in-Chief to get him
a commission in the army. He was accordingly
gazetted to the Ceylon Rifles, and was shortly after
sent to China, where he and other two or three old
Ceylon officers lost their lives in some obscene brawl
with natives. I never heard what became of Miss
Sergeant. Possibly she may be living in Ceylon at
the present day." (" Days of Old in Ceylon," in
Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI., p. 369.)
There is a foundation of truth in this story, but
like all Boyd's stories a good deal of it is fiction.
His memory, as usual, played him false in important
details, and the editor of the Ceylon Literary Register
remarks with respect to it : " Some strange mistake,
or there must have been two officers of the same name."
He, however, confirms the statement that an officer
named Sargent went from Ceylon to China, became
eventually " a full General, and still survives " (1892).
As Major-General he some years ago commanded the
forces in China. According to the same authority,
too, the part of the story about the purchase of the
commission is true, though the friend in need who
supplied the money for it was " Mr. William Mae-
Cullagh, an Irishman, a planter in Ambegamuwa "
{Ceylon Literary Register, vol. VI., p. 369), and not
Sergeant McDonald. Here are more difficulties, for
there was no planter named MacCullagh in Ceylon in
1844-45, though there was in 1846-48. To which it
may be added that Major Sargent had two sons, who
were school boys at Galle with Sir William Twynam.
The elder obtained a commission in the 18th ; it is
true that he was hit on the head with a brick in China,
but he was not killed ; he was a wild boy, and Mrs.
Twynam was of opinion that it woul^ do him good,
as his own mother had not been able to manage him.
The other joined the 95th, and was subsequently in
the 3rd Biiffs. Sir William Twynam met him at Malta
years afterwards, when he was thinking of retiring,
but as it was supposed that war between England and
France was imminent, he decided to remain. This
fixes the date as 1859: He had been a great stam-
merer, but was completely cured. It was he who
became a General.
647 . . Sept. 8 . . Gilbert Thompson . . Gilbert Thompson, Carpenter of the barque Kite,
1850 who was killed by ^n accidental fall from an inn
window in the Port of Galle, in the 28th year of has
age. His attached and sorrowing friends, the crew
of the vessel, have raised this tablet to his memory'^
648 .. Oct. 30 .. William Sims .. W. Sims, Esqre., CCS. , who died at Galle, aged 38
1852 years.
He was Police Magistrate of Galle at the time of hjs
death. He was appointed Commissioner of Requests
and Police Magistrate of Madawalatenna (Galagedara) ,
December 1, 1846.
649 . . Jan. 25 . . Richard P. Gower . . Riohaed P. Gower of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, South
1853 Wales, Chief Officer of the P. & 0. S. N. C. Service,
aged 28 years.
650 . . Feb. 21 . . Archibald Cunningham Lieut. A. Cunningham Graham, of the Bombay
1853 Graham Army, son of Robert Cunningham Graham of
Gartmore, who departed this life at Galle
aged 27 years. Generous, high spirited, and affec-
tionate, his early decease has been the SQurce of
great affliction to a large circle of friends and
relatives.
651 .. April 1 .. Daniel White .. Daniel White, Esqre., of the Madras Civil Service,
1853 late Collector and Magistrate of the District of
Nellore, who died at Galle aged 43 years.
Writer, 1829 ; Collector of Nellore, 1850. Married,
March 13, 1834, Miss Charlotte Nicholls, daughter of
Solomon Nicholls, M.C.S. (" Prinsep," p. 153.)
2 D . 82-09
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All Saints' Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No. Date.
652 . . April 15
1853
Name.
Robert Henry Ryan
653 . ,
654 .
655 ..
656 ..
657 ..
658 ..
659 ..
April 30
1853
Feb. 26
1854
July 23
1854
Oct. 6
1854
May 14
1855
Sept. 1
1855
May 26
1856
Robert William Wheatstone
Peter Greenhalgh
Harry Cecil Saunders
James Nicholson
John Rollo Prideaux
Sophie Ernie Birch
Francis Bell
660
661
Oct. 22
1857
July 17
1858
Buxton Parker
Thomas Davis Lushington
662
€63
Aug. 22
1858
Aug. 23
1858
Philip Lovell Collyer Philips
Robert Bridge
Inscription.
Died at this place Egbert Henry Ryan, Esqre., of
the Bombay Civil Service, in the 28th year of his
age. He was the fourth son of the Right Honour-
able Sir Edward Ryan, late Chief Justice of
Bengal.
Lieut. Robert William Wheatstone, 7th Regt.
B. N. I., aged 36 years and 4 months. Deeply
lamented by his bereaved vnie, and universally
regretted by all who knew him. '
Erected to the memory of Peter Greenhalgh, late
Third Engineer of the P. & 0. C. S. S. Bengal,
aged 32 years. This tablet was erected by his
brother.
The burial place of Harry Cecil Saunders of the
Bengal Civil Service, who died at sea, aged 24
years.
James Nicholson, Merchant, Calcutta, who died at
Galle aged 26 years.
Lieut. John Rollo Prideaux, late of H. M. 23rd
R. W. Fusileers, who died at Point de GaUe
aged 20.
Sophie Ernie, the beloved wife of Ernest George
Birch, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, who died
at Galle in the 24th year of her age.
Francis Bell, of Calcutta, SoUcitor, Third son of
George Joseph Bell, Professor of Scots Law in
Edinburgh University, who died at sea on board
the Nubia, on his way to England, aged 33.
It seems a curious coincidence that five years later,
viz., on September 23, 1861, there should have died
at sea on board the P. & O. steamer Simla, on his
way home from Ceylon, James Francis, only son of
George Skene, Professor of Law at the University of
Glasgow.
Buxton Parker, Third Officer of H. Majesty's
Steam Transport Mauritius, Son of Langston
Parker, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, who died on
board, aged 27 years.
Thomas Davis Lushington, Esqre., Madras Civil
Service, 3rd Son of the late Edmund H. Lushing-
ton, Esqre., of Park House, Kent, and formerly
Puisne Judge of this Colony. Died oH Point de
Galle, aged 45 years.
He died on board the Hydaspes. A son of his,
H. V. Lushington, was a planter for some years in the
Kelani Valley.
Writer, 1832 ; Collector of Ganjain, 1858. Married,
February 7, 1850, Mary, second daughter of Charles
May Lushington, M.C.S. (" Prinsep," p. 91.) He
was a brother of Edmund Law Lushington, Professor
of Greek at Glasgow, who married Tennyson's sister
(see " In Memoriam "), and of Sir Franklin Lushing-
ton, the Metropolitan Magistrate.
Edmund Henry Lushington (born July 11, 1766)
was the son of Rev. James Stephen Lushington of
Rodmersham, Prebendary of Carlisle, and Mary, the
daughter of the Right Rev. Edward Law, Bishop of
Carlisle. He married (2), April 12, 1810, Sophie,
daughter of Thomas Philips of Sedgeley. He was
Puisne Judge, 1802-05, and Chief Justice (acting), 1805.
Sacred to the memory of P. Lovell Collyer
Philips, Lieut, in Her Majesty's Rifle Brigade.
He died at Point de Galle of Dysentery, aged
22 years.
He was in the 4th Battalion.
Captain Robert Bridge, late 72nd Bengal Native
Infantry, aged 35 years.
( 195
Serial No.
664 .
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
Date.
Nov. 19
1858
April 28
1859
Nov. 9
1859
June 29
1860
Oct. 25
1860
Aug. 15
1862
Sept 17
1862
Nov. 6
1863
Aug. 17
1865
Sept. 12
1865
Nov. 2
1865
675 "•;> -Dec. '29
1865
676
Jan. 27
1866
677
Nov. 15
1866
All Saints' Cemetery, GaMe—contd.
N*™e- Inscription.
Alexander Lawrence Tweedie Captain A. L. Tweedib, 36th Regiment , M.N.I, eldest
Son of Major-General M. Tweedie, Madras Army,
who died at sea.
He died on board the ss. Bengal, aged 38.
Arthur Blackmore
William Carpenter Rowe . .
Philip William Legeyt
William Austin
Elizabeth Augusta Flower
James Hume
Mary Susanna Parker
George Smith
George Stretton Watson . .
. J. H. Sonnenkalb
Arthur Westbrooke Burton
William Hall
Arthur Bagley
678 .
. Nov. 17 .
1866
Richard Joseph Bro
679 .,
, Dec. 29
1866
, . Arthur James Ceely
680 ..
Jan. 3
1868
. Henry Castilla
Akthub Blackmore, H.M.S. Purveying Department,
youngest son of Edwabd Blackmore, Esqre.,
of Alresford, Hampshire, England. He died
dearly beloved and deeply regretted on his passage
home from China, aged 23 years.
Sacred to the memory of Sir William Cabpenter
Rowe, Chief Justice of Ceylon, who departed this
life November 9th , 1859, in the 59th year of his age.
He was Chief Justice, 1856-60.
Philip William Legeyt, Bombay Civil Service,
Member Legislative Council of India.
Here Ue the remains of William Austin, who died at
Galle, aged 52 years.
(See No. 554.)
Elizabeth Atjgitsta Flower, beloved wife of
William Inglis, C.E., G. I. P. Railway, died at
Gahe, aged 27 years.
James Hume, Esqre., for many years the Senior
Magistrate of Calcutta, who died on board the ss.
Gandia, off the Port, in the 54th year of his age.
Mary Susanna, the beloved wife of Will ia m C.
Parker, E. I. Railway, Agra, who died on board
the Gandia at this place, aged 24 years.
George Smith, Esqr., late of Hongkong. Eldest
son of George Smith, Esq., of Manchester. Died
at Galle, aged 26 years.
George Stretton Watson, of Breston, Notting-
hamshire, England, Captain H.M. 88th Connaught
Rangers, aged 33 years.
J. H. Sonnenkalb, Esq., Consul of Prussia and for
the free City of Hamburg, who died deeply regret-
ted at Galle.
He owned in 1851 an estate called
Mukalana," at Mapilagama, Galle.
■ Cooda
Arthur Westbrooke Burton, Esq., son of the late
E. S. Burton, Esq., ChunhiUhouse, Northampton-
shire. He died on board the ss. Behar near this
Island, and was buried in this place. Aged XXV.
Years.
William Hall, Chief Mate of the Barque Sanderson
of Sunderland, of Newbum Hall, Northumber-
land, who was accidentally killed by falling into
the ship's hold while on duty in this Port, aged 27
years.
Erected by his affectionate mother, E. Hall.
Lieut. Arthur Bagley, R.N. Born at Athlone,
Ireland, 27th March, 1827. Died suddenly on
board the ss. Nubia. This Tablet is erected by
his sorrowing widow and other relatives and his
late shipmates.
Richard Joseph Browne. Born at Lisbon, Feb-
ruary 8th, 1873. Died on board the Steamer
Nvbia when returning home from Calcutta, and
was interred in this place.
Arthur James Ceely, 42nd Royal Highlanders
(The Black Watch), aged 32.
Capt. Henry Castilla, aged 45, who died at Point
de GaUe, Ceylon, on his way home from China.
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All Saints' Cemetery, GsiWe—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name,
681 ..
Feb. 24
1868
. . John Nutt
682 ..
683 . .
Feb. 28
1868
May 5
1868
Dec. 18
1868
687
688
689
690 .,
691
692
693 .,
Dec. 29
1868
Feb. 17
1869
Feb. 12
1871
April 18
1871
Dec. 12
1871
Jan. 13
1872
Sept. 10
1872
Charles George Bury
Christopher Edmund
Temple
Christopher Edmund
Temple
684 .
. Sept. 5
1868
. . George Shield
685 .
. Dec. 19
1868
. . Fran90is Stradiot
686 .
Dec. 26
1868
. . Mary Anne King
George P. Thompson
John Black
Samuel Stanhope Wyrill
Francis Chadwick Corbet .
William Hovarden Thacker
JIames Hayward
Henry M. Myers
Inscription.
John Nutt, late of Shanghai, China, \dio died on
board the P. & 0. Co.'s Steamer China, aged
29 years.
This monument is erected by a few of his intimate
friends in China.
Chaelbs George Bury, Anningkande Estate,
Ceylon.
This tomb is erected by his sorrowing relations.
In 1861 he was on Raxawa estate, PanwUa.
Christopher Edmund Temple. Born 26th Septem-
ber, 1841 Also his only child,
Christopher Edmund. Bom 26th November,
1868.
Also a stained glass window to the memory of the
former in All Saints' Church.
He was a son of Christopher Temple, Q.C., Deputy
Queen's Advocate, Colombo, and was Deputy Queen's
Advocate, Galle, at the time of his death ; married,
on December 12, 1867, at the Cathedral, Colombo,
Alice Anne, eldest daughter of Bishop Claughton of
Colombo. She married (2) Sir John Douglas, Colonial
Secretary of Ceylon, at Colombo.
George Shield, Paymaster, H.M.S. Arcus. Aged
27 years.
A la Memoire de FRAN901S Stradiot, Directeur de
Musique du Gouvemeur de Madras. Ne a Hal
Belgique le 11 Juin, 1820, Decode, Galle, le 19
Decembre, 1868.
Mary Anne King, the beloved wife of Mr. Edward
King of the P. & 0. Co.'s Service, who died at Galle,
aged 37 years.
Calmly she sleeps a child of God from sin and trouble
free. Sincerely the path of life she trod.
George P. Thompson, A.M., Interpreter H.B.M.'s
Consulate, Swatow, China, who died ofE the Port
on his passage from Hongkong to England, aged
28 years.
This stone was erecte|ti^jji,hi8 sorrowing relatives in
Aberdeen, Scotland^;
John Black, Esqre. Jjjjj Glasgow, who di^ at Galle
in his 50th year.
He founded the firm'W^iHHfcJ^sick & Op., which
after his death was most successiulPpfeBBjdfel on by
his widow for many years (see No. 718).
Samuel Stanhope, Chief Officer of the Steamer
Said, and son of Henry and Jane Wyrill of
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, who died m the
Hospital at this place, aged 28 years.
Francis Chadwick Corbet, Nav. Lieutenant,
Royal Navy, Commanding H.M. Adventure,, who
died on his homeward voyage on board the Behar
off Galle aged 38 years.
The best of sons and brothers.
William Hovakden Thacker, Calcutta and Bom-
bay, Sohcitor, who was ordered to Ceylon for the
benefit of his health , and died upon his arrival at
Galle aged 43 years.
James Hayward, Midshipman, son of the late
Johnson Hayward of Southville, Reading, who
died from the effect of an accident on the ship
Walmer Castle.
Henry M. M^ees. Born in Cambridge, New York,
U.S.A., February 6th, 1842. Died at Sea.
There is rest in Heaven.
Erected by his bereaved brother and travelling
companion, P. V. N. Myers.
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All Saints' Cemetery, GaMe—contd.
Serial No.
694 .
695 .
Date.
Feb. 17
1873
June 17
1873
Name.
Charles Snow
J. G. W. Grant Ozzard
696
697
698
Dec. 13
1873
March 20
1874
Feb. 18
1875
John Ward Braham
William Adams Ridgeway
George Justus Schrader
699'
700
701
702
703
Feb. 27
1875
Feb. 23
1875
March 17
1876
March 20
1876
Aug. 10
1876
Dec. 16
1876
Agnes Jessie Delmege
Robert John Delmege
Edward Chilner Boodle
John Learmonth
Frederick Augustus Barnard
Glover
Edward William Spenser
Login
704
May 7
1877
Phil. Paul Goldsehmidt
Inscription.
Charles Snow, Son of Lieut.-Colonel P. T. Snow, of
the Madras Army, aged 19 years.
J. G. W. Grant Ozzard, Midshipman of H.M.S.
Thetis. He was the eldest son of J. W. Ozzaed,
Paymaster-in-chief, Eoyal Navy, who in the outset
of his career was struck down by fever in the
R«d Sea, and died on board in this Harbour, aged
16 years.
In Memory of our beloved son, John Ward Braham,
Officer P. & 0. Company, aged) 25.
Wm. Adams Ridgeway, Lieut. H.M. 1st Batn. 14th
Regt., who died at sea, aged 26 years. This
stone is erected to his memory by his brother
Officers as a mark of their esteem and affection.
The Venerable George Jtjsttjs Schrader, LL.D.,
Archdeacon of Colombo, Chaplain of All Saints'
Church, Galle, and Bishop's Commissary. Died
at Galle, aged 46 years.
The Venerable George Justus Schrader was the
son of George Justus Schrader and Magdalena Eliza-
beth Amdt, daughter of Bernard Christiaan Arndt
and Anna Elisabeth de Niesse.
He married at Jafina, on April 19, 1853, his cousin,
Helena CorneHa Arndt, who died at Gampola on
April 19, 1859. He was chaplain of Pussellawa,
1859-61, and of Galle, 1861-75, where he was instru-
mental in building All Saints' Church, the finest
ecclesiastical edifice of the Anglican Church in Ceylon.
He was a good preacher and much respected.
The family derives from Justus Schrader of Bruns-
wick, who settled in Ceylon about 1710.
Agnes Jessie, fondly loved wife of E. T. Delmege.
Esq. Bom 14th July, 1849 Aged 25 years.
Also Robert John, infant Son of above. A beloved
wife and an only child.
Delmege, Reid & Co. is a well-known firm in the
Colony.
Edward Chilner Boodle, son of the Rev. Thos.
and of Georgiana Frances Boodle, Vicarage,
Virginia Water, Surrey. Born February 2nd, 1843.
John Learmonth, who died at Galle, Ceylon, from
Smallpox aged 47 years.
Erected by his brother William, of Melbourne,
Australia.
In Memory of Frederick Augustxts Barnard
Glover, one of the Judges of Her Majesty's High
Court, Calcutta. Born 29th Jany., 1825.
This Monument is erected by his sorrowing wife and
children.
In Memory of Edward William Spenser Login,
eldest son of Sir John Spenser and Lady Login.
Died at Galle.
This was an elder brother of Rear- Admiral Spenser
Henry Metcalf Login, C.V.O., A.D.C. to the King,
who took part in the naval operations in the Ashantee
war, and at Suakim in 1884-85. Sir John Spenser
Login died in 1863.
In Memoriam. Dr. Phil. Pattl Goldschmidt. Geb.
in Danzig (Preussen) Den 19ten December, 1850.
Gest. in Point de Galle, Den 7ten Mai, 1877.
Dr. Goldschmidt was appointed for the purpose of
collecting copies of old Sinhalese and other inscrip-
tions in the Island and translating them, a work in
which he was very successful, though the expostire
led to his contracting the malarial fever from which
he died. He published " Reports on the Inscriptions
found in the North-Central Province" (Sessional
( 198
All Saints' Cemetery, Galle — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
704 ..
.May 7 .
1877
. . Phil. Paul Goldschmidt — contd.
705
706
707
Nov. 6
1877
May 22
1871
Feb. 21
1890
Nor. 8
Aug. 8
1878
Ann Blyth
Ernest Blyth
Mary Catherine Blyth
Thomas Munson Barker
Frances Ann Graham
708
709
March 28
1879
Aug. 24
1880
Gilbert Laird
Ann Cecilia Brook
710
711 .,
712
713
July 28
1881
Dec. 3
1881
April 18
1888
Feb. 5
1892
John Stewart Cumley
Sarah Mann Maingay
John Richards
Sarah Anne Maddoek
Inscription.
Papers IX. and XXIV. of 1875) and " Reports oa
Inscriptions found in the North-Central Province and
in the Hambantota District " (Sessional Paper XI.
of 1876, republished in the Indian Antiquary, VI.,
November, 1879); also "Notes on Ancient
Sinhalese Inscriptions " (in the "R.A.S. Journal, C.B.,
vol. VI., p. 1).
Ann, wife of Daniel Blyth, aged 47 years ; also
Ernest, their son, aged 4J years ; and Mary
Catherine Blyth, their daughter, aged 25 years.
Erected by her husband and children in loving
remembrance.
Daniel Blyth was for a long time Master Attendant
at Galle.
Thomas Mtjnson Barker aged 42.
In the last days of the steamer lines the New
Oriental Hotel at Galle was managed by Mrs. Barker.
Frances Ann, the beloved wife of D. D. Graham,
who died at Galle aged 43 years.
Captain Donald Duncan Graham was in the Ceylon
Rifles and subsequently in the Police. He retired as
Superintendent of Police, Galle. This was his second
wife, a Miss Creasy, whom he married at Galle on
March 13, 1869; his first wife, Charlotte Hansford
Lillie, daughter of Captain Thomas LilUe, having
been married to him on November 12, 1845, at
Kandy. His third wife was a Miss Parsons.
Gilbert Laird, Master Mariner. Born 14th Jany.,
1844, at St. Margaret's Hope, Orkney, Scotland.
Died on board the Jeanie Louttit , and is
interred here.
The barque called on March 29 to bury the master.
She belonged to Mr. D. Louttit, of Wick, Caithness.
Ann Cecilia, widow of the late Richard Brook,
Esq., Royal Navy, and Master Attendant of Trin-
comalee aged 72 years.
She was youngest daughter of Jean David Rabinel,
and married R. Brook on September 3, 1823, at
Galle. Her sister, Ariana Maria, married at Galle,
January 15, 1818, R. Brook's brother, George Shaw
Brook, who was Ordnance Storekeeper at Galle,
1818-24. A daughter of George Shaw Brook,
Emilia, married R. J. Dunlop at Jaffna on July 6,
1847, and the same day and at the same place her
sister, Eliza Cecilia, married Thomas Gordon, a
coconut planter in the Jaffna peninsula. A daughter
of Richard Brook, Oreana, married (1) at Galle, on
November 3, 1846, Edward Charles Elwall, M.D. , and
(2) at Colombo, in October, 1854, Charles Patten
Walker, CCS.
Erected by Isabel R. Cumley, a small token in
true love and deep sorrow to the memory of her
attached husband John Stewart Cumley, Esqr.,
Ramang Banka, Batavia, Isle of Java, who died
suddenly on his voyage to Europe, aged 33 years.
Sarah Mann, the beloved wife of C. F. C. Maingay.
She was sixth daughter of Gother Mann Parsons
(see Nos. 209 and 241), and married Charles Frederick,
son of Captain Maingay, R.N., on August 6, 1868, at
Nuwara Eliya.
John Richards, of Newport, Pern., Wales, late Chief
Officer ss. Shakspear, who died at Sea off this
port, aged 41 years.
Erected by the Captain and Officers , by his widow's
permission.
Sarah Anne Maddock, widow of the late Henry
Lathom Maddock, or Pallai, Jaffna, who died at
GaUe.
This stone is erected in loving remembrance by her
two sons.
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All Saints' Cemetery, Galle—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
713 ..
Feb. 5
1892
714
715 ..
716
717
718
Sept. 14
1895
Sept. 26
1899
Sept. 15
1904
June 16
1905
Nov. 13
1905
Name.
Sarah Anne Maddock— cowJti.
H. Bruckshaw
Cecilia Augusta Thornhill,
Thomas Thompson
Sydney Herbert Hobday
Isabel Swinburn Black
Inscription.
She was the daughter of George Shaw Brook and
Ariana Maria Rabinel, and married H. L. Maddock
at the Fort Church, Jaffna, on April 23, 1856. He
was on Kaddakadu estate, Pallai, which belonged to
his uncle Sir Henry Maddock, an Indian Civilian.
Capt. H. Bbttckshaw. Erected by the Captain,
Officers, and Engineers of the ss. Umzint as a
tribute of respect.
Cecilia Augusta Thoenhill. Born 8th March,
1845.
. Widow of Dr. Hayman Thornhill and daughter of
J. S. Harper, late Naval Storekeeper, Trincomalee.
She was killed in a carriage accident.
Thomas Thompson, 2nd Mate, ss. Katanga, aged
30 years, who was killed by a fall from aloft
in execution of his duty.
Sydney Herbert Hobday, District Engineer,
P. W. D., second son of Richard & Mary M.
Hobday. Born at Ramsgate, England, 7th June,
1878. Died at GaUe.
Isabel Swinburn Black, widow of the late John
Black, who entered into rest on the 13th Novem-
ber, 1905.
(See No. 688.)
Wesleyan Chapel in the Fort, Galle,
720
Dec. 5
1845
Julia Bridgnell
721
Oct. 2
1848
Eliza Bridgnell
722
Sept. 18
1851
W. H, A. Dickson
Julia, fourth daughter of the Revd. W. Bridgnell,
Wesleyan Missionary, and Eliza, his wife, born at
Matura, May 27th, 1831, died at Colombo, Decem-
ber 5th, 1845, and buried there in the Pettah
Wesleyan Chapel near the remains of her sister,
Anne Amelia, where both rest till " The dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come
forth absent from the body present with the Lord."
Erected by her bereaved and sorrowing parents.
Sudden as o'er the sky a cloud is spread.
Death swept over Julia from our weeping sight ,
As a flower cut down, a shadow fled,
Her spirit passed away and all was night.
To Him who burst the iron of death,
And op'd the wide eternal gate of heaven.
Strong in our love but stronger in our Faith,
We gave her back who but awhile was given.
Here lies (all that was mortal of) Eliza Bridgnell ,
the faithful, afEectionate, and much-loved wife of
William Bridgnell, Wesleyan Missionary, born
February 17th, 1810.
The Rev. William Bridgnell was in Ceylon, 1822-
49; died 1858. He published "An English Gram-
mar in Sinhalese and English" and " A Dictionarj^,
Sinhalese and English," 1847.
In memory of the late Rev. W. H. A. Dickson,
Wesleyan Missionary of South Ceylon, who died
at Madras on the 18th of September, 1851, aged
25 years. A few friends at Galle, where he spent
the last years of his faithful and laborious ministry,
have erected this tablet as a memorial of his
exemplary piety and devotedness. >
"The names ofRichardStoup(No.417)and William
H. A. Dickson, both of whom died young, are still
fragrant as the perfume of the na tree." (" Jubilee
Memorials," 1814-64, which contains a copy of the
inscription, p. 216.)
After a residence in the Island of less than five years
he removed to Madras, where he died. He was in
Ceylon from 1846.
( 200 )
St. Mary's Cathedral, Galle.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
723 . April 8 . . Stephen Charles Vanderstraaten in lovtng memory
1854 OF
Dec. 29 . . Harriet Frances Vanderstraaten Stephen chaeles vandbestkaaten
1°^® CEYLON CIVIL SERVICE
DIED AT GALLE
ON THE 8th April, 1854
AGED 49 YEARS
AND OF HIS WIFE
HARRIET FRANCES
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
DR. BRYAN O'CONNOR OF LONDON
DIED AT JAFFNA
ON THE 29th DECEMBEEr, 1846
AGED 35 YEARS.
FEAR NOT, FOE I AM WITH THEE. I WILL BRING
THY SEED FROM THE EAST, AND GATHER THEE
FEOM THE west; I WILL SAY TO THE NOETH,
GIVE up; and TO THE SOUTH, KEEP NOT BACK;
BEING MY SONS FEOM FAE, AND MY DAUGHTEES
FEOM THE END OF THE EARTH. ISA. XLIII., 5, 6.
Stephen Charles Vanderstraaten was the son of
Vincent William Vanderstraaten and Anna Wilhelmina
Thomasz, and grandson of Engelbert Vanderstraaten
of Singen (Baden), who came out in 1742 in the ship
Rynsburg, and Susanna Thysz of Colombo.
V- W. Vanderstraaten was for many years Registrar
of the Supreme Court. His brother, Pieter Lodewyk
Vanderstraaten, was Sitting Magistrate of Jayela,
between Colombo and Negombo, 1816-18, and at
Negombo, 1818. Four of V. W. Vanderstraaten's
daughters married Englishmen: Eliza Catherina
married John Comyns Bulkley, Assistant Surgeon,
16th Regiment, at Colombo, June 7, 1821 ; Anna
Maria Catherina married James Carroll, Royal Irish
Regiment, at Colombo, November 14, 1838 ; the fifth
daughter, Antoinette Helena, married C. Beling at
Colombo, October 28, 1839 ; the sixth daughter,
C. M. L. , married H. Exshaw Smith, third son of
Major Haddon Smith, July 27, 1835 ; the youngest
daughter, Eugenia Lucretia, married T. St. George
C. R. Thompson, Ordnance Department, at Colombo,
November 18, 1839.
724 . . April I . . Benedict Martin, O.S.B. . . Hie Vitas Resurrectionem Expectant Defleti E.
1876 Cari Cineres Benedicti. Martin. Sodalis Domo
Hispan 0. S. B. qui Sacra Expeditione Ad Vige-
simum Aiuium Strenue Perducta Catholicam
Fidem Hac In Insula Docuit Auxit Firmavit
Templum Deo iEterno In Honorem Magnse Jesu
D. N. Matris Impensa Cura Erigi Jussit Majora
Proponens Kal Apr MDCCCLXXVI ^t Ann Lxi.
Pie Obiit Ut Vixerat Anima Desideratissima Si Te
Coeli Incolam Habeant Nostrum Memor Esto Qui
Titulum Perdolentes Ponimus.
This inscription is on the slab over the grave inside
the church. Over the main entrance outside is the
following : — -
R. P. Benedictus Martin Apost. Miss. Monachus
Benedictinus Compostellse Ex villa Garcia De
Campos In CasteUa Veteri Apud Hispaniam Phi-
lipi — Nis Insulis Peragratis Subsidia Comparans
Ecclesiam Hanc A Fundamentis Erexit Pergrati
Galle Catholici Pro Patri Hoc Memoriale Dicare
Voluerunt.
A.D. 1873.
He was a native of Villa Garcia .de Campos in Old
Castille, and was a Benedictine of the monastery at
Campostella in Galicia.
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St. Mary's Cathedral Cemetery, Galle.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
725 ..
May 11
1867
.. William O'Brien
726 .,
727 ..
728 ..
Feb. 9
1871
June 4
1871
Dec. 13
1871
D. Rafael Uriz
Joseph-Louis le Fauelieur
Anne Maria Clementine
Young
729
Jan. 17
1877
J. 6. Martial Louvain
Pesecheloche
730
March 12
1881
John Kenneth Moran
731
Jan. 23
1884
William A. Coulter
Inscription.
William O'Brien, late Captain Royal Bengal
Artillery, died at Point De Galle on the 11th of May,
1867 , aged 28 years. This tablet was erected to his
memory by his affectionate brother Jambs O'Brien,
Ballinalachen, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Captain O'Brien fell out of a window of the Oriental
Hotel on May 10. He was said to be a relative of
General Sir Terence O'Brien.
The inscription is rapidly becoming illegible.
Aqui Yace D. Rafael Uriz Capn Mercte Espanol.
FaUecio 9 Pebr. 1871.
Here lies D. Rafael Uriz, Captain of a Spanish
merchantman, died, &c.
Ici Repose Joseph-Louis le Fatjcheur, Ne Le 21
Septembre 1839 Decede Le 4 Juin 1871.
Anne Maria Clementine, wife of William
Mandilhon Young, daughter of P. H. Chermont,
died at Galle. Aged XXXVIII years.
The particule nobiliaire is absent on the stone.
Anne Maria Clementine de Chermont was the
daughter of Prosper H. de Chermont and
Gottelier. Her sisters, Celine, Auralia, and Eurania,
married Robert BuUer Young, James Hawke, and
Alfred Gottelier, respectively. ProsperH.de Chermont
was a relative of Prosper de Chermont, Conunandant
of the French forces at Pondicherry, where he died on
September 13, 1793. The Commandant had a son,
Prosper Lubin de Chermont, who died at Pondicherry,
October 4, 1793, aged 18 months.
Pax. — J. B. Martial Louvain Pesecheloche.
Ne a VUle Franche D' Aveyron Franchoe le 26
Octobre , 1 842 . Decede a bord — de la Galissioniere .
"Franchoe" is evidently a mistake for "France."
The following is from a Geographical Dictionary of
1887 : — " ViUe Franche de Rouergue, chef lieu
d'arrondissement du department do 1' Aveyron a 56
kilometres ouest de Rodez, au confluent de I'Alezon
et de I'Aveyron.
John Kenneth Moran, aged 44.
Rest, beloved, ne'er forgot ;
Though bereaved, I murmur not ;
Bending to the Almighty's rod,
I resign thee to my God.
He was brought ashore ill from a steamer three days
before his death.
In. memory of W. A. Coulter, died at Galle,
aged 35 years.
His sister was the wife of J. W. Daveran, who after-
wards changed his name into Brskine.
BADDEGAMA.
Baddegama Church.
Consecrated by Bishop Heber on September 25, 1825, which event is commemorated by a tablet in the
church. Baddegama is 12 miles from GaUe on the Gindura river. It is 7 mUes from Hikkaduwa railway
station to Halpatota ferry, which is three-quarters of a mile from the Baddegama resthouse. It was at Badde-
gama that Greorge Winter established the only sugar estate in Ceylon that has lasted.
Date. Name. Inscription.
July 14 . . Robert Mayor . . In memory of the Rev. Robert Mayor, the founder
1846 of this Station, and by whose exertions this church
was buUt, who after nearly ten years of faithful
labour in this country, was compelled by the loss
of his health to return to England, when he after-
wards became successively Rector of Coppenhall
and Vicar of Acton in the county of Chester, at
Serial No.
732 .
JU £i
82-09
( 202 )
Baddegama Church— contd..
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
732 ..
July 14
1846
. . Robert Ma,yor—contd.
Inscription,
which last place he died in perfect peace on the
14th of July, 1846, aged 55. His friends in
Ceylon erected this tablet as a tribute of their
affectionate remembrance of his character and
labour.
Mr. Mayor was one of the first Church Missionaries
who arrived in 1818 (see No. 460).
While at Baddegama Mr. Mayor had a son, the
Rev. John Byton Bickersteth Mayor, of St. John's
College, Cambridge, born January 28, 1825, who
became Professor of Latin at Cambridge in 1872,
and author of several classical, philological, and anti-
quarian works. He died December 1, 1910. Another
son, born there in 1828, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth
Mayor, was Professor of Classics at King's College,
London, 1870-79. Mrs. Mayor was Charlotte,
daughter of Edmund Bickersteth of Watton, and
she was married to Mr. Mayor at St. George's,
Everston (Liverpool), on September 4, 1817.
" At Baddegama, the Church Missionary Station,
arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea, L.) is extensively
cultivated, and the natives are greatly indebted to the
example originally set them by the Rev. Messrs. Ward
and Mayor for the introduction of this invaluable root
into culture in this district." (Bennett, p. 360.)
" In August, 1819, the late Rev. Robert Mayor
(father of Professor J. E. B. Mayor, of Cambridge)
left Galle, at that time the chief town of Ceylorf, where
he had been working for some time, and settled in a
large village, named Baddegama, some twelve miles
off Having obtained a free grant from Gov-
ernment of a large hill on the banks of the beautiful
Gindara river, he quickly set to work to clear the
jungle and level the top of the hill. He soon built
a house and a large schoolroom, both of which are
in use to this day In February, 1821, the
foundation stone of a large church was laid. The
building was put up partly by private subscription
and partly by a grant given by the Governor,
Sir Robert Brownrigg, who took a warm interest
in it. By February, 1823, the church was nearly
finished. Some idea of the difficulties overcome in
its erection may be gathered from the fact that
700 lb. of gunpowder were used in blasting out the
foundations alone. The missionaries comment on
the generosity of the Government in sparing so
much of this material, although an insurrection was
going on in the Kandyan Provinces at the time. On
March 1 1th of the same year the church was formally
opened by the Archdeacon in the presence of a large
congregation, amongst whom were the chief Govern-
ment officials and their families from Galle, and Sir
Richard Ottley, the Chief Justice, who presented the
communion plate to the church.
" There was no Bishopof Colombo in those days, and
it was not till September, 1826, that the Bishop of
Calcutta, the saintly Reginald Heber, visited this
outlying part of his huge Diocese. On Saturday, the
24th, the Bishop, with Mrs. Heber, reached Badde-
gama, and on the Sunday the Bishop consecrated the
church and afterwards the burial ground. Almost aU
the European residents from Galle and a great number
of natives were present. The Bishop preached from
Gen. xxviii., 16, 17, and in the afternoon confirmed
thirteen persons. Just before embarking at Goalie, on
his return to Calcutta at the end of the month, the
Bishop wrote to his friend, the Vicar of Shawbury,
in Shropshire, Mr. Mayor's father, telling of his visit
to his son. It gives one some idea of the tremendous
separation of Anglo-Indians in those days
to learn that before these letters reached England
the good Bishop had received his home-call on
April 3rd, 1826, at Trichinopoly, in South India.
" In later years Baddegama became one of the most
famous missionary and educational centres of the
Island, and to-day amongst the Sinhalese upper classes
throughout Ceylon may be found many in every walk
in life who themselves or their fathers were educated
here. But with the transfer of the official and com-
mercial centre from Galle to Colombo, nearly seventy
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Baddegama Church — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
732 .,
July 14
1846
. . Robert Mayor— cojifrf,
733
734
April 18
1866
1819
George Parsons
C. M. S. Missionaries
Inacription.
miles north, a great change must have come over the
work, and although it is still vigorously carried on,
the former glory of the station has been eclipsed by
newer institutions
" The old church in its simple beauty remains a
monument to the zeal of Robert Mayor The
edifice, after nearly one hundred years of this
destructive climate, stands in sore need of repairs
to its woodwork. The stone fabric will probably
never need any serious repairs. It is splendidly built,
of solid granite masonry." (Guardian.)
Repairs to the woodwork have since been carried
ovit.
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Geobgb Parsons,
who departed this life April 18, A.D. 1866. Aged ■
41 years.
This tablet was erected by the Singhalese Christians
of this district, in remembrance of his Labours
among them for a period of 16 years.
In Memoriam.
Rev. R.
Rev. B.
Rev. G.
Rev. G.
Rev. H.
Rev. C.
Rev. G.
Rev. J.
Mayor
Ward
TrimneU
Faught
Powell
Greenwood
Parsons
AUcock
1819 to
1820 to
1828 to
1828 to
1839 to
1841 to
1849 to
1869 to
1828
1828
1845
1836
1843
1850
1866
1883
whose faith follow.
Baddegama Churchyard.
735
736
737
738 ..
Nov. 17
1830
Feb. 3
1835
June 9
1836
June 21
1850
Sept. 27
1868
Susan Margaret Faught
Marcus Steers Faught
Godfrey Steers Faught
Charles Greenwood
Lydia Septima Bowman
739
April 1
1875
George Walter Winter
740
741
Oct. 12
1883
Nov. 30
1886
Alfred Oetavius Winter
William Haverstoek Curtis
Susan Margaret, infant daughter of the Rev. G. S.
Faught and Anne, his wife. Aged 12 days. Born
Nov. 5, A.D. 1830
Marcus Steers, youngest son of the Rev. G. S.
Faught and Anne, his wife, aged 6 months, born
August 3, 1834, and also of his infant brother
Godfrey Steers, born March 19th
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Charles Green-
wood, Church Missionary, Baddegama, who was
drowned whilst bathing in the river, June 21st,
1850, aged 37.
Lydia Septima, wife of Havebstock Hodsoll
Bowman, born August 1st, 1834 1868. Also
in memory of Hayerstock Hodsoll Bowman.
Born March 28th, 1833.
Lydia Septima was the daughter of George Winter
and Sarah Cressy. She was married to Mr. Bowman
at Baddegama on January 6, 1858.
Mr. Bowman married (2) Adelaide Bourbon
Hayley (born April 10, 1838), the daughter of
Thomas Harrop Hayley of Castleford, by his first
wife Juliana Robinson. Thomas Harrop Hayley was
the son of William Hayley and Catherina Harrop.
Li memory of George Walter Winter, son of
George and Sarah Winter, born in Mauritius,
Oct. 24, 1825, died at Baddegama .....
(See No. 556.)
He was gazetted Writer in the Civil Service, March
13, 1846, but seems to have left it immediately, as
there is no record of his having received any subse-
quent appointment.
Alfred Octavius Winter. Born 10th June,
1836
Son of George Winter and Sarah Cressy.
In loving memory of William Hayerstock, first born
child of Steuart & Anne Curtis. Born 6 Sep-
tember, 1883. Drowned 30 November, 1886.
S. Curtis married a Miss Bowman. The Bowmans
were partners of the Winters in the sugar estate.
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AMBALANGODA.
There is an old Dutch building on the side of the road in front of the Resthouse — ^the church at Ambalan-
goda "a poor barn-like building, which travellers between Colombo and Galle must frequently gaze upon,
without ever imagining that it had at any time been a place of worship. It is characteristic of the village
churches which the Dutch bujjt a plain oblong-shaped structure with low walls all round and pillars and
rails above. A stone slab let into one of the walls outside explains that the building was put up in 1755 by
Adriaan Oostdyk, Opziender of the GaUe Korle. Here services were regularly held in Sinhalese by the school-
master proponents, and in Dutch during their church and school visitations by the clergymen from GaUe
Ambalangoda in those days was a far more important station than it is now. As the residence of civil and military
officials, it was almost a little town. Adriaan Oostdyk, the builder of the church, was a high official in the
Companj^'s service. At the time of its building he held the rank of a Koopman and the post of Superintendent of
the Cinnamon Trade, an office next only to that of the Adminstrateur of the Galle Commandement. His duties
frequently took him towards Ambalangoda, Cosgoda, and Bentota, and it is most likely that for long periods he
had to make a temporary residence in the old Rust Huis of Ambalangoda. It is said that the floor of the church
was paved with several tombstones of distinguished men buried within, but none of these are now to be seen, and
the explanation given is that the floor had been subsequently raised by earth being filled in. Among those
buried within this once hallowed, but now desecrated, place was the Count Jean GuillaumeDu Bois De Lassosay,
who, after retiring from the Regiment of Luxemburg, of which he was the Colonel Commandant, served the British
during the early years of their occupation of Ceylon as Sitting Magistrate of Ambalangoda." (R. G. Anthonisz,
Ceyon Literary Register, vol. VI., p. 285.)
■Serial No.
742
Date.
1750
Name.
Adriaan Oostdyk
Inscription.
aEBOTJWD DOOE
ADEIAAN COST
DYK OMDERK
EN OPS DER QA
LE COBLA 1750.
Translation. — Built by Adriaan Oostdyk, onder-
koopman, Superintendent of the GaUe Corle, 1750.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 271-72.)
Adriaan Oostdyk of Zierikzee married at Colombo,
June 19, 1746, Maria Byl of Colombo, daughter of
Lambertus Byl and Engaltine Ziep. Their daughter,
Susamia Isabella (baptized at Galle, February 14,
1751, d. Sadras, Jxme 9, 18Q8), married (1), April 1,
1770, Major Adrianus Cornells Lever of Breda, (2),
December 13, 1789, Isaac de Meuron de Rochat (d.
Madras, March 22, 1800), and (3), November 5, 1801,
Captain J. G. Gradman of the Meuron Regiment.
MATARA.
"Matara somewhat resembles Caltura and Negombo, but with this difference, that it has two forts, one
on each side of the river, the walls of which are more regularly and strongly built than in either of the other
two places, but the one on the further side of the river from Belhgam, which is the larger, has never been finished,
and is. open towards the sea, like the earher fortifications in GaUe, and towards the river. In this the public
buildings are situated, so that it is nearly free from aU appearance of dilapidation ; but it has a quiet about it
that scarcely comports with the push and bustle of modem days Formerly the river at Matara was crossed
by two bridges, without balustrades. It was then a long time without a bridge at aU, but it has now one bridge,
well protected at the sides and covered by a roof. Near the seashore is a smaU island, round which the breakers
roll, and further on there is a bold chff, the highest on this part of the coast." (Hardy, p. 226.)
The last bridge referred to has now been replaced by an iron bridge, which has no roof. The chff aUuded
to is Browne's Hill, called after John Dennis Browne, who was Assistant Government Agent of Matara in the
forties.
' ' In itself it is a dull enough Uttle town, -ndth hardly anything of the grand or the subhme in the immediate
landscape to give it any title to romantic beauty. The broad NiU-wala-ganga flowing calmly and placidly
through the town, with an occasional canoe sculled along by a single fisherman sitting at the stern and patiently
whipping the waters ; the broad and open sea stretching far away as the eye can reach, with hardly ever a sail
within sight to break the sharply defuied fine of the horizon ; the grim old ramparts that close it on one side ; the
narrow streets with buildings aU of the old Dutch style ; and a population as primitive as at the date when the
Dutch Burghers smoked their long pipes and sipped their Scheidam and went for their noonday siesta, Matara
seems a fossil rehc cast up for the purpose of intensifying the contrast between the past and the present. But
if the town itseU has stood stiU while everything around it was marching on, it is not altogether devoid of its own
pecuharly quiet beauties, especiaUy to the stranger who enters its environs. Outside the fort your sight first
alights on the Redoubt Van Byk, now desecrated with workshops, and next the broad river, fiowing lazily past
crossed by a neat iron lattice bridge. In the days of which we write it was a wooden structure, and if not so
elegant as the one by which it has since been replaced, it was more in keeping with the rustic beauties of the scene.
On the north, within a tew miles of the fort, rose Nyman Kande, hke a sohtary sentinel, in the midst of an inter-
minable plain of paddy fields ; and further on, tier over tier, the distant hiU ranges, imtU the view in that direction
was shut out by the towering heights of the Gongalle chain, 'its northern battlement of hiUs.' Turning your
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Matara — contd.
«yes again to the south there was the sea, a wide expanse of blue waters which stretched away until bounded by
tne distant sky line ; while to your left, looking on from the top of the main gate, you saw the red chffs of Browne's
■tliu, and further on Dondra Head (the Sunium of Ptolemy) thrusting its gaunt arm as if in very defiance of the
angry surf, which every moment threatened to drown it in ocean wave." (Hardy, p. 226.)
A- +■ -1^° town in Ceylon, not relatively ia proportion to its size but absolutely, has produced such a number of
distinguished men as Matara," among them Governor Falck, Sir Henry Lawrence, and C. A. Lorenz. "Matara
...... enjoyed this reputation for the intellectual superiority of her sons even in the time of the native sovereigns ;
and though some doubt may rest on the tradition which makes it the birthplace of KaUdasa, there can hardly be
■any that for many centuries under their own native sovereigns the men of Matara always carried away the palm
7, , ®''*^y merit ; and even at the present day the Kandvans seem to entertain a pious reverence for the learning
■of Matara." (Digby, vol. II., p. 217.) ■' ^
The Dutch Church is a plain building with round-heg^ed windows on each side, a verandah along ithe
south side, with the entrance in the middle. It bears a date showing that it was repaired in 1769 while Daniel
Burnat was Dessave.
Serial No.
743 .
Date.
Dec. 25
1686
May 19
1687
Dutch Church, Matara.
Name. Inscription.
Barbara Lambertyn . . Hier leyt begraven Babbaba Yongeung huysvrouw
van den oppermeester Lambertus Lambeetyn,
overleden den 25 December out 22 jaren. Anno
1686.
Bernardus Lambertyn
744
Oct. 4
1703
Gabriella Sehepmoes
745
Nov. 17
1709
Pieter Christiaansz Bolscho
746
June 29
1711
Isaac Weyns
747
Aug. 7
1737
Frans Willem Talk
Anno 1687 den 19 Mey is desselfe soontje Beknabdus
Lambeetyn overleden out 3 maenden en 5 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 255.)
Lambertus Lambertyn was a native of Deventer.
He married, secondly, Constantia Mooyaart, bom at
Matara, February 25, 1673, the daughter of Anthony
Mooyaart of Amsterdam, surgeon, and Maria Durhee.
Hier leyt begraven Gabbiella du Tbamblay huys-
vrouw van den Dessave Am. Schbpmoes. Geboren
op Colombo den 6 December, Ao. 1663 : obyt den
4 October Ao. 1703.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 255; vol. XVIL, p. 25.)
Gabriella du Tramblay was married to Abraham
Sehepmoes on- May 9, 1677, and was perhaps the
sister of Louis du Tramblay, Captain of the Burgery,
Colombo, who was married to Francisca Carvaly and
had a son, FeUx, baptized at Colombo, May 25, 1681.
Abraham Sehepmoes was a native of Rotterdam,
having come out in the ship 't Wapen van Rotterdam.
He died in 1718. He was Dissave (Colombo), 1703;
Chief of Simiatra (Westkust), 1705-1707; and Com-
missioner of Marriage Causes (Batavia), 1718.
Hier onder rust de Hejer Pieteb Chbistiaansz Bols-
cho in syn leven oppercoopman eii sekunde des
Gaals Commandent. Geboren Ao. 1649 tot Odense
in Denemarken en alhier den 17 Novemb Ao. 1709
overleeden oud 60 jaren.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 254.)
Bolscho was Dessave of Matara, 1707. (Valentyn,
p. 333.)
Hier onder leyt het leyk van den Hear Isaac Weyns
in syn leven oppercoopman en Dessave tot Mature
Mitsgaders Secunde des Gaalse Commandements.
Geboren den 15 Mei 1655, overleden den 29 Juny
1711, oud zynde 56 jaren 1 maand en 16 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 254.)
Isaac Weyns was marrie'd to Johanna Henrietta
Collard van Lynden of Delft, whose tombstone is in
the Dutch Church, Galle. He was Fiscaal (Banda),
1696-97; Chief of Lonthoir, 1697-1701. Therewasin
Ceylon one Sophia Vfeyos, of Haarlem, who was
married (1) to Jan van Dam, boekhouder, and (2) at
Colombo, June 19, 1712, to Michiel Panneel of Middel-
burg, Fiscaal of Colombo.
Ter lofEehcker gedagtenisse van D. Heer Mr. Fbans
Wdllem Falk in zyn E. leven oppercoopman en
dessave van Mature, een man voortreflyk door zyn
geboorte en deugd als andere goede hoedanigheden,
weggeruckt door de doot die niemand verschoont
in den bloey van zyn dagen, als zynde gebrn. tot
Keulen den 7 December 1710 en overleeden tot
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Dutch Church, ^ataia—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
747 ..
Aug. 7
1737
Name.
Frans Willem Falk — contd.
Inscription.
748
1756
An infant daughter of
Jan Bauert
Mature den 7 Augustus 1737, oud ses en twintig
jaren, agt maanden en een dag. Hier rustende
ter zaligen opstandinge.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., pp. 238, 239, 255 ;
vol. XVII., pp. 20, 25, 47, 68.)
Frans Willem Falk (of Keulen) was the son of
Lieutenant-Colonel Otto Willem Falk and Constantia
Margarita Meinertshagen. He was married at
Colombo, MayS, 1735,to Adriana Gobiusof Samarang,
the daughter of Johan Frederik Gobius, Governor of
Malacca, and Margarita Elisabeth He5men. Otto
Willem Falk was bom on August 4, 1659, and died
at Utrecht on December 26, 1730, being the son of"
Tammo Falk, born 1621, died 1697.
Arms. — Gules, a falcon essorant, or.
Crest. — A falcon as in the arms.
Ter gedagtenisse van het jong gebore dogtertje van^
den opperkoopman en Dessave van Mature De E..
Heer Jan Baueet, den 27 September, 1756,
geboren en kort na dies geborn. overleeden.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 255.)
Jan Bauert was a native of Trepto (Mecklenburg).
He was Lieutenant and Chief of the Fort of Kalutara,
and for some time Dessave of Matara, and married at
Colombo, September 29, 1744, Catharina Berghuys
of Galle, daughter of Dirk Berghuys and Adriana
Swinnas. His other children were : —
Dorothea Adriana Bauert, baptized at Kalutara,
1745. .
Wilhelmina Elisabeth Bauert, baptized at Colombo,
December 3, 1747.
Julius Valentyn Bauert, baptized at Colombo,-
February 16, 1749, married there, October 27, 1771,
Maria Magdalena Potken, daughter of Gabriel Willem
Potken and Henrietta Huberta Racket of Jaffna.
749 . . Dec. 7 . . Johannes Ferdinandus
1758 Crytsman
Ter gedagtenisse van De E. Heer Johannes Perdi-
NANDTTS Crytsman, oppercoopman en Secunde
van 't Gaals Commandements mitsgs. Dessave
deser Landen. Geboren te Colombo den 17 April
anno 1709, overleden den 7 December 1758, oud
49 jaren 8 maanden en 20 dagen.
Beati sint in Domino morientes.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 232, 256, 286; vol. XVIL,.
pp. 17, 26.)
Arms. — Party per fess; (1) party per pale (a) a
double-headed eagle displayed, (6) a swan nageant ;
(2) argent, a man proper, holding in his dexter hand
a sabre, and in his sinister a bouquet of flowers.
Crest. — A man as in the shield.
Johannes Crytsman of Breslau was perhaps the
brother of Louis Crytsman of Breslau , who married at
Colombo, Jiuie 27, 1692, Isabella Christiaans of
Colombo. Johannes Crytsman was Commissaris of
the Arecanut Department, Colombo. He was fivfr
times married. The name of his first wife is unknown.
His second wife, whom he married at Colombo, May
22, 1695, was Simonia van de Rondewerken. By her
he had a son, Johannes Christiaan, boekhouder, who
married Laurentia Dominious, daughter of Cornelis
Dominious and Johanna Herding, daughter of Hen-
drik Herding of Zutphen and Florentina Bosgaert of
Rotterdam (widow of Lieutenant Jacob Pietersz de
Vos). His third wife, whom he married at Colombo,
June 15, 1698, was Elisabeth Roelants, daughter of
Dominious Roelants of Ghent and Maria Perez of
Colombo. His fovuth wife, whom he married at
Colombo, November 6, 1701, was Rachel Hogerlinde.
His fifth wife, whom he married at Colombo, May 25,
1708, was Gertruida de Haan, daughter of Jan de
Haan of Dordrecht, Fiscaal of Colombo, and Alida.
Brouwer of Amsterdam. Johannes Ferdinandus
Crytsman was a child of this marriage. He was twice
married: (1) at Colombo, May 15, 1735, to Josina
Jacoba Wjoibergen of The Hague, and (2) to Anna.
Gertruida Laiu'entsz of Colombo.
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Dutch Church, Matara— conic?.
Serial No.
Date.
750 ..
Aug. 7
1777
Name.
Plantina Johanna de Moor
Inscription.
Ter gedagtenis van de jonghe JufEer. Plantina
Johanna de Moor. Gebooren te Mature den
10 den November, 1774. Overleeden den 7 den
Augustus anno Domini 1777.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p.' 41.)
Plantina Johanna de Moor was the daughter of
Pieter Arent de Moor and Christina Gertruida van
Coeverden. Pieter Arent de Moor, baptized at
Colombo, Noi^ember 18, 1744, was the son of Arent
Pietersz de Mdor, Fiscaal, Colombo, bom 1711, and
Agnita Maria Bierens. Arent Pietersz de Moor was
the son of Pieter de Moor of The Hague and Johanna
Obrak. A sistei; of Plantina Johanna de Moor was
Johanna Plantina de Moor, the wife of Jean David
Rabinel.
751
May 8
1793
Carl Jonas Tranehell
Carl Jonas Tranohell, Geb. den 11 February,
overl. den 8 May, 1793.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 255; vol. XVII., p. 25.)
Arms. — Only the crest of the TrancheU arms is here
given. The arms are . argent, on a chevron gniles,
three escallops argent.
Crest. — A crane.
Motto. — Quisque suae fortmise faber.
Johannes Tranehell, a native of Romelanda
(Sweden), was born there in 1754, his parents being
Per Tranchelius and Brita Maria Ring. He was
Consul in Ceylon to King Gustavus Adolphus IV. of
Sweden, and married at Colombo, November 14, 1784,
Maria Magdalena Sieverts of Colombo, who died at
Trincomalee, May 14, 1818, and was the founder of
the family in Ceylon. Carl Jonas was a child of this
marriage. Of his sons, the elder, Pieter Cornells
Johannes, died as Sitting Magistrate of Weligama
on October 31, 1828, at Galle. The other, Gustavus
Adolphus, died as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ceylon
Rifles at Trincomalee on Junf 1, 1867. Of his
daughters, Maria Wilhelmina Sophia married on
February 9, 1807, at the age of siixteen, Lieutenant
George William Stewart of the 19fct Regiment, who
afterwards became Major and Postmiaster-General of
Ceylon ; Anna Elizabeth married ( 1 ) , on November 4
1809, at the age of fifteen, at Matara, Captain Adam
Tate Gibbons, who was a merchant at Trincomalee,
of the firm of Neill and Gibbons, in 1804 and later;
and (2), W. Thomas Stannel; Cecilia Charlotte was
the wife of Charles Skeane. Mrs. Stewart died at
Boulogne in 1866. Joharmes Tranehell died on July
7, 1807, at Jaffna, where he was then Provincial
Judge (see No. 317).
752
Jan. 6
1802
George Lawrence
Herelieth the body of George Lawrence, aged two
years eight months and twenty- three days, son of
Captain Lawrence of H. M. 19th Regt. of Foot
January 6th, A.D. 1802.
This was an elder brother of Sir Henry Lawrence,
who was born at Matara in 1806 ; of John, 1st Lord
Lawrence, who was born at Richmond in Yorkshire
in 1811; of Sir George Lawrence; and of Major-
General Richard Charles Lawrence, C.B., Resident of
Nepaul and Deputy Commissioner of the Southern
Hill States, who died in 1896. Lieutenant Alexander
Lawrence, who had married Letitia Catherine Knox
in 1797, was gazetted " Captain-Lieutenant " iij the
19th Foot from the 77th Foot, AprU 17, 1800, and
was Commandant at Matara, 1802-05, and at Galle,
during the absence of Lieutenant-Colonel Logan
at the war, ui 1803. He left Ceylon with his family
by the Lord Hawkesbury in March, 1808, and was
afterwards in command of the Depot at Richmond
and at Ostend in the Waterloo campaign, and died
at Chfton (Major, 4th Garrison BattaUon, 1812).
If Mrs. Lawrence used to talk of her boys as her
" Matara diamonds " as the Ceylon tradition relates,
they were George and Hemy, not " Henry and
John. ' ' The baptismal register of St. Peter' s Church ,
Colombo, shows that Captain Lawrence had the
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Dutch Church, Matara — contd.
Serial No.
752
Date.
Jan. 6
1802
Name.
George Lawrence — contd.
753
March 15
1804
John Henry Ludovici
754
Aug. 14
1807
Frederick Mylius
Inscription.
following children " received into the church " oa
Febraary 14, 1808 :—
(1) Letitia Caroline, born on January 6, 1802.
(2) Alexander William, born July 1, 1803.
(3) George St. Patrick, born March 17, 1805.
(4) Henry Montgomery, born June 28, 1806.
The last named became Sir Henry Lawrence. It
is to be noted that his eldest daughter, named above,
was born on the day that his eldest son, the subject
of this inscription, died, and that his name George was
given also to the third son.
Captain Alexander Lawrence is thus described by
Lieutenant-General Sir J. J. McLeod-Innes, R.E.,.
V.C., in Ms book on " Sir Henry Lawrence, ther
Pacificator" (Clarendon Press, 1898) : " a veteran of
Seringapattam, who had passed through a career of
hard service, wounds, and privations, a typical son
of Derry, strong, brave, resolute, peculiarly simple-
minded, and conscientious ; characteristics of which
he left the inheritance to his large family of sons and
daughters."
A son of Major-General Richard Lawrence,
Brigadier-General R. C. B. Lawrence, C.B., was
recently in coromand of the Forces in Ceylon.
Sacred to the memory of John Heney Ltjdovici,
late Garrison Surgeon of Matura, born in Amster-
dam on the 19tli of May, 1765. Died at Mature,
on the 15th of March, 1804.
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.
This tomb is in the vestry.
He was the son of Lourens Ludovici of Markt-
Elbach and Johanna Margareta Elsebeen Westerhof
of Furstenouw, and was baptized at Amsterdam,.
May 13, 1765. There is evidently some mistake about
the date- of birth or baptism. His diploma is dated
1780, and the date of birth given in the inscription
would therefore make him fifteen at the time he
received it. He was then Third Chirurgyn, and he
must have come out with that rank.
He was Assistant Surgeon of the Malay Regiment
at Matara in 1800.
He married at GaUe, June 17, 1789, Gertruida.
Rudolphine Hofiman, born November 22, 1772,
daughter of Christoffel William Hoffman of Berlin,
bom October 11, 1747, and of Johanna Marguerita-
MeurUng of GaUe, daughter of John MeurMng of
Vestervik in Sweden and of Cassander Pietersz. J. H.
Ludovici had nine children, the youngest of whom,
also called Johan Hendrik, was the father of Leopold
Ludovici, editor of the Ceylon Examiner and com-
piler of " Lapidariiim Zeylanicum." This J. H.
Ludovici married Sophia Veenekam, a daughter of
Lieutenant Carl Lodewyk Veenekam, who was in the-
British service.
Sacred to the memory of the late Febdeeick Baeon"
Mylius , Judge of the Provincial Court of Point GaUe ,.
Matura, etc., born at Stuttgard on the 18th May,-
1762, deceased at Matura on the 14th August, 1807-
Friedrich (Heiru'ich) Baron Mylius was the son of
Ernst Heimlich Baron Mylius and Benedikte Elisabet
Bohm. He was a Lieutenant successively in the^
Artillery, Hussars, and in the Wurtemburg Regiment
before he entered the Civil Service. He married on
May 11, 1788, Agnes Clara van der Graaff , daughter of
CorneUs Jacob van der Graaff, Governor of the Cape,-
towhom he was A.D.C. , and Hester Cornelia Reynet.
She was therefore the niece of WiUiam Jacob van der-
Graaff, Governor of Ceylon. His children were : —
(1) Henry Jacob Theobald, died young.
(2) Loms Fran9oise Georgiana Frederica, died
young.
(3) Alfred, Captain, C.R.R., born at Frankfort,.
May 8, 1793, died at Colombo, April 3,.
1829, married August, 1827, Sarah,
daughter of Colonel Joseph Swinburne,.
83rd Regiment.
(4) Adriana Sophia, born Jime 24, 1794, married.
Lieutenant G. F. Dick, 1st Ceylon Regi-
ment, on June 30, 1810.
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Serial No.
754 .
Date.
Aug. 14.
1807
Dutch Church, Matara — contd.
Name,
Frederick Mylius— cow«rf.
755
May 21
1813
Alexander Maepherson
756
April 28
1818
French Gray
21-
Inscription.
(5) Carl August Etienne, born at Celle (Hanover).
(6) Henrietta Maria Wilhelmina, born January
28, 1797.
( 7 ) Johan Christiaan Theobald , bom at Colombo ,
1798, died at Kandy, April 20, 1843.
(8) Frederick Aletta, born March 1, 1800, mar-
ried at Colombo, November 12, 1821,
General George Macdonald {Captain 16th
Foot, 1821).
(9) Jacomina Clara, born October 2, 1801, mar-
ried at Colombo, June 8, 1818, John
William Carrington, CCS.
(10) George Frederick, bom May 18, 180.3, at
Colombo.
(11) Robert Dekesnay Rodney, Major, C.R.B.,
bom June 1, 1804, married Eliza Gray.
(12) Lambert Twistleton, bom April 10, 1806.
He was Fiscal, Colombo, and President of the
Pisoal's Coiu"t, 1799, and was appointed "Sitting
Magistrate for the space between the Galle Gate and
the Tamarind Tree," November 3, 1802 ; Coroner
of Colombo (in addition), November 21, 1804; Sitting
Magistrate of Colombo, June 12, 1805, succeeding
Thomas Farrell ; " President of the Court of Justices
to be held twice a month at Caltura, July 13, 1805 ;"
Provincial Judge, Galle and Matura, November 20,
1805. He was also Registrar of Lands, Colombo, and
' ' President of the Board of Native Commissioners
in the District of Colombo " from February 27 to
November 20, 1805. On September 16, 1799, he
wrote to Government suggesting that slaves, as at
the Cape, be sent to the Fiscal for punishment, and
that their own masters be not allowed to punish them,
as "in many houses the slaves are very ill-treated.
Also that no woman be sold without her husband,
nor father and mother without their children."
Bennett has a somewhat invidious reference to
Baron Mylius' appointment to the Civil Ser ace. See
also a reference to him in " Sir Thomas M. itland,"
by W. Frewen Lord.
Arms. — Per fess, argent and or : a fess gules t itween
three roses proper, ranged fess-wise, in chief, & .d the
lower half of a mill-wheel, sable, in base.
The crest is not distinguishable, but should be a
grifSn issuant.
He died, according to the Gazette, "after a short
illness." In a Gazette Extraordinary of August 21,
1807, a notice was published intimating that moneys
levied in execution not having been paid in due time
to the individuals entitled to the same, " all indi-
viduals having claims of this' nature on the Provincial
Court of Galle and Matvu-a " were "to deliver the
same to J. W. Carrington, Esq., or the Acting
Provincial Judge of Matura." Carrington eventually
married a daughter of the Baron's.
To the memory of Capt. Alexander Macpheeson , of
his Majesty's First Ceylon Regiment, late Com-
mandant of Tangalle, who died on 21 May, 1813.
Aged 35 years.
Lieutenant Alexander Maepherson, 47thRegiment,
was gazetted Captain in Champagne's Regiment (1st
Ceylon Regiment), March 26, 1806.
lie was Commandant of Tangalla at the time of
his death.
Sacred to the memory of French Gray, late a Cap-
tain in His Majesty's 1st {sic) Ceylon Regt., aged
39 years, who departed this life at Matura on the
28th day of April, A.D. 1818, in consequence of
a fever contracted at Kattragam while in the
zealous discharge of his PubUc Duty, leaving a
disconsolate widow and six children of tender years
to deplore their irreparable loss. He was a good
husband and an affectionate father and a warm
friend. Weep not, he is not lost but gone before.
Ensign French Gray of the 66th Regiment was
gazetted Lieutenant in the Malay Regiment, vice
Baptist J. Young, deceased, on September 15, 1804.
He was Commandant of Batticaloa in 1813.
82-09
( 210 )
Dutch Church, Matara — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
756 ..
April 28 .
1818
. French Gray — contd.
Inscription.
He married, on January 6, 1807, at Jafina, Ursula
Theodora Mooyaart, bom at Jaffna, October 12, 1784,
died there, December 13, 1847, the daughter of Wouter
Christoffel Mooyaart and Cornelia Anthonia Dormieux ,
and granddaughter of Anthony Mooyaart, Comman-
deur of Jaffna, and Elizabeth Ursula Woutersz. His
son, French Gray, married at Jaffna, December 3,
1840, Susan Jane Warburton, the daughter of
Lieutenant Cosby Warburton by his first wife. Cosby
Warburton married secondly Arabella Cope Burleigh,
born 1813, died s.p. April, 1848, daughter of Dr. George
Burleigh, M.D., Police Magistrate of Kayts, and
Rebecca Kingsley. Captain French Gray's daughter
Sarah married Robert RusseU, Assistant Staff
Surgeon, on February 1, 1826. His daughter Caro-
line married Henry Smith, Ceylon Rifles (?), at
Jaffna Fort Church, January 10, 1833.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
757 ..
Oct. 20 .
1810
. Carl Johan Elsenhanz
758
Oct. 26
1811
Anthonetta Maria Theodora
Ehrhardt
Dutch Cemetery, Matara.
" The old burial ground seems to be neglected very mucli, and those gentlemen who are carrying out the
duties of elders and deacons of the Dutch Reformed Church should be ashamed of themselves to see the last
resting place of their fathers and forefathers left neglected." (A Colombo resident writing in Ceylon Literary
Register in 1890, vol. V., p. 122.) The same is true to-day. The entrance has been built up; the only access to
the burial ground is by climbing the wall.
Inscription.
Hier rust Gael Johan Elsenhanz zoon van den
Lieutenant MiUtaire HoU. dienst Cakl Fbed.
Elsenhanz. Geboren den 22 Jan. , 1784, overleed
20 Oct., 1810.
{Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., _p. 274; vol.
XVII., p. 65.)
Carl Frederik Elsenhanz of Bernhausen was
married at Matara, May 5, 1792, to Maria Theresia
de Leeuw, born 1776, daughter of Pieter de Leeuw
and Anna Maria Gosen. Carl Johan Elsenhanz was
their son.
Hier legt ter rust het lyk van den overledene Jufvouw
Anthonetta Mabla Theodoea Deybeet, echt-
genoot van den Eerw. Heer J. S. R. Ehehaedt.
Gebooren den 13 Juny, 1779, overleedt den 25
October, 1811. Oud zynde 32 jaaren 4 maanden en
22 dagen. Zalige zyn de doode die in den Heere
sterven van nu aen zo zegt de Geest op dat zy
rusten mogen van hunnen arbeid.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 273.)
Anthonetta Maria Theodora Deybert was born at
Jaffna, and married at Galle, August 10, 1805, Johan
Pieter Mattheas Ehrhardt of Langenzaltz (Thuringen).
She was the daughter of Johan Godfried Deybert of
Amstad (Schwarzbm-g, Sonderhausen), Captain of
the Jagers, Trincomalee, and Euphrosine Elisabeth
Baptist of Colombo. Her brother, Jacob Bernard
Deybert, was baptized at Colombo, December 14,
1774, and died at Batavia, February 23, 1808. He
received his education in Holland, and came out to
the Indies in 1791 in the ship Vasco de Oama as a
Marine Cadet, and was Administrator of the Iron
Magazine at the time of his death. He married at
Batavia, March 5, 1800, Johanna Wilhelmina Lette
of Ley den. His great-grandson Jan Fredrik Christiaan
Deybert is a Captain of the Artillery in the service of
the Dutch East Indies.
Ter gedagtenisse van den Heer Johan Philipsz
Woutbesz, Negotie overdrager, geweest in de
Edele Hollandsche dienst op Mature. Overleeden
April 4, 1828, oud 78 jaaren.
759
April 4
1828
Johan Philipsz Woutersz
( 211 )
Dutch Cemetery, Matara — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
759 ..
April 4
1828
. . Johan Philipsz Woutersz
contd.
760
June 30
1854
James Dunbar Robertson.
Inscription.
Translation. — To the memory of Johan Philipsz
WouTEESz, who was Negotie-overdrager in the Hon.
Dutch Service in Matara. Died 4 April, 1828,
aged 78 years.
Johan Philipsz Woutersz was the uncle of Maria
Theresia de Leeuw, wife of Carl Frederik Elsenhanz
(see No. 757).
In memory of James DimBAR Robeetson, late
District Judge of Matara, who died on the 30th
June, 1854, aged 42 years.
This monument is erected by a few of his affectionate
relatives in token of their regard and esteem for
him.
J. D. Robertson married at GaUe, June 9, 1834,
Wilhelmina Magdalenade Vos, bom October 17, 1810,
daughter of Johannes Andreas de Vos and Johanna
Gerrardina Kryger.
He was PoUce Magistrate at Gampola from
October 1, 1845, and must be the Magistrate referred
to by WiUiam Boyd in his " Autobiography of a
Periya Durai," in not too flattering terms. He was
District Judge of Tangalla in 1846. At the time of his
marriage he was Government schoolmaster at Galle.
The Cemetery, Matara.
761
Oct. 20
1887
Fannie Catherine Hopkins .
Sacred to the memory of FAinsriE Catherine, the
dearly beloved wife of Edward Francis Hopkins,
C.C.S., Dt. Judge of Matara, and daughter of
Charles John Battersby, Esqr., Cramlyn, Cy.
Westmeath, Ireland.
She fell asleep October 20, 1887.
Mr. E. F. Hopkins, B.A., Trinity CoUege, Dubhn.
was in the Civil Service^ 1874-1907, retiring as
Government Agent, Eastern Province.
St. Thomas's Church, Matara.
762
Dec. 8
1900
Walter Bayly
To the glory of God and in memory of Walter
Bayly, some time Reader of this Church, bom
14 June, 1873, died 8 Dec, 1900, this screen
was erected by his Ceylon friends. Consummatus
in brevi exflevit tempora multa. Sap. iv., 13, R.I. P.
He had been for eight years in the New Guinea
Mission.
Palliyawatta, near 107th milestone on the road from Matara to Tangalla
763 Anril 2 . . Si man de Li vera
April 2
1795
Ter eere van Lienne Siman de Livera.
4/1795/2.
obit
From the name Palliyawatta it seems hkely that
there was a Dutch church or school here.
( 212 )
TANGALLA.
Old Burial Ground.
This is just outside the wall of the fort, now the jail,
Serial No. Date. Name.
764 . . Dec. 29 . . Charles William Lewis
1816 Roberts
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Captain Chas. Wm. Lewis
Roberts, of H. M. 2nd Ceylon Regiment, who
departed this life on the 29th December, 1816.
Aged 42 years.
He was Commandant of Hambantota at the time of
his death. He was appointed, while 2nd Lieutenant,
to the command at Tangalla, February 1, 1811 ; 1st
Lieutenant, March 17, 1811 ; to have the colonial
rank of Captain and to command the Malaj' and
Sepoy invahds stationed at Hambantota and PaHtoo-
pane ; and to be Staff Ofl&cer of the Mahagampattoo
district, November 16, 1814.
Captain Roberts was son of Edward Roberts, said
to have been a Magistrate of Preston, Lancashire, by
hiswifeMary Ensor. He married, about 1792. Nancy
Hamilton Lever, daughter of Richard Lever by Alice
Hamilton, his wife, supposed to be a descendant of
the 3rd Duke of Hamilton. He had many brothers,
one being a Captain in the Royal Artillery. He had
seven daughters and one son : the eldest daughter,
Maria, born December 25, 1793, m^arried James
Scratchley, Surgeon, R.A. : she died July 18, 1857
(see No. 307) ; the second, EUza, born 1797, married
Captain O'Shea, 19th Regiment (see No. 310); the
third daughter, Nancy, died unmarried ; the fourth,
Jane, born in 1803, died in 1893 at Croydon ; the
fifth, Charlotte, born 1805, died in 1893 at Southsea;
the sixth, born in 1809, married Alexander Acheson,
and died at Croydon in 1884. Their daughter,
Georgina Adelaide, married Mr. Charles Crow of
Croydon. The youngest daughter married the Rev.
J. Smith of Aberdeen. The son, Edward James
William, born in 1810, died in 1894 at Toronto,
Canada. A son of his survives.
On the Bund of the Ennipitiya Tank.
765
April 15
1819
Maria Dorothy Altendorf . .
Here alas, lays buried under
Prom Soul and Spirit asunder
The Body
of Lady
Mabia Dorothy Ketblhack,
Who was in her hfe
A most pious wife
During twenty years marriage
To
Mr. Lawrence Peter Altendorf,
Chief Clerk of the Katchery
. of Tangalla.
Born at Cochien on the 8th of
July, A.D. 1767.
And expired the 15th of April,
A.D. 1819,
At Tangalla.
This epitaph is e\ddently the composition of a
Dutchman, iraperfectly acquainted with English ;
hence the peculiar phraseology and the use of the
word " Lady " for " Mrs."
Lawrence Peter Altendorf, baptized at Galle on
June 16, 1771, married Maria Dorothy Ketelhack
(widow of Lieutenant Coint) on November 29, 1799.
He was the son of Johannes Altendorf and Adriana
Dorothea Durven, and grandson of Marten Lodewyk
Altendorf of Berlin, and Maria Jansz.
{ 213 )
HAMBANTOTA.
Esplanade.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
766 ..
Aug. 7
. . Henry John St. John . . Sa
Inscription.
I to the memory of Henry John St. John,
1821 Esquire, late of his Majesty's Civil Service in
Ceylon, third son. of Lieutenant-General the
Honourable Frederick St. John, and nephew of
Earl Craven and Lord Viscount BoLmGBROKE
and St. John, who died at Paltoopane of a bihous
fever on the 7th August, 1821, aged twenty-three.
Most deeply regretted by his numerous friends and
acquaintances. In Celo Quies.
This monument is opposite the Assistant Govern-
ment Agent's x'esidence, and close to it is another
grave without inscription. They have probably
given rise to the saying that at Hambantota the only
prospect the Assistant Government Agent has from
his house is the graves of his predecessors, though
the same has been said of Mullaittivu. At the latter
place, though there is a graveyard in front of the
Assistant Government Agent's house, none of his
predecessors is buried in it.
H. St. John was on a shooting excursion. He had
but recently arrived in Ceylon, and was appointed
Assistant to the Collector on February 1 , 1821. " The
many amiable traits in his character and disposition
had already acquired him the goodwill and regard of
all who knew him and the friendship and attachment
of his more immediate intimates. He can be remem-
bered by the former as the gentleman in every act of
his short career among them, while his constant cheer-
fulness, great obligingness of disposition, and the
Kberal character of his sentiments and conduct will
long preserve in the recollection of the latter the
loss they have sustained in his death." (Oazette,
August 14, 1821.)
A younger brother, Charles, of Henry's father and
of the third Viscount Bolingbroke and St. John had a
grandson, Henry Craven St. John, Captain, R.N., who
married a daughter of J. S. Rodney, CCS.
The Cemetery, Hambantota.
767 . . March 31 . . James Speedy . . Sacred to the memory of Jambs Speedy, Esqr.,
1861 Staff Assistant Surgeon, who departed this Ufe
on the 31st of March, 1861, aged 24 years. This
monument has been erected by his brother officers
and a few other sincere friends in token of their
affectionate regard and esteem.
Ho died " after an illness of four days' remittent
fever, before Dr. Loftus could reach him. He was
much esteemed by the people of Hambantota."
(Colombo Observer.)
768 . . June 20 . . Eliza Katherine Steele . . In loving memory of Eliza Katherine, the beloved
1875 wife of Thomas Steele, who died June 20th,
1875, aged 32.
Thomas Steele, C.C.S., Assistant Government
Agent, Hambantota, married Elizabeth Katheriae,
daughter of Captain Jolly, at St. Paul's, Kandy,
on June 8, 1865. Another daughter married Sir
William Kjmsey, late Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Thomas Steele was the third son of William Steele,
author of " The Beauties of Gilsland " and poems,
and was born at Walton, near Brampton, Cumber-
land, on May 27, 1834. He was educated at Croft
House School.
"In 1856, on the first throwing open of Civil Service
appointments to competitive examination, he was
nominated by Lord Taunton and obtained a place
in the Civil Service of Ceylon. He sailed for Ceylon
on September 4th, 1856. He retired on pension in
1876.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
768 ..
June 20 .
1875 •
. Eliza Katherine Steele
( 214 )
The Cemetery, Hambantota— cowfe?.
Inscription.
-contd. " While in Ceylon he held tho appointments of
District Judge at Chilaw; Assistant Government
Agent at Kurunegala and at Galle; Magistrate and
Commissioner at Kandy, in the Central Province ;
Assistant Government Agent of Hambantota.
"In 1871 he published a metrical version of the
' Kusa Jatakaya, an Eastern Love Story ' (Messrs.
Trubner and Co.), a poetical legend of one of the-
incarnations of Buddha, one of the m.ost attractive
works in the whole range of Sinhalese literature.
Mr. Steele also published in 1871 a volume of original
poems entitled ' Under the Pahns ' (Messrs. Samp-
son, Low, Marston and Co.).
"Mr. Steele was instrumental in bringing under
administrative control and regulating the number of
pilgrims attending the yearly pilgrimage to Katara-
gama, which, for a long series of years, had been too
frequently the source and disseminating means of
spreading cholera, smallpox, and other destructive
diseases over the whole of Ceylon and Southern.
India. The changes made have had the happiest
effects in reducing disease.
' ' He took an active part in promoting the formation
and restoration of the large irrigation works at liirama
and Tissamaharama.
" Mr. Steele was twice married, his first wife being
Miss E. K. Jolly, eldest daughter of Captain John
Keith Jolly, H.E.I.C.S., of Farieland, Kandy, at on©
time member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon ;
and his second. Miss Hellen Stavert, daughter of
A. Stavert, Dykecrofts, Liddlesdale, a near relation
of the distinguished family of Malcolms of Burnfoot,.
Langhobn.
" Mr. Steele was proprietor of Friarsgarth (where he
resides), of Scaur Estate, Irthington, and Bracken-
bank, on the banks of the river Eden, above Wetheral,
all in Cumberland, for which county he was a
Justice of the Peace." (Abridged from " The
Biographer," 1895.)
769 . . Dec. 1 . . Arthur Heberdea Baker . . Sacred to the memory of Authub Hebbeden Bakeb,.
1892 son of John Gaulai^d Bakee of Mahagastotte,
Nuwara Eliya, born August 30, 1849, died
December 1st, 1892.
John Garland Baker and his wife are buried at
Nuwara Eliya. He was a brother of Sir Sam.ueL
Baker.
( 215 )
JAFFNA.
Dutch Church.
"This church is, in point of date, the oldest of the existing ecclesiastical edifices of the Dutch in
€eylon. It was erected in 1706— nearly half a century previous to the building of the churches at Wolvendaal
and Galle— during the administration of the Honourable Adam van der Duyn, Commandeur of Jaffnapatam.
The architect and builder was Martinus Leusskam, who is described in an old family record as Baas Landmeter
m the Company's Service at Jaffnapatam, i.e., chief of the Survey Department, with rank of an onderkoop-
man. The resident clergyman was the Rev. PhiUppus de Vriest, and the following formed the Consistory :
Arnout Mom, Alexander Ravens, Jan Lodewyk Stomphius, Marten Anthonisz, Jan Marten Verdonk, and
Louis Verwyk." (R. G. Anthonisz in "Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union," vol. II., p. 99.)
" The date over the main entrance is 1706 ; but an older building probably occupied this site, as the
-church contains tombstones of, inter alia, 1666, 1672, 1673, and 1693 let into the floor, and no doubt in situ.
" The Portuguese church, according to the plan of the fort in Baldseus's book, stood near the opposite
corner of the fort gresn, so that the Dutch would seem to have built a church on a different site, and this
church was either rebuilt or a new church built in 1706. The present church possesses the beU of its Portu-
guese predecessor, bearing the legend of ' N. S. dos Milagres de Jafanapatao' (Our Lady of Miracles of
Jaffnapatam) and the date 1648. The bell was until repently in the beKry, but has been removed into the
vestry for better preservation. Sketches of the exterior and interior made by the German geometrician and
traveller Heydt in 1733 show what the church was hke in that year, and their fidelity derives corroboration
irom some water-colour drawings made by a Dutchman, 0. Steiger, in 1760, which are preserved in the Rijks
Museum at Amsterdam. The church is little changed at the present day. Both artists repisesent the lantern
as having externally a balustrade carried on the walls at the spring, capped with eight stone or cement balls
at the corners, and the roof of the lantern is more high-pitched than it is at present. The disappearance of
these two features is a decided loss to the building, the lantern now being too squat to be effective.
" The details of the belfry are rather different, but this may be due to the artists having not paid much
attention to copying their exact form.
" The interior, too, is much the same. The pulpit is now what is known as a chaUce pulpit ; but the
•shaft or column on which it stands is of different workmanship from the rest of the pulpit, and the old
engravings show that originally the pulpit was attached to the wall. The sounding-board is the same as it was,
suspended by a twisted iron rod.
"The present organ gallery, which is of wood, seems to have been erected at the same time as the
alteration in the pulpit was made. The organ in Heydt's time, stood on a platform supported by stone pillars
at the west end, but in 1760 there was a stone platform at the end of the north transept. The window here has
been built up. We need not, however, regret the substitution for the original gallery of the present wooden one,
seeing that it has given us the quaint carved and painted panel on which is represented King David, very bald,
harping on his harp and glancing between whiles at the Psalm book resting on a reading desk of the eighteenth
■century, on the open page of which is displayed the beginning of a psalm written in the Greek language and
alphabet
" The Commandeur's pew, which is at the angle of the chancel and south transept opposite the pulpit,
has been somewhat altered, and so have the stalls next to it. Both Heydt and Steiger depict the former with
twisted columns, which have since been replaced by rounded ones with capitals. It and the stalls are of
different Ceylon woods, the mouldings of the latter being ebony. These stalls are of typical Dutch outhne,
surmounted by shells carved in ebony.
' ' There are stalls of plainer pattern the whole length of the western walls of the nave and transepts. Some'
of the wooden hat pegs and of the iron brackets for lamps or candles still remain, and there is a wooden peg
on the front panel of the pulpit on which the precentor, before seating himself in the desk below, used to hang,
just above his head, his firee-cornered hat.
"The doors have large iron hinges, bolts, and handles of Dutch pattern ; that of the Commandeur's pew
is of brass on a brass plate of artistic design.
" A curious external feature is the staircase leading up the wall and over the gable of the north transept
to the west gable, and up this gable to the beffry.
" It should be added that the interior was to some extent re-arranged when, in the earher part of last
<;entury, English services were held in it. A platform with altar rails was erected at the east end, and a font
supplied at the west. It is probable that there were originally stalls against the east wall, in accordance with
the Dutch fashion. The church is now the property of the Ceylon Government ; but with the permission of
Crovernment services are occasionally held in it." (J. P. Lewis in Architectural Review, August, 1907.)
Inscription.
. . Hierrust Maegaeita Romans, gewesene huysvrouw
van den Predikant Bartholomeus Heynen.
Obiit 27en Augusti anno 1666 out 18 jaeren.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIH., p. 395.)
This stone was found in 1904 beneath the masonry
flooring of the Commandeur's pew. A portion at the
top had been cut off to make it fit in.
Margarita Romans was born at Batavia, being the
daughter of the Rev. Johannes Romans of Haarlem,
Predikant, Batavia, and Maria, the daughter of
Hendrick Pot of Amsterdam, whom he married at
Batavia, November, 1647. Johannes Romans was the
son of Adriaan Romans , a shopkeeper of Haarlem . He
died in 1668. Bartholomeus Heynen was born at
Paraiba (Brazil) in the year 1644, and was Prediliant
at Jaffna in conjunction with the Rev. Phihp Bal-
daeus. He died in 1686.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
770 ..
Aug. 27
1666
Margarita Heynen
( 216 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
771 .
Date.
Aug. 15
1672
Name.
Joris Hartsinck
77:
Sept. 1
1672
Marten Huismans
Inscription.
Hier leyt begraven JoRis Hartsinck in syn leve»
ondercoopman in dienst der Vereenigde Neder-
lantse Oost-Indische Compe. Overleeden den 15
August, 1672. Oud 29 jaren.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVni., p. 394.)
Arms. — Barry wavy of 6, azure and argent ; on a
chief gules, a orescent or.
Orest. — A Hon issuant, proper, holding in his dexter
paw a thorn branch vert.
This stone was also discovered in 1904 beneath th&
flooring of one of the two sets of stalls probably set
up in English times in the " chancel" of the Dutch
Reformed Church.
Vorsteman van Oyen (Stam en Wapen boek van
aanzienlyke Nederlandsche Famihen) says that the-
family derives from Pieter Hartsinck, who married in
1403 Francyn Pietersz. Their son Adriaan married
Soetj© Coster Marytje, daughter of Adriaan^
married Hugo Willemsz. The son of this marriage,
Willem Hugens, assumed the name and arms of the
Hartsinck family. He was the great-great-grand-
father of Joris Hartsinck, who received the name of
Joris from his grandfather, who was Burgomaster of
Meurs. The parents of Joris were Carel Hartsinck,
Director-General of the Dutch Indies (died 1667), and
Sara de Solemne, the half-sister of Ester de Solemne,
the wife of Rycloff van Goens (senior). Governor of
Ceylon.
Hier onder Jongen Marten leyt
Een lely van Huismans stam gemelt
Vier Maenden was syn levens tydt
En twintich dagen meer beschreyt.
Obiit 1 Sept., Ao. 1672.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 258; vol. XVH., p. 27.)
Marten Huismans, bom at Jaffna, was the son of
Marten Huismans of Rotterdam, Director of Bengal,
and Magdalena Chasteljm, and grandson of Antony
Huismans of Rotterdam and Lea van Waesberg. Ho-
was therefore the xincle of Catharina Magdalena
Huismans, wife of Governor Gustaaf Willem Baron
van Imhoff.
773
Sept. 23
1675
Barent van Sehuylenburg
Hier legt begraven Barent van Sohuylenbitrg, in
syn leven Capiteyn ten dienst der E. Compe.
Overleden den 23en September, Ao. 1675.
Wat leven erft.
Vergaet en sterft.
(i^id.. Vol. XVin.,p. 67.)
Arms — Or, three crampons, sable.
This tomb was discovered by the compiler in 1904
under the wooden platform erected at the east end in
British times to serve for the sanctuary. The officer
it commemorates was in command of the garrison
of Mannar in 1665. It consisted of 78 Germans. (See
" Instructions from the Governor-General and Council
of India to the Governor of Ceylon," 1656-65, pub-
lished at the Government Printing Office, Colombo,
1908, p. 106.)
Barent van Sehuylenburg was the father of Anna
van Sehuylenburg of Jaffna, who mamed, in 1715,
Otto Cloot of Dordrecht, born 1662, died as Com-
missioner of Marriage Causes, Batavia, in 1733. Otto
Cloot was previously married to Mechteld Hagemans.
Their daughter, Gerardina, was the wife, firstly, of
Marten Huismans, born Jaffna, 1673, died Batavia,
1708, the son of Marten Huismans and Magdalena
Chastelyn ; secondly, of Pieter van Hoorn, widoweifof
Magdalena Huismans , the sister of her first husband ;
thirdly, of CorneKs van Bynkershoek, the great Dutch
judge and jurist. Gerardina Cloot was therefore the
aunt of the wife of Governor van Imhoff.
774
Sept. 22
1679
Laurens Pyl
Hier leyt begraven Laurens Pyl een jonge zoontje
vandenHeere Commandeur Laurens Pyl, geboren
den 4en Mey en overleden den 22en September,.
1679.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 257 ; vol. XVH., p. 26.)
( 217 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
774 ..
Sept. 22
1679
. Laurens Pyl— cow«cZ,
775
Feb. 12
1693
Susanna Blom
776
July 30
1693
Gerardus van Rhee
777
July 3
1694
Floris Blom
778
April 6
1705
Francois van de Sande
779
Nov. 7
1705
Barta Augustin
2g
Inscription.
Commandeur Laurens Pyl was a native of Amster-
dam, and came out as a hooplooper, i.e., in
expectation of getting office under the Company, in
1654, in the ship de Vreede. He married Johanna
van Dielen of Haarlem, by whom he had, besides
Laurens, a daughter, Gysberta, born at Jaffna,
married at Colombo, December 7, 1690, Claas Alebos,
Dissave of Colombo.
Hier leyt begraven JufEr. Susanna Sebbingiers,
huysvrouw van d. Hr. Commandeur Flobis Blom,
gebooren tot Haarlem den 26 February, 1669, en
gestorven tot Jaffanapatnam den 12 Febr., 1693.
Fui quod es
Sum quod eris.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 257.)
Floris Blom was a native of Zaandam. He married
secondly, Susanna Serringiers at Colombo, January
27, 1686, his first wife being Adriana Alebos.
Dese sark bedekt het en laetste overschot van
Gbraedtjs van Rhee wiens ziele rust by God.
Geboren tot Nagapatm. den Sen Augusto Ao. 1670,
overleden 30 en July, Ao. 1693, oud 22 jaren 11
maanden en 27 dagen, in zyn leven boekhouder.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 258.)
Arms. — (Van Rhee) already blazoned.
Gerrardus van Rhee was the son of Thomas van
Rhee of Wyk-by-Duurstede, Governor of Ceylon,
and Henrietta van Kriekenbeek of the same town.
Thomas van Rhee was probably the son of Captain
Willem van Rhee (Artillery), died at Wyk-by-
Duurstede, March 10, 1667, by his wife Margarita
van Hengst, born at Wyk-by-Duurstede, December
12, 1598, died there April 28, 1667.
Hier rust de Commandeur Flobis Blom, geboren tot
Sardam anno 1651 den 27 October en alhier over-
leden den 3 July, 1694, out 42 jaaren en 8 maan.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 256; vol. XVII., p. 26.)
Arms. — Azure, a swan argent, beaked gules,
between two water lilies (?) and nageant in a water,
argent.
Crest. — Three ostrich feathers.
These arms are the dexter impalement of the chief
on the arms of Pieter Florisse Bloni, Vice-admiral,
seventeenth century. They were, according to
Rietstap (Armorial General) : coupe au 1 parti :
(a) d'azur a un cygne d'arg. bq. de gu. nageant sur
une eau d'arg.: (6) d'arg. a un navire de trois mats au
nat. pavillionn6 de gu. la poupe a sen. soutenu
d'une mer d'arg. : au 2 de gu a trois canettes d'arg.
nageantes sur une mer du meme.
Floris Blom of Saandam married (1) Adriana
Alebos, and (2) Susanna Serringiers. (See No. 776.)
Onder dese sark rust den Eerwe. Heer FBAN901S van
DE Sande in syn leven geweest bedienaer des
goddelyken woorts van de gemeynte Jesu Christi,
alhier overleden den 6en April, Ao. 1705, hebbende
geleeft 39 jaren 7 msenden en 20 dagen.
(/6*ci., vol. XV.,p. 261.)
Arms. — Argent, 3 trefoils gules.
Grest. — A trefoil as in the arms, between a pair of
wings gules.
Frangois van de Sande sailed for the Chamber
"Amsterdam" as Predikant in the Banibeek. He
arrived at Batavia on November 22, 1700, and was
sent to Ceylon, July 17, 1702.
Hier onder legt en rust Babta Beckeeing huysvrouw
van den Coopman en administrateur Atjgusttjs
Augustin, overleden den 7 November, Ao. 1705,
op Saturday, out synde 56 jaaren ses maenden en
29 dagen.
[Ihid., vol. XV., p. 216.)
82-09
( :il8 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
780 ..
May 22
1727
Swem Anderson
781
Feb. 10
1729
Arnold Moll
782
Oct. 25
1731
Elbregt Brengman
783
April 28
1737
Jurriaan Potken
Inscription.
Swem Anderson van Stockholm in desselts leven
Commandeur van 't coningryck Jaffanapatnam,
oud 60 jaren en 6 maenden en in den Heere gerust
den 22en May, Ao. 1727.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 262; vol.
XVn., p. 28.)
Arms. — A naermaid issuing from the sea and
holding in her dexter hand a trident directed down-
wards.
Crest. — A peacock's feather.
Swem Anderson married (1) at Colombo, June 12,
1695, Agnita Stuart of Colombo, and (2) at Colombo,
April 22, 1707, Maria Munster, born September
10, 1676, widow and third wife of Hendrik Nicolaas
Hesse of Ulm (Thuringen). Hesse married (1), Feb-
ruary 3, 1686, Johanna Margarita van den Veen,
and (2) at Colombo, August 3, 1687, Susanna
Magdalena Mooyaart.
Hier onder rust 't lyk van den Wei Edelen Heer
Arnold Moll, in desselfs leven geweest Raad
Extra- Ordinair van Nederlands India en Com-
mandeur van het Koningryk Jaffanapatnam,
geboren tot Batavia den 5en May, Ao. 1675, en in
den Heere gerust den 10 February, Ao. 1729, oud
53 jaaren 9 maanden en 5 dagen.
(/6«"d., vol. XV., p. 257.)
Arms. — Argent, 3 moles.
Crest. — A mole between a pair of wings.
Arnold Moll married Christina van Reede. He
was probably the son of Cornells Moll, Secretary of
the Weeskamer, Batavia. His daughter Gysberta
Augustina, born at Colombo, April 18, 1717, died July
16, 1740, was married to Mauritz Pasque de Cha-
vonnes of Bergen-op-Zoom, son of Mauritz Pasque
de Chavonnes, Governor of the Cape (1714—34).
Epitaphium.
Hier onder rust 't lyk van D'Heer Elbregt Breng-
man, in desselfs leven geweest coopman en
administrateur van Jaffanapatam, geboren tot Gale
den 4 Maart, 1685, en in den Heere gerust den 25
October, Ao. 1731, oud 46 jaren 7 maanden en 21
dagen.
(Ihid., vol. XV., pp. 251, 257, 258; vol. XVII.,
p. 27.)
Arms. — ^Argent, a man, proper, carryiog a load .
suspended on a pole over the right shoulder.
Crest. — A man as in the arms.
Elbregt Brengman, baptized at Galle, March 4,
1685, was the son of Jan Brengman of Bremen and
Johanna Maria Baalde. Elbregt married (1) Agatha
Otley, and (2) Sara Moll.
Hier leyd begraven de Heer Jtjrriaan Potken
van Oldenzeel, in syn Eds. leeven coopman en
Administrateur deeses JafEanapatnamsen Com-
mandements, gebooren den 7 Augusto, Ao. 1698,
overleeden den 28n. AprU, Ao. 1737, oud 38
jaren 8 maanden en 21 dagen.
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 261 ; vol. XVH., p. 28.)
Arms. — Quarterly: 1, argent, a pelican vulning
herself (Muntz). 2 and 3, argent, a pot proper
(Potken). 4, azure, a three-masted ship, or, on a
sea, vert (Woutersz).
Crest. — A pair of wings.
Stone 8 feet 2 inches by 4 feet.
Jurriaan Potken married Hester Agathe Woutersz,
daughter of Gualterus Woutersz, Commandeur of
Jaffna, and Hester Otl*y. She married, as widow
Potken, Christopher Kleybert of Schwynfurt, Dis-
save of Jaffna.
Jurriaan Potken, Gerrardus Potken, Wilhelmina
Potken, and Agnita Potken were children of Gabriel
( 219 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
783 ■ .
Date.
April 28
1737
Name.
Jurriaan Potken — contd.
784
Dec. 13
1737
Iman de Jonge
785
May 15
1741
Daniel Agreen
786
Jan. 7
1745
Christopher Kleybert
787
March 9
1749
Abraham' Aarnoutsz
Inscription.
Potken and Agnita Muntz. Gerrardus was a Predi-
kant in Ceylon, and died at Colombo, August 8, 1762.
He married, (1) Sophia Magdalena Ecoma, ajgd (2),
at Colombo, Jiine 16, 1737, Clara van Wynbergen of
Leyden. WiUielmina was married to Jan Philip
Stork, brother of Garrard Willem Stork, Burgomaster
of Oldenzaal, who married Agnita Potken. Jan Philip
Stork was the ancestor of the Stork family of Ceylon.
Hier legt begraven het lyk van Den E. Hear Iman
DE Jonge van Zierikzee, in zyn leeven Comman-
deur van Jaffanapatnam. Overleeden den 13
December,
den en . . .
Ao. 1737, oud
dagen.
jaren maan-
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 259; vol.
XVII.,p. 27.)
Arms. — Or, a fess onde azure between ten stars, five
in chief (2, 3) and five in base (3, 2).
Stone 8 feet 7 inches by 4 feet 3 inches.
Iman de Jong, born at Zierickzee, January 10,
1698, was the son of Johan de Jong and Sara Danc-
kers. He married at Malacca, October 7, 1731,
Margarita Elisabeth Heynen, widow of Joan Fredrik
Gobius, Governor of Malacca, whose daughter,
Adriana Gobius, was the mother of Iman Willem
Falck, Governor of Ceylon.
Hier legt begraven het lyk van den E. Agtb. Heer
Daniel Agreen van Jongkopping in de prov.
Smaland , in zyn E . leven Commandeur van Jaffana-
patnam, overleden den 15 May, Ao. 1741, oud
jaaren maanden en dagen.
Geen wysheid was ooyb zoo groot
Als dikmaals denken om den dood.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 259.)
Arms. — Argent, a chevron between three trefoils.
Crest. — A trefoil between a pair of wings.
Stone 8 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 2 inches.
Jonkopping is the chief town of a district of the
same name in Sweden, province of Smaland, 82 miles
north-east from Gottenburg.
Hier legt begraven den Ed. Agtbare Heer Chris-
topher KiiEYBBRT, geboorteg van Swynfort, in
syn wel Edele agtbare leeven opperooopman en
Dessave van 't Koningryk Jaffanapatnam.
Overleeden den 7 January, Ao. 1745, in den ouderdom
van 47 jaaren 9 maanden en 3 daagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 260; vol. XVH., p. 28.)
Arms. — ^Argent, an anchor , on a chief azure,
three trefoils (1, 2).
(Johannes) Christopher Kleybert married Hester
Agatha Woutersz, daughter of Gualterus Woutersz,
Commandeur of Jaffna, and Hester Otley.
The daughter of Christopher Kleybert, Magdalena
WiUieknina Hester Kleybert, was married to Chris-
tiaan van Teylingen, Governor of Coroiiiandel.
Their son Theodorus, Chief of the Cirmamon Depart-
ment (Ceylon), married Elizabeth ComeKa Schroter.
{Gf. Cotton, " Indian Monumental Inscriptions,"
p. 313.)
Stone 8 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 2 inches.
Hier onder legt begraven het lyk van den E. Heer
Abraham Aarnoutsz van Batavia, Oppercoop-
man en Dessave alhier, gebooren den 26 Decembr. ,
Ao. 1703, overleden Ao. 1749, den 9 maart
'snagts ten half 2 uuren oud 45 jaren 2 maanden
en 11 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. ID/., p. 262.)
Stone 8 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 2 inches.
Abraham Aarnoutsz married Antonia van Pelt,
who afterwards married Jacob de Jong, Commandeur
of Jaffna.
( 220 )
Dutch Church, Jatina,—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
787 ..
March 9
1749
. Abraham Aarnoutsz — contd.
788
Aug. 23
1749
Maria Sophia de Jong
789
790
Oct. 12
17.51
Nov. 18
1748
Susanna Anthonia de Jong
Julius Abraham Aarnout-
sen
791
July 30
1766
Johanna Wirman
792
Jan. 1
1767
Anthony Mooyaart
793
March 26
1769
Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron de
Reder
Inscription.
The arms are difficult to blazon. They seSm to be :
argent, 14 capital letters I ranged in fess 6, 5, 3, the
second and foiirth and the second of the second and
third rows respectively being surmounted by a billet
gules. Crest : a peacock. A family of Pelten bears
the arms argent, a bend azure between 6 billets
sable, ranged en orle.
Hier onder legt begraven het lyk van Mejuffw,
MaAia Sophia Ravens van JafEanapatnam in haar
leven huysvrouw van den Ed. Heer Commandeur
alhier Jacob de Jong, geboren, Ao. 1706, den 24
Juny, overladen Ao. 1749, den 23 Augs. 'snagts
ten 11 uuren oud 43 jaren 1 maand en 29 dagen.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 260.)
Arms. — Party per pale, (1) a demi-eagle issuing
from the pale line, (2) party per fess, a bird contoum^
in chief and a trefoil in base.
Crest. — An eagle (?), wings expanded.
Her first husband was Carl Pieter Swensen, son
of Pieter Swensen, schoolmaster, and Isabella Pieris.
Maria Sophia Ravens was perhaps the daughter of
Sixtus Bartholomeusz Ravens and Rosaira Dangeru.
Hier rust het lyk van Mejuffrouw Susaitna Antho-
nia VAN Pelt waarde huysvrouw van den E.
Agtbaren Heer Jaffanapatnams Commandeur
Jacob de Jong, geboren te Batavia den 22 Maart,
1727, obiit den 12 Octobr., 1751, oud 24 jaren 6
maanden en 27 dagen.
Nog legt hieronder het Zoontje van gemeld JuSws
Julius Abeaham Aaenoutsen, natus te Colombo
den 21 Mey, 1747, obiit den 18 November, 1748,
oud 1 jaar 5 maanden en 27 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 260; vol. XVII. , p. 28; vol.
XVin., pp. 6.3, 64.)
(See No. 787.)
Hier legt begraven mejuff Johanna Verwyk huys-
vrouw van den ondercoopman en cassier Aarnout
WiRMAJsr, gebooren te JafEanapatnam in den jaare
1738 den 25 January, overleden den 30 July, 1766,
oud 28 jaaren 6 maand. 5 d.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 262.)
Ik bevindt nu gewis^
Dat sterven mjm gewin is.
Hier onder legt het lyk van den Ed. Agtbaaren
Heer oud Commandeur Anthony Mooyaaet,
alhier gebooren den Gen December, Ao. 1698,
overleden Po. January, Ao. 1767, oud 68 jaaren
en 25 dagen.
(Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 225, 234, 250, 251, 255, 258,
262, 285 ; vol. XVII., pp. 18, 23, 27, 28, 31.)
Arms. — A mermaid issuing from the sea and holding
in her dexter arm a trident.
Crest. — A mermaid as in the arms.
Stone 8 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 2 inches.
Anthony Mooyaart was the son of Nicolaas Moo-
yaart and Johanna van Bsohweiler, and grandson
of Anthony Mooyaart of Amsterdam, surgeon, and
Maria Durhee.
Fred. Wilh. liber Baron de Reder, Nat. Goldbergse
in Silesia, D. XXV., Maii MDCCVI. Mort. JafEana-
patnam D. XXVI. Mart. M.D.CCLXIX.
[Ibid., vol. XVni., p. 63.)
' ' A curious and elaborate wooden hatchment
in the quasi-classical and sentimental style
of the period. The Baron's coat of arms , surmounted
by Time, represented by his head and wings onTy,
one wing being folded, is flanked by the figure of
a lady in classical costume, who turns away to wipe
her tears with a handkerchief, and by a suit of
( 221 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna— confc^.
Serial No. Date.
793 .. March 26
1769
Name.
Friedrieh Wilhelm, Baron de
Reder — contd.
794"
March 27
1769
Fredrik Willem, Baron de
Reder
795
Dec. 16
1773
Johanna de Vos
796
June 23
1774
Hendrina Philipina Nagel.
797
June 15
1788
Maria Sophia de Bock
Inscription,
armour and modern military emblems. At the foot
a boy reading from a book proclaims with a trumpet
the Baron's title and services. At the back among
other flags is a white one with a gold border, and
displaying the monogram
in gold — apparently
the banner of the Dutch Company." (Architectural
Review, vol. XXII., p. 77.)
Arms. — Same as those of Henrietta Tugendreich,
Baroness de Reder, already blazoned.
Friedrieh Wilhelm, Baron de Reder of Goldberg,
came out to the East Indies as a Sergeant in the
service of the Dutch Company in the ship Amsterdam
in 1762. He was a Major in 1766. He married
Constantia Carohna, Baroness van Kerbus. Their
daughter Constantia Agnita, born at Zutphen,
September 13, 1741, married at Batavia, January 23,
1763, -Dr. Christiaan Rose, Commandeur of Jaffna.
Fredrik Willem, Baron de Redee, Majoor en
Commandant te Jaffanapatnam. Begraven den
27 Maart Anno 1769.
(Journal, R. A.S. , C.B. , vol. XV. , p. 260 ; vol. XVH.
p. 28; vol. XVIII.,p. 63.)
This inscription is on his tomb in the floor of the
church close to the hatchment.
Hier onder legt begraven het lyk van Mejuffrouw
JoHAiJNA VAN DutTEEN Van Gale, in haar leeven
huyvrouw van den Opperkoopman, Secunde en
Dessave van Jaffanapatnam GeeS,it de Vos.
Gebooren Ao. 1736, den 13 April, en overleden Ao.
1773, den 16 December, oud 37 jar. 8 maanden en 3
dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 258 ; vol. XVII., p. 27.)
Arms. — Party per pale, (1) on a mount vert, a
tree proper, (2) or, a fox rampant, gules.
Stone 8 feet 8 inches by 4 feet.
Gerrit de Vos of Negapatnam was the brother of
Thomasia de Vos, the wife of JanSchaarken, Adminis-
trateur, Galle. Gerrit de Vos married (1) at Galle,
SeiJtember 30, 1753, Johanna van Duuren, born at
Galle, April 13, 1736, daughter of Dirk van Duuren
and Gertruida van den Broeck. He married (2) at
Jaffna, June 22, 1777, Aletta Speldewinde of Jafina,
widow of the Chief Siwgeon August Christiaan Gotter.
Hende. Phil. Vos huysvrouw van den Ordinr.
vuurwerker Thomas Nagel. Geboren 20 May,
anno 1754. Overleeden 23 Juny, anno 1774.
(Ibid., vol XVIII., p. 64.)
Hendrina Phihpina Vos, baptized at Colombo on
August 9, 1754, was the daughter of Hendrik Marten
Vos of Bussenbot, Chief of Kilkare and Resident of
Manipaar, and Johanna Carlier. She was the first wife
of Thomas Nagel. He married, (2), Johanna Sophia
Brochet de la Touperse, daughter of (Johannes) Louis
Brochet de la Touperse of Metz and Ursula Magdalena
Otley, (3), July 23, 1797, Petronella Numan, widow
of the Rev. Johannes Engelbert Hugonis.
This stone was found let into the floor of a bungalow
on a coconut estate at Navatkuh, 4 miles from
Jaffna, to which it had been removed by one of the
Toussaints who owned the estate. It is stated
that he found it in the compound of his house at
Jaflna, but as it is exactly the same size as the stone
forming the flooring of the Jaffna Dutch Church, it
would seem as if it had originally come from that
building, to which it has now been restored.
Hier legt begraven Maria Sophia Wiemelskirchee
in haar Ed. leven liefwaarde huysvrouw van den
opperkoopman, Secunde en Dessave desses Com-
mandements Daniel de Bock. Gebooren te
Colombo den 16 April anno 1743 en alhier over-
leeden den 15 Juny, armo 1788. Oud 45 jaaren 1
maand en 29 dagen. Zalig zyn de dooden die in
den Heere sterven.
(Ibid., vol. XV., p. 259 ; vol; XVII., pp. 16, 27.)
( 222 )
Dutch Church, Jaffna— con^c?.
Serial No.
797 .
Date.
June 15
1788
Name.
Maria Sophia de Boclt-
798
799
Feb. 19
1801
April 19
1813
Elizabeth Turnour
George Turnour
Inscription.
-contd. Arms. — Per fess, in chief a churcli ( Wirmelskircher) ,.
in base 3 pots (Potken).
Crest. — A church as in the arms.
Stone 8 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 4 inches.
Maria Sophia, Wirmelskircher was the daughter of
Rev. Mattheus Wirmelskircher and Susamia Adriana
Potken. Daniel de Bock was a native of Amsterdam,
and was married to Maria Sophia Wirmelskircher at
Colombo on March 20, 1763.
. . Elizabeth Turnour, daughter of the Honourable
George Turnour and of Emilie, his wife. Born
May the 26th, 1800. Died February the 19th, 1801.
See next inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory of the Honourable George
Turnour, fourth son of Edward and Ann, Earl
and Countess of Winter ton.
He was born at Shillinglee Park, in Sussex, 'on the
4th of February, 1768, and departed this life on
the 19th AprU, 1813.
The uniform tenor of his progress through life proved
him a truly virtuous man and a sincere Christian,
by exemplary conduct under severe misfortunes,
and perfect resignation to the will of God.
He was endowed with considerable talents and a
most benign and amiable disposition, which gained
the affection of all who knew him.
This monument is raised by his afflicted widow.
The first Earl of Winterton was Edward Garth,
who assumed the name and arms of Turnour on
succeeding to his maternal property. He was raised
to the peerage of Ireland in 1761. The family seat
is Shilhngle Park, near Petworth, Sussex. George
Turnour was his fourth son, born February 4, 1768,
and was an Ensign in the Bengal Native Infantry
(Cadet, 1783; Ensign, February 9, 1785). He was
transferred to the King's service in 1789, came to
Ceylon as a Lieutenant in the 73rd, and was appointed
Fort Adjutant at Jaffna on its capture in 1795. He
married Emilie de Bausset, daughter of M. Pierre de
Bausset and his wife Marie Johanna Sinon (see
Cotton, pp. 367, 369), at Pondicherry the following
year. In 1797, having transferred to the 19th Regi-
ment, he became Commandant at Mannar, where he
remained until January, 1800. At the pearl fishery
of 1799 he acted as Superintendent. In July, 1802,
we find him, with George Laughton, J. Verwyk, and
Willem Itroon, heading a memorial from the mer-
chants of Jaffna to Government against the proposed
increase of duty on tobacco from 25 to 33 per cent.,
which was to start from August 1. In 1802-1807 he
had left the army and was engaged with his father-
in-law in trading in paddy and tobacco at Jaffna and
Cochin, with a godown in the Jaffna Pettah, and the
Jaffna diaries show that in July, 1803, he made an
offer to Government to buy " all the paddy at
Moelitivoe within 15,000 parras at nine fanams per
parra. Government to pay expenses of loading and
giving him two months' credit." The reply was
that " there were only 45,000 parras at Moelitivoe,
which it was hoped to sell at 9J fanams free of
expense," and the offer was therefore declined. But
his mercantile career was not successful, and in
Januarys 1807, he become insolvent. A meeting of
his creditors was held at Jaffna in August. A
quantity of " Jagal or Jawzy chanks" and of "Putty
or Pottie chanks" belonging to his estate was adver-
tised for sale at Condaatje during the ensuing pearl
fishery. On March II the same year he was
gazetted "Agent of Revenue of the Wanni." (See
" Vanni Districts Manual.") He was placed on the
Civil establishment from January 1, 1811. On
January 1, 1813, he was appointed Assistant to the
Collector at Jaffna and Sitting Magistrate and Fiscal,
and he held, in addition, the appointment of " Tobacco
Agent," but he died the same year. His eldest son
became the celebrated Oriental scholar. Mrs. Turnour
had another son, Edward Archer, born at Jaffna..
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■Serial No.
799 .
Date.
April 19
1813
Dutch Church, Jaffna— cowicZ
Name.
George Tumour— cow^rf. . .
800
April 8
1826
George Burleigh
Inscription.
Her daughter, Anne Emily, married M. de Pariset at
Pondi-oherry ; the second daughter, Frances, married
in IS'ZO, Wilham Granville, C.C.S., who retired on
April 12, 1840, as Treasiwer. The third daughter,
Jane, married in 1832. Captain Henry Alexander
Atchisoii, C.R.R. The Hon. George Turnour's
youngest sister. Lady Elizabeth, married Francis
Richardson, M.C.S. She died on July 6, 1818, in
Upper Berkeley street.
Sacred to the Memory of George Bubleigh, Esq.,
M.D., Surgeon of the 2nd Ceylon Eegiment, whose
body Ues near this spot. He departed this life
April 8th, 1826, aged 55 Years. Doctor Burleigh
served on Board H. M. Ship Brunswick in the
memorable action of the 22nd & 29th May &
1 June, 1794, under Lord Howe, throughout
the Rebellion in Ireland in 1793 & during the
Kandyan insurrection in 1817 & 1818.
He was a son of John Burleigh, third son of Hercules
Burleigh, Captain in Colonel Mitchelburn's Regiment
at the siege of Derry, by his wife Mary Jackson.
He married Rebecca Kingsley (see No. 810). In
a memorial addressed to the Duke of Wellington in
1815 she gives the following account of his services :—
" He entered the navy in 1792, was appointed
Surgeon's Mate on board the Brunswick, 74 guns,
and was on board during the action of 28th and 29th
May and 1st June, 1794, under Lord Howe. The
ship being disabled was paid off, and Dr. Biorleigh
was appointed to the Essex Fencibles as Assistant
Surgeon was appointed Surgeon remained
and served during the rebellion till the reduction of
the regiment in 1801. He was then appointed to the
38th Regiment in 1802 through the interest of
my near relative Lord Norbury , Chief Justice of Ireland.
He served in the 38th Regiment until 1806, when he
was transferred from the Irish to the English establish-
ment with a promise of the surgeoncy of the
95th on his arrival in England, but was unfortunately
taken prisoner on his passage by a French privateer
with myself and three children and taken into
Calais, from thence to the depot of Valenciennes,
where we remained from December, 1805, to Decem-
ber, 1813. A portion of the 9th and 30th Regiments,
being wrecked oH the coast about the same time, were
taken prisoners and sent off to Valenciennes, com-
manded by Colonel Devereux, who, being ordered to
Verdun with other officers, requested Dr. Burleigh to
take medical charge of his men, which he did from
that period, with the whole of the prisoners amounting
to 3,000 men, British soldiers, men-of-war's men,
merchant-sailors, and detenus." He also acted as
paymaster, "for which he received the thanks of the
Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Navy on
his return to England in 1814 He remained an
Assistant Surgeon till his return to England in 1814,
when the Duke of York ordered him to be
appointed to the first vacant surgeoncy, which was
that of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, which he held till
his death in 1826. In December, 1813, when the
allied armies entered the north of France, we were
sent from Valenciennes at forty-eight hours' notice
with the whole of the prisoners to Tours, and from
thence to Limoges, where all remained till the peace
of 1814. Dr. Bm'leigh was the only officer that
marched and remained with the prisoners dm-ing that
severe march in the depth of winter, and during the
march he afforded the men every comfort in his power ,
supplying them with shoes, fltannel waistcoats, and
drawers, and on many occasions with carts to convey
the sick. Myself, with eight children, accompanied
them on the march, and was a witness to the poor
fellows' siifferings."
The Burleighs settled in County Down in 1649.
The first settler was " Captain of a ship of war in the
Solent, and was with a number of his men under the
window of Carisbrook Castle when Charles I. en-
deavoured to escape. For this he was imprisoned at
Winchester, but managed to escape to Irelahd. He
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Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
800 ..
April 8
1826
. . George Burleigh r-contd.
801
March 26
1840
Maria Wallett
802
Dec. 18
1840 .
Edward Buckton
803
May 5
1843
Susanna Petronella Drieberg
Inscription.
belonged to a Hampshire family." (" The Wolfes of
Forenaghts," published at Guildford, 1893.)
The eldest daughter of Dr. George Burleigh, Anna
Maria, born November 2, 1802, at Colombo, married
at Colombo, October 25, 1818, Lieutenant Richard
Thomas Wolfe of the 59th Regiment, thus making a
further link between the families of Toler and Wolfe.
His third daughter, Eliza Toler, bom February 4,
1808, at Kayts, married, February 11, 1825, Joseph
Price, C.C.S., afterwards District Judge of Jaffna,
who retired from the CivU Service, 1861, and settled
at Upper Skenshaw, Herefordshire. He died March
20, 1864, and was buried in the churchyard of St.
Mary's, Monmouth. She died at Jaffna in 1860 and
was buried at Chundikxili. The second daughter,.
Catherine Vassall, born February 4, 1808 (a twin), at
the house of the Sitting Magistrate, Kayts, married,
October 1, 1830, Henry Ffoliott Powell, late Captain,
C.R.R., of Brandlesome Hall (see Burke). The
fourth daughter, Eleanor Toler, married Robert
Atherton. The fifthdaughter, Arabella Cope, born
March 26, 1812, married. May 20, 1841, Captain Cosby
War burton. She died at Jaffna , and was buried there ,
March 31, 1848.
Sacred to the Memory of Makia, the beloved wife of
Major Chables Wallbtt, Ceylon Rifles, Com-
mandant of Jaffna. She departed this life on
26th March, 1840. Aged 50 years.
And Pray let her remains lay undisturbed.
Major Wallett was Commandant at Jaffna, 1840-42,^
succeeding Major Haddon Smith, and was succeeded
by Lieutenant J. Kersteman, C.R., September, 1842,
He left with his daughter for London by the Tigris on
December 20, 1840. (See Nos. 22 and 109.)
Maria Winder Cooper married Captain Charles
Wallett, 6 1st Regiment, at the Temple Church, Bristol,
on January 1, 1810. They had a daughter, Maria,
born at Jaffna, August 23, 1831. Edward Rawdon
Power, C.C.S., was one of the sponsors.
Near this Ues the body of Edward Buckton, Esq..
who died on the 18th December, 1840, in tk&
Thirty-ninth year of his age.
He was appointed Controller of Customs, Northern
Province, on a salary of £500 a year, and arrived
from Bombay in the Colombo in 1840. He died of
dysentery.
In the Name of the Blessed and Undivided Trinity
S. M. of Mrs. S. Deibbbeg (Widow of the late
Captain Deibbeeg, C.R.) , who for many years was
a resident of this Town and worshipped God in
this Church. She died the 5th May, 1843, on
board the Schooner Fannj off Tootokurin,
being then in the 75th year of her age.
But the path of the just is the shining light which
shines more and more unto the perfect day.
Amennaie Exonorie.
She was Susanna Petronella Tarre, probably
related to Captain James Tarr6, 3rd Ceylon, who
entered the army as Ensign in the 60th Regiment, and
joined the 3rd Ceylon in 1806, and was Fort Adjutant,
Jaffna, 1810-12 ; Assistant Commissary, Jaffna,
1813; and ditto, Galle, 1814. She was born at
Tuticorin in 1768. The Gazette notice of her death
states ' ' that she had resided above half a century in
this Colony universally respected by all her acquaint-
ance." The Fanny was at the time on a trip from
Trincomalee to Tuticorin. Her family was no doubt
French. She wrote a letter in French, dated Jaffna,.
April 15, 1604, to Dr. Thomas Christie, Medical
Superintendent- General, regarding the va/jcination
of her four children. Captain Friedrich Wilhelm
von Drieberg (afterwards cut down to Drif berg) was.
son of Colonel Diedrich Carl von Drieberg of the Dutch
Service and his wife Johanna Martina Aubert. He
was Commandant of Puttalam in 1802, and of
Mullaittivu in 1803-05. He died at Jaffna in 1807.
(See Cotton, p. 317.)
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Dutch Church, JaSna,—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
804 ..
Mays
1845
John George Edward Bur-
leigh
805
March
1846
Caroline Harriet Price
806
May 28
1846
William Kingsley Burleigh
807
Deo. 13
1847
Ursula Theodora Petronella
Gray
Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of John G. E. Buelbigh,
Captain in Her Majesty's Ceylon Rifles. Comman-
dant of Putlam, where he died May 5th, 1845.
Aged 45 years.
John George Burleigh was eldest son of Dr. George
Burleigh. He was born June 28, 1801, was gazetted
Ensign in the 83rd Regiment, April 29, 1819, and
Lieutenant, March 2, 1821 ; also served in the Ceylon
Rifles, and died while Commandant of Puttalam.
He married (1), on December 31, 1833, at Jaffna,
Catherine Sturlo, and (2), Amelia Bircham, tt, niece
of Lieutenant-Colonel Bircham, C.R.R. She died at
Chilaw.
A paper by S. Casie Chitty, " Remarks on the Site
and Ruins of TammanaNuwara," was read before the
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
on February 1, 1849. It was accompanied by a map,
which was supplemented with drawings from the pen
of Lieutenant Burleigh, Ceylon Rifles, then Com-
mandant of Puttalam, depicting two groups of the
pillars with the siurounding jungle, &c
These ruins were, according to Casie Chitty, first
discovered by James Caulfleld, the Assistant
Government Agent of the district. [Monthly Literary
Register, vol. III., p. 214.)
Sacred to the Memory of Caroline Haeeiet Peice,
fourth daughter of Joseph Peice, Esq., of Her
Majesty's Civil Service of Ceylon, who departed
this life March, 1846. Aged 13 years and 8
months.
She was born Julys, 1832, according to the baptismal
register of the Fort Church.
Sacred to the Memory of William K. Buelbigh , Esq. ,
of Her Majesty's Ceylon Civil Service. Died at
Sea, May 28, 1846, aged 41 years.
William Kingsley Burleigh was born June 14, 1804.
He was magistrate of Mallagam, and died off the
Cape of Good Hope, unmarried.
Uesttla Theodoea Peteonella Mooyaaet, the
ReUot of Captain Eeench Geay of the Ceylon
Regiment, and Grand-daughter of Commodore
Anthony Mooyaaet. Died in Jaffna on the 13th
December, 1847, aged 60 years.
She was a daughter of Wouter Christoffel Mooyaart,
son of the Commandeur Anthony Mooyaart and his
wife Cornelia Anthohia Dormieux.
808
April 22
1848
Arriane Cecelia Dunlop
809
■ March 27
1850
Arriane Maria Brook
2h
Sacred to the Memory of Aeriane Cecelia Dunlop,
infant daughter of R. J. Dunlop, Esq., who
departed this Ufe on the 22nd April, 1848. Aged
22 days.
R. J. Dunlop, who was a coconut planter on
lyakachchai estate, Pallai, married Emilia, daughter
of George Shaw Brook, who was Assistant Collector of
Customs, Jaffna, brother of Richard Brook, Master
Attendant of Trincomalee. His son, Richard Henry,
Lieutenant, C.R.R. , married Theodosia Eleanor
Hastings, daughter of Joseph Lee of Malpas, on
October 12, 1858. He was engaged in the operations
in the Matale District in 1848, and was, on many of
the courts martial. He died a General.
Sacred to the Memory of Arriane Maria Beook,
widow of the late George Shaw Brook, Esq.,
Ordnance Dept., Colombo, who departed this
Ufe on the 27th March, 1850, at Jaffna, Ceylon.
Aged 53 years.
This tablet was erected as a small token of affection
by her afflicted children, to whom she had been
always a good a'ld affectionate mother.
She was a daughter of John David Rabinel of
Middelburg and Johanna Plantina de Moor.
82-09
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Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
809 ..
March 27 .
1850
Arriane Maria Brook-
-contd.
810
Dec. 21
1863
Rebecca Burleigh
811
1621
Antonio Alvares
812
1640
Manoel de Silveira Coufinho
Izabel Scares
813
Paulo Fereira Menezes
Inscription.
Her husband, G. S. Brook, was stationed at Galle,
1818-24, and afterwards at Colombo and Jaffna.
Colonel Clement, Captain. Parke, F. J. Templer, and
Or. S. Brook formed the Managing Committee of the
Colombo race meeting held in January, 1835. He
went on leave to England in 1838, and died at
Colombo on February .5, 1839, aged 44. .
In Memory of Rebecca Bubleigh, Relict of Dr.
Geoege Bttrleigh, C.C.S., who departed this life
in Jaffna on the 21st of December, 1853. Aged
78 years.
This tablet is erected by her much loved Grand-
daughter, M. S. C. December, 1856.
She was full of good works and alms deeds which she
did, and a humble servant of her Saviour.
Rebecca Burleigh was a granddaughter of Daniel
Toler of Beachwood, Tipperary, who married Rebecca
Minehin. His daughter, Eleanor Toler, married
John Kangsley, and Mrs. Burleigh was their daughter.
The Kingsleys resided near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
She was related to the Wolfes of Forenaghts, to which
family General Wolfe and the Rev. Charles Wolfe,
author of " The Burial of Sir John Moore," as also
Lord KUwarden, the Irish Chief Justice, who was
murdered at Dublin, July 23, 1803, belonged.
Another member of the Wolfe family and a nephew
of Lord Kilwarden, John Wolfe, a " Captain-
Lieutenant " on half -pay of the .5tli Regiment, was
appointed a Captain in the 1st Ceylon Regiment,
April 27, 1803. He died at Chelsea, December 22,
1818, and was buried at Dudley, Worcestershire.
A. sister of Mrs. Burleigh went to America, where
she married, and had a daughter, who married Captain
Legge, the author of the book on Ceylon birds.
" M. 8. C." stands for Mary Spencer Campbell, the
wife of Frederick Hugh Pearson Campbell, C.C.S.,
whom she married on April 18, 1848, at the Fort
Church, Jaffna. She was the fifth daughter of
Joseph Price, C.C.S., District Judge of Jaffna.
Dr. George Burleigh's daughter Eliza Toler, by his
wife Rebecca, was married to Joseph Price at Kayts
on February 12, 1825, by the Rev. Joseph Knight.
Sepultura de AifTOiirio Alvares e de seus erdeiros
621.
["The tomb of Antonio Alvares and of his heirs,
1621."]
Peculiarities in this inscription are the combination
of the letters D and E in. the words " de " and
"erdeiros," a similar combination of the letters Vand
A in " Alvares," and the omission of the first figure of
the date in 1 62 1 . This mamier of writing the date was
customary at the period, just as we write 09 for 1909,
omitting two figures instead of one. The dimensions
of this tomb are 5 feet 10 inches by 1 foot .5 inches.
Esta sepultura he de Mangel de Silveira
CouTiNHO e de sua molher Izabel Soarbs e de
seus erdeiros 1640 (1).
[" This tomb is of Manoel de Silveira Coutinho
and of his wife IzAiEL Soares and of their heirs."]
The date is more likely 1640 than anything else.
The peculiarity about this inscription is the use of an
archaic form of R (thus, '^) and the combinations
of N and H, V and A, &c. It is much rougher cut
than the first inscription, the kind of stone used
being different also. The size is 4 feet 7 inches by
1 foot 2 inches. The Portuguese seemed fond of long
narrow tombs, in contrast to the Dutch, whose
tombstones were generally of very ample dimensions.
Esta sepultura he de Paulo Fekeira Mene (?) he
de seus herdeiros.
[" This tomb is of Paulo Fereira Menezes and of
his heirs."]
The date is illegible, and the word " Mene " not
distinct. It may be " Mene," in which case it
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Dutch Church, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
813 . . . . Paulo Fereira Menezes — contd. probably is a contraction of Menezes, or possibly
" Melo," another well-ltnown name.
Of these tombstones, the flrst two were found in
1902 inside the Jaffna fort, and the last outside it on
the glacis, in use as a stepping stone to a small shrine
dedicated to Mxmi Appar. They have been placed in
the vestry of the church. Another Portuguese
tombstone was found in the fort at the same time,
with part of a coat-of-arms and the letters " V.D."
on it.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIII., pp. 350-53.)
Pettah Cemetery, Jaffna.
There is no doubt that tombstones and name slabs have been removed from this burial ground during
the last hundred years. In 1905 a scone was found out in two, lengthwise, to form the doorstep of a houss in
one of the Jaflfna " cross streets." The inscription had been carefully chipped out; so carefully that all that
could be made out after the most minute examination was the words " Ter Gedagteni van Angehna Pr.
Maria Wilhemina den Wei Edele Heer " Another stone of 1841 was found at a mason's
house. He had removed it to build a new tomb close by.
814 . . Sept. 9 . . Anna Elizabeth van^Coe- Hier onder rust het lyk van Mejuffrouw Anna
1777 verden ~ Elizabeth Mom in leven huisvrouw van den
Koopman en administrateur alhier de Heer
Johannes Baebeetus van Coeveeden. Geboren
den 26 July, 1723, en overleden den 9 September,
1777.
{Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 39 ; vol. XVIII., p. 85.)
Arms. — Vert, a cross moline, or.
Anna Elizabeth Mom was perhaps the daughter of
Arnaud Mom of Jaffna, who was a surgeon in 1697
and onderkoopman in 1733.
815 . . Sept. 7 . . Jean Frangois Even du Hil Hier onder rust het lyk van den Wei. Ed. Manh.
1787 Heer Jean FEANgois Even dtj Hil in leeven
Capetein-Luytenant der Honorabile MiHtie. Over-
leden Jaffanapatnam den 7 Sept. A. 1787. Oud
29 jaaren.
{Ibid., vol. XVn., p. 39.)
The following is a translation of an entry in the
diary of Mr. William Abraham Kriekenbeek : —
" On the 27th May, 1804, I was married at Jaffna-
patnam by the Rev. Mr. Morgappa to Miss Frangoisa
Ursula Frederika Even du Hil, daughter of Capt.
Jean Frangois Even du Hil and Ester Dulcina Brochet
de la Touperse. She was born there on the 29th
April, 1787. My father-in-law aforesaid was acci-
dentally shot dead on the 18th July, 1787, while out
hunting, by one Mr. Hendrick Anthony Johnson,
who was also him.ting in the same company. This
happened in one of the islands of Jaffnapatnam, and
my said mother-in-law then married Mr. Christoffel
Gerard Keegel, surgeon there, and died on the 27th
August, 1815."
The discrepancy as to the date of death is curious.
A house in First Cross street, Pettah, Jaffna, with
very ornamental doors and windows, the former
having brass-mounted panels, belonged to the family
of Brochet de la Touperse. Captain Jean Louis
Brochet of Metz was " late Commandant of Artillery "
at Jaffna under the Dutch Company, and in 1796 was
trading in palmyras, &c. , in Jaffna. He married,
February 10, 1760, Ursjla Magdalena Otley of
Jaffna, who died on Jim.e 10, 1810, aged 65 years 8
months and 19 days. He proceeded to the pearl
fishery in April of that year with his " toney." In
July, 1803, he was given by Government an allowance
of 50 rix-dollars a month, but this was discontinued
two months later, because the pensions to Dutch
prisoners were to be renewed.
Captain Even du Hil married Ester Dulcina
Brochet de la Touperse, who died August 27, 1815.
She married (2), April 18, 1790, Dr. Christoffei
Gerard Keegel.
228
Serial No-
816
Date.
1772
B.
Pettah Cemetery, Jaffna — contd.
Name. Inscription.
J. Craft . . B. J. Cbaft, Lieutenant. Obiit 1772, setatis 47.
{Joru-nal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII. , p. 40.)
817
818
May 20
1817
May 9
1823
Louisa Rodrigo
Thomas Nagel
Hier onder rust het lyk van Lotjisa db Silva in
leven huisvrouw van Alexander Rodeigo.
Geboren te Colombo den 5 November, 1785.
Overleden den 20 May, 1817.
(Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 4L)
Thomas Nagel. Gebooren den 5 Febry., 1740, in
Nederlandsche dienst geweesen Land Regent in de
Wanny. Overleeden den 9 May, 1823.
(Ibid., vol. XVII., p. 40 ; vol. XVIII., p. 393.)
T. Nagel is described in tlae Jaffna Kacheheri
records of 1796 as "late Regent of the Wanny or
the Provinces under Mullativoe," and as "late Land-
holder at Mullativoe." He held this office from
1783 to 1795. On February 8, 1796, the Assistant
Resident at Jaffna, Mr. John Jervis, forwarded to
Lord Hobart, Governor and President in Council,
Fort St. George, a packet containing sundry papers
in the Dutch language which he had obtained from
Nagel, and he remarks in forwarding it: "I have
every reason to believe the Provinces of the Wanny
will become shortly very valuable to the English
Company, and I am not probably too sanguine in
affirming that they wiU be more so with due
management and attention than even the districts
dependent on Jaffanapatnam." These hopes have
not been fulfilled. He adds: " Whilst every praise
is to be given to Mr. Nagel for the improvement he
has made in the Wanny, it is but too evident that
his lease of that country was particularly advan-
tageous to and favourable to his own interests."
From this it would appear that Nagel's tenure of
the Wanny was of the nature of a farm under the
Dutch Company. One thing that he did for it was
to introduce the cultivation of inanyokka (cassava).
He handed over to Jervis a minute on the subject
of his administration, " which is so voluminous, and
enters into such particular detail that it cannot be
immediately copied." In July he obtained leave fop
his dhoney to go fromKayts to.Mullaittivu to remove
his furniture from there. Jervis appears to have
consulted him on the question of the collection of
the revenue , for in September we find him laying it
down as an axiom that " the Malabars will always
3ay, according to their custom, that they cannot
pay." In December, when eight of the Dutch
Burghers of Jaffna petitioned against Lieutenant-
Colonel Barbut's proclamation that all coast slaves
must be considered free yjeople, as contrary to the
4th Article of the Capitiolation, Nagel and J. F.
Meybrink took the opposite view, and gave in a
counter petition.
Jervis mentions that Nagel had a numerous family
(see No. 796), but nothing seems to be known about
them, except that one daughter, Carolina, married
on July 4, 1802. at Jaffna, Lieutenant Richard
William Cot^ra-v (^ the first •• Civil Engineer " under
There was another Nagel at
the British regime.
Jaffna, who had been in the Dutch Engineer Corps.
This was Gerrit Joan Xagel, who was "Lieutenant
enTitulier Ingenieur' in 1792. He was probably
a son of Thomas Nagel, as on one occasion the latter
made a payment to the Assistant Resident on his
behalf. G.J. Nagel and Mr. Hopker , also formerly of
the Dutch Engineer Corps, made a plan in October,
1796, for re-0])ening the channel connecting the fort
moat with the sea, so as to get rid of the flood water
which was threatening to inundate Jaffna in the rainy
weather. The former opening had been filled up by
Lieutenant-Colonel Barbut. The plan was adopted,
and the work carried out at the instance of Jervis.
There were at least two other Nagels in the Dutch
Service in the latter half of this century, viz.,
Adriaan, " geauthorizierd " at Matara in 1765, and
Fredrik, vaandrig (ensign) at Batticaloa in 1767.
229 )
Pettah Cemetery, Jaffna— cowfc?.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
818 ..
May 9
1823
. . Thomas Nagel— cow<d.
819
820
Jane 5
1824
Aug. 14
1829
J. Dl. van Schoonbeek
Adriana Gertruida Anderson
821
Jan. 17
1831
Anna Henrietta Vanderspar
822
April 30
1831
Johanna Jacoba Stutzer
823
March 24
1844
Theodora Cochrane
21
Insciiption.
There was a Lieutenant Nagol in the 97th Regiment,
who married a daughter of Francis Dickson at Galle
in 1831. , „ .
Thomas Nagel was " Extra-ord. Vuurwerker at
Jaffna in 1767, " Ord. Vuurwerker en Landmeeter
at Jaffna in 1769, Lieutenant in 1780, and Captam
in 1789. The title of "Lieutenant Fireworker' m
the Artillery was in use in the British army up to
the first decade of the nineteenth century. It was
the rank below Lieutenant.
Hier onder rust den wel Edeln. Heer J. Dl. van
Schoonbeek. Geboren te JafEanapatnam. Anno
1781 den 23 Nov. Overl. 1824 den 5 Juni. Oud
42 jaa. 6 maa. 12 dag.
(Journal, R.A.S., O.B., vol. XVn., p. 41.)
Adriana Gbktbuida Toussaint, wife of J. T.
Andeeson in the 43rd year oi her age.
She was the daughter of Barent Justinus Toussaint
and Jacomina Gterardina Giffening, and grand-
daughter of Johannes Toussaint and Anna Elizabeth
Kriekenbeek.
James Thomas Anderson, was a captain, probably
a sea captain, and an Englishman. It issupposed to
be his monogram in floriated ironwork which is over
one of the doors of a house in Main street, now occu-
pied by Machado & Co. This was his first wife. He
had five daughters and two sons by her. One daughter
married the Rev. M. Carver, three others Toussaints.
One son, James Thomas, married Amelia, daughter
of Samuel HolloweU and granddaughter of James
Hollo well of Wexford. James Thomas Anderson,
senior, married (2), at GaUe, Joharma Henrietta
Susanna de Vos, widow of Reynier von Aiken. His
only child by this msffriage, Sara Helena, married
Raoul Piachaud of Negombo, grandson of Major
Francis Piachaud of the De Meuron Regiment, bom
at Nion, Canton Bern.
Sacred to the memory of Anna Henrietta Vander-
spar, widow in the 78th year of her age.
Aona Henrietta Dormieux was the daughter of
Isaak Dormieux by his second wife Anna Mauritz
Cuyck van Mierop. She was married (1) to Abraham
Evert Lebeck, ajid (2) , as his second wife, to Johannes
van der Spar, the brother of Mattheus van der Spar,
Administrateur of Galle. The first wife of Johannes
van der Spar was Adriana Dorothea van Bern. Isaak
Dormieux was the son of Abraham Dormieux and
Petronella Verschuur, and grandson of Abraham
' Dormieux of Amsterdam and Margarita Maartensz
van Suchtelen, daughter of Jan Maartensz van
Suchtelen and Gertruida Pietersz. Abraham Dormieux
of Amsterdam was baptized there March 23, 1657,
being the son of Jacobus Dormieux and Annetj©
Hendrioksz van Grolshagen. (See Nos. 637, 886.)
Sacred to the memory of Johanna Jacoba Lb
Beck, widow of John Arnold Stutzer, M.D.,
formerly of Stockholm, but for many years an
eminently respected and useful inhabitant of this
place in the 62nd year of her age.
Dr. Stutzer died at Jaffna in July, 1821, but is
uncommemorated, or more likely perhaps the stone
has disappeared.
Johanna Jacoba Lebeck was probably daughter of
Abraham Evert Lebeck and Anna Henrietta Dor-
mieux. A daughter of Dr. Stutzer, Jane Alexandra
Stutzer, married at Trincomalee, November 13, 1828,
Lieutenant C. F. Thomson, 16th Regiment.
To the memory of Theodora, the beloved wife of
Major Cochrane, C.R. Regiment. Obiit March
24, 1844. ^tatis suss 48.
The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God,
and though they may be afflicted in the sight of
men, yet is their hope full of immortality.
82-09
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Pettah Cemetery, Jaffna— co?t«rf.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
823 ..
March 24 .
1844
. Theodora Cochrane— cowfe^.
Inscription.
Theodora J. W. Stutzer, who was another daughter
of Dr. Stutzer, was second wife of Captain George
Cochrane, C.R.R., whom she married at Jaffna on
July 28, 1831. He married (3), on July 19, 1848,
Maria Eliza Tranchell, widow of Staff Surgeon A. H.
Hallj and died at Trincomalee, December 12, 1860.
His first wife Jane died at Trincomalee on Jaxiuary
30, 1830. His daughter by the second marriage,
Mary Jane Cochrane, married at the Fort Church,
Jaffna, October 2, 1845, George Beatson. This
marriage was repeated on November 27, 1845, owing
to an inforpiality in the license.
Colonel Cochrane was Commandant of Jaffna from
January, 1841, and founder of the Jaffna Friend-in.-
Need Society and Hospital. The foundation stone of
the latter was laid in 1840. It was maintained by the
Society until 1906, when it was taken over by Govern-
ment. Colonel Cochrane "must have left Jaffna early
in 1847. He showed me what I think was a silver
cigar case presented to him. by the subscribers to
the Friend-in-Need Society on his departure." (Sir
William Twynam, writing in 1910.) (See No.
1003.)
824
April 15
1849
James Byles
James Byles, born September, 1816, died April
15th, 1849, aged 32.
He was a coconut planter, and opened Karandi estate
in the PachchilapaUi division. He was a brother of
Sergeant Byles, well known on account of " Byles on
Bills." He was, it was said, inclined to be wild, and
was sent out to Ceylon by the family to do something
for himself. The following incident seems to confirm
this opinion: — Accompanied by Lieutenant John
Brewse Kerstemen of the Ceylon Rifles and Daniel
Quinton of the Survey Department, he proceeded on
November 27, 1843, to the house in Second Cross
street, Jaffna, where A. M. Ferguson, afterwards of
the Observer, lived with Richard Rudd. ' He charged
the former with having said of him , ' ' Mr. Byles plants
merely for his amusement, he being, according to
his own account, a man of great expectations, and
duelling being his serious business." A. M. Ferguson
had also expressed his ' ' honest opinion respecting the
excess of planting operations in the north," and this
apparently did not please Byles. The result was
that Byles struck .A. M. Ferguson with a cane, and
Quinton and Kerstemen struck William Ferguson , who
was also present. Byles and Kerstemen were each
fined £10 and Quinton £5.
A further result of this fracas was a commission to
inquire into the conduct of the civil and military
officers concerned in it, but nothing came of it.
' ' Jack Kerstemen was a wild Irishman, good-
hearted, and a general favourite. He left the Ceylon
Rifles owing, it was said, to his having got into trouble
over alleged cheating at cards." William Boyd tells
a story of his trying to obtain a pardon from Governor
Lord Torrington for a criminal whom the Fiscal
had unsuccessfully tried to hang at Kandy, but the
' pardon was too late.
825
Oct. 24
1849
John Bradley
Sacred to the memory of John Bbadley, Esq., late
Lieutenant of H.M.S. C.E. Regt aged
43 years.
Leaving behind him a disconsolated (sic) wife and
three children to bemoan his irreparable loss.
Lieutenant John Bradley was Acting Adjutant in
August, 1846. James Matthew Bradley, who was in
the Survey Department, married at the Fort Church,
Jaffna, on April 18, 1848, his cousin Charlotte
Louisa, third daughter of Joseph Price, District
Judge of Jaffna.* She was born January 25, 1831.
He died at Jaffna on April 4, 1850, aged 30. His
widow married, on February 14, 1855, (2) John
Addams- Williams of Llangibhey Castle, Monmouth-
shire, a coconut, coffee, and tea planter, who came
out in 1846 and died at Rattota, August 9, 1909,
in his 81st year. He opened Ariali estate.
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Pettah Cemetery, Jaffna— cowfi.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
826 . . -^Pn^ 27 . . Emily Sabonadiere . . Sacred to the memory of EMiLy, the beloved wife of
^°^" P. K. Sabonadiebe aged 27 years.
John Scipio Sabonadiere married at St. James's,
Westminster, April 7, 1789, Louisa Barbauld, the
authoress. Their son, Rev. Carey Charles Alfred,
born at Chelsea, died at St. Quentin, 1838, married
Sophia Durand of Port Guernsey. Their son, Francis
Richard, born at Meaux (District Seine), February
8, 1823, died July 18, 1891, married (1) Emily
Murray, daughter of General Murray, and (2) , August
19, 1854, Mary, daughter of C. E. Layard, bom May
31, 1832, died January 4, 1864.
827 . . Sept. 4 . . Alexander Thomas Anderson Alexander Thomas Andebson, Merchant of Kandy,
1868 Native of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, died at Point.
Pedro in his 30th year, and lies buried here.
He belonged to the firm of Keir Dimdas & Co.
St. John's Church, Chundikuli, Jaffna.
The church stands on the site of a Portuguese Church, dedicated Hke the present Roman Catholic Church
in the parish of Chundikuli to St. John the Baptist. The old church was rebuilt or repaired by the Dutch.
It was replaced by the present church belonging to the Church Missionary Society in 1860. The new church,
not with much regard to historical associations, is dedicated to St. John the Evangehst. The foundations of a
portion of the old building can stiU be traced.
" In the middle of the year 1859 the main part of the old schoolhouse was stiU standing. The old church
had been partly demolished, and the school building was a continuation of the church , with a common wall
between. Their site now forms the road, not exactly opposite the present church, but a little further to the east.
The road then ran from the town straight to the church porch, from that point turning south and then east,
exactly as in the NeUore church to-day. Government, which in those days in Jaffna meant of course Mr.
Dyke, desired to rectify this awkward bend in the road, and as the church and scfi.ooIhouse stood in the way,
resolved to remove the obstructive buildings and erect a new church instead. This was no doubt the apparent
sequence oif events. But I suspect that the real inwardness of the matter was that Mr. Dyke found the old
church — ^built, of course, by the Dutch — ^ugly and heavy in look, and in fact, for the walls were about 5 feet
thick, the doors and windows were as deep and massive as castle gates almost, and an infinite number of coats
of whitewash were peeling off the walls — and probably made up his mind to see in its place a daintier, airier
structure the very opposite of the clumsy old building in all respects, and that he seized upon the curve
in the road as a convenient excuse for carrying out his design. This, of course, is only a surmise There
were inside the church a good many past Dutch administrators, their wives and children, lying buried. Their
crumbling bones were taken up with aU care, and re-interred in the present St. John's Church burial
ground. There were, so I was told, the remains of a lady which were found in face and figure almost as fresh as
life, but they crumbled to dust in a few minutes after exposure I do not know what the schoolhouse was
originally intended by the Dutch builders for. There was, besides, a number of rooms large and small, one large
haU with a gallery next the chancel of the church, with one common wall between I think it was in
1860 the last traces of the church and schoolhouse disappeared." (J. M. Hensman in the " St. John's College
Magazine," 1906.)
The schoolroom was probably the chancel of the Portuguese Church.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
828 . . March 31 . . Charlotte Elizabeth Pargiter Sacred to the memory of Chaelotte Elizabeth
1849 Paegiteb, the beloved wife of the Reverend
RoBEBT Pargitee, Church Missionary at this
Station aged 33 years.
Her remains are interred in a vault in front of the
chancel.
The Rev. Robert Pargiter succeeded the Rev. James
Talbot Johnstone, who was the first Priacipal of the
Chundikuh Seminary, now St. John's College, in
1847, and was Principal until 1864, when he left for
Nuwara Eliya. He had come out as a Wesleyan
Missionary, but left that connection and was ordained
Deacon and Priest in 1846 and 1847, respectively, by
Bishop Chapman. In 1865-1876 and again in 1878-
1886 he held the office in England gf Association
Secretary of the C. M. S. , andin 1885 he Was appointed
Vicar of Towersey, Diocese of Oxford. "He was
twice married in Ceylon, first to a Miss Jones in 1844,
and secondly to Anna Matilda, born 1832, daughter of
the Rev. J. D. Palm, senior, of the Wolvendaal Church
(see No. 398), in 1851. Both marriages were solem-
nized at Holy Trinity Churah , Colombo . He had a son ,
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St. John's Church, Chundikuli, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
828 .,
March 31 .
1849
Charlotte Elizabeth Pargiter-
contd.
829
June 13
1863
Edwyn Stanhope White-
house
830
June 17
1863
, . Catherine Emily Pole
Inscription.
- Robert Stott Pargiter, C.C.S., who died as Assistant
Agent of Negombo in 1876; also two daughters,
one of whom, Eliza Annie, married Reginald Carolus
Pole, CCS. (1862-1883), on March 22, 1864; and
the other, Charlotte Matilda, on May 9, 1877, at
GaUe, his brother, John Pole, a planter of Dikoya.who
is still in the Island, and much interested in imple-
ments of the stone age. R. C Pole died in 1897.
He had a son, Reginald Carolus Stuart Pole, bom
December 10, 1864, who was for a time in the
Ceylon Survey Department. The Rev. R. Pargiter
is stm Uving (1910), aged 94,
Sacred to the memory of Edwyn Stanhope White-
house, Esqr., who departed this life at Jaffna
aged 39 years.
Also an inscription on his tomb in the churchyard
adjoining. He was one of the pioneer coconut
planters in the Jaffna Peninsula and the proprietor of
Mukamalai coconut estate near Kodikamam, and
was the only European planter with whom Mr. Dyke
had much to do.
" Cotton culture on a large scale was tried in the
Jaffna Peninsvda by the brothers Whitehouse and
Messrs. Clarke and Hardy between 1837 and 1846,
and it was conclusively proved that it could not be
carried on so as to pay European enterprise."
(A. M. Ferguson,) (See No. 174.) He bought over
5,000 acres of Crown land in Pachchilapallai, which
were the subject of an inquiry in the Land Resump-
tion Ordinance in 1906. He died intestate.
Hemarriedat Jaffna, March 23, 1847, EUza Maria le
Marchand, whose younger sister, Ellen Julia, married •
Thomas Clark , December 1 1 , 1 849 , at Jaffna. Thomas
Clark founded the firm of Clark, Spence & Co., of
Galle, about 1866. He had been in the H. E. I. Oo.'s
service (Indian Navy), and left it to become first a
coconut, and then a coffee, planter. As a coconut
planter he was the manager of Sir Herbert Maddock's
estate of Kelvelmoere, on which he built a large
bungalow, to the cost of which Sir Herbert, who
visited Jaffna in 1853, took exception, with the result
that Mr. Clark left. His son; Thomas Staines Clark,
is a partner in Messrs. Clark , Young & Co. of Colombo.
E. S. Whitehouse was a brother of C A. Whitehouse
(see No. 174). The Misses le Marchand resided at
Jaffna with their father Michael Joseph le Marchand.
A brother, FrancLs Wharton le Marchand, was
Manager of the O. B. C. at Kandy, and married
Alice Capel Higgs (died Kandy, January 24, 1849).
Sacred to the memory of Catherine EMiLy, the
beloved \vife of Heney Pole, Esqr., C.C.S., and
fifth daughter of Joseph Price, Esq., C.C.S.
aged 27 years.
Gentle, most affectionate and confiding, a faithful
wife, a loving and obliging friend, charitable to all,
and fuU of gratitude for little kindnesses, humbly
hut firmly beUeving in the Lamb of God whose
most precious blood cleanseth from all sin, her
sole trust was in Him. Her remains are interred
by the side of her mother, Eliza Tolee Peice, in
the north-east portion of the burial ground belong-
ing to this Church.
This memorial is erected by her ever sorrowing
husband.
June 17th, A.D. 1864.
She was born May 7 , 1835. She married at Jaffna,
on February 2, 1853, Henry Pole, who was in the
Civil Service, 1845-71. He was Police Magistrate,
MuUaittivu, from August 1,1845; ditto atGallefrom
July 1, 1847; ditto at Jaffna, July 7, 1848; Assistant
Government Agent, Mannar, May 1, 1867; District
Judge, Matara, 1861, and of Batticaloa; and retired
April 1, 1871.
He was related to the Pole-Carews and the BuUers
of Morval, and uncle of R. C. Pole, C.C.S,, and of John
Pole, who are sons of his brother, the Rev. Reginald
Pole. A daughter of the latter, Henrietta Maria,
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St. John's Church, Chundikuli, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
830 ..
Date.
June 17
1863
Name.
Catherine Emily Pole — c(ynM.
Inscription,
married H. F. Mutukistna, Deputy Queen's Advo-
cate, April 9, 1865. Mrs. Eliza Toler Price was a
twin daughter of Dr. George Burleigh, the other
twin being Catherine Vassall, who married Captain
Powell, C.R.R. She was born February 4, 1808, and
was married to Joseph Price at the house of the
Sitting Magistrate, Kayts, by the Rev. Joseph Knight,
on February 11, 1825; she died in 1860. Joseph
Price retired on April 17, 1862, as District Judge of
JafEna. He joined the CivU Service January 1 , 1821 ,
and spent 37 out of his 41 years' service at Jaffna, as
Sitting Magistrate, Assistant to the Collector, Fiscal,
and District Judge. He was Collector of Batticaloa
from February, 1825, to April, 1827, and of Mannar
for the year following. He died March 20, 1864.
(See No. 800.)
Chundikuli Churchyard, Jaffna.
831
Sept. 27
1865
Alexander Murray
832
Oct. 9
1867
Pereival Acland Dyke
Sacred to the beloved memory of Alexander
MuBBAY, District Judge of Jaffna aged
52, and to an infant son and daughter.
He was appointed Government Counsel for
Prisoners, July 18, 1846; Government Reporter to
the Supreme Court, December 11, 1846; Acting
Police Magistrate and Commissioner of Requests,
Calpentyn, 1847 ; Deputy Queen's Advocate, Southern
Circuit, October 13, 1849 ; ditto. Northern Circuit,
1850; Acting District Judge, Batticaloa, January 1,
1859 ; ditto Kandy, July 16, 1862. He was amember
of the Scottish Bar, and was admitted an Advocate
of the Ceylon Bar in 1849. He was the father of
Colin Alexander Murray, I.S.O., Ceylon Civil Service,
1868-1904 ; of the late Alexander Murray, Director
of Public Works, Straits Settlements ; of Sir George S.
Murray, sometime a member of the Legislative Coim,cil
at Singapore; and .of William Murray, late Ceylon
Police, renowned as a sportsman in his time.
Peecival Acland Dyke, C.C.S., more than 40 years
Govt. Agent of the Northern Province, born in
1805, who died in his tent at Koppay
Also a tablet in St. Peter's Chiu-ch, Colombo,
in which his second Christian name is misspelt
" Ackland " (see No. 36). He belonged to the
Aclands of Devon and the Dykes of Somersetshire.
In the eighteenth century Sir Thomas Acland married
the daughter and heiress of Thomas Dyke of Tetton,
Somersetshire.
" For some time past alarming accounts had been
received of his health, but yet we were inclined to
believe that there was no danger, from the fact that
he was known to attend to business. About three
weeks ago it was aimounced that he had summoned
his Principal Assistant, Mr. Twynam, from Mannar
to be ready to assist liim in case he should get worse.
Letters dated the 5th stated that no hope was enter-
tained of his recovery. He would touch nothing, and
seemed to be dj^ng from weakness. On the 6th,
however, he began to take noiu-ishment, and for a
time appeared to be gradually improving'. On the
8th he was reported " much better, rapidly improv-
ing." This proved, however, the flicker of the flame
before it dies out. At 5 in the morning, as a friend
writes (the telegram said 3), he expired " quite happy
and easy in his mind and clear to the last
after five-and-forty years of unremitting devoted
service Mr. Dyke died in harness, leaving behind him
a memory which will be fondly cherished by every,
well-wisher to Ceylon as well as by the natives whom
he so impartially and judiciously governed. We use
that last word advisedly,, for Mr. Dyke was in every
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Chundikuli Churchyard, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
832 . . Oct. 9 . . Percival Acland Dyke — contd. sense a Rajah in Ja£Ena, and the JafEaa people invari-
1867 ably treated him. as such. They knew they were safe
in his hands, and they liked him ; but his disciplinarian
habits astounded them, and we doubt if there is or
ever has been a Government Agent so thoroughly
feared. At the appearance of Mr. Dyke the most
forward Jaffna youth (and none of them are remark-
able for their modesty) would subside into awe, and
as ' the great man ' always travelled in state, his
visit to an outlying part of the province was an event
to be dreaded, though appreciated, and above all to
be long remembered. Notwithstanding his austerity,
however, the natives always felt that Mr. Dyke was
a friend, because he took such an absorbing interest
in native affairs, and because he defended their claims
against all other classes
" Those unconnected with Government who visited
Jaffna have often complained of the hauteur and
brusqueness of the late Government Agent, and they
had doubtless some reason so to do. Mr. Dyke for
some time appears to have held the old Indian theory
that interlopers were to be avoided ; but we must
question whether the conduct of some of those gentlemen
did not make his dislike to their presence greater than
it would otherwise have been. However, latterly we
learn his whole bearing was much more conciliatory,
and there are few of the Planting and Mercantile-
Community of Jaffna who will not deeply deplore the
event which has deprived them of such a Government
Agent.
" The point of his character which assumed hauteur
to outsiders, we need hardly remind our readers,
appeared as independence to even the highest
Government officials. The refusal to accept a higher
salary than was appropriated by the Select Conamittee
of 1858 to his office and successor ; his appeal 'to
public opinion through the columns of this journal
(which led to the promulgation of the ' Gagging
Minute ' by Sir Charles MacCarthy), when Red
Tapeism assailed him where he could not defend
himself ; his recent refusal to receive the Governor
as his guest ; — will all be fresh in the recollection of
our readers, and will stir up in them that feeling
which ' pluck ' never fails to command. That he
was unbending to a fault, — even obstinate, — we are
constrained to confess ; that he seldom or never
deserted a hobby, and that he frequently missed,
golden opportunities, we admit ; but the enterprise
he exhibited himself and to which he stimulated
others, the real interest in native welfare, the
open-handed charity he displayed, threw all these
faults into the shade
' ' He commenced life in the Navy, and was a Mid-
shipman when he was appointed to the Ceylon Civil
Service on May 15, 1822, being then, we believe,^
only seventeen years of age. He came out with
Sir Edward Barnes in the Hercules. His first
appointment was Extra vVssistant in the Colonial
Secretary's Office, to which he was gazetted January
18, 1824. On March 1 he became Assistant to the
Collector at Jaffna, and on February 1, 1825, Fiscal
and Sitting Magistrate of that station. He left
Jaffna in February, 1827, for Trincomalee, and held
' the offices there successively of Provincial Judge and
Collector till October, 1829, when he returned to
Jaffna as its Collector, w^iich office (" Government
Agent " as it was afterwards called) he held till
January, 1843, when he was induced, principally by
the strong persuasion of his friend, Mr. Anstruther,
who had the highest opinion of Mr. Dyke's merits,
but contrary, as was well known at the time, to his
own inclinations, to take the office of Auditor-
General and to join the Executive and Legislative
Councils. Before the end of that year, however, at
his earnest request, he was permitted to give up the
Audit Office and to return to the Kachcheri at Jaffna,
'which he held till his death.* When Mr. Anstruther
vacated the office of Colonial Secretary, the post
* The statement on his tomb that he was " more than 40 years Government Agent " is not correct. It should be " 3S
years." He was 4 years " Collector " and 34 years " Government Agent."
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Chundikuli Churchyard, Jaffna— cowifZ.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
832 . . Oct. 9 ,. Percival Aeland Dyke — contd. was offered to Mr, Dyke, and it was only on his
1867 refusal to accept the same that the Secretary of
State was solicited to send a gentleman out, and
Sir James Emerson Tennent was selected by Earl
Derby. This steady refusal of promotion , which would
have secured him the highest place in the Civil Service,
anda largeamoim.tof power and patronage, and would
in aU probability (fromthehigh estimate formed of him
in Downing street) have opened to him much higher
colonial honours, is an evidence of the extreme con-
scientiousness which always distinguished him. His
friends who had long known him and worked with him
— foremost among these, Mr. Anstruther — ^believed
him fully equal to the place, and felt confident that a
man of Mr. Dyke's farseeing views, close habits of
thought and reasoning, and mature judgment would
have been invaluable in the Cotmcils of Government.
But Mr. Dyke was not the man to undertake that
which he felt he was not fully equal to— he would
not, under any circumstances, condescend to wear
false appearances. Retiring in his habits, he shrunk
from scenes likely to draw men's eyes upon him ;
devoted to a province in which he had spent his life,
whose interests had absorbed his attention, and whose
wants he thoroughly understood, he doubted his
capacity to adnunister the affairs of the Island
generally, and no inducements, with increased
emolvmients, or power, or patronage opened to him,
could induce him to swerve from the strict line of duty.
' ' He went home only once for the benefit of his health
in January, 1861, but he remained in England for
eight months only, although his leave extended over
eighteen. Mr. Dyke took an active part in the
preparation of the Road Ordinance (No. 8 of 1848),
which has been the means of so much good, over-
spreading the coxmtry with a network of roads
calculated to benefit all classes of the people. He
was also for a long series of years the Superintendent*
(ex-officio) of the Pearl Fishery, until Mr. Vane was
appointed for that special duty in 1860. In 1858
the Legislative Council, as we already mentioned,
reduced the salary of the Agency from £1,500 to
£1,200 per annum, Mr. Dyke being allowed the
former salary till the occurrence of a vacancy. This
gave rise to a very able representation from Mj". Dyke,
who refuse:! to draw his salary at the former rate so
long as the Council thought that it was assigned to
him as a matter of favour ; it was humiliation to him
to receive unearned remuneration. The result was
that the Secretary of State took part with him against
Sir Henry Ward's Government, and another Ordinance
(No. 11 of 1859) was passed to put the salaries of the
Northern Province on a right footing. During his
tenure of office as Auditor-General in 1843, lasting
only for eleven months, we understand that a marvel-
lous change took place in the system of the Audit
Ofiice. The code of new instructions (1847) and
improved forms respecting accounts originated, it
seems, with the late Government Agent, to whom
the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury paid a high
compliment for his sound judgment in these matters.
" The revenue of the Northern Province, under
Mr. Dyke's administration, increased between the
years 1838 and 1858 from £27,000 to £41,000 without
the pearl fishery, and to £65,000 with it. In 1859 the
revenue without the pearl fishery was £44,384 ; in
1862 it rose to £47,580; in 1866 it was £51,583."
(Colombo Observer.)
Sir William Twynam's mother, then Mrs. Hawkins,
widow of a naval officer, Lieutenant Hawkins, and
daughter of Major Summerfield of the 83rd, came out
to Ceylon in a man-of-war, and Mr. Dyke, then a
little boy, was, by a curious coincidence, a midshipman
on the ship, and used to run to Mrs. Hawkins in his
troubles with the other middies . Mrs . Hawkins married
Captain Thomas Holloway Twynam, and her son,
now Sir William Crofton Twynam, K.C.M.G., was
destined to be, after a short interval, Mr. Dyke's
successor in the Northern Province, and to retire in
1896 with a service of 50 years, exceeding even that
of his venerated chief. Between them they adminis-
tered the Province for 66 years.
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Chundikuli Churchyard, Jaffna— cow^c?.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
833 ..
March 24 .
1868
Harriet Pilkington
834
June 25
• 1873
James Frederick Layard
835
Aug. 30
1875
Robert John Dunlop
836
837
838
839
1879
Aug. 19
1883
March 13
1890
April 27
1895
£. B. Biackmore
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Harriet, the beloved wife
of Joseph Brabazon Pilkington, Ceylon Civil
Service aged 28 years.
Her children rise up and call her blessed. — Prov.,
chap. 31, verse 25.
J. B. Pilkington was appointed a Writer, Februarjr
6, 1867, and Police Magistrate, Kayts, February 1,
1868. There was a namesake, H. T. Pilkington, who
was Acting Deputy Postmaster-General, and died on
the voyage home in August, 1871.
In memory of James Frederick, eldest son of
Jane and J. G. Layard, late Ceylon Civil Service
aged 25 years.
He was bom October 21, 1848. James Gay Layard
retired from the Civil Service on pension on February
28, 1851, on £100 a year. He was thirteenth child of
Charles Edward Layard and was called after James
Gay, C.C.S., 1808-1820, who was know as "The
Duke." J. G. Layard married, on December 8, 1846,
Anne Campbell. He died on November 28, 1894.
To the memory of Robert John DTI^^LOE, who
departed this hfe at Jaffna, aged 60 years.
Not lost but gone before. His end was peace.
He married, on July 6, 1847, at JafEna, Emilia,
daughter of George Shaw Brook. He was a coconut
planter on lyakachchai East, Pallai, and was in
charge of Tatchahkadoo, belonging to Major Catherst,
in 1862. His wife died on June 10, 1853, and was
buried in Chvindikxili Churchyard (no inscription).
(See No. 709.)
E. B. Blackmore, CM.S. Died
Christopher Edmonds
840
Dec. 19
1901
In memory of Rev.
1879.
Sacred to the memory of Christopher Edmonds,
CCS. Bom Sept. 17th, 1853
He was in the Civil Service 1876-1883, and was
Assistant Collector of Customs, Jaffna, at the time of
his death. He was the only son of C. W. L. Edmonds,
of Bishopstowe, Wiltshire.
Sacred to the memory of Edward Mottle Griffith,
Missionary, C.M.S., aged 47, who died at NeUore
after 8 years' labour in JafEna.
Helen Plxjmptre Thorpe, the dear wife of William
Edward Thorpe of the Ceylon Civil Service
aged 26 years.
Quid tantum insano juvat indulgere dolori
Dulcis conjux. Non hsec sine numine Divum
eveniunt.
The quotation is from Virgil, .^Eneid, IE., 776-7.
W. B. Thorpe joined 1891, and was Office Assistant
to the Govemnient Agent at the time.
Cecil Sophia Margaret Geddes In loving memory of Cecil Sophia Margaret
Geddes, widow of the late J. G. Geddes, of Pallai,
Ceylon. Born May 22, 1842. Died in JafEna
Edward Moule Griffith
Helen Plumptre Thorpe
841
842
Dec. 9
1885
Dec. 12
1892
Nov. 4
1909
Charles Henry Paterson
Georgina Paterson
Kenneth Perks
Erected by her sorrowing children.
She was seventh and youngest daughter of Joseph
Price, C.C.S., and married, on December 14, 1866, at
Jaffna, John Gordon Geddes, coconut planter at
Pallai, youngest son of Captain Alexander Geddes of
the 42nd Regiment.
Sacred to the memory of Charles Henry Paterson
aged 59 years ; and Georgina, his wife,
aged 69 years.
C. H. Paterson was lessee of Kayankadu and
Narundan coconut estates, Pallai, in 1868.
Kenneth, younger son of Alfred and Elizabeth
Alice Perks, who died at JafEna iahis 26th
year. Erected by his friends in the Civil Service.
He was Police Magistrate of Jaffna. He had only
joined in 1907. He was a victim to enteric.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
843 ..
Dec. 16
1848
, . Elizabeth O'Neill
Nellore Church and Churchyard, Jaffna.
St. James's Church, NeUore, stands on the site of au old Portuguese-Dutch Church, and a portion of the
former building was probably incorporated in the present church, which belongs to the Church Missionary Society.
Nellore was one ol the Portuguese-Dutch " parishes " of Jaffna.
Inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, the beloved
wife of Eevd. James O'Neill, who departed this
life on the 16th of December, 1848, set. 27. After
the short space of 2 years & 9 months, spent in
mission labour, she exchanged earth for heaven.
Some of her last words were, "Very, very, very
happy." Her life though short was useful, and
her death blessed.
A tablet in the church.
The Rev. James O'Neill was ordained priest at the
Fort Church, the first Church of England ordination
at Jaffna.
. . Sacred to the memory of A. E. Osboene, who
departed this life January 25th, 1855, in the faith
of her Redeemer.
. . Sacred to the memory of Mary Ajstne, beloved and
devoted wife of Rev. Thomas Eoulkbs, Church
Missionary Society, Madras, and daughter of
Revd. E. B. Ashley , Vicar of Woobum, Bucks, who
died at NeUore, Feby. 6th, 1859, aged 22 years.
A meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God
of great price. Her remains are buried in this
church in a vault near this spot.
" Woobum" (sic) foy Woburn.
844
845
Jan. 25
1855
Feb. 6
1859
A. E. Osborne
Mary Anne Foulkes
St. Mary's Cathedral, Jaffna.
846
July 15
1849
Robert William Langslow.
2k
To the memory of Robeet Wm. Langslow, Esq.,
B. A. , Deputy Queen's Advocate of Jaffna. Eldest
son of RoBT. Langslow, Esq., late District Judge
of Colombo. Bom at Shropshire, 14th August,
1819
The inscription referred to is of interest from the
parentage of the subject of it. His mother was an
aunt of William Makepeace Thackeray. His father,
Robert Langslow, married Sarah Jane Henrietta
(commonly called Sehna) Thackeray, a sister of
Richmond Thackeray, of the Bengal Civil Service,
the novelist's father. It is interesting, in view of
Mr. Langslow's somewhat stormy career in Malta and
Ceylon, to learn from Lady RitcHie, Thackeray's
daughter, that her father always spoke with great
affection of Mr. Langslow. The late Lord Chief
Baron, Sir F. Pollock, married a daughter of Captain
Richard Langslow, brother of Robert Langslow,
senior.
Sir William Hunter, in his book " The Thackerays
in India," states that one of Richmond Thackeray's
eisters " married the Attorney-General of Ceylon,"
but Robert Langslow was Attorney-General, not of
Ceylon, but of Malta. Mrs. Langslow was bom on
August 7, 1797, and married Robert Langslow at
St. Bride's, Fleet street, October 3, 1818 ; died on
April 8, 1847, at Powis place, Bloomsb\iry, and was
buried at the West London Cemetery. Robert
Langslow was bom August 22, 1790, died at New
Inn, in the Strand, on December 9, 1853, and was
buried at the West London Cemetery.
Robert Langslow was a barrister of the Middle
Temple, and went the Western Circuit. In 1832 he
was appointed Attorney-General of Malta. Soon
after Sir Henry Bouverie's appointment to the Gover-
norship in 1836 differences arose between him and
Mr. Langslow. The result was that the Attorney-
Generalship was abolished. Mr. Langslow was next
appointed District Judge of Colombo South , with a
82-09
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St. Mary's Cathedral, Jaffna— cow^cZ.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
846 . . July 15 . . Robert William LangslOW — contd. promise of promotion to the Supreme Court. H©
1849 succeeded W. C. Gibson — date of appointment
January 27, 1841 — and came out to Ceylon by the
Symmetry, which arrived on July 18, his fellow
passengers being W. Gaskell and D. M. Watt and
Mr. and Mrs. Mackwood. It is noteworthy that this
was the first appointment of a barrister from England
to the Colombo District Court Bench, such appoint-
ments having hitherto been held by members of the
Civil Service, and it was in consequence of a
representation from the Ceylon public to the Home
Government. In 1842 friction arose between Mr.
Langslow and the local Government , which culminated
in Ms suspension by Governor Sir Cohn Campbell in
December, 1843, and eventually in his dismissal by
the Home Government (Lord Stanley's) in 1844,
on charges of '' dilatory justice, and insubordination
and contempt towards the Governor." He returned
to England in May, 1845, petitioned Parliament to
reconsider his case in December, 1846, and it came
before the House of Commons, when Messrs. Escott
and F. Baring pleaded his cause, but without
success ; while in the press it was advocated by the
Spectator and the Daily News. Earl Grey had taken
the same view as Lord Stanley, and Mr. Gladstone
had also refused to re-open the question, but a
promise was given by the Home Government that he
would be eUgible for re-employment. Mr. Langslow
appears to have been an able man ; but at the same
time very eccentric , and with a tendency to oppose
all constituted authority. The Chief Justices of
Malta and Ceylon (the latter being Sir A. Oliphant)
both bore the highest testimony to his character,
and Sir Colin Campbell himself admitted that he
was indefatigable in the discharge of his duty. Sir
H. Bouverie, on the other hand, regarded him as
" an enemy to all persons in authority," and charges
had been made in Malta that he had supported his
son (the subject of this inscription) against the Magis-
trates, and that he had "led a factious and discon-
tented party to embarrass the Government."
Of his eccentricity as District Judge of Colombo
South there are numerous instances. In January,
1842, soon after his arrival, he put an advertisement
in the Colombo Journal, intimating that his law books
woTild be sold by auction, "solely because the owner
has now ascertained that he cannot any longer afford,
out of the small salary paid to him as a Judge, to keep
up a law library for the service in effect of the Govern-
ment and the public." He gave this sale as a reason
for fearing that he might not be able to discharge his
duties as efficiently as their importance demanded.
A dispute had arisen between the Queen's Advocate
and himself as to the cases to be committed for trial
before him. Having permitted 338 criminal cases to
accumulate before him, he locked up the whole of the
records and sent them to the Queen's Advocate,
suspending the administration of justice because he
happened to be engaged in a mere technical dispute
with him.
He commented on the conduct of the Judges of the
Supreme Court in setting aside a conviction of his , in
which he had sentenced Lieut. Pugh of the 95th to a
fine and to imprisonment for lashing a native with his
whip within the precincts of the Court, that "however
they might feel such conduct consistent with their
oaths he could not, and if it was to be again tried he
would inflict the imprisonment before the appeal
could be had." The defence was that the lashing
was accidental.
Of R. W. Langslow's short career there is little to
record. He was bom at Worcester (not "at Shrop-
shire " as stated in the inscription) ; entered at Jesus
College, Cambridge ; was Assistant Secretary of the
District Court, Colombo South, and pro tern. Secretary
of an Association called "The Society of the Friends
of Ceylon" (March, 1843); was appointed Deputy
Queen's Advocate of the Northern Circuit ; married
Elizabeth Johanna, daughter of John Gerard
Kriekenbeek, Advocate and Dutch Interpreter to the
Supreme Comt, on January 30, 1845, at Jaffna.
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St. Mary's Cathedral, Jaffna— cowi^Z.
Serial No. Date. Name. Iiiscription.
846 . . July 15 . . Robert William Langslow— conirf. " He had been dining the evening before his death
1849 with Capt. Campsie of the Rifles in perfect health,
but during the night he was seized with cholera and
expired after an attack of a few hours' duration."
(Ceylon Times, July 20, 1849.)
While Assistant Secretary of the District Court of
Colombo South he brought an action in that Court,
of which his father was Judge, against Mr. Whiting,
District Judge of Colombo North, for having assumed
the office of Judge without authority, and having
tried him for an assault on Mr. F. J. Saunders, CCS. ,
at the Queen's Birthday baU of 1842. The case was
transferred to the Kalutara Court, but in the mean-
while Mr. Langslow, senior, entered judgment by
default against his brother Judge of the North Court.
On appUcation to the Supreme Court the case was
dismissed.
J. G. Kriekenbeek died at Colombo, April 3, 1826,
aged 54, and is buried in the Pettah Cemetery, where
there is an inscription. Mrs. R. W. Langslow died on
January 2, 1888.
R. W. Langslow's son, also Robert, bom September
20, 1847, was educated at the Gregorian University,
Rome, was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, a Ph.D. ,
and a Lieutenant in the Notts Militia, entered the
Ceylon Survey Department in 1877, and in 1888 was
Acting District Engineer at Kuala Lumpur, Perak.
He married Maria Josephine Teresa,, daughter of
Francis Dickson, Assistant Collector of Customs,
Trincomalee, August 30, 1880.
The District Judge's second son, William, who also
figured in the disputes in Malta and Ceylon, was
Uving unmarried in 1868. There are no Langslows
now in the Island.
This was not the only connection between the great
novelist and the Island. On May 2, 1804, Thomas
Thackeray Rennell was appointed First Assistant to
the Agent of Revenue of GaUe and Matara, he was
appointed Assistant to the Agent at Jaffna, November
5, 1806, and he left Ceylon for England on February
'23,1810. He was , no doubt , a son of Jane Thackeray ,
a sister of the novelist's grandfather, William Make-
peace Thackeray, of the Bengal Civil Service, by her
marriage with Major James Rennell of the H.E.I.CS. ,
who was the leading geographer in England, if not
in Eiorope, for a period of fifty years. (See " The
Thaekerays in India," by Sir W. Hunter, pp. 77-8,)
St. Peter's Wesleyan Chapel, Pettah, Jaffna.
847 .. March 1 .. William Walton ,. Sacred to the memory of the Kev. Wm. Walton,
1866 Wesleyan Missionary, bom at Stalybridge,
• England, Deer. 24, 1834, died at Madras....*..
A laborious and faithful minister. His last words
were " I am going to Glory."
848 . . Nov. 7 . . John Mitchell . . Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Johu Mitchell,
1866 Wesleyan Missionary, born at Loughborough,
England, Aug. 9th, 1839, died of Cholera at Jaffna,
Ceylon, Nov. 7th, 1866, whilst ministering to the
wants of the afficted. His end was peace.
849 . . May 26 . . Fanny Lily Rhodes . . In affectionate remembrance of Fanny Lily, the
1870 beloved wife of the Rev. John 0. Rhodes, Wes-
leyan Missionary, Jaffna
850 .. 1889 .. John Kilner .. Ingratefulmemory of theRev. JohnKilner, D.D.,
for 28 years a wise, devoted, and successful
missionary to the Tamil people, who loved him,
and afterwards a general Secretary of the Wesleyan
Missionary Society. This tablet is erected by
T. M. Tampu, P.M. Bom 1824. Died 1889.
851 . . Sept. 29 . . F. W. Newham . . Ld memory of the Rev. E. W. Newham, bom at
1893 . Dewsbury, England, May 16th, 1869, died by
carriage accident at Point Pedro, Ceylon
Short toil, eternal rest.
Erected by his brother missionaries.
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St. Peter's Wesleyan Chapel, Pettah, Jaffna — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
852 ..
June 1
1902
. . Annie E. Stephenson
Inscription.
In affectionate memory of Annie E. Stephenson,
born 27th Sept., 1866 who by her beautiful
character, tender love for children, and devotion
to the women of this country rendered faithful
service for 11 years as a missionary in Jaffna.
This tablet is erected by her co-workers.
Graveyard of St. Peter's Wesleyan Chapel, Jaffna.
853 .,
854 .,
1817
1818
March 7
1824
Thomas Falkner Osborne
Susan Osborne
Mary Carver
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Palknek Osborne,
who died in infancy, 1817. Also of Susan
Osborne, who died in infancy, 1818.
Mary, wife of the Rev. Robert Carver, aged
20 years.
Christ Church, Pettah, Jaffna.
855 .. Feb. 19 .. Peter Frederick Toussaint . . Sacred to the memory of Peter Frederick Totrs-
1861 saint, Esq., District Judge of Point Pedro. Born
29th Octr., 1792
Erected by his son, John Toussaint, Esq.
(An attempt has been made to obliterate the " Esq."
in the last line.)
P. F. Toussaint was Sitting Magistrate of Chava-
kachcheri in 1823-24, and of Point Pedro 1824-33,
becoming District Judge in 1833. He was also
Assistant Collector of Customs at Point Pedro. He
married Anna Elisabeth Gratiaen, who died at
Batticaloa, August 30, 1861, daughter of Gustavus
Adolphus Gratiaen by his second wife, Maria Euphro-
sine van der Sprinkel, daughter of Pieter van der
Sprinkel and Euphrosine KeUens.
Peter Erederick Toussaint was the son of Barent
Justinus Toussaint and Rebecca Nagel, and grandson
of Johannes Toussaint and Anna Elisabeth Krieken-
beek. Johannes Toussaint was son of Louis Toussaint
and Maria Comelisz, and"- grandson of Mattheus
Toussaint, of Doornik (Tournay -Belgium), and Angela
Rodriguez. Gustavus Adolphus Gratiaen was the
son of Johannes Franoisous Gratiaen, of Bruges
(Belgium), and Anna Aletta Kokaart, and grandson
of Michael Gratiaen, a carpet manufacturer of Bruges.
A correspondent of the Oolombo Observer of March
7, 1861, writes : " In the demeanour of Mr. Toussaint,
gravity, patience, and urbanity were exhibited. He
exhibited nothing of that captious bearing towards
the counsel who appeared before him. In domestic
life he was without a stain, whether of temper or
principle. Singularly able and of unblemished
purity, he moreover exhibited aU those quaUties that
make a man respected and beloved. His unselfish-
ness, tenderness, and condescension as a parent — his
urbanity and polished manners as a gentleman,
ehcited for him the respect and esteem of all who
knew him — ^his gay and cheerful spirits even in
advanced hfe, all, all, contributed to make him
■almost our idol." This eulogy reminds us of the
Government Gazette of early days.
The bearers at his fiuieral at the Pettah Cemetery
were the Rev. R. Pargiter, Messrs. L. Liesching, R. J.
Diinlop, and G. S. Brook.
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Serial No.
856 ..
Uduvil Church (American Mission), Jaffna District.
Date. Name. Inscription.
Jan. 11 . . Harriet Wadsworth Winslow In memory of Habeiet Wadswobth, wife of Rev.
1833 MiBON Winslow, who was born April 9, 1796.
857
March 10
1838
March 13
1838
John M. S. Perry
Harriet Joanna Perry
858
859
860
June 8
1844
Sept. 3
1849
June 14
1883
George Henry Apthorp
Mary R. Ajfthorp
Eliza Agnew
861
June 18
1893
Oct. 26
1874
. Levi SpauUing
Mary Spaulding
There is also a tablet to the three children of M. and
H. W. Winslow, the eldest of whom, Harriet Maria,
died of cholera on November 27, 1825, on the same
day as the child of the Spauldings, aged 3 years and
9 months, and at the same place, UduvU.
The Rev. M. Winslow was afterwards stationed at
Madras, and was married at Batticotta Church on
^ March 12, 1845, to Mrs. Mary Dwight, widow of Rev.
R. O. Dwight, both being then residents of Madras,
^ by the Rev. John T. Johnston, C.M.S. He married
thirdly, at Boston, May 20, 1857, EUen Augusta
Reid.
Mr. Winslow was the compiler of the " Standard
Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary,"
published at Madras in 1862. He was stationed in
the Jafina Peninsula in the fifties.
" The materials collected were transferred to
the American Mission in Jaffna. From them, in part,
the Rev. Levi Spaulding, M.A., brought out the
contemplated Taiml Dictionary," and " in 1852 Mr.
Spaulding , who had assisted in first prepariag the work ,
brought out a second edition in Jaffna" of the Tanul-
EngUsh Dictionary, which subsequently in a third
edition became known as " Winslow' s Dictionary."
(Preface to " Winslow's Dictionary," p. vii.)
In memory of the Rev. John M. S. Peeky, Missionary
of the A. B. C. F. M., who died March 10, 1838,
aged 32 years, and his wife Haebiet Joanna, who
died three days later, aged 22 years, both of
Cholera.
There was cholera again in the Jaffna Peninsula in
1838, at Batticotta and at Point Pedro. The Perrys'
only daughter had been attacked, but had recovered.
The deaths at Point Pedro were for some time 35 a
day.
To the memory of Rev. Geoege Henby Apthoep,
born May 31, 1798 aged 46 years.
Maby R. Apthoep, born Mar. 10, 1808 aged
41 years.
In memory of Eliza Agnew, born Jany. 2, 1809.
Forty-three years she laboured for the women of
Jaffna. Not slothful in business, fervent hx spirit,
serving the Lord And being dead she yet
speaketh.
The Uduvil Girls' Boarding School, commenced in
1824, " grew to very great importance under the care
of Miss EUza Agnew, ' the mother of a thousand
daughters,' as she was lovingly called by the people.
Domestic duties tied her to her home (in New York)
until she was a woman of thirty, when the death of
her only near relation left her free to follow her early
' impulse, and she was allowed to join the newly-
established American Mission at Jaffna. There she
I worked without intermission for forty- three years,
loved and loving, and teaching several generations,
the children and even some grandchildren of her first
pupils. Upwards of a thousand girls studied im^der
her care." (' ' Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. II. ,
p. 360.)
In memory of Rev. Levi Spatilding, D.D., bom
August 22, 1791, died at Oodoovil, aged 81 years
and 10 months. And Maey, his wife, born Oct. 24,
1795, aged 79 years. 54 years missionaries among
this people
They lost their eldest daughter, Sarah Jane, from
cholera, aged 5 years, on the same day and at the
same place as the Winslows' child. " Father and
Mrs. Spaulding and, I think. Father Smith, each gave
upwards of fifty years' work to Ceylon." (" Two
Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. 11., p. 369.)
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Graveyard of American Mission, Uduvil, Jaffna District.
Serial No.
862 .,
863 .,
864
865
866
867
868
Date.
Jan. 28
1837
May 9
1842
May 4
1865
Nov. 2
1868
Aug. 15
1882
July 22
1887
July 31
1890
Name.
Lucy B. Minor
Eunice Smitli
Margaretta P. Robins
Inscription.
Mrs. Lucy B. Minor, born July 18, 1809
ExnsricB, wife of Rev. John C. Smith, bom April 19^
1810
The Rev. Mr. Smith, " Father Smith," was long at
TelUpaUai, where he established the Industrial School.
Maegajietta p. Robins aged 28 years.
Georgiana Kniglit Sanders Georgiana Knight Sanders-, wife of Reverend
M. D. Sanders, American Missionary, born May
15, 1825, at Stafford, Conn., U. S. A., died
at Batticotta, Ceylon.
Harriet E. Townshend . . Haeimet E. Townshend fell asleep in Jesus
after 14 years of loving service in Udupiddy Girls'^
School.
Susan Reed Howland . . Susan Reed, the wife of the Rev. Wm. W. Howland,
born Heath, Mass., U. S. A., Oct. 2, 1819, arrived
in Jaffna, April, 1846, died at Oodoovil
Eurotas Parmelee Hastings Rev. E. P. Hastings, D.D., born April 17, 1821
869 .
June 2
1891
. . Mary Randall Hitchcock
870 .
. Aug. 26
1892
. . WilUam Ware Howland
" Here, as in the Haweian Isles, the venerable-
American missionaries, several of whom have toiled
here ceaselessly for haK a century, are* affectionately
designated " Father " of their flock. Thus, the late
much-loved Principal of the College, Father Hastings,
is succeeded in office by Father Howland." (" Two-
Happy Years.in Ceylon," p. 368.)
Mary Randall Hitchcock, born Febry. 12, 1868^
Rev. William Ware Howland, born Brookfields,.
Mass., Feby. 25, 1817, arrived Jaffna, April, 1846.
Churchyard of American Mission, Tellippalai, Jaffna District.
871
May '7
1821
Susan Poor
In memory of Mrs. Susan Poor, wife of Rev. Daniel.
Poor, D.D., who died at TiUipaUai aged 31
years.
There is also an inscription on this tomb to the
memory of the Rev. Dr. Poor.
" At TUUpally, near Jaffiia, Mrs. I'oor, the -wife of
the Rev. T>. Poor, American Missionary, resident at
that station.
' ' This amiable female left America in company -with
her husband and several others belonging to the same
Society, with the self-denying, yet truly benevolent
and Christian design of devoting her future life to the-
instruction of the Heathen. Possessing a highly-
cultured mind, -with the most amiable Christian
disposition, she was well justified for the work to
which she had volimtarily devoted herself. Her
career in the retired part of this Island, which the
Mission chose as the sphere of their labours, was but
short, and only allowed time sufficient for those who
were the objects of her anxious care to obtain but a
faint idea of her superior worth. During her residence
at TUUpally she entered with aU her heart into the
design of the Mission, ready on aU occasions to engage
in anything for the benefit of the Heathen ; her
watchful eye was ever open to the situation of all
classes of natives — ever ready to become their
instructor, their guide, and their protector. In the
accomplishment of this object she was patient in
trials, firm in difficulties, and persevering in everything
that opposed her efforts, and it is worthy of being
recorded that when called to leave her worii, she had .
a school of 40 native children under her own immediate
care and daily instruction. Thus, she lived a short
but valuable Ufe, which was an ornament to the
Christian cause. The affliction which terminated the
life of this valuable member of society, though short,
was severe. She bore it with resignation, was joyful
in her sufferings, and to the last moment triumphed,.
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Churchyard of American Mission, Tellippalai, Jaffna HistnGt—contd.
Serial No,
871 .
Date.
May 7
1821
Name.
Susan TfooT—contd.
«72
Aug. 3
1822
James Richards
873
S74
Nov. 24
1825
April 26
1825
Feb. 4
1837
Lydia Middleton Woodward
S. B. Knight
E. S. Knight
Inscription.
in anticipation of the great prospect before her. She
was highly beloved by the Society of which she was a
member, was greatly respected and esteemed by all
who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, and her
death will be deplored by thousands who knew her in
her native land. She has left three small children,
who, with her bereaved husband, will feel and lament
the loss of such a parent and of such a partner."
{Gazette, April 19, 1821.)
Dr. Poor married (2), early in 1823, Miss Knight,
sister of the Rev. Joseph Knight, C.M.S., who was
then at Nellore. (See No. 460.)
In memory of the Rev. James Richaeds, A.M.,
American Missionary aged 36 years, one
of the Projectors of the first missions from his
country. He gave himseK to the work. A
Physician both to the soul and body, he was in
health laborious, in sickness patient, in death
triumphant. He was not, for God took him.
His widow married the Rev. Joseph Knight, C.M.S-
He arrived with Mrs. Richards, Dr. and Mrs. Poor,
the Rev. B. Meigs and Mrs. Meigs, and the Rev. E.
Warren, March 22, 1816. (See No. 460.)
In memory of Mrs. Lydia M., wife of the Rev. H.
Woodward aged 30 years.
Mr. Woodward married again, and his widow,
Clarissa Emerson Frost, married at Batticotta, on
December 22, 1836, William Todd, widower.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. S. B. Richards
and of Mrs. B. S. Nichols the
first and second wives of the Rev. Joseph Knight,
Missionary of the C. M. Society.
(See No. 872.)
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
875 ..
Feb. 3
1855
, . Daniel Poor
Batticotta Churchy Jaffna District.
Over the door of the Portuguese-Dutch Church, now in the occupation of the American Mission, is an
inscription in Dutch stating that the church was repaired in 1678, or as it quaintly puts it, " Doen Maken door
den Hear Commandeur Laurens Pyl." (See No. 774.)
Inscription.
. . In memory of the Rev. Daniel Poor, D.D., born at
Danvers, Mass. , June 27th, 1789, lajxded at Qolombo
March 22nd, 1816, died at Manepy, Feb'y. 3rd,
1855. Aged 65 years and 7 months. In him a
fervent piety uaited with rare gifts to form an
earnest and successful Missionary. Of a happy
temper, fertile invention, large charity, and single
aim, he readily won a strong influence over all
classes of people, and was widely honoured as a
Father and Friend. Every great pubHc interest
secured his zealous advocacy. Deenaing himself a
debtor to the wise no less than to the unwise, he
laboured to establish aad further a broad system
of thorough religious and scientific education as a
meaps of christianizing heathen learning. For
eleven years he presided over the Batticotta
Seminary with distinguished ability. The rest of
his mission life was spent at TiUypaUy, Manepy,
and Madura, India, where he threw his whole
energies into the work he most loved — ^preaching
the Gospel. Ever looking for and hasting the
coming of God, he greeted the last sudden summons
with the joy of the watchful waiting servant. His
memory is blessed.
This tablet is erected as a token of grateful affection
by the people to whose salvation he devoted his
long life.
His grave is at Tellippalai.
.. In memory of Revd. Marshall D. Sandees, bom
July 3rd, 1823, at WiUiamstown, Mass., U. S. A.,
died August 29th, 1871, at Batticotta.^
876
Aug. 29
1871
Marshall D. Sanders
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Churchyard, Batticotta. Jaffna District.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
877 „. Aug. 22 . . Harriet Benedict Meigs . . In memory of four children of Rev. B. C. and Mrs..
1831 S. M. Meigs.
Habeiet Benedict, born Nov. 28tli, 1816
March9 .. Sarah Maria Meigs Sakah Mabia, -born Jan. 6th, 1816, died March 9th,
1823 1823, aged 8 years.
Two twin sisters, born May 2nd, 1831, and died the
same day.
Mr. and Mrs. Meigs arrived with the Rev. D. and
Mrs. Poor by the American brig Dryad on March 22,
1816. The vessel left Newbury Port on October 23,
1815.
Old Burial Ground, Point Pedro, Jaffna District.
878 . . Aug. 26 . . John Frederick Theile . . J. F. Theile, aged 71 years.
1865 The interest of this tomb Ues in the fact that it is
the only known rehc of the Theiles left in the Northern
Province. No one, either in Point Pedto or Jaffna,
now can say who J. P. Theile was or what he did, but
he was no doubt a son of Johan Ernst Theile, soma
account of whom wiU be fovmd in the " Vanni Dis-
tricts Manual" (p. 34). J. E. Theile had been a
Lieutenant in the LaxLd Service of the Dutch Com-
pany, had been a prisoner of war under the British
Company, and had taken service under the latter at
MuUaittivu. In November, 1814, he was appointed
Sitting Magistrate of Point Pedro, which post he
retained until his death, of the date of which there
is no record. His son, Thomas, succeeded him as
Sea Customer and Sitting Magistrate at- Werteltivoe
(Vidattaltivu) in the Mannar District m 1814, and
in 1816 held the similar appointment at Puttalam.
He married Sophia, and had a daughter, baptized at
Puttalam , April 3,1817. Thomas was later Secretary
of the District Court at Jaffna. He was probably an
elder brother of the subject of this inscription. The
following description of the old Lieutenant occiu?s in a
letter written from the Jaffna Kachcheri in October,
1796, by Mr. John Jervis, Assistant Resident, to
Captain 'Strickland Kingston, Commissary of Provi-
sions at Trincomalee : "A Lieutenant Theile , formerly
of the Dutch Service, a man who bears a good character
and has a large family of children to support, is settled
at Mulletivoe. Indeed I understand he has long
resided in that country and has acquired a great art in
shooting and taking the wild buffalo, and is also con-
versant with curing the flesh. In a conversation I had
with that intelligent old oflfieer the last time I visited
Mulletivoe, he assured me, were he supported and
employed by our Government and furnished with a
few rifle-barrelled muskets, powder and balls, and
casks for containing flesh, he could engage to supply
you with a very large qauntity of this salted wild
meat." Shortly afterwards Mr. Theile received an
advance of 250 rix-doUars for this purpose. There
had been a difficulty at Trincomalee in obtaining a
sufficient quantity of meat for the troops, and Mr.
Jervis, who had recently had the same difficulty at
Point Pedro, suggested wild buffalo meat, droves of
wild buffaloes being innumerable in the MuUaittivu,
district ; but it must be that of the wild buffalo, as
"the flesh of the tame animal has generally disagreed
with our Europeans, but that of the jungle animal,
which I have tasted myself, is highly dehcious and
esteemed by the natives as extremely wholesome — •
salted also, I can say from experience, it is remark-
ably fine." This appears to be a fact not generally
known, as one has few opportunities nowadays, even
in MuUaittivu District, of tasting wild buffalo.
An amusing anecdote relating to him is to be found
in Bennett's " Ceylon " (p. 226) :—
" Formerly the Sitting Magistrate at Point Pedro
was a Prussian gentleman of the name of Theile who
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Old Burial Ground, Point Pedro, Jaffna DistviGt—contd.
Serial No.
878 .
Date.
Aug. 26
1865
Name.
John Frederick Theile—contd.
879
Dec. 31
1884
Godfrey Dominick Lyle
Browne
Inscription.
had served under Frederick the Great. He was a
fine specimen of the Prussian Grenadier of the old
school, being not less than six feet three inches in
height. Mr. Theile entertained the late Sir William
Coke (vide No. 6) and myself upon our landing
at Point Pedro from Trincomalee with the greatest
hospitality ; and after dinner, a few extra glasses of
Sir William's champagne took a pleasant effect on the
old gentleman, for shouldering a crutch to show how
fields were won, he desired his daughter, a very
pretty girl, to play a favourite Prussian march, and
'advancing arms' with my gun, marched about the
room as erect as if he had been sixty years younger
than he really was."
J. F. Theile was probably the John Theile who
married at Jaffna, September 22, 1816, Louisa
Elizabeth Rulach.
In memory of Godfrey Dominick Lyle Beowne,
C.C.S., sou of the Rev. Atjgitsttjs Beowne, of
Dublin. Born 1854, died 1884.
Jesus saith. Have faith ia God.
He was in the Civil Service 1876-84; Police Magis-
trate at Panadure and Matale, He was Police Magis-
trate of Point Pedro at the time of his death. The
monument was erected by Sir William Twjmam.
Market Place, Point Pedro, Jaffna District.
In Baldseus (3rd edition), p. 717, is the following passage: — "Just before the church stands a tall
tamarind tree, which affording a very agreeable shadow in the heat of the day, the people are often instructed
by the minister to the number of three thousand." The illustration in the book shows the tree standing close
to the landiifg place opposite the present pier, with a preacher in a pulpit and a crowd before him under the
" agreeable shadow" of the tree. But as the tree stood before the church it must have been in the market
place, about three hundred yards from the sea, and not close to it as represented in the engraving.. However,
an inaccuracy of this kind in the pictures illustrating Baldseus's book is of no importance. We have only to
contemplate the mountains and lakes introduced into his picture of the island of Delft. The top of the tree is,
as it is, visible from the landing place, and is a conspicuous landmark from the sea. This is the only reference
to the tree in the book, but it has given rise to the notion that Baldaeus himself preached under this tree.
Very likely he did, but he does not say so. There is a large tamarind tree in the market place, which must be
quite 300 years old, known as " Baldaeus's Tree," and on September 5, 1760, Point Pedro was visited by the
Danish Missionary, Christian Frederick Schwarz, of the S. P. C. K., "for the purpose of seeing the tree under
which the celebrated Baldseus, who accompanied the first Dutch expedition to Ceylon, addressed his first
discourse to the natives." (Cotton, p. 365.) In 1906 a stone was erected under the tree, commemorating this
event.
BALDiEUS' TEEE
1658
Visited by Schwarz
5th September, 1760.
♦-" Opposite the tree used to stand, until they were removed by Mr. Dyke to their present sites, the Police
Court^and the Magistrate's bouse, and near them stood the Dutch Church, now long demolished. (See " Spolia
Zeylanica,";^vol. III., p. 211.)
KAYTS.
Compound of the Resthouse.
jrial No.
Date.
Name.
880 ..
Feb. 23 .
1828
. . John Atherton
21,
Inscription.
John, infant son of Rob. Atheeton, Esqr., died 23rd
Feb., 1828, aged 3 days.
This was while Robert Atherton was " Superin-
tendent, Sitting Magistrate, and Fiscal of the Pro-
vince of Delft," in succession to Captain Edward
Nolan. (See No. 998.)
82-09
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MANNAR.
Christ Church, in the Fort.
When the Dutch Church in Mannar town tumbled down — in the cyclone of 1814, I beUeve — a long
rectangular building in the Fort was set apart as a church for the garrison and residents, but, according to the
Colombo Observer of 1844, it had been " a consecrated building since the time of the Dutch." Here the word
" consecrated " is probably not used in a strictly ecclesiastical sense.
This is the church that in that year was used by the Sub-CoUector as a part of his quarters, the pulpit
for storing provisions in and the altar for keeping sundries on belonging to his family (see p. 81). The Dutch
tombstones in the old church were removed to it and lei into the floor, probably in 1814 or shortly afterwards,
the Portuguese tombstones in 1904. Fragments of two other Portuguese tombstones, found in the paved floor
of the entrance to the Fort, sufficient to display two coats of arms and in each case a portion of the lettering,
have been built into the wall of the church. The arms have been identified as those of (1) Aranjo and Ribeiro
quartered, and (2) of Alcacova and Carneiro quartered.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
881 . . Sixteenth . . Maria de Lacerda . . pe. ne.
century pola alma de
DONA M DE LACEE
DA MOLHEE DE 10 DE
MBLO DE SAPAIO F^ D A°
Mr. S. Haughton, while he was Assistant Agent at
Mannar about 1883, had fotmd a stone trough in his
compound which had been devoted by his predecessor
to the feeding of pigs , and had rescued it from this base
use, as he noticed that it had a Portuguese inscription
on the lower side, and had built it up in his stables as a
trough for his horse — with the inscription underneath.
In 1903 the stone was mounted on a pedestal in the
church. The stone is a small one, and this portion is
evidently only the canopy or superstructure of a tomb
of some height. It is of a peculiar shape, like the
roof of a house, and the dimensions are, length along
ridge at top 21 inches, along base 40 inches, width at
base 24 inches, height 14 inches. With regard to the
inscription, " PR. NR." stands for " Pater noster,"
and " pola " is a way of writing " por a." The in-
scription therefore should be translated, " A pater
noster for the soul Of Dona," &c. With regard to the
name of the lady, it appears to be Dona Maria de
Lacerda, this latter being a well known Portuguese
surname. The inscription goes on, "Molher de lo. de
Melo de Sapaio Fa D Ao," and then ends abruptly.
The rest of it was no doubt on another stone which
supported this canopy-like stone, and this stone has
disappeared. The last line overlaps from the sloping
to the vertical surface, and was evidently continued
down below on the other stone. " F D " is most likely
a contraction for " Filha D," and the inscription here
ends with the letters Ao, probably a contraction for
Antonio.
The translation would therefore be "A pater
noster for the soul of Dona Maria de Lacerda, wife of
loao de MeUo Sampayo, daughter of "
Unforttinately the name of the lady's father and the
date are missing, but the name of the Portuguese
gentleman that is preserved is of historical interest.
There is a reference to an officer of this name in a
" History of the Company of Jesus in Asia," by an
Italian member of the Order, Father Danielle Bartoh,
who hved 1608-85, which, relating how on one
occasion the plague was stopped by St. Francis
Xavier, adds : " Many more details are given about
what happened in the island of Mannar (where took
place the martyrdom of 600 Christians, which we
related a few pages higher up). The fact is made
known to us by the report of an eye-witness, D.
Giovanni MeUo Sampaio, a Portuguese nobleman,
who in after years held the ofiace of Captain in the
fortress of the same island and in the Kingdom of
Kandy." Doubtless we have here part of the
tombstone of the wife of this officer.
Mr. Donald Ferguson writes: "The Captain of
Mannar (where the memorial was found) in 1587-88
was Joao de MeUo, according to Couto (V., x. i.),
who in a previous decade (V., i. vii.) mentions him
by his full name, Joao de MeUo de Sampaio. He
was probably the same person whom Couto names
in dec. IX. , cap. xiu. , as son of Dr. Gaspar de MeUo ;
if so, he was brother-in-law to the unlucky Pedro
Lopes de Sousa (Couto, X., i. ix.), who met his fate
on the Kandyan hills in 1594 (Ribeiro, I., vii.).
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Christ Church, in the Fort, Mannav—contd.
jrial No.
Date.
Name.
881 ,.
Sixteenth .
century
. Maria de Lacerda— con<rf.
Inscription.
When Jo£io de Mello de Sampaio assumed the charge
of Mannar I do not know, but Couto tells us (V. , i. viii. )
that it was during his captaincy that there were
unearthed at Mantota certain coins and an iron chain,
which were thought to be Roman. This occurred,
says Couto, in ' 1574 or 1575,' which I take to be an
error for ' 1584 or 1585.' The great Portuguese
historian also informs us that the above-mentioned
relics were taken with him, to be presented to the
King of Portugal, by Joao de Mello when he sailed
from India in '1590' (actually 1592) by the ' S.
Bernardo,' which was lost with all on board. As to
Dona Maria de Lacerda, I can only say that she was
possibly the daughter of one of the Pereiras de
Lacerda whom Couto mentions as taking pait in the
defence of Columbo and Cota."
A marble tablet with the following inscription has
accordingly been erected by Government on the,
pedestal which now supports the tombstone: — "This,
memorial of the wife of Joao de Mello Sampayo,
Captain of Mannar, 1584-7, found in the Residency
grounds, was set up here, 1904."
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B,, vol. XVIII., p. 355.)
882
Dec. 12
1687
Anna van Heuvel
883
May 26
1697
Henrietta van der Parra
Anna van Cralen huysvrouw van den ondercoop-
man Nicolaas van Hetjvel, oud 32 jaaren
Sterft den 12 December, Ao. 1687.
{Ibid., vol. XV., pp. 250, 263.)
Nicolaas van Heuvel was afterwards (1719-21)
Commandeur of Galle. (See No. 516.)
Hier onder rust d. eerbaare juffr. Henrietta
WiCHBLMANS huysvTouw Van den Coopman
RoMBOUT VAN DER Parra, out 21 jaar 2 maanden
en 12 dagen. Overleden 26en May, anno 1697.
Arms. — Party per pale. 1. Van der Parra (already
blazoned).
2. Quarterly .(1 and 4) argent, a castle (WicheU
mans). (2 and 3.) Three birds (1, 2). (Durhee.)
Henrietta Wichelmans , or Wichelman, bom at Galle ,
was the daughter of Magnus Wichelman and Susanna
Durhee. Rombout van der Parra of Amsterdam, and
Dissave of Colombo, married Henrietta Wichelmans
as his second wife, at Colombo, on October 9, 1695.
Rombout and his first wife, Maria Strick, were the
grand parents of Petrus Albertus van der Parra,
Governor-General of the Dutch Indies. (See Nos.
367, 498.)
This stone had been cut into two nearly equal parts
one containing the coat of arms and the other the
inscription. They had been placed apart in the
floor of the Fort church with other tombstones in
between. In 1894 I was able to effect their re-
jionction by means of the PubUc Works Department.
884
March 12
169-.
Lambert van Buren
Hier onder rust D. E. Lambert van Bttren by syn
leven zynde ondercoopmn. en opperhoofd tot deser
plaatse, out 48 jaaren 11 maanden en 12 dagen :
overleden den 12 maert 169-.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 263 ; vol. XVII., p. 29.)
Lambert van Buren married Magdalena van
Avarne. He was the founder of the family in
Ceyfon.
885
Feb. 6
1701
Susanna Bout
Hier rust Juffr. Susanna de Mey huysvrouwe van
den onde koopman en M'anaars opperh. D. E.
PiETER Bout, overleden den 6en February, Anno
1701, out 28 jaaren 3 maanden en 2 dagen.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 263 ; vol. XVIL, p. 29.)
Pieter Bout, who was a native of Alkmaar, married
(2), at Colombo, August 7, 1701, Agneta Ram of
Amsterdam.
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Christ Church, in the Fort, Mannar — conid.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
886 ..
Feb. 23 ,
1740
, . Johanna van der Spar
May 28 .
1775
. Joannes Christianus
der Spar
van
887
. Oct. 21
1744
Magdalena Raket
March 1
1746
Abraham Roos
889
March 2
1750
Pierre de Salve
890
April
1752
Jacob Henderik Vogelaar
Inscription.
Hier rusten in den Heere op 23 Feb., 1740, Mejuff
JoHjmNA CooRN (huysv.) van den (Hee)r Joha
(v)ander Spar en op 28Mey, 1775, haar Klynsoon
den jongen Hoer Joannes Christianus van der
Spar.
Translation. — Here rest in the Lord on February 23,
1740, Johanna Coorn, wife of Mr. Johannes van der
Spar, and on May 28, 1775, her grandson, the
young Mr. Joannes Christianus van der Spar.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 243.)
Joannes Christianus van der Spar was baptized
atGalle on January 15, 1758, being the son of Mattheus
van der Spar and Dorothea Cornelia van Dam. (See
No. 537.)
This stone was found in 1905, one-half let into the
pavement of the presbytery of St. Mary's Church,
Mannar, and the other in a similar position at the
presbytery of the Church of St. Sebastian in the same
town. Through the courtesy of the Bishop of Jafina
they were removed from these positions and put
together again in the floor of the Fort Church, to
which all the other Dutch tombstones of Mannar
had been transferred many years before. The
missing portions of the lettering of the word ' ' Housv. ' '
have been cut in cement, the tops only of the original
letters having been left.
Hier onder rust de E. Juffrouw Magdalena Swinnas,
huysvrouw van den ondercoopman en opper-
hoofd den E. Hr. Jan Helfrig Raket, over-
leeden den 21 October, Anno 1744, oud Zynde 39
jaaren 2 maanden en 20 dagen.
Jan Helfrig Raket was chief of Mannar. (See Nos.
383, 517.)
(Hid., vol. XV., p. 264.)
Arms. — Argent, on a mount a tree, supercharged
with a doe coiorant.
Or est. — A doe as in the arms.
Hier leyt begraven 't lyk van den E. Heer Abraham
Roos van Amsterdam, in syn leeven Commandeur
van Jaffanapatnam. Overleeden den eersten
Maart, Ao. 1746, oud 45 jaren en 7 maanden.
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 264.) (See No. 274.)
Arms. — Party per pale (1) argent, a doe rampant
contourn^. (2) Sable, a rose or, stalked and barbed
vert.
Hier onder rust den Heer Pierre de Salve gebooren
op het buys KiUesteyn te Lexmand op den 17
Maart, Ao. 1705, in syn Es. leven ondercoopman en
opperhoofd van Manaar. Obiit den 2 Maart, Ao.
1750, oud zynde 44 jaren 11 maanden en 16 dagen.
(Ibid., -vol. XV., p. 263.)
Pierre de Salve (de Bruneten) was the son of Jean
Antoine de Salve and Cornelia Haakbond. Pierre's
brother was Major-General Jean Marc de Salve, who
died at Lille, September 12, 1768. Pierre de Salve
married Johanna Catharina Meyer, bom at Galle in
1724, daughter of Christiaan Meyer and Elsebe
Brelofsberg. Johanna Catharina Meyer married, as
widow de Salve, at Galle, July 22, 1750, Rev. Andreas
Fredrik Schultze.
Arms. — Party per fess gules within a bordure •
2 wolves courant, one in chief and the other in base.
Crest. — A plume of ostrich feathers argent.
Hier onder rust den j. gebooren soon van den E. Heer
Vaandrig alhier Jacob Vogelaar met name Jacob
Henderik Vogelaar : overleeden den April,
Anno 1752, oud 2 maanden en 27 daagen.
(Johan) Jacob Vogelaar, of Witzenhausen, married
(1), on July 25, 1745, Anna Maria Bock of Colombo ;
and (2), on April 20, 1755, Anna Sophia Scharff
of Colombo, the sister-in-law of the Rev. Henricus
Philipsz. Anna Sophia Scharff was the daughter
of Jan Christoffel Scharff of Sangerhausen and Eliza-
beth de Saram. (See No. 392.)
(Ihid., vol. XV., p. 264; vol. XVII., p. 29.)
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Serial No.
891 . .
Date.
April 5
17—
Christ Church, in the Fort, Msmnav—contd.
Name. Inscription.
Erasmus Hansz . . Hier onder rust Eeasmus Haijsz van JafEanap. in
syn leven geweest Negotie boekJh.ouder alhier,
overleden den 5 April, Ao. 17 — , oud synde 40 jaren
— maand. en 1 dag.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 263.)
Dutch Burial Ground, Mannar.
Many name plates must have been removed from the monuments in this burial ground, which, until
recently, was unenclosed by fence or wall. Not a single Dutch inscription is to be found, yet Mannar, under
the Dutch, was an important place.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
892
Jan. 19
1900
G. C. Blechinberg
G. C. Blechinbeeg.
A wooden memorial, existing in 1905, but not
likely to last long. He was engineer in charge of
the Giant's Tank, and died of malarial fever at
Murankan. He was, I have heard, a Dane, and
there was a curious story about his parentage. He
was said to be connected with the highest in his
native country.
Resthouse Compound, Arippu, Mannar District.
893
April 14
1878
Charles Leys
Sacred to the memory of Chaeles Leys, of the
Oriental Bank Corporation, who died of sunstroke at
Marisikaddi on the 14th April, 1878, aged 35 years.
Mr. Leys came from Jaffna to Marichchukkaddi the
day before with Mr. Thomas Twynam, a son of the
Government Agent, in a Sinhalese outrigger canoe,
without any protection from the sun. They went
out shooting, 7 miles from Marichchukkaddi, in the
morning. Mr. Leys felt very Ul, but walked back
part of the way to Marichchukkaddi in the afternoon,
and was carried the rest. He died the same evening
at the resthouse there. His body was carried the
same night to Arippu, where it was buried, Mr. G. M.
Fowler, C.C.S., the Assistant Government Agent,
holding the inquest and reading the burial service.
Marichchukkaddi, Mannar District.
Compound of Roman Catholic Church at Mullikulam.
This church is a mile or thereabouts inland from the coast at Marichchukkaddi.
Serial No.
894 .
Date.
May 5
1836
Nan^e.
John Gerrit Freywer
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of John Geeeit, son of
Matthew Feeywee, commander of the Govern-
ment barque Wellington, born 3rd April, 1812, died
5th May, 1836, aged 24 yeais. Im- 2d. '
(The second name is spelt ' ' Gerrard ' ' in the Gazette. )
Mr. Freywer was commander of the ketch Mahomed
Bux in. 1810, and succeeded J. Steddy in the command
of the Government cutter Wilhdmina in 1813 (see
No. 341). In 1816 he was commander of the brig
Ceylon. The WilhelmiTha was advertised for sale in
September, 1817. She was "of 60 tons burthen."
From 1824 to 1828 he was in command of the colonial
brigantine Anna, in 1833 of the Wellington, and later
of the schooner Fly, and again of the Wellington, and
in 1841 of the barque La Felice, trading between
Colombo and Tuticorin.
On February 28, 1833, he sailed in the Wellington
for Arippu and the pearl banks, having on board
Governor Sir Robert and Lady Wilmot Horton, to be
present at the opening of the fishery, and on March 7
took them back in her to Colombo,
Mrs. S. Freywer, wife of M. Fre3rwer, died at
Colombo, June 16, 1822.
The parish priest in 1902 set about demolishing
his tomb, as the occupant did not belong to the
Roman CathoUc Chtirch, but at the instance of
Mr. E. B. Denham, C.C.S., the Assistant Government
Agent, who represented the matter to the Bishop,
the work of demohtion was stopped and the tomb
repaired.
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Kachchilaimadu, Mullaittivu District.
In the village clearing, under some large tamarind trees, which are probably old enough to have witnessed
the fight, is a stone erected by Mr. R. A. G. Festing, Assistant Government Agent, 1904-5, to mark the place
where Captain F. W. von Driberg defeated Pandara Vanniya in 1803. The spot was pointed out to the compiler
by a villager, who said that it had been shown him by his grandfather. " Pandara's Tree," a tamarind tree,
remains to mark the Vanni chief's temporary residence in the viUa'ge, which is 2J miles from Oddusuddan on the
road from Oddusuddan to Putukudiyiruppu. Oddusuddan, where there is a resthouse, is on the road from
Mankulam to Mullaittivu, 15| miles from the latter place.
Hereabouts Captain von Driberg defeated
Pandara Vanniya, 31st Oct., 1803.
" In 1803, on the opening of hostilities between the British and the King of Kandy, Pandara Vannyan, one of
the dispossessed Vanni Chiefs, who had once before been pardoned for rebellion and had been reinstated by
the British Government as a chief in that portion of the Vanni bodering on the Nuwarakalawiya, District, again^
revolted and undertook to expel the English from his country. With the assistance of a body of Kandyans imder the
Disava of Nuwarakalawiya he overran the Vanni, and on August 25th, 1803, attacked the Government house at
Mullaittivu in great force, drove out the garrison, which was under the command of Captain von Driberg of the
' Invahd Malays,' and seized the fort. Captain von Driberg withdrew his small garrison in good order to boats,
which had been sent to Mullaittivu to secure his retreat, and by this means to Jaffna. The insurgents were
subsequently ' driven from Mullaittivu and its neighbourhood by a detachment sent from Trincomalee under
Captain Edward Madge of the 19th Regiment,' and Kumaras6kara, Mudaliyar of Mullaittivu, and several others who
were strongly suspected of treason, were captured and executed. Another detachment was sent from Jafina under
Lieut. John JeweU of the 19th Regiment, which on its march burned some strong works thrown up by the
insurgents and seized a considerable quantity of cattle. A third under Captain von Driberg marched from Mannar
and surprised Pandara's forces at Kachchilamadu at 5 a.m. on October 31, killed a great many of them, took
46 prisoners, and got possession of one Kandyan gun, mounted on a low carriage, carrying a ball of IJ lb. weight,
fifty-five stand of arms, twelve pikes, two swords, two creeses, one toayonet, one barrel, and two baskets of
ammunition. Sixteen houses in which Pandara had stored his possessions were burnt, and his people were dispersed
in different directions in the jungle, and eventually driven out of the Vanni. The power of the Vanni chiefs was thus-
finally and effectually extinguished." ("Vanni Manual," pp. 18, 19.)
BATTICALOA.
Batticaloa was the first place in Ceylon visited by the Dutch under Admirals Joris van Spilbergen and
Sebald de Weert in 1602 and 1603 respectively, and the first place captured by them in Ceylon was afio Batticaloa.
This happened in 1638. The Dutch demolished the Portuguese fort, which was triangular in shape, and a
picture of which is given in Baldseus's " History of Ceylon," and built the present one in 1640.
The Dutch Church stood within the fort, but there is no trace of it except a stone bearing the following
inscription : —
DESK KERK IS GESTIGT
DEN 13 FEB. AO. 1740
WAAR VAN DEN EEESTEN
STBBN IS GELEYT DOOR
MEJTJFBW MA. M. DE MOOR
HUYSV VAN't OBPBRHT.
DE E. MB. RD. BTJYK
Maria Margarita de Moor was the eldest daughter of Pieter de Moor, of The Hague, and Johanna Obrak.
She was baptized at GaUe on August 5, 1718, and married, on May 30, 1734, Mr. Raymond Buyk of Batavia,
Chief of Batticaloa. (See Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVII., p. 42.)
There is a tomb just outside the western gate of the fort of a late Dutch pattern (a masonry coffin on a
pedestal), but it has no inscription. It is the tomb of a Parsee lady who was landed from a vessel suffering
from measles, and who was isolated in the fort, and in her "place of" burial "in the time of Mr. Atherton,"
Government Agent.
Ault Memorial Hall, Batticaloa.
This building stands on the site of the old garrison church of early British times. The church was
demolished when the present St. Andrew's Church was built, and the site sold to the Wesleyan Mission. The tablet
and tombstones which it contained lay for some time in the compound of the Wesleyan Chapel, and when the
hall was built, five of them were let into the walls of that structure. The tomb of Mr. Ault, which was in the-"
old church originally, and one or two others had by that time disappeared. This accounts for the two inscriptions
on the same wall relating to Mrs. Sawers, one of which belongs to the tombstone and the other to the memorial
tablet. In the case of Captain Jones, the tablet must have been removed from the dibris of the old church to its
present resting place at Tandanvenveli, a mile and a quarter from the fort. No doubt Mrs. Sawers, Captain Jones,
Mr. Robert Smith, and Mrs. Rudd were buried within the walls of the old church, or in the compound in which it
stood, probably the former, as the haU occupies the whole extent of the site.
The tablet commemorating Mrs. Sawers is a handsome oval one of white marble, with a border of black
marble of Greek pattern. It is built into the centre of the end wall of the haU, and is flanked by the gravestones of
Captain Jones on the (proper) right and of Robert Smith on the left. The side walls display the tombstones of
Mrs. Rudd (right) and Mrs. Sawers (left). They are unfortunate in their surroundings, and I can imagine that
Simon Sawers would not be pleased if he could see what had befallen the handsome memorial tablet which he had
erected to his wife " untimely gone." The Memorial HaU, so-caUed, a rather mean building, is hardly a memorial,
and it is not used as a haU. It is now a book depot, and when I visited it in March, 1910, packing cases were
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Ault Memorial Hall, Batticaloa— cowit^.
-piled up against the walls to within a few inches of the memorial stones. One wonders why it did not occur to the
responsible authorities to have had them built into the walls of the new church, where at least the " atmosphere "
would have been more congenial, and they would have been sometimes seen by persons who took an interest in the
■cml and miMary annals of the country. To such the monuments of the wife of Simon Sawers and Captain Jones
especially would seem to have deserved better"
Serial No.
895 ..
Date.
April 1
1815
Name.
William Ault
896
Oct. 2
1814
Mary Sawers
897
! Oct. 2
1814
Marie Sawers
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Rev. William Ault,
Wesleyan Missionary. This stone is placed over
his mortal remains by the Protestant Burghers of
Batticaloa as a testimony of the esteem and
regard with which they were impressed by his
exemplary piety, moral goodness, and the religious
instruction which he imparted to them during the
short period that he was permitted by Providence
to remain among them. Obiit 1st April, 1815.
This stone disappeared about forty years ago.
The following obituary notice appeared in the
Oovernment Oazette of April 19, 1815 : "At Batticaloa
on the 1st instant, after a tedious illness of three
months, the Reverend W. Ault, one of the Wesleyan
Missionaries who arrived about a year ago. Bi§
sincere piety, his ardent zeal, indefatigable industry,
and modest unassuming manners gained the esteem
and respect of all at that Station, both Europeans and
Natives. Presenting rare quahfications for the
meritorious and useful work he had undertaken, his
success in the short space of 8 months in raising
among a niunerous body of Natives, nominally
Christian, at that place a respect for and a decent
observance of at least the external form of Religion
was truly remarkable, and although he had not to
boast of having made any converts from either the
Heathen or Mahometan Faith to that of Christianity,
yet by the establishment of eight Schools for the
education of Hindoo children and by his talents and
address having so far overcome the scruples and
prejudices of their parents as to introduce the reading
of the New Testament as the only School book to the
more advanced scholars he has laid the foundation
for a more extensive propagation of otit faith."
(Oazette, April 19, 1815.) 4 k'*i^,
Here lie interred the remains of Maey, the wife of
S. Sawers, Esq., His Britannic Majesty's Civil
Service of Ceylon, and daughter of the late
Mr. RoBEET Slbbald of Dunbar in Scotland, who
died when but in the prime of life on the 2nd
October, 1814, leaving her husband and two
infant children to lament their unspeakable loss.
Untimely gone ! for ever fled,
The remaining verses are illegible, but they are
apparently the same as those which appear in the
Oazette of October 19, 1814, and should therefore
read —
" Untimely gone ! for ever fled.
The roses of the cheek so red,
Th' affection warm, the temper mUd,
The sweetness that in sorrow smil'd.
The heart where goodness overflow'd.
The cheek where youth and freshness glow'd,
A clod amid the valley lies.
And ' dust to dust,' the moiwner cries !"
Sacred to the memory of Maeie, the wife of SiMOU
Sawees, Esqr., Collector of Batticaloa. Nat. 30th
December, 1782. Obt. 2nd October, 1814. As
she was eminent for piety, charity, and every virtue
that adorns domestic or social Ufe, so she hved
respected and beloved and died deeply lamented
by all who knew her.
Sweet peace and heavenly hope and humble joy,
Divinely beamed on her exalted soul.
Simon Sawers married Mary Sibbald at Edinbmrgh,
February 5, 1805. (I take this to be the suiname,
but the first part of the name on the tombstone
is illegible. ) Her death was due to childbirth. On
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Ault Memorial Hall, Batticaloa — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
897 ..
Oct. 2
1814
,. Marie Sawers — contd.
898
Feb. 21
1815
Mary Rudd
Inscription.
September 18 she had given birth to a son. The
Gazette thus refers to her death : " In the prime of life
the Lady of Simon Sawers, Esq., leaving two
infants too yoimg to deplore their irreparable loss.
While the premature death of this accomplished
woman is deeply to be lamented, the remembrance
of her tender soUcitude as a Mother, her fond
affection as a Wife, and her poUshed urbanity of
manner as a Member of Society will long afford a
melancholy consolation to her surviving friends. "^
Simon Sawers was Collector of Batticaloa at the tim&
of her death.
He came out to Ceylon as a Civil Servant in 1805,
and was straightway appointed Assistant Cpllector at
Batticaloa, but at the end of the year went to Chilaw
in a similar capacity, with the addition of that of
Customs Master, Calpentyn. On July 15, 1807, hfr
became Sitting Magistrate, Colombo, and on June 13,
1808, Assistant Collector at Trincomalee. In June,
1809, he went back to Batticaloa, this time as Actings
Collector and Customs Master, in which appoint-
ment he was confirmed on March 1, 1812. On April
22, 1815, he was appointed First Assistant to the
Resident and Agent of Government at BaduUa. On
May 20, 1816, he became Commissioner of Revenue at
Kandy, or "Third Commissioner in charge of the
Revenue Department." He vras again Assistant
Resident at Badulla, 1817-18, and Revenue Commis-
sioner at Kandy 1819-20. This he exchanged for
the senior position of Judicial Commissioner from
August 14, 1821, which he retained imtU December
30, 1826, when he left Kandy for England on retire-
ment. His retirement dates from July 3, 1827, when
he received a pension of £600 a year. On leaving
Batticaloa on April 25, 1815, he was presented with
an address signed by Captain T. A. Anderson, the
Commandant, Lieutenants O'Shea of the 19th and
James Bagnet of the 73rd (afterwards Collector), and
Assistant Surgeon J. Scott. The Gazette referred to
his departure from Kandy in the following terms : — -
" Mr. Sawers has been employed in the Kandyan
Provinces ever since they came into British possession,
in 1815, and has by his integrity and firmness of
character inspired the natives with respect and
confidence in the British Government, and at the
same time by his suavity of manner and conciliatory
disposition excited strong feelings of personal attach-
ment, for we hear that a series of fetes have been given
in Kandy on the occasion of Mr. Sawers' retirement ,
demonstrative of the high respect and regard in which
he was held by all classes of the community."
He was one of the executors of the will of Alexander
Cadell (see Nos. 8, 70a), and we find him writing on
January 1, 1842,' from 69, Queen street, Edinburgh,
to request that certain moneys belonging to the
estate be not paid to Mr. J. Read of the house of
W. C. Gibson & Co. , as he had cancelled his power
of attorney in his favour. He died on June 18, 1849,
at Edinburgh. He was the author of " A Digest of
Kandyan Laws," and of " A Journey from Kandy-
via Adam's Peak to Caltura in 1819," printed in the
Memoirs of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh,
vol. 4, part 2, page 396. He is referred to, while
Assistant Resident at Badulla, in General Orders
dated November 10, 1818, as having " returned from
Badulla, where his services have been of such essential
advantage during the war, to give his assistance at
Kandy in making an improved system of Govern-
ment for the Kandyan Provinces in peace."
Sacred to the memory of Maey, the wife of Hbnrt
RtTDD, Esquire aged 20 years.
Mrs. Rudd came out with her husband, an engineer
from Norfolkshire, with several other engineers and
millwrights in the ship Emma, which arrived at
Colombo from London on November 30, 1813. He
was Assistant Superintendent and Engineer of the
rice mills at Batticaloa, which were maintained by
Goverimient, from 1814 to 1817. When they were
discontinued, or perhaps later, he set up as a carriage
builder at Colombo, and there is an advertisement in.
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Ault Memorial Hall, Batticaloa— cowfc?.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
898 ,.
Feb. 21 .
1815
Mary BniA—contd.
899
Oct. 29
1815
Robert Smith
900
April 18
1818
Thomas Aldersey Jones
Inscription.
the Oovernment Gazette of 1829 that " Henry Rudd
makes gigs at from 500 to 600 Bds. and four-wheeled
carriages at proportionate rates." His business was
carried on in a two-storey house, overlooking the
Pettah burial groiind, which is still standing. In
1830 he was commissioned by Government to bring
out the pumping machinery for the Puttur well,
in the Jafina Peninsula. The experiment proved a
failure. On this occasion he brought out also with
him his nephew, WUHam Rudd, who had been trained
as a fitter at Maudslay's factory, to help him in his
carriage building, but was destined to achieve dis-
tinction as a pioneer coHee planter. French Gray,
returning from school, was a fellow passenger.
Henry Rudd married again at Colombo in 1817.
The two Rudds are the ancestors of several well-
known famiUes long connected with the Island.
(See No. 331.)
Henry Rudd (senior) was the father of (1) Henry,
who married at Colombo, September 13, 1853, Emma
Margaret Piachaud ; (2) George William, who married
at Colombo, Jemuary 3, 1864, Eugenie Piachaud ;
(3) Lucy, who married James Straohan ; (4) Angelina,,
who married John Stephens. A daughter of Henry
Rudd and Emma Margaret Piachaud married C.
Spearman Armstrong, and another daughter, T. C.
Owen. Henry Rudd (senior) died at Bayswater,
February 25, 1857. His nephew, William Rudd,
married Plantina OteUne Prins, daughter of CorneUs
Arnoldus Prins, Advocate Fiscal. (See under " Old
Garrison Cemetery, Kandy," No. 1177.)
Sacred to the memory of Mr. Robert Smith, Mer-
chant, who departed this life on the 29th of
October, 1815, aged 45 years, A model parent
and friend beloved by all who knew him in this
sphere.
His widow, Anna Catherina Christina who-
died in 1824, married Samuel James. He had a son,
Robert, who died at Trincomalee, June 25, 1816.
(See No. 936.)
Here lie the remains of Thomas Aldersey Jones,
Captain in the 19th Regiment, who died on the
18th of April, 1818, aged 36 years. The manly
firmness of Captain Jones' military conduct was
shown in the steady discipline of the men under his
command. The friendly kindness of his private
Hfe was rewarded by the general confidence and
esteem of the regiment in which he served and of
the society which knew his worth.
Captain Jones was the third son of John Lloyd
Jones, Esqr., of Maesmawr in the coimty of
Montgomery. He married on the 4th February,
1813, Susan, 2nd daughter of Wil. Thornes,
Rector of Cardeston and Vicar of Alberbury in
the county of Salop. His afflicted widow and
three young children are left to mourn his loss.
(See No. 5.)
Roman Catholic Church at Tandanvenveli, Batticaloa.
901
April 18
1818
Thomas Aldersey Jones
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Aldeesey Jones,
Captn. in H. M. 19th Regt., died and was buried
at Batticaloa the 18th of April, 1818.
17 years of Service in the 19th Regt. on the Continent
of India [a]nd in the Island of Ceylon. Captain
Jones was distiaguished [by the co]nstant appro-
bation of his Commander, [rejspect of his Inferiors.
Size, 1 foot square.
The parish priest writes in 1906 : " The fragment
wiU be kept in the Roman Catholic Church at Batti-
caloa, and preserved from further mutilation. The
place where it was embedded is imknown." The
chittch is about 1 J mile from Batticaloa fort.
2 M
82-09
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Batticaloa Town.
At the junction of 3rd Cross street with Hospital street, by the side of the main thoroughfare, on land which
formerly belonged to the Mooyaarts , is a flat tombstone enclosed by a stone wall about 8 feet high , with the following
inscription. Owing to the height of the wall the fact that there was a tomb here had been for years forgottrai.
The stone was in excellent preservation, though covered with scrub, when it was recently rediscovered.
HERB REST
THE PEACEFTTL REMAINS OF
CHRISTIANA SOPHIA JOHN
RELICT OP
THE REV. D. CHRISTOPHER SAML JOHN
OF THE ROYAL DANISH MISSION
AT TRAQITEBAB
OBIIT BATTICALOA 30 DECEMBER 1821
^T. 70 YEARS
OH ! HOW SHE LONG'd
TO HAVE HER PASSPORT SIGN'd, AND BE DISMISS'd
'tis done ! AND NOW SHE'S HAPPY ! THE GLAD SOtTL
HAS NOT A WISH UNCROWN'O. EV'n THE LAG FLESH
RESTS TOO IN HOPE OF MEETING ONCE AGAIN
ITS BETTER HALF NEVER TO SUNDER MORE.
The word " lag " may be intended for " log," though this hardly makes more sense. The Danish form of
the name would be Jahn, but probably it was angUcized. Johanna Catherina, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs.
John, married, on February 27, 1815, at Tranquebar, James Nicholas Mooyaart, who was Assistant Collector of
Revenue at Batticaloa in 1825. He died in 1886 in his 97th year (see No. 1051). Of him the following legend
is recorded : — ' ' He held stoutly to the theory that dying was by no means inevitable to the man who had the
opportunity of taking care of himself, and that it would be his own fault if he died and when he turned
97 without any sign of an intention of shuffling off this mortal coil, people began to think he was going to
exemphfy his theory in his own person. And when after all the end did eventually come, it was by no means
a disproof of his theory." One cold morning, instead of waiting patiently for the housemaid to light the fire in
his bedroom, he got up and did it himself, with the result that he caught a chill and died. (E. Woodhouse, in
" Notes by the Way," p. 18.)
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
902 ..
July 27
1730
Susanna Thonnon
The Cemetery, Batticaloa.
" Within the Port, and scattered about three sides of a grassy common, are white houses all roofed with
red tiles, each bungalow standing in its own pleasant garden. The peaceful cemetery occupies a prominent
position on this green common, one side of which is washed by the lake whose farther shores are densely clothed
with cocoa-pahns." ("Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. II., p. 78.) The burial ground contains about
twenty dilapidated old Dutch and British tombs of heavy masonry, from all of which, with one or two exceptions,
the name slabs have disappeared. One is completely enveloped by a banyan tree. There is a small headstone,
the greater part of which is undecipherable. ' ' The stones are said to have been removed from time to time
by the dhobies for their own use," so the local headman reports.
Inscription.
. . Hier onder leyt seer soeten rust juffrouw Susanna
Thonnon (geboren van der Horst). Overleden
den 27 July, Anno 1730, tot gemeen
Translation. — Hereunder lies the sweet resting (?)
Susanna Thonnon (born van der Horst), died on
July 27, 1730, to the general
Susanna was the daughter of Jan Jansz van der
Horst, Scheepstimraerman, and Elizabeth Blslant,
and was baptized at Colombo on October 22, 1702.
There is a Van der Horst buried at Galle (see No.
520). A " sceepstimmerman " is a ship's carpenter.
This is a roughly cut stone at the end of a shapeless
mass of masonry, and is rapidly becoming illegible.
It seems to be the composition or work of an illiterate
person. " Seer soeten rust" may mean aa above, or
"may she rest very sweetly," or "very sweet one
rest," as if it were in parentheses.
. . Here heth Jane Davidson, aged two months and
one day. Daughter to Mr. Alex. Davidson,
Chief of Vizagapatam. Her afflicted parents have
caused this tomb to be erected to the memory o.
the angehck rafant.
Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is
the kingdom of God.
Saint Mark.
Died twentieth December, one thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine. *
903
Dec. 20
1779
Jane Davidson
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The Cemetery, Batticaloa— cowfc?.
Serial No.
903 .
Date.
Dec. 20
1779
Name.
Jane Davidson — contd.
904
Oct. 17
1813
Robert A. Gordon
905
May 10
1814
Jonathan Fudge
906
907
Jan. 22
1815
July 28
1856
April 25
1874
Jemima Walker
Susan Jane Gray
French Gray
Inscription.
This is a flat tombstone with raised letters and an
ornamental border very well cut, and is as perfect
to-day as the day it was erected.
During the Dutch occupation of Batticaloa, coasting
vessels of the Dutch and other European nations
trading with the Bast Indies used to come from
Vizagapatam, Pulicaat (near Madras), Cuddalore, and
Negapatam to Trincomalee, Kottiar, and Batticaloa.
The child must have died during the visit of one
of these vessels in which Mr. Davidson and family
were passengers.
For Alexander Davidson, see Cotton, p. 356. He
died at Vizagapatam on September 20, 1791.
Mr. R. GoBDON, late Captain of H. M. 66th Regt.
aged — years.
Age illegible on tomb.
A small headstone with a masonry tomb behind
crumbling away, the letters nearly illegible. Captain
Gordon's estate was being administered at Colombo
from 1821 to 1831. The date may be October 7.
Sacred, to the memory of Jonathait Fudge, a native
of Dorsetshire in England, who died in this place
on the 10th May, 1814, while in the prime of life.
He was for several years Coachman to His Excel-
lency Lieut. -Genl. Robert Browiteiigg, the
Governor of Ceylon, and as he was a faithful
servant his memory was justly valued and his
death sincerely regretted by his master.
Governor Brownrigg accompanied by Mrs. Brown -
rigg, Dr. A. High, Deputy Inspector-General of
Hospitals, Captain Brownrigg, Deputy Adjutant-
General, the Rev. Mr. Bisset, Chaplain (his brothef-
in-law and Private Secretary), and officers of his staff
went on tour round the Island, leaving Colombo on
February 28, 1814, and proceeding by Arippu, Jaffna,
Trincomalee to Batticaloa, which was reached on
April 30. " The greatest part of H. E.'s tourround the
Island has been made in a one-horse chaise, being the
only instance but one of any wheeled carriage having
been used in the northern roads for many years, and
in fact they are generally considered impossible. The
roads have lately been very generally widened and
improved, and it is hoped that in the course of a few
years they will become if not equal to the fine road
from hence to Galle, the greater part of which rivals
the turnpikes of England, perfectly practicable and
easy for travellers. The several resthouses have in
like manner been put into good order, and new ones are
building where the same are considered necessary."
(Gazette, May 11, 1814.) But the coachman suc-
cumbed at Batticaloa.
To the memory of Jemima, the wife of William
Walker, Corporal in His Majesty's Royal Staff
Corps
In memory of Susan Jane Gray, died 28th July,
1856, aged 31 years ; also of her husband French
Gray, who died on the 25th April, 1874, aged
60, and was buried at sea. Erected by their eldest
son.
French Gray was son of Captain French Gray, who
died at Matara in 1818, and brother of Mrs. Caiilfleld
(see Nos. 193, 756). He married at St. James's
Chtuch, Nellore, Jaffna, on December 3, 1840, Susan
Jane, only daughter of Lieutenant, afterwards Lieut-
enant-Colonel, Cosby Warburton. He was bom at
Colombo, May 6, 1815, was at school in England,
and returned in 1830 by the same ship that brought
Henry and William Rudd and the Puttur well
machinery. He was Assistant Collector of Customs
at Jaffna, and afterwards Sub-Collector at Galle. At
the latter place he had a dispute with the Government
Agent and Collector, G. H. Cripps, into which an
inquiry was held by Messrs. F. J. Saunders of the
Customs and W. D. Ryder of the Secretariat. As
a result French Gray left the Customs Department ,
but was given, at the instance of James Caulfield,
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The Cemetery, Batticaloa — contd.'
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
907 ..
July 28
1856, &c.
. . Susan Jane Gray, &c.-
Inscription.
-COTlid. an appointment in the Commissariat, which had
recently become a Civil Department. This he is said
to have resigned because he imagined that the head
of his department had cut him in the street. The
head in question, Mr. W. D. Bernard (Acting
Deputy Commissary General, 1853), had been the
surgeon of the Nemesis, and wrote the diary of
the expedition. The Nemesis called at Colombo in
1840 on her way to take part in the China war.
Mr. Bernard, after the expedition, became Private
Secretary to Lord Torrington. French Gray (at one
time was Secretary of the Loan Board. He married
(2), on May 29, 1862, Caroline, daughter of J. J.
Pointing of Bermondsey. She kept a dame's school
in Dam street, Pettah, Colombo, in the sixties.
He died on the Eldorado, on the voyage to England,
between Colombo and Aden. His son, Basil, bom at
Galle, March 23, 1845, married, on October 1, 1867,
at St. Paul's, Kandy, Emily Elizabeth, second
daughter of Philip Fowke of Algastenne estate,
Elkaduwa. French Gray's daughter, Susan, by his
first wife, married, February 14, 1872, Philip Francis
Fowke of Halgalla estate, Elkaduwa. His eldest son,
French Gray, at one time kept Harambe house,
Kandy, as a private hotel. IBs sixth son, Cosby
Warburton, was in January, 1886, at the age of 33,
killed by Burmese dacoits near Mandalay, " after a
heroic resistance of four hours."
908
Aug. 30
1861
Susanna Isabella Toussaint
909
Oct. 6
1865
John Randolph Gordon
Gumming
In memory of Sttsanna Isabella Toussaint, the
beloved wife of Petek Pebdeeic Tottssaint.
Born at Jaffna on the 28th March, 1821, died at
Batticaloa
Peter Frederick Toussaint was son of Peter Frederick
Toussaint and Anna Elizabeth Gratiaen. His wife
was Susanna Isabella Koch. (See No. 856.)
In loving memory of John Randolph, fourth son
of Sir William G. Gobdon Gumming of Altyre,
Scotland. Bom 21st June, 1826
Altyre is in County Elgin.
There is a reference to this grave in Miss Gordon
Cmiuning's book " Two Happy Years in Ceylon."
He was a great sportsman,' and one of the premier
planters of Batticaloa. He was owner of Tetativoe,
now known as Kalutavalavi estate. He was much
respected in the district, both by Europeans and
natives.
" My second brother Ronalejm made his
mark as the pioneer of all the lion-hunters who have
ranged the hunting grounds of Southern Africa
my fourth and fifth brothers, John and William,
sailed for Ceylon and Bombay, where the latter tamed
wild men and slew wild beasts (and published a book
on the subject 'Wild Men and Wild Beasts'), while
the former settled down to sober coconut planting
in the neighbourhood of Batticaloa ; and then,
through weary years of waiting for the growth of
trees which never in his lifetime repaid his outlay,
he obtained work in the forests on the east coast, and
likewise distinguished himself as a cunning and mighty
hunter, beloved by the wild tribes in the case
of these two brothers fifteen years elapsed
before they were able to make arrangements for
meeting in the old coimtry. The younger happily
arrived in safety ; but alas, the vessel which should
have brought the elder from Ceylon, brought tidings
of a home-going very different from that which he
had planned. He had died very suddenly, almost
on the eve of the date when he had purposed embark-
ing, and was laid to rest beside the blue sea-lake at
Batticaloa." ("Two Happy Years in Ceylon," by
Miss C. F. Gordon Cimiming, 1892, vol. 11., pp. 2-5.)
On one shoot John Gordon Cumming killed 25
leopards; on another four elephants, eight buffaloes,
two elks, six leopards, and a eonsiderfible nfllnber of
deer and pigs. Miss Gordon CummiM;'^5^ a portion
of his diary for 1848 in her book, d^{Sb|ng aome of
his shooting expeditions (vol. II., JJpi 'Sfrif^L His
delight was in taming " all manner q||OiS^^^^j||^which
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The Cemetery, Batticaloa— cowfc^.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
909 ..
Oct. 6
1865
John Randolph Gordon
Cumming—contd.
910
April 18
1876
James Cornish Sortain
911
912
April 25 .
1883
. Arthur Fisher
May 13
1893
John Carey
Oct. 13
1894
Ann Carey
913
July 24
1893
Eleanor Toler Atherton
914
April 17
1894
Robert Atherton
Inscription,
a mere hunter would pass unnoticed or probably
destroy as vermin his rough ajid ready bungalow
was not only adorned with all manner of trophies of
the chase, but also was the home of a most singular
variety of pets of all kinds — his companions in many
a lonely hour " (p. 75)/ His bimgalow was on Easter
Seaton estate, about 1 7 miles from Batticaloa on the
south road. " He was exiled from one of the cheeriest
and most beautifid homes in Scotland, to settle quite
alone on these desolate sand hills and commence the
toil of planting them with the nuts about which so
little was then known that speedy remuneration was
expected, whereas the experience of the next fifteen
years was all of continual outlay, ceaseless watchful-
ness, to defend the young plantations from the
ravages of most mischievous boring beetles, rats,
white ants, herds of wild hogs, porcupines, troops of
elephants, and other foes, and no remuneration what-
ever. . Then when the day of his emancipation came
the estates passed to other hands, and strangers now
reap the abimdant fruits of his long years of weary
toil We trudged through the hot sand till we
reached the site of my brother's original house, now
only marked by the fruit trees which he planted
round it." ("Two Happy Years," vol. IT., pp.
170-172.) In 1858 Sir Henry Ward appoiated him
Forest Officer, "timber hunter, and chena inspector"
for the district, which office he held till his death.
Sacred to the memory of James Cornish Soetain,
M.D.
Dr. Sortain married, on July 24, 1854, at Batticaloa,
Eleanor Burleigh, eldest daughter of Robert Atherton,
CCS. He was a brother of " Sortain of Brighton,"
" the Rev. Joseph Sortain, A.B., for 28 years Minister
of North Street Chapel," as he is described on the
pedestal of his bust in the Pavilion, Brighton, a
very popular preacher in his day, who died in 1860.
Dr. Sortain was a well-known planter, medical man,
and philanthropist, much respected by the people of
Batticaloa.
In memory of Abthue Fishee, aged 35
He was a brother of Lord Fisher and of Frank
Fisher, CCS., and was in the Public Works Depart-
ment.
In memory of our dear father and mother, Johk and
Ajstn Caeey, who died 13 May, 1893, and 13 Oct.,
1894, and of our dear sister, Alice, who died
4 September, 1869.
John Carey had been in the Army, and it is said
bought the estate in the Batticaloa District at the
suggestion of a comrade, on borrowed money. It
was a highly successful investment. Of his daughters ,
one married S. Fielder, another Charles Hay of the
Queen's Advocate's Department, who retired as
District Judge of Kandy, a third H. C. P. Hayes,
Public Works Department, and a fourth W. R. B.
Sanders, CCS. He was in charge of " Calladovally ''
estate, the property of Messrs. MacKilligan and
Dunbar, in 1868, and was proprietor of Inverurie,
200 acres extent, and of Roslyn, 100.
To the loving memory of Eleanoe Toler Atheeton
widow of Rodney Atheeton, Esq., CCS. Born
17th June, 1810
She was fourth daughter of Dr. George Burleigh
(see No. 800) , was bom at Valenciennes, and married
R. Atherton at the house of the Sitting Magistrate,
Kayts, on April 24, 1826. Her death was caused by
a carriage accident. She had resided at Batticaloa
for 52 years.
Sacred to the memory of Robert Atherton, C. R.
Regt., born 2nd April, 1829 ......
He was second son of Robert Atherton, CCS.
(see No. 998), and was at one time a Lieutenant in
the Ceylon Rifles. The third son was Edward
Newnham Atherton, CCS., who began his official
career in 1851, obtained a Writership in 1853, and
retired in 1883, after 32 years' residence without a
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The Cemetery, Batticaloa — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
914 ..
April 17
1894
. . Robert Atherton— cow/rf
Inscription,
break in the Island. He was bom June 18, 1831 ^
and died January 7, 1907, at Weymouth. Robert
and Edward (and the Atherton family) were so well
known to the people of Batticaloa that they were
spoken of generally as "Bob Pillai " and "Ned
Pillai." Robert in his later days was "our own
correspondent," of the Examiner, at Batticaloa. He
used to write exhavistive descriptions of the habits
and vises (more especially in curries) of native vege-
tables for that paper. Sponsors to Robert : Joseph
Price, William Henry Atherton, and Sophia Brown-
rigg. Sponsors to Edward: William Newnham.
Edward Atherton, and Arabella Cope Burleigh.
TRINCOMALEE.
Fort Frederick.
"Right below lay the Dockyard, the Naval Stores Depot, and the Admiralty. Not the shipping
only but also charmingly wooded seas lay mirrored in that quiet inland lake, while beyond the white sand of the
farther shore red- tiled houses, embowered in pleasant gardens, indicated the direction of a town with some
eleven thousand inhabitants, stretching round a horseshoe-shaped bay, the entrance to which is guarded by
two rocky headlands, on the nearest of which, overshadowed by grand old trees, stands the Grovemment Agent's
house The farther point of the horseshoe is a bold peninsula, rising from the ocean in a sheer precipice
about 400 feet in height and thence sloping gently towards the shore, with which it is connected by a long flat
neck of grassy land. Fort Frederick, by which name this fortified crag is known to Europeans, guards the outer
harbour To the natives this bold headland is still as it has been from time immemorial, the Saioi Rock, or
Rock of God, sacred to the worship"pf Eiswara, the Almighty God." (" Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. II.,
pp. 145-6.) On the highest point of the crag stands a sohtary piUar of the usual type found in Hindu temples
in India and Buddhist temples ia Ceylon, viz., in plan square and hexagonal in alternate stages, which bears
an inscription in Dutch, given below : —
TOT GEDAGHTENIS
VAN JFEANCINA YA-^
EHEDE VBOUW VAN
MYDEEGT DESEN
AC. 1687 : 24 apeil
OP GEEEGT
A romantic story of the death of the subject of this inscription finds its way into every book about Ceylon
that includes a description of Trinoomalee. Major Forbes tells it thus : — " She was the daughter of a gentleman
high ia the Dutch service, had been betrothed, and at the time of her death was about to to be deserted by her
affianced husband, a captain in the Army. He was on board a vessel that had spread its sails for Europe, but
before getting clear of the coast the ship had to tack and pass out parallel to the precipices that form the southern
boundary of the fort of Trinoomalee. The motions of the vessel had been watched with interest by the forsaken fair
one; as it approached the rooks she rushed from her apartment, and flew along the edge of the cliffs, close under
which the vessel was gliding. The point was nearly gained, the swift vessel and false lover were turning from her
towards a foreign land, a moment she balanced herseK on a projecting crag, then plunged from the dizzy height.
Her mangled remains were rescued from the rocky fragments that project through the waves at the base of the precipice ,
and its summit still bears in her monument the memorial of devoted love inspiring dire revenge." (" Eleven Years in
Ceylon," vol. H., p. 46.) So also Sirr, ampUfying Forbes' account, and Miss Gordon Cnmming condensing it, and
the rest. The story most appropriately fits the monument, and must have been invented for it. No authority is cited,
and it is in fact romance. " The facts disclosed by the records and other authentic authorities do not support the story
in any way." The late Mr. Donald Ferguson remarked that " the falsity of the story was sufficiently well known."
The following are the prosaic facts : — " Francina vaa Rheede appears to have been the daughter of Hendrik Adriaan
van Rheede, Lord of Mydregt, but she did not die as stated, because she long survived the erection of the monument,
having in fact outlived her father. She was twice married, viz., 1st, to Maurits Cesar de la Baye, Captainin the East
India Company's service, who died at Colombo, Feb. 14th, 1693, and 2ndly,in 1694, to Anthony Karel van Panhuys,
son of Bartholomeus van Panhuys, Lord of Voorn." (R. G. Anthonisz, " Report on the Dutch Records," p. 39.) (See
Nos. 369, 481.)
Francina was an only daughter. It appears that her father Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, Lord of Drakest«in,
afterwards, in 1680, Knight, " beleend met de Ridderhofstad Mijdrecht, en beschreeven in de Ridderschap des Lands
Van Utrecht." Serjeant-Major Hendrik van Rheede was in Ceylon in 1668, when in October of the same year he was
sent with a force to RuaneUe (sic) to wreak vengeance on the King of Kandy, whose emissaries had suddenly attacked
the Company's servants in the Mendekaduale and Atakalan korales and driven them away. History records that he
was successful. In 1687 we find him " Commissaris of the Coromandel Coast," and it was during his tenure of office as
such that this mommaent was erected. Pijl, who was the Governor of Ceylon, is said to have about this time paid a
visit to Van Rheede at Negapatnam to have a conference with him about Ceylon affairs, and the King of Kandy
waxed very wroth that notice of this visit was not given him. It is even said that one Mattamagoddy Chitty was
sent from Kandy to Jaffna with orders not to return without Pijl, and the Chief Adigar besought him to come as soon
as possible to Colombo , as matters had risen to an alarming crisis. The instructions of Van Rheede to Pijl are matters
of history. A certain vrouw Cornelia Elizabeth van Rheede lies buried at Houten, August 23, 1666, with the
"Kwartieren en bijschriift " among other names of " Spruit Van Kriekenbeek."
The family of Van Mydregt was in the latter part of the eighteenth centm'y one of the oldest of the noble families
of Holland, dating from the year 1226.
The story is therefore correct to the extent that Francina was at one time engaged to a captain,' for she
married one, and if he sailed away she did not commit stiicide, but he came back and she married him. Possibly
her father had this monument erected to mark her sailing away with him as a bride, and the date is not the date of her
death, but of the erection of the monument. Any way, the old Dutchman has succeeded in effectually pulling the
leg of posterity over this monument of his.
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Dutch Burial Ground, in Fort Frederick, Trincomalee.
There is an old Dutch burial ground, unenclosed, on the way to the summit of Flagstaff Hill. It contains
tour massive masonry tombs of the later hideous Dutch pattern " table " tombs, with the representation of a
coflm sloping down towards the foot. One of these is the tomb of an EngUshman; but the pattern is Dutch.
1 hey lie under the dense shade of eight very old and gnarled suriya trees. To quotcMiss Gordon Gumming again -.
A natural mstmct led me past the old Dutch burial groimd, with its moss-grown graves overshadowed by
flowermg suriya trees " ("Two Happy Years," vol. II. , pp. 142-3.)
Serial No.
915
Date.
Nov. 1
1792
Name.
Johanna Jacoba Hartsz
916
July 30
1793
Anthonie Hageman
917
May 31
1794
Johanna Henrietta de Lange
918
March 25
1802
James la Hey
Inscription.
Hier rust in den Heere Mejuff. Johanna Jacoba
SiBMONSz in leeven husv. van den opperchirurgyn
JoH. Hend. Habtsz, oud 35 jaaren 2 maand. Geb.
te Trink dn 31 Aug. A. 1757. Overleeden 1
Novemb., Ac. 1792.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIIL, p. 65.)
Hier onder rust den Wei Ed. Manh. Heer Anthonie
Hageman in leven Kapitein der MiUtie. Geb. te
Stobholm den 31 January, 1729. In den Heere
ontslapen 30 July, 1793.
His daughter, Johanna Dorothea Hageman, was
the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Frangois Piachaud of
the De Meuron Regiment. (See No. 898 and Cotton,
p. 383.)
Mrs. Piachaud died at Grandpass, on December 19,
1839, aged 65 year 2 months and 5 days.
(Ibid., vol. XVIIL, p. 66.)
Ich liege und schlaffe gantz met friedenden der Herr
helft mir das ich sich cr Wohne.
Mejufr. JoH. Henb. Pietbes in leeven husvr van den
Wei Ed. Manh. Heer Geebit de Lange, Luit ter
zee en Equipagiem. te Trinkonomale. Geb. Trinko.
10 Jan. Ao. 1758. Overleden 31 May A. 1794.
Gerrit de Lange was a native of Beeren, and was
previously married to Anna Catharina Betger of
Colombo.
(Ibid., vol. XVIIL, p. 65.)
Here hes the body of Jambs la Hey, Paymaster of
H. M. 19th Regiment Foot, who departed this life
the 25th March, 1802 aged 37.
He Hved universally esteemed and died universally
regretted by the Corps.
St. Stephen's Church, in Fort Frederick, Trincomalee.
St. Stephen's Chubch was rebuilt in 1842. It was probably originally a Dutch building. The tombstones,
or some of them, which were in the old church were at this time let into the walls of the new church. They have
been carefully tarred or painted black all over, and this lends, one can hardly say colour, but some support to the
conjecture that they hadbeenfor some time exposed to the weather, and that this expedient had been resorted to
to preserve them. (The same course, it may be noted, was taken with some of the tombstones outside Wolvendaal
Church.) Some of them must have disappeared altogether, either at this time or earher, for it is stated by R. P.
van den Bosch, in his Hst of Dutchmen in Ceylon, pubHshed in II., " Wapenheraut," p. 260, that " John Willem
Schorer's tombstone, right over or close to the redoute beneath the inner side of the Pagoda Hill, was seen in 1791
by John Thomas Bar," who was Schorer's son-in-law; and Schorer's wife, Christina Sophia vanCitters, was also
buried at Trincomalee, November 12, 1769. (See No. 368.)
The Schorers are a noble family still extant in Holland, represented in Ceylon by the Foenanders and the
Fretzs on the female side. Jonkheer Schorer is, or was recently, a member of the Privy Council of the Queen of
the Netherlands. He was a liberal subscriber to the repair of Wolvendaal Church.
Inscription.
. . Hier onder legd begraven Monsieur Mabth. Lengelb
in zyn (leven) boekhouder in's E. C. dienst en
Secunde (van dit) Fortresse, geboren tot Jaffana-
patnam den 16 Augustus 1691 en overleden den
26 Juny, Ao. 1722.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 256.)
Arms : — Quarterly, ( 1 ) a cock proper ; (2) , (3) , and (4)
three barrulets wavy.
. . Here lies Captain Thomas Geifein, Commander of
His Majesty's Ship the Princess Mary.
Who died the 11th Septr., 1748.
ANNO ^tatisstt^ 48.
This is the oldest British tombstone in Ceylon.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
919 ..
June 26
1722
Marthinus Lengele
920
Sept. 11
1748
Thomas Griffin
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
921
Jan. 6
1760
. . Rebecca Rein
St. Stephen's Church, in Fort Frederick, Trincomalee— cor^M.
Inscription.
. . Hier onder legt begraven Rebecca Schodt in haar
leven huysvrouw van den oppercoopman en opper-
hoofd der Ceylons Oostense Distrieten Mabtin
Rein. Gfibooren te Colombo den 22 December,
anno 1690 en overleden den 6 Jany. anno 1760.
oud 69 jaar 5 maand en 15 dagen.
Transalation. — Hereunder lies buried Rebecca
Schodt, during her life wife of the Opperkoopman
and Chief of the Eastern Districts of Ceylon,
Mabtin Reik. Born at Colombo on December 22,
1690, and died on January 6, 1760, aged 69 yea.rs
5 months and 15 days.
Rebecca Schodt was most probably the daughter
of Claas Schot (Schodt) of Hamburg, Dissave of
Colombo , and Sara de Meestre. Martin Rein of Hesse
Cassel was Dissave of Matara, 1737-39,
922
Oct.
1789
Jacques Fabrice van Senden
Hier legt de onwardeerbare eghtgenoot de goedhartige
vader den Wei. Edel. gebooren Heer Jacques
Fabkice van Senden, in leeven Koopm. en opper-
hoofd van Trynconomale. Geb. te tJtrecht in het
jaar 1755. Ov. hier Oct. 1789, oud 34 jaar.
Hoe kort is het leeven
Hoe lang is de eeuwigheit.
Jacques Fabrice van Senden married at Colombo,
April 5, 1778, Sara Maria Francina Hoist, daughter
of Gerrit Bngel Hoist and Maria Francina Scholmian.
(Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVIIL, p. 66.)
923
Aug. 27
1823
Charles Hay
To the Memory of Charles Hay, Lieut., Royal
Engineers, who died in Trincomalee on the 27th
Augt., A.D. 1823, of fever which attacked him
when employed in the arduous duty of tracing
through the country Ijring 30 or 40 miles distant
from Trincomalee the Une of high road from thence
to Colombo.
There was another Lieutenant Charles Hay of the
19th Regiment, who was gazetted Lieutenant in the
3rd Ceylon Regiment, January 16, 1810, and to the
1st Ceylon Regiment, April 25, 1817. He was
appointed Assistant Customs Master and Sitting
Magistrate at Calpentyn, August 1, 1818. Captain
Philip Hay from the 66th was gazetted Captain in
Ramsay's Regiment, January 29, 1807, and Alexander
Murray Hay, 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Ceylon
Regiment, November 10, 1814.
924
1845-1847
Men of H. M. S. Fox
To the Memory of the under-mentioned Seamen and
Marines of H. M. Fox, who died upon the East
Indian Station.
This Monument is erected by Commodore Sir Heney
Blackwood, Baronet, R.N., the Officers, and
Ship's Company.
[Here foUow the names of a quartermaster, a
captain of the forecastle, a sailmaker, seventeen
able seamen, a " boy (1st class)," and two privates
of the Royal Marines. Of these, three of the seamen
died at Trincomalee, the others at Bombay, Madras,
and at sea.]
925
Nov. 11
1854
John Thomas Tranehell
Sacred to the Memory of John Thomas Tbanchell,
Esq., of the Ceylon Civil Service, who departed
this life on the 11th November, 1854, aged 32.
Mr. Tranehell was appointed to the Civil Service,
September 29, 1838, and nearly the whole of his
service was spent at Trincomalee. He was appointed
Acting Assistant Government Agent, November 1,
1829, confirmed in the appointment on February 1,
1843, and he remained there, with the exception of a
period from August 20, 1847, to July 31, 1849, when
he was the Acting Assistant Government Agent at
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St. Stephen's Church, in Fort Frederick, TrinaomaXee—contd.
jrial No.
Date.
Name.
925 ..
Nov. 11 .
1854
. John Thomas Truixchell—contd.
926 ..
April 11 .
1885
. James Alexander Gibson . .
Inscription.
Nuwarakalawiya, until his death, which occurred
in Jersey while he was on leave. Mr. B. Burrows
acted in this interval at Trincomalee. He was
eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Gxistavus Adolphus
Tranchell. (See No. 317.)
To the glory of God, and in loving memory of James
Alexander Gibson, born 20 December, 1807,
A brass. He was a naval contractor. He married,
on July 13, 1832, at the Fort Church, Jaffna, Eliza
Petronella Toussaint. S. A. Burke was a witness to-
the marriage.
Burial Ground,
In this burial ground, pleasantly situated facing
too heavily by trees, the tail obelisks to the men of the
square tombs of the thirties interspersed with the marble
Serial No. Date. Name.
927
Dec. 21
1804
George Napper
928
June 8
1808
Alexander Cockburn
October
1808
Olympia Cockburn
William Cockburn
929
Sept. 17
1811
Peter Wade
2n
on the Esplanade, Trincomalee.
the esplanade and the sea, well kept and shaded but not
37th and 78th Regiments are conspicuous, also the large
and granite monuments of more recent date.
Inscription.
. Sacred to the memory of Captain George Nappee,
of His Majesty's 51st Regiment, Late Town Major
of this Garrison, who departed this hfe December
21st, 1804, aged Forty-four years, twenty-two of
which were devoted to the service of His King and
Country.
Should chance thy footsteps hither bend.
Turn not in haste away.
A braver soldier, warmer friend,
Death never made his prey.
He was gazetted Major, vice Logan, September 5^
1805, after his death. These lines were written by
Lieutenant Thomas Ajax Anderson, 19th Regiment,
and are included in "Poems written chiefly in India,"
published by him in 1809. (London, printed by the
Philanthropic Society, St. George's Square, for J.
Asperna, Cornhill.)
, . Sacred to the memory of Alexander Cockburn,
Esq., who departed this life the 8th day of June,
1808, aged 41 years, having landed here from
the Drake Frigate on which he had embarked for
the benefit of his health. He was many years
resident at Madras, a merchant of the first
respectability and an esteemed member of Society.
Also sacred to the memory of his amiable wife
Olympla., daughter of Brig. General Alexander
Campbell ; infant son William entombed in the-
deep on their passage to England in th& Lord
Nelson Indiaman the following October, 1808.
The Gazette states that Alex. Cockburn died " after
a shorf and painful illness, which he bore with forti-
tude and resignation, leaving an amiable widow and
numerous circle of relatives to lament his loss."
He was a member of the firm of Harrington,
Cockburn, and Harrington of Madras. (See " Ur-
quhart's Oriental Obituary," vol. I., p. 22, published
in 1809.) His son, by his wife Oljrmpia, Alexander
Thomas Campbell, " succeeded under a special
remainder to the baronetcy conferred upon his
maternal grandfather, and assiimed the name of
Campbell after that of Cockburn." Mrs. Cockbum's
mother, Olympia, was a sister of Sir John Morshead,
Bart., of Trenant Park, in Cornwall. Another
daughter of the Coekbums', Olympia, died at Seringa-
patam, June 2, 1807. One of Mrs. Cockbum's sisters,
Isabella Charlotte, married the celebrated Sir John
Malcohn, K.C.B. (See Cotton, pp. 33, 60, 285.)
. . Captain Peter Wade, Royal Engineer. Obt. 17th
September, 1811. MteA 25. A tribute of esteem
from the officers of the Royal Artillery.
His estate was being administered 1813-1832. His^
creditors were Mr. G. Lusignan and Captain C. G..
Aems, R.A.
82-^9
( 262 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No. Date.
930 . . March 18
1812
Name.
Samuel Moffett
931 . . March 13 . . George J. H. Signam
1813
932
AprH 23
1813
James de Latre
933
May 4
1814
. . William Taylor
934 .,
935 .
936 ..
937
June 2
1815
June 16
1815
June 25
1816
March 1
1818
Nov. 7
1820
Robert Gardner
James Fitzgerald
Robert Smith
Eliza Deacon
Anne Deacon
Inscription.
Beneath are deposited the Remains of Lieut. Samubl
Moffett, eldest son of the Rev. James Moffett,
Magistrate for the county of Longford in Ireland,
who departed this life on the 18th of March, 1812,
aged 25 years.
He was gazetted 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Ceylon
Regiment from October 1, 1808.
In memory of GtEokgb J. H. Sigfam, son of George
J. H. Signam, Esq., who died at Trincomalie
1813, aged 5 years 10 Months & 4
Days.
Here lieth the body of James, the son of Captain
Philip De Latke of the 1st Ceylon Regiment,
aged 6 Years.
Captain de Latre was gazetted from the 86th
Regiment into the Malay Regiment, June 16, 1803,
and was stationed at Jafina 1804, was afterwards
Assistant Quartermaster-General. His daughter,
Mary Anne, married at Kandy, on September 23,
1832, Lieutenant Samuel Braybrooke, 1st Ceylon
Regiment, afterwards Colonel Commanding the
Ceylon Rifles. Major de Latre left for England by
the Vittoria on January 1, 1829.
Sacred to the memory of William Tayloe, Esq.,
His Majesty's Naval Store-keeper, who departed
this life on the 4th day of May, 1814, aged 24 years.
A gentleman of the strictest honour and integrity
whose conduct as a Public OfSicer had gained the
esteem ajid approbation of his superiors and
whose private virtues wiU ever endear his memory
to his afflicted relatives and friends. As a token
of respect, and to commemorate departed worth,
this tomb is erected by his faithful and affectionate
friend J. W. Dale of Madras.
He died " after a short but violent illness." (Gazette.)
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Robeet Gaednee,
His Majesty's 19th Foot aged 25 years.
To the memory of Captain James Fitzgerald, His
Majesty's 19th Foot aged 30 years.
He acted as Adjutant in 1806. He was in com-
mand of the Grenadier Company at the time of Ms
death.
Beneath are deposited the mortal remains of Robeet
Smith, Second Son of Robeet Smith, Merchant,
who departed this life on the 25th day of June,
1816, aged 1 Year and 15 Days.
Robert Smith, senior, died October 29, 1815, at
Batticaloa. (See No. 899.)
Beneath are the remains of Eliza Deacon
aged 11 months. And Anne Deacon
aged 7 months. The daughters of Lieut. Deacon,
73 Regiment.
Lieutenant Thomas Deacon was Fort Adjutant,
Trincomalee, 1818-23, and at Colombo, 1824-25.
(See No. 699.)
Lieutenant Deacon's daughter, Louisa Maria,
married Willam Moir, Deputy Assistant Conunissary-
General, at Kandy, on October 17, 1824. W. Moir
was appointed Extra Assistant in the Secretariat in
1826, was Assistant Collector of Customs at Jaffna,
1826-28; ditto at Colombo and Sitting Magistrate
of Kalutara, 1829 (December 31) to 1832; Agent of
Government, Suffragam, 1833 (January 1) to 1836;
Controller of Customs, Colombo, 1836 ; Assistant
Government Agent, Colombo, and . District Judge,
Colombo, No. 6 (Ratnapura), 1837-38; Acting
Government Agent, JEastem Province, 1839-40. He
retired on May 1, 1840. He was the father of Robert
William Durand Moir, CCS. (1861-93). He died
April 30, 1860.
Lieutenant Deacon married at St. George's
Hanover Square, on August 31, 1809, Martha Anne
de Coucy.
( 263 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No.
938 .
Date.
May 14
1818
Name.
Maria Magdalena Tranchell
939
Dec. 18
1818
Patrick C. Home
940
Dec. 22
1818
William Hannay
941
942
Jan. 14
1819
Feb. 3
1819
James Koshorn
Robert Brownrigg O'Connell
Inscription.
To the memory of Mrs. Mabia M. Tkai^'chbll, widow
of the late J. TBAiroHELL, Esquire, of H. M. Civil
Service, Ceylon aged 49 years.
Her amiable quahties endeared her to her family and
friends and she quitted the world with the just
regret of aU who knew her worth that which
language cannot attempt to describe but memory
will often retrace.
She was Maria Magdalena Sievertz, and married
in Ceylon, onNovember 14, 1784, John Tranchell, who
died at Jaffna, July 7, 1807, as Provincial Judge of
Jaffna. He belonged to Romelanda in Sweden,
where he was bom in 1754, entered the Dutch, from
which he was taken into the British service on the
cession of the Island. In 1798 he had been appointed
by King Gustavus Adolphus Swedish Consul in
Ceylon, and before going to Jaffna he was President
of the Board of Commissioners and Registrar of
Deeds, Colombo. He was the father, by his wife
Maria Sievertz, of Pieter Comelis Johannes, alias
John Tranchell, who died as Sitting Magistrate of
Weligama in 1828; of Lieutenant-Colonel Gustavus
Adolphus Tranchell (see No. 1008) ; of Lieutenant
Samuel William Tranchell, who died, after the capture
of Kandyin 1815, in 1818; and of Lieutenant Frederick
Augustus Tranchell, who died after the taking of
Rangoon in 1825. (See Nos. 317 and 925.) •
This Monument is erected by Lieut. W. Home to the
memory of his brother Lieut. P. C. Home, 86th
Regiment
Regretted by his Brother Officers.
His age was 21 years 7 months.
A detachment of the 86th Regiment had come over
from India to help in the suppression of the Uva
rebellion.
Lieutenant Home was at Akeria in October, 1818,
and Sawers received a letter from him reporting the
submission of the country round.
To the memory of William Hannay, M.D., Late
Surgeon of His Majesty's NaVal Establishment at
TrincomaUe, who departed this life aged
28 years. He was an honest, honourable man,
and a worthy member of Society.
He was Surgeon of the Dockyard, aged 38 accord-
ing to register.
Sacred to the memory o£ Ensign James Koshoen,
of H. M. 73rd Regiment aged 19 Years.
Beneath are the remains of Robbbt Bbowneigg
O'Connell, Son of Colonel O'Connell, 73rd
Regiment aged 14 Months.
" The departure from Colombo of Lieut. -Colonel
and Mrs. O'Connell left a great blank in oiu- Society,
and we are sincerely grieved to hear that their first
arrival at Trincomalie has 'been embittered by the
loss of their beloved Child. We fear that Mrs. O'Con-
nell must have suffered most severely through this
painful trial of her maternal affection. Her little
boy was taken ill on their passage at the beginning of
a Gale of Wind that lasted some days, dm-ing wMch
she was herself much indisposed and both were
deprived of all professional assistance, as the only
Medical Gentleman on board the Transports was
unfortunately in another ship.- On landing some
hope was entertained, but it was soon dashed away,
and in a few days these afflicted Parents were doomed
to see the death of their boy whose improving health
and bloom they had in the commencement of their
Voyage contemplated with delight." (Gazette,
February 14, 1818.)
" I was one evening taken by my family to a ball
given by the Commandant of the garrison. Sir
Maurice O'Connell, Commanding the 73rd Regiment."
(Skinner, p. 3. ) Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell (he was
( 264
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee-
Serial No.
942 .
Date.
Feb. 3
1819
Name.
Robert Brownrigg O'Connell-
contd.
-contd.
Inscription.
943
944
April 8
1819
Sept. 30
1819
John Warner
Rebecca Lyttleton
945
946
947
948
949
950
Oct. 5
1819
Nov. 20
1819
Oct. 3
1819
April 19
1820
May 10
1820
July 10
1820
July 11
1820
John Martyn McDermott . .
Thomas Montague Wharton
Reynolds
Caroline Eliza Godsalve
Reynolds
Thomas M. Buchan
Charles Norwood
Isabella Bews
George Thomas
4- " «;^ Manriro ") was Commandant 1819-21,
- sucee.SngMa^GenLT Alexander Cosby Jackson
Lteutenant-Colonel, 66thRegiment. He was succeeded
by Lieutenant-Colonel William Smelt, 2nd Ceylon
^Stenant-Colonel O'Conjiell commanded the 2nd
Division (Reserve) in the Kandyan war of 1815, and
arrived at the Mahaweli-ganga on Fe.bruary 10,
after storming " the fatal heights of Balane. He
probably belonged to the O'Connells of Laterna,
Killarney, in whose family Maurice is a favourite
name. It obtained a baronetcy in 1869, which
perhaps accounts for Major Skinner's anticipating the
title.
John Waeneb, Commissioner's Coxswain
aged 28 years. This stone is erected in memory of
his long proved and faithful services. L. D. Send.
He was " butler to Commander Upton, R.N."
Beneath are the remains of Rebecca Lyttleton,
Eldest child of Lieut. Lyttleton, 73rd Regiment,
aged 6 Years and 9 Months
Lieutenant William T. Lyttleton arrived with a
detachment of the 73rd Regiment by the Windham
from New South Wales on October 28, 1814. He
served with the expedition against Kandy in 1815,
and on February 6 of that year was appointed
Deputy Assistant Commissary at Ruanwella. He
was a good artist, and published a series of six views
of Kandy and the neighbourhood, engraved by
Dubourg, which was advertised for sale in the Oeylon
Government Gazette of October 2, 1819, at 100 rix-
dollars the set. The drawing of the Maligawa and
Old Palace at Kandy, which forms the frontispiece to
Davy's " Ceylon," is also by him. He married, on
January 14, 1812, in Van Diemen's Land, Anna. . . .
Sacred to the memory of Assistant Surgeon J.
McDeemott, of H. M. 73rd Regiment
aged 30 years.
Moneys belonging to his estate were lying at the
Treasury, Colombo, in 1831.
To the memory of Thomas Montague Whabton,
son of Lieut. Reynolds, H. M. 73rd Regiment,
aged 2 years & 8 Months ; and also of
his infant daughter, Cabolina Eliza Godsalve,
aged 6 Months and 15 Days.
The parents were Lieutenant Thomas Reynolds
and Caroline, his wife.
Sacred to the memory of Thomas M. Buchan, Esqr.,
late Surgeon of His Majesty's Ship Minden,
aged 27 years.
This tomb is erected as a token of regard and esteem
by one who knew his worth.
Sacred to the memory of Chables Nobwood,
Steward to Sir Richard King, Bart., whom he
served with honesty and fidehty five years
aged 30 years.
Sir Richard King was the Admiral on the station.
Sacred to the memory of Isabella Bews, daughter
of Paymaster Bews, H. M. 73rd Regiment
aged 2 Years 3 Months and 15 Days.
H. J. Bews, probably a son, was gazetted Second
Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifles, July 22, 1842.
To the Memory of Mr. Geoege Thomas, Midshipman
of His Majesty's Ship Leander, eldest son of
Sir Geoege Thomas, Bart., Dale Park, Sussex,
in the sixteenth year of his age.
Much respected and regretted by all who knew him.
( 265 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No.
951
Date.
Aug. 15
1820
Name.
Matthew Wellington
952
June 2
1821
William Twynam
953
954
June 14
1821
Dec. 4
1821
George Richard Ewfanke
Thomas Pasley Lurcheon
955
956
April 22
1822
Feb. 10
1823
William Boyd
Anthony Henry Cooke
957
Aug. 7
1825
Edmund Tlncome
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Matthew Wellington,
Esqr., Master Shipwright at the Naval Depot at
TrincomaHe aged 49 years. And whose
loss is severely felt by the whole of the Establish-
ment, and most sincerely regretted by his old
attached friend who erected this humble testimony
to departed worth.
William Pitt,
Master Attendant,
Madras.
He died of " the Cholera Morbus." The Oazette
gives the date of his death as August 14. There was
an epidemic of cholera at Trincomalee from August
1 to 28, with 18 deaths. It was still continuing with
daily attacks up to September 23. By October 14
it was still existing, but there were fewer deaths.
Sm-geon Thomas Rodgers died on August 14; George
Thomson of the Ordnance Department on September
6 ; Ijeutenant Cariipbell, 73rd, on September 28.
To the memory of Mr. William Twynam, Purser,
late of H. M. S. Liverpool aged 46 years.
He was faithful and upright in his pubhc capacity
and his excellent private qualities have obtained
this record of affection and regard.
William Twynam was an uncle of Thomas Hollo-
way Twynam, the Master Attendant of Galle, father
of Sir William Twynam, K.C.M.G. Thomas HoUoway
served in the same ship, the Liverpool, as what was
then termed a " mate," i.e., a midshipman who had
served his time as such and was looking for his pro-
motion to a lieutenancy. He commanded for a time
H. M. S. Cochin, a schooner attached to the Liverpool
as her tender. She was afterwards converted into a
water tank to supply the vessels of the navy with
water. Sir William Twynam was called after his
gTeat-uncle, the Purser. (See No. 558.)
Sacred to the memory of Mr. George Richard
Ewranke, Chief Clerk of Store-keeper's ofSce of
His Majesty's Dockyard, Trincomalie, who
departed this life aged 31 years.
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Pasley Lurcheon,
Master in the Royal Navy and Master Attendant
of Trincomahe, who departed this life at Nilaveli,
aged 30 years.
No farther seek his merits to disclose
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode.
Here, they aUke in trembUng hope repose,
In the bosom of his Father and his God.
Sacred to the memory of Dr. William Boyd, M.D.,
Surgeon of His Majesty's Naval EstabUshmeht at
Trincomahe, who departed this hfe aged
38 years.
Beneath this are laid the mortal remains of Anthony
Henry Cooke, Late Midshipman of H. M. S.
Liffey, Younger son of the late Bryan Cooke,
Esq. , of Owston in the County of York.
At the early age of 22 it pleased God to afflict him
with a hver complaint, in which he departed this
Ufe, in happy hope of a better, through faith in the
merits of his Saviour on the 10th February, 1823.
Sincerely esteemed and lamented by his Shipmates.
Sacred to the memory of Edmund Tincome, Esq.,
Master's Mate of H. M. S. Ldffey aged 27
Years. Beloved by his shipmates and esteemed
by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
(1) Pause stranger o'er this hallowed spot,
And grant to one so dear
A prayer for him who's now no more,
And drop a pitying tear.
( 266 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
957 ..
Aug. 7
1825
. . Edmund Tincome— contd.
Inscription.
(2) Stranger, the green grass soon will flow
O'er this much honoured head,
A tear will make it sooner grow
And sanctify the dead.
(3) Saviour m heaven let Thy love
And mercy make him blest,
Take to Thy Father's arms
And lull his soul to rest.
958
June 23
1827
Clara Lyon
The Remains of Claea Lyon, the affectionate and
beloved wife of the Rev. C. J. Lyok, M.A., Chap-
lain, Trincomalee aged 29 Years.
She died after a short illness from remittent fever.
She had a son born March 17, 1826, at Trincomalee^
The Rev. Charles J. Lyon was Assistant Colonial
Chaplain, 1820-27.
959
April 24
1829
George Jones
To the memory of Captain George Jones, Royal
Artillery, aged 40 years.
960
Jan. 30
1830
Jane Cochrane
Sacred to the memory of Jane, wife of Captain
George Cochrane of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment,
bom 18th April, 1805.
Captain Cochrane lost no time in mamying again.
He married, on July 28, 1831, at the Fort Church,
Jaffna, Theodora Johanna WiUieknina Stutzer
(see No. 823). Captain Antill was a witness.
He married (3), on July 19, 1848, at Trincomalee,.
Mary EUza Louisa, eldest daughter of Captain,
afterwards Colonel, Gustavus Adolphus Tranchell,.
and widow of Assistant Surgeon A. M. Hall.
961
Sept. 29
1830
Anna Maria Ulrica Stutzer
Johanna Jacoba Stutzer
Sacred to the memory of Anna Maria Ulrica
Stutzer, daughter of John Arnold Stutzer, M.D. ,
Jormerly of Stockholm and late of JafEnapatam,
and his wife Johanna Jacoba Libeck in
the 37th year of her age.
A daughter , Jane Alexandra , married , November 1 3 ,
1828, at Trincomalee, Lieutenant C. F. Thompson of
the 16th Regiment. Mrs. Stutzer died at Jaffna,.
April 30, 1831. (See No. 822.)
962
Feb. 19
1831
Stephen Fisher
To the Memory of Stephen Fisher, Late Purser of
H. M. S. Southampton. This Monument is erected
by his Shipmates in testimony of their esteem and
respect. Obit. 19th Feb. ^Etat. 42, 1831.
963
Sept. 6
1831
William John Lushington
Sacred to the Memory of William John Lushing-
ton, Esq., of H. M. Civil Service, Collector of
Trincomahe aged 25.
He was appointed to the Civil Service in 1825 ;
Extra Assistant to the Commissioners of Revenue,
1825-26 ; Assistant to the Collector, Chilaw and
Puttalam, July 1, 1826; CoUeetor of Trincomalee,
October 1, 1829; and Agent of Government atTaman-
kaduwa under the Proclamation of November 21,
1818 (the latter appointment held with the Collector-
ship), in 1830. He had been on leave from August 30.
The family of Lushington has supplied the Indian
and Ceylon services with many members, including
a Governor of Madras, Stephen Rumbold Lushington
(1827-35). Hjs son, James Stephen Lushington, of
the Madras Civil Service, died 1832; his cousin,
Henry Lushington, of the Bengal Civil Service, who
survived the Black Hole to fall in the Patna massacre
of 1763; his younger brother, Charles MayLushington,
M.C.S., died 1832; Thomas Davies Lushington,
M.C.S., who died at GaUe, July 17, 1858 (see Cotton,
pp. 73, 82, 133, 345); Edmund Henry Lushington,
Puisne Judge and Chief Justice, Ceylon, 1801-7 ;
Franklin Lushington, who was Surveyor-General,
Ceylon, 1852; and Charles Morant Lushington, CCS. ,
are other members of the family. -
( 267 )
Serial No.
Date.
964 ..
Dec. 6
1831
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee— cow^c?.
Inscription.
Name.
Donald Ross Adams
965
Dec. 12
1831
Andrew Henderson
966
Ml
968
May 26 .
1832
May 28
1832
. William Gunn
. Catherine Gunn
June 5
1832
. Elizabeth Hunt
June 15
1832
. Isabella Hunt
Sept. 19 .
1831
, . John Ghisholm
969
Sept. 24
1832
Robert Fraser
Sacred to the Memory of Donald Eoss Adams,
Late of the 78th Highlanders, who departed this
life on the 6th December, 1831, aged 31 Years,
leaving a disconsolate widow and two children.
Deeply regretted by the Regiment at large.
Weep not for me my family dear,
I'm not dead but sleepeth here,
Where I am now you soon wiU be,
Prepare yourselves to follow me.
In Memory of Hospital Sergeant Andrew Hender-
son, 78th Highlanders aged 33 Years.
Deeply lamented by his wife and interesting family,
and by the Regiment in which his character and
services were so highly appreciated.
Sacred to the Memory of Sergt. William Gunn, 78th
Regiment, 1832, aged 37 Years.
His Daughter Cathebine aged 8 months &
7 days.
Erected by his widow and 2 Sons lamenting their loss.
Sacred to the Memory of Elizabeth, Wife of
Corporal Jesse Hunt, Royal Artillery aged
30 Years.
Also her daughter Isabella, 1832, aged 3
Years & 7 Months.
Erected by his Brother Officers in memory of John
Ghisholm, Esq., Late Paymaster, 78th High-
landers aged 56 Years.
There was ajiother John C!hisholm, Quartermaster
of the 37th Regiment (see No. 179). Mary Ghis-
holm, widow (probably of the latter), married at
Trincomalee, on December 30, 1856, Isaac Crabbe.
Their son was Robert William Isaac Crabbe, Public
Works Departm.ent, who died in 1910. A daughter,
Ellen, of Mrs. Crabbe, by her first husband, married
at Trincomalee, on December 17, 1863, Lieutenant
Andrew Murray Walker, Ceylon Rifles, who retired
as Assistant Conservator of Forests on March 1, 1900.
Mary Chisholm married Richard Warren Stewart at
Trincomalee on September 20, 1864.
Sacred to the Memory of Sergt. Robert Eraser,
Late Band Paymaster in H. M. 78th Regiment,
aged 32 Years, leaving behind a widow
and four Children to mourn his loss.
970
Oct. 28
1832
Ann Gunn
971
072
O/jt. 28
1832
Oct.-Nov.
1S32
, . Eliza Jane McKasser
. Men of the 78th High-
landers
Sacred to the Memory of Ann Gunn, Widow of the
late Sergt. William Gunn, 78th Regt., who died
of Cholera Morbus, 28th October, 1832, aged 34
Years.
Erected by the Orphans W. & A. Gunn.
(See No. 966.)
Sacred to the Memory of Eliza Jane, Wife of
Company Sergeant John MoKasseb, Royal
ArtiUery aged 38 Years and 9 months.
Sacred to the Memory of 56 non-commissioned
Officers and Privates, two women, and one child of
the 78th Highlanders, who were carried off by
epidemic cholera between 12th October and 7th
November, 1832, and whose remains lie in, or near,
this spot. This fatal and most mahgnant disease
first showed itseK on 12th October, but on the 23rd
had attained a degree of extreme virulence. On
that day 14 men died, on the 24th 11. The
names of the sufferers are inscribed on the other
side of this monument, which is erected by their
brother officers.
ERECTED anno DOMINI 1833.
268 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trlnco malee— co?ifrf.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
973 ..
Nov. 17 .
1832
Walter Matheson
974
Dec. 7
1832
Mary Ann Newman Nash
975
976
June 11
1833
Aug. 21
1833
Thomas Fisher
Edward Irving
977
Feb. 5
. Richard Brook
1834
Feb. 13
William Brook
1834
Inscription.
To the Memory of Walter Matheson, Esq., of
H. M. C. Civil Service, Acting Collector of Trin-
comalee.
Joined the Civil Service July 3, 1827. Extra Assist-
ant to the Chief Secretary, 1828 ; Second Assistant to
ditto, 1830 ; on leave, 1831 ; acting Provincial Judge,
Trincomalee, 1831 ; Assistant to the Collector, Colom-
bo, and Sitting Magistrate, Caltxira, April 1, 1832;
acting Collector, Trincomalee, August 30, 1831.
' ' He died after a few hours' illness from the effects
of that fatal disease which has been everywhere pre-
valent during the last two years. In him the Civil
Service of this Island has to deplore the loss of one of
its most promising members. ' ' ( Colombo Journal. )
A great square tomb.
To the Memory of Mary Anne Newman, Wife of
Lieut. Nash of H. M. Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who
departed this Ufe 7th Deer., 1832, aged 29 Years &
6 Months.
Second Lieutenant Francis Rowland Nash joined on
March 1, 1827 ; First Lieutenant April 18, 1829, vice-
R. Gray. Lieutenant and Mrs. Nash arrived at
Trincomalee by the schooner Henrietta on April 6,
1829. They lost a child, Priscilla, buried at Trin-
comalee, on November 18, 1829.
Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Fisher, Boatswain,
H. M. S. Fox, aged 28 Years.
To the Memory of her dear and Lamented Husband
and Friend, Edward Irving, Lieutenant in His
Majesty's 61st Regiment. Departed this life
August 21st, 1833, aged 24.
Peace to his Ashes.
Thou wert, thou art
Cherished in my heart.
Jane Irving,
Madras.
He joined October 18, 1827.
Sacred to the memory of Richard Brook, Esq., of
Trincomalie, who departed this hfe 5th February,
1834, aged 36 years, beloved and respected by his
numerous friends. Also his son, William Brook,
who died on the 13th of the same month, aged'
3 years and 11 months.
A great square tomb.
The name occurs spelt with or without the final e.
He came from Whitby in Yorkshire, and succeeded
Edward Killwick, who died June 9, 1822, as Master
Attendant, Trincomalee. His " Observations of the
Temperatiwe of Trincomalee " are quoted by Bennett
(p. 235). He was deputed by Government in 1832
to report how far the Mahaweli-ganga was navigable.
Accordingly he proceeded up the river in a canoe, and
had a staff of 200 pioneers and coolies to clear the
jungle and carry the boat whenever he had to take to
the land. He had got to somewhere in the neighbour-
hood of Alutnuwara when he had to abandon the river
altogether, and finish the remainder o^he journey to
Kandy, some 25 or 30 miles, on hors^B^^util his
horse fell down a precipice — and on 1
entitled "Extracts from the Journal^
to Explore the Mahavilla Ganga und
tion of the Ceylon Government," waS ^
Wesley an Mission Press, Colombo, in
pubUshed " A Trip to Adam's Peak or Sripada
Ratnapiwa in 1833," in the Colombo Journal of that
year.
He married, on September 3, 1823, at Galle Anna
Cecilia, daughter of Jean David Rabinel, whose
daughter, Ariana Maria, married his brother Georo-
Shaw Brook of the Civil Branch of the Ordnann
G. S. Brook died at Colombo, November 3 1839 a
daughter of R. Brook's, Oreanna, married at Galle
November 3, 1846, Edward Charles Elwall, M D sju"^
married (2) Charles Patton Walker, C.c'.S C\t x?^
^i the-
( 269 )
Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
977 ..
Feb. 5
1834
. . Richard Brook-
-contd.
978
Jan. 22
1835
Elizabeth Rumley
979
Jan. 23
1835
John Collins Antill
980
July 2
1836
Lucretia Adriana Charlotta
Lavalliere
981
982
983
984
Aug. 9
1837
Nov. 16
1837
1837
May 9
1838
Anthonetta Theodora Antill
John Gibson Dickson
Oliver St. John
Travers St. John
Andrew Halliday Hall
2o
Inscription,
daughters of G. S . Brook, Eliza Cecilia and Anne Cecilia,
married Thomas Gordon and Robert John Dunlop,
respectively, at the Fort Church, Jaffna, on the same
day, July 6, 1847. R. J. Dunlop, it appears, subse-
quently married another sister, Emiha. A daughter,
^aralh Anne, married Henry Latham Maddock, a
relative of Su- Henry Maddock, formerly of the Indian
Civil Service, who was in charge of the coconut estates
in the Jaffna Peninsula belonging to Sir Henry, on
April 23, 1856. Ariana, daughter of George, a fifth
daughter, married Benjamin Lindsay at the Fort
Church, Jaffna, on January 8, 1858.
Elizabeth aged 26 years, the beloved wife of
G. Rumley, M.D. , Asst. Surgeon, Ceylon Rifle Regt.
" Leaving an affectionate and disconsolate husband
and four infant children." (Oazette.)
She was a Miss Elizabeth Braham, and married
George Rumley, March 13, 1829, at St. John's,
ChundicuUy, Jaffna. Whether " Braham " is a
mistake for " Brahan" I cannot say. The name
seems to have been spelt both ways.
George Runaley himself was buried at Trincomalee,
April 15, 1840, aged 40. He was then Staff Sxttgeon.
Major John Antill, Late of the Ceylon Rifles, aged
65 Years.
Lieutenant Antill, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, was
gazetted Captain, October 26, 1806. He was com-
manding at Mannar in 1812 ; Deputy Assistant Com-
missary-General at Kandy in 1817-18 ; commanding
Amunapoora 1819-20; Four Corles 1812; Batticaloa
1823-24; JaflEna 1825. He married at Jaffna, on July
6, 1807, Anthonetta Theodora Vanderspar, Captain
Cleather performing the ceremony. There was a
Captain Henry Antill in the 73rd Regiment in 1818.
Mrs. Lavallieeb aged 54 Years.
The Oazette states that she was in her 56th year.
She was a daughter of Pieter Sluysken of the Dutch
Company's service, and married Jean Martin
Lavalliere on June 16, 1799. He was Customs Master
at Negombo in 1815 ; Sitting Magistrate and Customs
Master, Hambantota, from October 17, .1818; and
Assistant Customs Master, Galle, from 1826. He
died at Galle in 1831. (See No. 533. )
Anthonetta Theodoea (Relict of the late Major
John Antill) aged 52 Years.
(See No. 979.) ,
Sacred to the Memory of John Gibson Dickson,
Senior Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Ship Man-
chester, who departed this hfe in this harbour
. . aged 40 Years.
This stone is erected by the Captain and Officers
as a testimony of their sincere regard.
In Memory of Olivee & Teavees, Infant sons of
Doctor St. John, Staff Surgeon, 1837.
The wife of Charles St. John, M.D. , had a son bom
at Trincomalee, April 28, 1836.
Sacred to the Memory of A. H. Hall, Esq., Staff
Assistant Surgeon, who died the 9th May, 1838,
in his 31st Year, sincerely regretted by all who
knew him.
" His illness had been lingering and painful, and his
death long expected."
He married at Trincomalee, on August 25, 1836,
Mary EUza Louisa, eldest daughter of Captain
Gustavus Adolphus TrancheU, Ceylon Rifles. She
married (2) Lieutenant-Colonel Cochrane, and (3) the
Rev. Samuel Owen Glenie, afterwards Archdeacon.
She died in 1892. Her son by Surgeon Hall, Andrew
Halliday, born October 5, 1837, became a Captain in
the Army and died at Belize, British Honduras, in
1887, leaving a daughter, Ethel. (See Nos. 1,003
1,008.)
82-09
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee— cow^cZ.
Serial No.
985 .,
Date.
Nov. 5
1838
Name.
Robert Newell Bull
Inscription.
Beneath are deposited the remains of Robert
Newell Bull, son of Lieut. Henry Bull, 78th
Highlanders aged 11 Months and 9 Days.
This lovely bud so young & fair
Called hence by early doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In Paradise would bloom.
Lieutenant John Edward Newell Bull married
Sarah Grnrn at Kandy on April 17, 1830. This
appears to have been the second son called by this
name, for he had a son borii at Kandy on May 1 , 1834,
named Robert Neweh. Both therefore died in
infancy.
986
Jime 9
1839
Hugh Sally
Sacred to the Memory of Sergt. Hugh Sally, of H. M.
18th Royal Irish Regt., who departed this hfe on
the 9th day of June, 1839, aged 29 Years.
This Monument was erected by his brother Sergeants
as a token of their esteem.
987
Aug. 15
1839
A. E. F. Cummings
To the Memory of Mr. A. E. F. Cummings, Late
Master's Assistant of H. M. S. Jupiter ^Etat
27 Years.
Dec. 17
1839
James Soley
Sacred to the Memory of Sergeant James Soley, of
H. M. 18th Royal Irish Regt., who departed this
life on the 17th day of December, 1839, aged 40
Years.
Oh ! Ye who never left your native home,
Whose peaceful bosoms never wished to roam.
Reflect a moment on a soldier's doom.
And drop a tear of pity on his tomb.
Hard was his fate on foreign shore to fall, .
In manhood's bloom, beloved and mourned by all.
This Monument has been erected by his brother
Sergeants as a token of their esteem.
" In the midst of life we are in death."
He was shot by Private Callaghan of the same
regiment, who underwent the capital penalty on
April 27, 1840, after two trials, one by court martial
and one by the Supreme Court.
The epitaph was written on Lieutenant-Colonel
Dunbar Hunter, 19th Regiment, by Lieutenant T. A.
Anderson of the same regiment, and is included in
his book of " Poems " pubhshed in 1809. There are
some verbal alterations: " a moment on " instead of
" awhile upon," " drop a tear of pity on his tomb "
instead of "sigh one moment o'er his early tomb,"
"hard was his fate" for "severe his fate," "foreign "
for " stranger " in the same line, " bloom " for
" noon " in the last. But Lieutenant-Colonel llunter
had no memorial erected to him. According to
Lieutenant Anderson, though he died at Trincomalee
he was buried in the Pettah Cemetery, Colombo.
989
March 27
1841
Frances Matilda Sargent
To the Memory of Matilda, the beloved and affec-
tionate wife of Major J. J. Sargent, 18th Royal
Irish. She fell asleep in the fuU assurance of an
eternal rest through the atonement of the blood of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Died at
Trincomalee
A daughter, Grace Georgiana, married Lieutenant
Henry Bird, Ceylon Rifles, at Trincomalee, March 27,
1847 (see No. 646). This was not the Lieutenant H.
Bird who became a coffee planter and Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Ceylon Rifles, but another
Lieutenant H. Bird who became a General, was in
charge of the Military Train at Woolwich, 'and was
at one time Governor of the Gold Coast. He was
Irish, and so were the Sargents. Mrs. Sargent is
described as being a typical Irish woman. General
and Mrs. Bird after his retirement Uved and died at
Killinardrish, County Cork.
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No,
Date.
Name.
990 ..
June 19
1844
. George Hills
991
July 23
1844
Mary St. Hill
992
April 4
1845
Charles Webster
993
994
April 30
1846
Jan. 8
1849
Aug. 19
1847
William Henry Ford
Eliza Francina Holgate
Robert Baird Holgate
995
996
June 20
1849
Oct. 7
1852
Edward Argles
Charles John Austen
Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of Colr.-Sergt. Geoege Hills,
H. M. 90tli Lt. Infantry aged 27 Years.
This Monument was erected by his comrade Sergeants
as a mark of the esteem in which he was held by
them.
" Attacked suddenly with fever and died the
following morning at 5 o'clock." (Colombo Observer. )
He attended church with the detachment the Sunday
before.
Here repose in the joyful hope of a resurrection to
eternal Hfe all that was mortal of Maey, the
beloved wife of Henky St. Hill, Esq. She
exchanged this life for immortaUty on the 23rd
July, 1844.
Her sorrowing husband (by whom this is erected)
and children look with humble hope for a re-union
with her on that Great Day, when her virtues as a
Christian wife and mother wiU be revealed by the
Judge of all flesh.
Aged 45. Henry St. Hill was Ordnance Storekeeper.
Sacred to the Memory of Charles Webster, Esq.,
Acting Government Agent of this Province, who
died at Trincomalee aged 34 Years.
"He had gone out in the execution of his duty
during the heat of the day in a palanqiiin, and when
about 4 miles from Trincomalie was seized by a fit of
apoplexy and expired before he could be carried
home." (Colombo Observer.)
He was appointed to the Civil Service July 29,
1830; Extra Assistant at the Secretariat, 1833;
Assistant to the Government Agent, Northern Pro-
vince, 1836 ; Assistant Government Agent, Mannar,
March 1, 1836 ; Acting District Judge, Kandy North,-
November 1, 1839 ; ditto, Kandy South, February
1, 1842; and Acting Government Agent, Eastern
Province, September 1, 1844.
Capt. W. H. PoRD, R.E., eldest son of the late
Major-General Ford of the same Corps, Born
8th September, 1806
LIFE HOW SHORT
ETERNITY HOW LONG.
Sacred to the Memory of Eliza Francina, Wife of
Mr. R. B. Holgate aged 21 Years.
Leaving a husband and two children and a large-
circle of relations to lament her loss.
Also Robert Babbd, Son of the above aged 10'
months.
Robert Baird Holgate married Eliza Francina South
at Trincomalee, July 16, 1846.
Sergeant Edward Holgate, of the 3rd Ceyloni
Regiment, was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Ceylon
Pioneer Lascars, on September 1, 1816. R. B.
Holgate was probably his son.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Holgate, Ceylon Rifles, was
Assistant Commissary at Kandy in 1827-28. Mrs.
Holgate's second Christian name shows her to have
been of Dutch descent.
Sacred to the Memory of Edwaed Argles, M.R.C.S.,.
who died at Trincomalee aged 30 Years.
He is described in the obituary notice as late of
Brunswick terrace. Commercial road, County Middle-
sex, Surgeon, "in charge of the Trincomalee Pauper
Hospital and General Dispensary."
Sacred to the memory of His Excellency C.J. Austen ,.
Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Military
Order of the Bath, Rear Admiral of the Red and
Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Naval
Forces on the East India and China Station, died
off Prome, the 7th October, 1852, while in command
of the Naval Expedition on the river Irrawady
against the Burmese Forces, aged 73 years.
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial Na
Date.
996 ..
Oct. 7
1852
Name.
Charles John Austen-
Insoription.
-contd. It is presumed that this is merely a cenotaph,
and that his remains are not buried here. He was a
brother of Jane Austen the novelist, who had two
brothers in the Navy, this one being the younger. He
went out in the Hastings in command of the East India
and China Station in 1850, but on the breaking out of
the Burmese war he transferred his flag to a steam
sloop in order to get up the Irrawady. He died of
cholera. There is an obituary notice of him in the
Gentleman's Magazine, April, 1853, p. 438, extending
to two columns.
The other brother, Francis, was a G.C.B. and Senior
Admiral of the Fleet. He died in 1865, aged 93. He
commanded the East India Station from 1844 to 1848.
Jane, as regards date of birth came between the two,
having been bom on December 10, 1775. She died on
July 18, 1817, at Winchester. Their father was
Rector of Steventon, Hants.
997
April 14
1853
Robert Lionel Bayly
Sacred to the menxory of Robert Lionel Bayly,
Esq., Sub-Collector of H. M. Customs, Trincomalie
aged 35 years.
He was a son of Major T. Bayly (see No. 95). He
was Sub-Collector of Customs at Balapitimodera
1841 ; ditto at Barberyn 1842-44 ; ditto at Trinco-
malee 1845-53.
June 23
1855
April 15
1879
Robert Atherton
Marianne Mitford Massie
Sacred to the memory of Robebt Athebton, Esq.,
Acting Government Agent of the Eastern Province
and late of Her Majesty's Royal Navy
aged 54 years.
Also of MAEL4.NNE MiTEOBD, his daughter, the dearly
beloved wife of Robebt Massie, C.CS., who died
at Trincomalie aged 43.
Robert Atherton was Superintendent, Sitting
Magistrate, and Fiscal of Delft from December 5,
1825 ; Assistant Collector of Customs, Jaffna,
January 1, 1831 ; Assistant to the Goverrunent Agent,
Eastern Province, from November 1, 1835; ditto
Northern Province, March 1, 1836; Assistant Govern-
ment Agent, Eastern Province, February, 1839;
Acting District Judge, Battioaloa, 1841 ; Assistant to
the Goverrunent Agent at Batticaloa, September 16,
1845.
Robert Atherton was born December 8, 1801,
fourth son of Colonel John Joseph Atherton, Royal
Lancashire Fencible Cavalry, of Walton or Woolton
Hall, Lancashire, and of Street, Derbyshire, by
Marian, eldest daughter of Bertram Mitford, Esq., of
Mitford Castle. Colonel and Mrs. Atherton were for
many years at the Court of George III. , the Colonel
being an A. D. C. to that monarch. His son, Robert,
was for some time a purser in the Navy, and served
under Captain Marryat in the Lome in the first
Bm'mese war, and was honourably mentioned for
bravery in Captain Marryat's despatches. He
subsequently entered the Ceylon Civil Service. In a
criticism of the administration of Mr. Stewart
Mackenzie by " Britannia," which was quoted in the
Colombo Observer in 1841, the writer says : "We are
credibly informed that a gentleman was raised to
the Judgeship of the District Court of Ceylon with
a salary of £1,000 per annum, who was brought
up to the profession of a seaman, and who was
destitute of the commonest requisites for his leeal
office."
When Superintendent of Delft he married at Kayts,
April 24, 1826, Eleanor Toler, fourth daughter of
Dr. George Burleigh (see No. 800). There was a
Rodney Atherton in the Ceylon Rifles, probably a
brother. His wife had a daughter at Jaffna, July
24, 1833.
Robert Massie was a brother of James Massie, C.CS.
(see No. 235). He retired in 1888 as District Judge of
Kiu-unegala. He married (2) a sister of his deceased
wife. In 1887 he printed a list of " Inscriptions
on Tombstones at Trincomalee " up to the year
1871.
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trineomalee — contd.
"Serial No.
999 .
Date.
1847-1855
Name.
Men of the 37th Regiment
1000
1001
Feb. 24
1856
May 3
1856
John Roberts
Maria Lydia Adair
' Inscription.
Sacred to the Memory of Men of Her Majesty's 37
Regiment of foot, who departed this life at
TrincomaUe in the years 1847, 1848, '49, '50, '54,
'55. Their names are inscribed on the other sides
of this Monument, which is erected by their
officers and comrades as a tribute of esteem and
regard to departed wortli and in token of the
respect & affection in which their memory is held.
" In 1849 dysentery was very prevalent at Trineo-
malee among the men of the 37th, carrying off four."
{Colombo Observer.) There are inssribed on the monu-
ment the names of 54 men, viz., 5 sergeants, 1 cor-
poral, and 48 privates, the first death being on May
3, 1847, and the last on March 29, 1856. The 37th
North Hampshire Regiment, now the 1st Battalion
Hampshire Regiment, during its stay in Ceylon, which
was almost contemporaneous with that of the 15th
Regiment, lost, like that regiment, three officers by
death, one of them being the Quartermaster. The
37th erected a monument to its men, the 15th to its
officers (see No. 29). The officers of the 37th who
died in Ceylon were Captain Filder at Nuwara Eliya
in 1853, Lieutenant Roberts at Trineomalee in 1853,
and Quartermaster Chisholm at Colombo in 1850.
Sacred to the Memory of John Roberts, Lt. of
H. M. S. 37th Regiment aged 34 Years.
Deceased was an upright & manly soldier, and much
respected by his comrades.
In Memory of Maria Lydia, Widow of William
Adair, Esq., who departed this Ufa aged
78 Years.
1002
Feb. 2
1858
Margaret Susan Hook
1003
Dec. 12
1860
George Cochrane
1004
July 12
1862
A. McPherson
i005
1006
April 30
1863
June 14
1864
Sibella Estreaux Ramsay
Selena Hood Symons
Sacred to the Memory of Margaret Susan, the
beloved wife of Captain Lionel Hook, Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, who departed this Hfe aged
24 Years.
She was a daughter of Captain Meaden, C.R.R., and
married Captain ifook at Kandy on January 9, 1857.
Captain Hook married (2) at Trineomalee, on July 17,
1860, Anna Campbell Watson.
Sacred to the Memory of George Cochrane, Esq.,
late Lt.-Col. C- R- Regiment. He entered into his
rest aged 70 Years.
He was appointed Commandant of Jaffna in
.January, 1841. He was with his regiment at
DambuUa in August, 1848, engaged in the suppression
of the Matale rebelhon. He was for sorae time
Conunanding Officer of the Rifles, succeeding Colonel
Braybrooke, and was succeeded by Colonel William
Twisleton Layard, a brother of Sir Charles Peter
Layard, senior. (See No. 823.)
Sacred to the Memory of Coir. A. McPherson, H. M.
50th Regiment, Kiiight of the Legion of Honour,
who was accidentally shot at this station
while performing the duties of assistant Instructor
in Musketry, aged 38 Years.
This stone was erected by his comrade Soldiers as a
token of their regard and esteem.
It is presumed that by
Sergeant."
Coir." is meant " Colour-
Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sibella Estreaux
Ramsay, who departed this life at Trineomalee
aged 69 Years and 11 Months.
Selena Eliza, the beloved wife of C. E. fiooD
Symons, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, who departed
this life at TrincomaUe, aged 23 Years.
She was a Miss Dane Waller, and^teirried Lieut-
enant Symons on March 10, 1864, at Kandy. Mr.
John Ferguson in one of his " Reminiscences" refers
to " the two fair sisters, the Miss Wallers, both
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee— cow«6((.
Serial No.
1006 .
Date.
June 14
1864
• Name.
Selena Hood Symons-
conid.
Inscription,
married in Ceylon." The other sister, Frances
Tazeena, married at Colombo, in 1862, George Denis
Browne Harrison, who came out to Ceylon about
1856 on the railway survey under Captain Moorsom.
and was afterwards partner of William Martin Leake
in Ceylon, which he left in 1872. He was at one
time the planters' representative in Council, and was
known as "King of Kandy." He died in 1909,
Mrs. Harrison three years earlier. Lieutenant
Symons was sent to Trincomalee to inspect and
condemn the old ordnance there. He retired from the
Army, and has ever since been a Colombo merchant.
He is one of its oldest residents, was first Commanding
Officer of the Ceylon Artillery Volunteers, and has
obtained the V. D. decoration.
1007
Sept. 22
1865
Reginald Birch
Reginald, the beloved child of J. W. Bibch, CCS.,,
and of Emily, his wife. Born 3rd September,
1861.
James Wheler Woodford Birch (see No. 146)
, married at Trincomalee, on November 21, 1855, Emily
Maria Campbell, daughter of Luke Kelly, M.D. He-
was assassinated by Malays on November 2, 1875,
at Pasir Salak on the Perak river. (See " Malay
Sketches," by Sir F. A. Swettenham.)
Their son. Sir Ernest Charles Woodford Birch,
K.C.M.G., of the Straits Civil Service, retired, was
bom at Trincomalee, April 22, 1857.
1008
March 31
1866
Gustavus Adolphus Tranehell
1009
May 14
1866
Robert Muir Gilchrist
1010
Feb. 9
1867
Arthur Henry Turner
1011
June 24
" 1867
Elizabeth Tranehell
To the Memory of Lt.-Col. G. A. Teanchell, late
Ceylon Rifle Regiment aged 79 Years.
He was second- son of John Tranehell (see Nos. 317
and 938), and was bom at Galle in 1787. He married,
while in the 3rd Ceylon Begiment in 1813, Elizabeth,
daughter of Captain Selway , 89th Regiment. He had
numerous children by this marriage. One daughter,
Mary Eliza, married (1) Staff Assistant Surgeon Hall
(see No. 984), (2) Lieutenant-Colonel Cochrane (see
No. 1003), and (3) Archdeacon Samuel Owen Glenie,
Chaplain of Trincomalee. Another daughter, Selina,
married the Rev. George Hole of the Wesleyan Mission,,
himself said to be of Swedish descent. A third mar-
ried Captain Durnford, Ceylon Rifles. Ason wasMajor
Edward Frederick Tranehell, Ceylon Rifles, and later
of the Ceylon Police. Another son. Major Gustavus
Adolphus Tranehell, Ceylon Rifles, became a planter
in the Straits Settlements. He married, on September
1, 1866, at Trincomalee, Amelia Catherine O'Grady.
A son of the Rev. G. Hole, George Adolphus Hole,
Salt Superintendent of Puttalam, married Catherine
Jane, daughter of John Edmund Walbeoff , and grand-
son of John Walbeoff (see No. 110). Her mother
was a sister of A. H. Roosmalecocq, CCS.
Sacred to the Memory of Robert Muir Gilchrist,
M.D., Staff Assistant Surgeon, who died at
TrincomaUe aged 33 Years.
' In the midst of life we are in death."
This stone is erected by the Medical officers serving
in Ceylon during the years 1864-7.
He was at Colombo in 1863.
Sacred to the memory of Arthur Henry Turner, of
the Ceylon Civil Service, son of Edward Shewell
Turner of Clapham, Surrey, England aged
21 years.
I have heard a story that he died from eating
sardines (the Ceylon fish), which at certain times of
the year are poisonous. He was appointed a Writer
February 10, 1866 ; attached to the Colombo Kaoh-
cheri March 8, 1866; Assistant Government Agent,
Trincomalee, April 16, 1866.
To the Memory of Elizabeth, beloved wife of Lt.-Col.
C. A. Tranchell, who died loved and res-
pected by all who knew her.
(See No. 317.)
Serial No.
1012 .
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd
Date.
April 13
1868
Name.
August Bergen Huin
1013
June 4
1869
Fredrick Reeve
1014
July 10
1869
Bertram Mitford
Inscription.
HAEUNDEE
HIVHiAE
FESfSKE GAKAPATBNBN
August Bbkgbn Hunsr.
18 13/4 68.
He was Captain of the Finnish barque the Victor,
and his age was 26 years.
Feedeick Reeve, Major, 73 Regiment. Born 10th
March, 1826 Aged 43 Years.
Major Reeve fell out of the upper verandah of his
house and thence to the ground, sustained mortal
injuries, and died in ten minutes after the arrival of the
doctor. (See No. 40.)
Sacred to the Memory of Beeteam Mitfoed, R.N.,
Paymaster of H.M.S. Cossack, who was drowned
at Trincomalie
Bertram appears to be a favourite name in the
family of Mitfords of Mitford Castle, Northumber-
land. He was a member of that family, and therefore
a relative of Robert Atherton's. He was drowned
in the harbour while trying to swim back to his
vessel after dining on shore. He was a cousin of
E. L. Mitford, C.C.S., whose fourth son, Bertram
Mitford, is a novelist of the present day. His age
was 32.
1015 . . Sept. 5 . . William H. Clark
1875
1016 . . Aug. 1
1877
M. H. Scott
1017 . . April 3 . • Charles Jones
1880
Sacred to the Memory of William H. Claek, Esq. ,
Fleet Surgeon, R.N., H.M.S. Undaunted
aged 52.
Sacred to the Memory of Gunner M. H. Scott,
12th Battery, 7th Brigade, Royal Artillery, who
was lost in the jungle. Fort Ostenburgh, August '
1st, 1877. His remains were found December
30th, 1878. Aged 21 years 8 months.
This stone is erected by his comrades.
The following paragraphs appeared in the Ceylon
Observer of August 10 and 11, 1877 : —
' ' On Wednesday last three soldiers went out monkey
shooting towards Nicholson's cove, about two or three
miles from the town. Two men retvirned, and the
other is not to be found. Every day the Comman-
dant sends.a party of men to explore the jungle, but
without success. A dog belonging to the missing
soldier returned to town three days after the man
was missed, and various are the surmises as to the
master's fate."
"The missing soldier, who went out with two or
three companions shooting in the jungle near the .
Ostenberg Fort, has not since been heard of. Efforts
have been made to find him, but they have
been unavailing. The man left all his money, &c.,
in the barracks, and therefore could not have
contemplated desertion. The jungle is close to the
town and of very small area. He could not go very
far in any direction without coming to the sea or into
the open town. It is possible that he may have
fallen from the rooks into the sea, but, though the
coast has been carefully searched, no body has been
found. A shark, however, may have prevented that.
A short while since a soldier was left for dead by
some natives (arrack sellers, of course), who had
beaten him with a hedgestake. This man now miss-
ing, who was, it is feared, rather hasty-tempered,
may have been put out of the way under somewhat
similar circumstances."
But none of these conjectures proved correct. He 1
was simply lost in a limited area of jungle, and it took '
one year and fi.ve months to find the remains. I
Sacred to the Memory of Gunner Chaeles Jones,
13th Battery, 7th Brigade, R.A., who was acci-
dentally killed by falling from " Fort Ostenburgh "
rampart aged 38 years.
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1018 . . Jan. 29 . . Robert Shafto Hedley . . In Memoriam. Robert Shaeto Hedley, Lieu-
1884 tenant, Royal Engineers. Drowned in Trincomalee
Harbour aged 27 Years.
Erected by his friends in the East.
He had landed on an island in the harbour, and
while there his boat drifted away. He swam out in
his clothes to recover it and was drowned.
1019 . . May 20 . . Arthur S. Ramsey . . In Memory of Abthtxr S. Ramsey, Staff Paymaster,.
1886 R.N., H.M.S. Turquoise aged 42 years.
Erected by his Shipmates.
1020 . . July 16 . . W. A. B. Fyers . . W. A. B. Fyees, Chief Surveyor, Eastern Province,
1886 jje was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel'
A. B. Fyers, R.E., late Surveyor-General of Ceylon.
1021 . . June 18 . . G. Redstone . . Gunner G. Redstone, 9th Battery, 1st Brigade,
1888 ' Southern Division,' R.A., who was killed by the
premature explosion of a cartridge whilst firing
minute guns at Ft. Ostenburgh aged 26
Years and 9 months.
1022 . . Sept. 16 . . Caroline Mary Burmester . . Caeoldte Maey Btiemestee, Wife of Major-GenL
1888 BuEMESTEB, C.B., aged 68.
Mother of Major Burmester, R.A., who was then
stationed at Trincomalee.
1023 . . 1889 . . Men of the Gordon High- Erected by the Ofiicers, Non-Commissioned Officers,
landers & Men of "K" Company, 1st Battln., Gordon
Highlanders, to the memory of their Comrades
who died at Trincomalee, 1889 : —
[A Colour-Sergeant and two Privates.]
1024 . . Dee. 6 . . James George Wilkie . . Sacred to the Memory of James Geoege Wilkie, of
1890 . H.M.S. Boadicea, who died at Trincomalee of
fever contracted whilst on active service in the-
Witu Expedition.
This stone is erected by Commander Montgomeeie,
R.N.,towhom he was personal servant, as a token
of affection and esteem which was shared by all
who knew him.
1025 . . April 13 . . Douglas Reynolds Lambert In Memory of Douglas Reynolds Lambeet, Lieu-
1892 tenant in the Royal Engineers, son of Major-G«nL
Waltee Rathboene and Elizabeth Jane Lam-
beet. Born at Kurrachee, on the 1st of October,
1868. Died at this place.
1026 . . May 17 . . Charles Sedgfleld Donner . . Charles Sedgfield Donnee, Flag Captain H.M.S.-
1892 Boadicea. Born January 27th, 1848
He died while out shooting in the Kottiyar jungle.
1027 . . June 4 . . H. G. Leonard . . In Memory of Major H. G. Leonaed, Loyal North.
1898 Lancashire Regiment, who died at Trincomalee.
Erected by his Brother Officers.
1028 . . May 7 . . Charles Frank Miller . . Charles Feank Millee, of Niton, Isle of Wight,
1899 aged 25 years.
1029 March 23 . . John Henry Edmund Gervan Sacred to the Memory of John Hbney EDMtrN»
1900 Gervan, Elder son of John Spbae Gervan, J.P.,.
of Bally Gawley, County Tyrone, Ireland,
aged 25 years.
1030 .. April 17 .. William Smith .. Gunner William Smith, 87th Co., R.G.A. Acci-
1903 dentally kiUed on duty aged 21 years.
1031 . . June 7 John Grant . . John Grant, Assistant Paymaster, H.M.S. High-
1903 flyer, who died at Trincomalee, aged 21 years.
Erected by his brother Officers.
1032 . . Dec 12 . . Louis M. Jackson . . Louis M. Jackson, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers,.
1903 accidentally drowned in Kottiar Bay
aged 26 years.
Lieutenant Jackson was very fond of boating-
He had an open boat, the Seahird, in which he saUed
from Trincomalee to Madras in 1903, leaving on
July 11 and arriving on July 14, and accompanied
only by his dog. He returned the same way, leaving
Negapatam on July 19 and arriving at Point Pedro
on 22nd, where he anchored for a day or two, as he-
was suffering from fever.
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No.
1033 . ,
Date.
1904
Name.
Philip Marks
Inscription.
Revd. Philip Marks, 1828-1904. Missionary
S.P.G. and for 14 years Military Chaplain.
Mr. Marks was for years at Buona Vista, Galle.
He succeeded the Rev. George Mackenzie as Military
Chaplain at Trincomalee, in May, 1891, and was the
last of the permanent chaplains.
1034
Dec. 25 . . Percy Braybrooke Moles-
1908 worth
2 P
In memory of Major Peecy Beaybeooke Moles-
WOETH, R.B., F.R.A.S., born April 2nd, 1867,
died December 25tli, 1908.
And he looking steadfastly into heaven saw the
Glory of the Lord.
(The text was no doubt suggested by the date of
death — the eve of St. Stephen's day.)
" The death of Major P. B. Molesworth, late R.E.,
took place at the Naval Commissioner's house on
Friday morning at 2 a.m." It was therefore really
on the 26th.
Belonging to a military family, he joined the
Royal Engineers as a Lieutenant in February, 1886.
He was promoted Captain in 1896, and received his
majority in May, 1904, from which rank he retired.
While stationed at Trincomalee with the Royal
Engineers, Major Molesworth took to the planter's
life, and decided to settle down there. He became
proprietor, with Mr. G. N. C. Molesworth , his brother,
of KiUanan estate, Kiniyai, Trincomalee, a valuable
and extensive property. Major Molesworth was well
known to the scientific world as a keen astronomer
(not, we think, astrologer, as our contemporary says),
and scientific authorities at home have often been
advised by him of phenoinena observed in Ceylon.
Like most scientific men, Major Molesworth was
quiet and retiring ; but he counted many friends, in
Ceylon, some — like Mr. H. O. Barnard — ^being keen
students, too, of his astral hobby.
A friend of his wrote the following accotmt of his
life in the Times of Ceylon:- —
' ' Percy Braybrook Molesworth was bom in Colombo
in the house that for so many years has been the offices
of the General Manager of the Ceylon Government
Railway. At the time of his birth , in 1 867 , his father
■ — Sir Guildford Molesworth — 'was the Engineer in
Chief of the line in com-se of construction to Kandy,
so the late Major may safely be said to have been
connected with this Colony in many ways from the
date of his birth.
' ' Inheriting a large share of his father's well-known
talents, he ever associated himself with matters of
scientific bearing.
"His astronomical studies in general, and those
connected with the planet Jupiter in particular, were
far-reaching and important ; and Major Molesworth's
work in this connection will long command respect
with astronomers.
" Owing to health considerations, aa. ^d to his
peculiar affection for Trincomalee, he settled down
there, or, more correctly speaking, at his estate on
the south of Kotiaar bay. He rapidly and energetic-
ally threw himself into the work of developing land
up the MahawUliganga vaUey, and, aided by his
devoted brother, he set about the cultivation of
various products, that included coconuts, rubber,
tobacco, and cotton. One particular featru-e of his
enterprise was that of irrigating land with windmills
— a scheme fuU of promise and worthy of further
attention in the dry country of the Eastern Province.
"Motor boats, entirely bruit by the two brothers,
used often to ply the waters of the Mahawilliganga ;
and the writer distinctly remembers a visit made in
one of these home-buUt vessels to Lowlands estate,
where he was shown some of the largest Ceara rubber
trees in Ceylon.
"Retiring, and somewhat shy in his habits, and
, unassuming to a fault. Major Molesworth yet pos-
sessed a charm of manner and personality peculiarly
his own. His quickness of brain, added to his
naturally scientific bias, made his views not only
82-09
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Burial Ground, on the Esplanade, Trincomalee — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1034 . .
Dec. 25 ,
1908
. . Percy Braybrooke Moles-
worth — contd.
deeply int
farsighted.
*
it
Inscription,
deeply interesting in his exposition of them, but
1035
1897-1899
Men of H.M.S. Eclipse
1036
1884-1899
Officers and Men of the
Royal Engineers
1037
1899-1901
Men of the Southern Divi-
sion, Royal Garrison
Artillery
1038
1902-1904
Men of the 87th Company,
Royal Garrison Artillery
not only was he one of the best-hearted of
men, but his character was that of a true, right-
minded, upright, and fearless friend."
Erected by the Officers and Men, H. M. S. Eclipse,
in memory of Edwaed L. Tailok, E.R.A., who
died 19th July, 1899.
Also Geoegb Stephen, Domestic 1st Class. Died
14th June, 1897, & was buried at Sea.
Also Heney Claek, Stoker, who died 2nd March,
1898, & was buried at Karachi.
Also JoB3sr HooPEE, Stoker, who died 24th September,
1899, and was buried at Sea.
UBIQUE.
UBIQUE QUO— FAS ET— GLORIA DUCUNT
Lt. R. S. Hedley, R.E. Died 29th Jany., 1884.
Lt. D. R. Lambeet, R.E. Died 13th April, 1892.
Lt. L. M. Jackson, R.E. Died 12th Deer., 1903.
Sacred to the Memory of Royal Engineers who have
died at Trincomalee. From Jany. A.D. 1884.
Erected by the Royal Engineers quartered at
Trincomalee, A.D. 1899.
[Here follow the names of 3 Sergeants, 11 Corporals,
Second Corporals, and Lance-Corporals, and 11
Sappers.]
Sacred to the memory of the under-mentioned
N.C.O.'s and Men of 34th Company, Southern
Division, R.G.A.
[Names of 2 Bombardiers and 3 Gunners, one of the
former Edmund Geevan (see No. 1029). Two of
the Gunners were drowned in the Harbour on
May 23, 1901.]
This Monunient was erected by their Comrades.
Sacred to the memory of the under-mentioned
N.C.O.'s & Men of No. 87th Company, R. G
Artillery, who died at Trincomalee between
October, 1902, and January, 1904.-
[Here foUow the names of 8 Gunners and a Bom-
bardier.]
Erected by officers and men of the Company as a
token of respect to their memory.
Wesleyan Chapel, Trincomalee.
1039
Jan. 21
1831
Elizabeth Kats
1040
May 5
1870
Emma Brown
Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, wife of Revd.
J. Kats, who departed this hfe 21st Jany., 1831,
aged 31 years and 22 days. Her sun is gone down
while it was yet day. Jer. 15, 10.
Put not your trust in health or youth
But trust in heaven whose gifts they are.
And now the solemn voice of truth
Hear — and to meet your God prepare.
J. Ceabb, 1831.
(See No. 352.) The Rev. J. C. Kats was afterwards
Chaplain of St. Paul's, Colombo.
In memory of Emma, the beloved wife of the Revd.
J. Beown, Wesleyan Missionary, who died at
Trincomalee, May 5th, 1870, aged 30.
Mr. Brown was at JaHna as acting Chairman of
North Ceylon District in place of Rev. Edmund
Rigg from 1878 to 1880. He was in Trincomalee
as Superintending Missionary from 1866 to 1870.
Mr, Brown and his two colleagues. Revs. Edmtm.d
Rigg and John Otley Rhodes, were married on the same
day at Colomboin 1869. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Rhodes
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Wesleyan Chapel, Trineomalee — contd.
Serial No.
1040 .
1041
Date.
May 5
1870
April 25
1836
Name.
Emma Brov/n— contd.
Ann Morris
Inscription,
died shortly after. Mr. Brown was then, transferred
to Battioaloa in 1870 as Superintending Missionary,
He afterwards took a trip to England in 1872 and
married his second wife, the daughter of the late
Rev. John Kikier, D.D., and returned to Batticaloa
and worlied for several vears.
Sacred to the Memory of Aira^, wife of H. B. Mokbis,
Hospital Sergeant, 61st Regt., and only daughter
of Thomas Spbing, Esq. , Ireland, who after a short
iUness departed this Ufe on the 25th April, Anno
Domino 1836, aged 32 years, leaving 3 children
to lament her loss.
Here rests a woman good without pretence,
Blest with plain reason & with sober sense,
Devotion undeba^ed by pride or art,
With meek simphcity, & joy of heart.
So unaffected, so composed a miad,
So firm yet soft, so slrong yet so refined,
Unblamed, unequalled, in each sphere of Ufe.
This tomb was erected by her affectionate husband.
Muttur, Kottiyar, Trineomalee District.
1042
This is the White man's Tree under which Robert
Ejirox was captured. A.D. 1659.
This stone was placed here in 1893.
To the late Mr. Hugh Nevill, C.C.S., is due the
credit of the erection of this stone under the celebrated
tamarind tree, but, as was pointed out by the late
Mr. Donald Ferguson, " 1659 " should be " 1660."
Eiiox was captured ia April, but it was 1660, the year
1659 ended in March. The tree measured in 1907, at
4 feet 3 inches from the ground, 33 feet 5 inches in
girth.
KURUNEGALA.
The old military burial ground, which lies near the junction of Edinburgh street with the Kandy road,
occupied a part of or adjoined the, compound in which stood the Wesleyan Mission House opened on December 30 ,
1821. There is, or was to be seen some years ago, on a heap of debris in the burial ground a portion of a stone
with the letters " SIGN HOUSE, 1821," evidently the latter portion of the word " MISSION." This is all
that remains of the chapel and house, which, after the end of 1829, when the resident missionary was withdrawn ,
" were disposed of to the Government to be used as a court-house." The site, as it then was, and the buildings
are described by Mr. Newstead, the first missionary at Kurunegala, in a letter dated July 21, 1821 : "I have
had the happiness to see in two months from its commencement the framework of a noble house, and the outline
of a sweet garden Without doubt it wiU be one of the finest buildings in the Kandyan country, which is
in a great measure owing to its lovely situation. A road only separates our garden from the great rock behind
it which is a dehghtful shelter in some seasons and always a beauty. The front of the building is quite open,
and commands a view of the whole country cantoimient across a small valley. The two sides of the house
command the most enchanting view of near and distant mountains, fields, and woods. From the front of the
house the garden lies on a fine slope, and is bounded by another new road. A new barrack and resthouse have
been completed." (Quoted in Spence Hardy, pp. 146-7, 153.)
One reason why the mission was abandoned was the unhealthiness of Kurunegala, a reputation which it
long retained, but "even Trineomalee and Kurunegala have now ceased to be regarded as necessarily fatal to
Europeans, although at the latter, when it was an important nuhtary post, one-third of the whole European
population' succumbed to the fever, which is still so fatal to the natives, in one year." (A. M. F. in Oeylon
Observer.)
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Garrison Burial Ground, Kurunegala.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1043 . .
Feb. 8
1821
Alexander McBean
1044
March 4
1824
Margaret Audain
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Capt. Alex. McBean, who
died Feby. 8th, 1821, aged 40 Years.
Reqiiiescat in pace.
Captain McBean of the 83rd was commanding the
Lower Division of Seven Korales in 1820, and Staff
Officer of Kurunegala in 1821.
He probably succumbed to the dreaded fever of
the district, which was then decidedly more virulent
than it is now.
Sacred to the memory of Margaret, wife of Major
AtTDAiN, H. M. 16th Regt., who died at KomegaUe,
March 4th, 1824, in the faith and hope of the
Gospel, in the 49th year of her age, leaving her
afflicted husband and bereaved family to lament
their loss.
MortaHtate rehcta vivit immortalitate induta.
" On account of the continuance and increase of
the fatal fever in 1824 every European without
exception in this and the contiguous districts was
under the necessity of abandoning his station, but
to many of them change of air afforded no relief, and
many became victims to the disqrder before their
removal could be accomplished. Among the latter
was Mrs. Audain, the wife of the Commandant, a
woman whose profound piety and amiable disposition
rendered her a universal favourite. Throughout her
protracted affliction she manifested the utmost
submission to the dispensations of Providence
Mr. Hardy proceeds to relate examples of her and
her daughter's ptiritanical type of piety. ^ A monu-
ment was erected to her memory in the graveyard of
the mission." (P. 161.)
The following accoimt of the Audains is by Mr.
F. H. Modder of Kurunegala : —
" Major Audain was the Commandant at Kurune-
gala in 1824. He sent for his daughters, Georgiana
and Margaret, who were in England at the time.
The daughters arrived at Colombo, and Major and
Mrs. Audain went down to escort them to Kurunegala.
The trip to the metropolis, in those primitive days of
road-making was tedious and weary beyond measure,
not to speak of the risk and danger of exposure to
the malaria which its undertaking entailed, and it
took nearly a week to accomplish the journey. Mrs.
Audain, it is thought, contracted the fell malarial
fever, for which the im.opened district l3rLng between
Kurunegala and Colombo was scandalously notorious,
in the course of that perilous trip. She died after a
short illness, and the dread disease seems to have
foimd additional victims in a Mrs. Cox, a soldier's
wife who attended on Mrs. Audain as nmse, and two
of her children. They, too, were buried at the Pro-
testant cemetery, but there is nothing to indicate
their long-forgotten resting-place. Shortly after the
death of his wife. Major Audain returned to Head-
quarters at Kandy. The Rev. Mr. Browning (who
with the Rev. Mr. Lambrick were the Missionaries
then stationed at the mountain capital) preached the
funeral sermon at the present Kandyan Audience
Hall, which on Sundays was used for divine service
and during the week days as the Hall of Justice, as
at present.
" Mrs. Audain laboured zealously for the religious
welfare of her fellow-creatures, devoting as much
time as she coiild spare towards spreading a know-
ledge of the gospel among them. She, with Mrs.
Fraser, the good wife of Dr. Eraser, Medical Officer
attached to the 16th Regiment, and Mrs. HoUoway,
wife of the Drum Major of the same regiment, kept
a Sunday school at Kandy, which was attended by
the children of the regiment. On Thursdays Mrs.
Eraser used to get the children to read a chapter of
the Old Testament and explain it to them. . The
school was held at Mrs. Eraser's. Mrs. Bradley, wife
of Lieut, and Adjutant Bradley of the 16th, 44th,
and Rifle Regiments, and of whose interesting career
in Ceylon a graphic account appeared in the Observer
some time ago, was a pupil under the ladies in
question, and to her I am indebted for much of the
information herein contained.
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Garrison Burial Ground, Kurunegala — contd.
Serial No.
1044 .
Date.
March 4
1824
Name.
Margaret Audain — contd.
Insoription.
" Major Audain embarked for England a short time
after his wife's death, leaving the two daughters in
charge of the deceased's friend and fellow-worker,
Mrs. Fraser, who went down to Colombo and con-
tinued her good work in the cause of religion. She
kept a Sunday school, in which she was ably assisted
by the Misses Audain.
"The yoimger, Margaret Hyndman, m.arried .at
Colombo, September 22, 1825, Captain Hugh Forbes
of the 45th Regiment, who was drafted on to the
detachment at Rangoon.
"Major Audain's son, Willet Payne, went out to
Bengal as Ensign of the 16th Regiment then stationed
there, about the year 1829, was raised to Lieutenant,
and married a Miss Hercules, who died about April,
1833, at Chinsura, India. They had a daughter,
whom the father took to England, and having placed
her im.der the care of her aunt, Georgiana, rejoined
the regiment. Lieut. Audain left with the regiment
which returned to England on the 31st December,
1840 ; and after the 16th had been ordered to Ireland,
it is said that he married a Miss Cassidy."
"Mark Ralph Payne Audain, Lieut, in the Royal
Dublin Fusiliers in 1883 or 1884, was probably a son
of the Lieut.-Col. Possibly Guy Mortimer Audain,
Lieut, in the Suffolk Regiment, formerly the 12th
East Suffolk Regiment in the same year, was another
member of the family."
John W. Audain was gazetted Captain in the
16th Regiment July 24, 1804. He was appointed
Commandant of Seven Korales July 9, 1823, and was
succeeded as such by Captain Law, 83rd Regiment,
on April 7, 1824.
The Cemetery, Kurunegala.
The General Cemetery was opened in 1868.
Serial No. Date. Name.
1045 . . July 25 . . Francis Hunter Vetch
1888
1046
Nov. 26
1904
Arthur Godfrey Watson
Inscription.
Francis Hunter Vetch, son of Lieut.-Col. Vetch
of Capenflat, Haddington, N.B., and Grand-son
of Major-General Hoggan of Waterside, Dum-
frieshire, who died at Nella Oola, aged 34.
Erected by his sorrowing Aunt, Miss Mary Hoggan.
Erected by his fellow Planters to the memory of
Arthttr Godfrey Watson, aged 28, acoideritally
drowned at Batalagodawewa near this town.
PUTTALAM.
The Old Burial Ground.
1047
March 4
1880
James Greer Edge
In memory of James Greer Edge, C.C.S., who died
in a boat at BLalpitiya Jetty , aged 24.
Writer, 1878. He was at the time Police Magis-
trate of Puttalam and Kalpitiya (Calpentyn), and was
on his way from Puttalam to hold court at Kalpitiya.
He was of Trinity College, Dublin.
KALPITIYA.
In 1832 the Dutch Church at Calpentyn (or Kalpitiya as it is now more correctly, if less poetically,
transliterated), " though built of clay and thatched with olas, yet boasted of some antiquity, for it had stood for
nearly two centuries Under the administration of the Dutch East India Company the expenses for the
occasional repairs were defrayed from loans made by the Deaconry's funds established at Calpentyn -. . ,
but no thorough repairs having been made^of late, the two walls were falling out, and the whole building tottering
to its very foundation. There is a spacious churchyard attached to this church, which formerly had only walls
on'three sides a,nd a stick fenq^ pnj&e>#ther side. The three walls had decayed away but a few years ago. Simon
Casie Chitty, Maniagar, very^^lu^jly.; undertook and completed the reconstruction of the three walls at his ,
own expense', and latterly Mr^tT!fei^|)leT has caused the fence to be removed and a new wall to be raised at his
own expense'on that side, so Mai ih4«^urchyard has been placed in as good order as possible." (" Cephas "* in
* Cephas I take to be Sim^n
the " Ceylon Gazetteer."
(JO^^tty himself. "Cephas" suggests "Peter," and "Peter" "Simon." He wrote
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KALPITIY A— contd.
Ceylon Government Gazette, quoted in tlie Ceylon Literary Register, vol. V., p. 208.) The church was rebuilt and
re-opened on June 28, 1840. It stands in a comer of the churchyard, with the front right on the street ; in this case
an untidy open space of sand and weeds, which looks, however, as if it had at one time formed part of the village
square or " place," now diminished before the advance of the ever-increasing and encroaching Moorman, the high
walls and gateways of whose compounds surround the churchyard on all sides. The gable of the church is of
the debased Dutch type , surmounted by three squat pinnacles with , in front of it , a semicircular open porch , consist-
ing of a flat wooden roof supported by four plastered piUars with Corinthian capitals and approached by steps,
no doubt in its day considered very elegant. The churchyard contains some ponderous but crumbhng monuments
of brick and plaster, devoid of inscription, and shaded by a few trees. In it stands a detached belfry — an adjunct
of the church characteristically Dutch. The whole scene has a striking old-world air about it, and as it is probably
destined soon to vanish, as the church is almost without a congregation — stranded hke a wreck on an island in
the midst of a sea of Islam — it has been thought i\orth while to describe it in some detail. With this exception,
and that q^ the old fort dating from the seventeenth century, no trace of the Dutch Burghers who once formed
a numerous and flourishing community at Calpent3m. now remains. On one of the ramparts of the fort there
is a very large flat tomb, evidently dating from Dutch or early British times. It has no inscription, and no one
can say whose tomb it is. It is probably that of a former Commandant, possibly that of Lieutenant Maurice
O'Connell of the 51st, who died in 180,3, or of Captain Burleigh of the 83rd, who died in 1845, Commandants of
Calpeiftyn and Puttalam. In fact, the oldest inhabitant, an aged salt employe, went so far as to say in 1903,
when inquiries were made on the subject, that he had always heard that it was the tomb of a personage, and he
beheved a Commandant ; while, on the other hand, a retired storekeeper aged 75 recollected that his father had
told him that the person buried there was a Dutch prince. But there were no Dutch princes in Ceylon, and a
Commandant, I think, holds the field, or rather the fort.
St. Peter's Church, Kalpitiya.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1048 . .
April 27 .
1741
Johanna Hester van Minnen
1049
May 28
1686
Benjamina Hanneeop
1050
March 21
1832
Henry Dawson Skinner
Templar
Inscription.
Hier onder legt begraven Johanna Hestee Mooy-
AAET huysvTouw van den ondercoopman en
Calpettys opperhoofd D. E. Bic fa rt van Minnen.
Greboren tot Jafianapatnam den 29 Maarc, Ao. 1726,
en in den Heere gerust d. 27 April, Ao. 1741, oud
15 Jaaren en 28 dagen.
(Journal, E.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 285; vol. XVH.,
p. 32.)
Arms. — Quarterly (1) Mooyaart ; (2 and 3) Van
Minnen ; (4) Woutersz, all already blazoned.
She was the eldest child of Anthony Mooyaart,
Commandeur of Jaffna 1762-67, by his wife Elizabeth
Ursula Woutersz. She married Richard van Minnen
of Amorsvoort, Chief Administrator, Colombo, on
November 29, 1739, so that she was 13 years and
8 months old at the time of her marriage. The
Commandeur had 17 other children by the same wife.
The sixteenth child was Gualterus, the father of
Barbara Bridgetina, who married C. E. Layard. (See
No. 377.)
Hier leyt begraven Benjamina Hannecop jonge
dochter. Greboren de 3en Octobr, Ao. 1667.
Overleden den 28en Mey, Ao. 1686.
Benjamina Hannecop and Cornells Hanecop (who
died at Colombo January 14, 1702 — see No. 271) were
probably the children of Comehs Hannecop, Chief of
Calpentjm, and Maria Magdalena Cherpentier of
Woerden, who married, as widow Hannecop, February
17, 1692, Willem Loquet of Rijnbeck, Administrateur
of Galle.
{Ibid., vol. XV., p. 285; vol. XVH., p. 30; vol.
XVIII., p. 60.)
Arms. — Or, three crescents sable.
Sacred to the memory of Heney Dawson Skinneb,
infant son of Feancis James Templee, Esqr.,
Civil Servant, and Elbanoe his wife, aged five years
six months and ten days, who departed this Mfe
at Kalpentyn Mutwal on the evening of the 21st
March, 1832, after fiiteen days severe suffering,
from an accident by fire which took place on the
morning of the 6th of the same month. He was
a child whoS^^^JR short sojourn in this world
had endeaJP|l|P»iB€lf by his affectionate and
playful «ia4ije,5|| tjffljrtU who knew him, and in the.
hearts of hiftC^P T^Bpits had excited the brightest
hopes of a i^j ^^J ying maturity had it pleased
the Almigh^fniHl spared him.
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St. Peter's Church, Kalpitiy a— cowitZ.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1050 . .
March 21 .
Henry Dawson Skinner
1832
Templer— cowid.
1051
April 27
1838
Sophia Mooyaart
Inscription.
The Lord* gave and the Lord hath 'taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
This Tablet is placed here by his affectionate parents.
(A tombstone in the floor of the church.)
F. J. Templer was appointed in England to the
Ceylon Civil Service on January 17, 1817 (see
No. 591). The first substantive appointment he held
was that of Provincial Judge at Calpentyn, which he
received on October 1, 1818, and held until January
1, 1821, when he went to Ratnapura as Agent of
Government. He returned to his first district as
Collector and Provincial Judge of Chilaw, including
Calpentyn and Puttalam, on August 1, 1827, when
this poor little boy was nearly a year old. He was
appointed Collector at Colombo April 1, 1833.
Possibly, Bennett's story of the Provincial Judge
just appointed to Calpentyn, who, " although he
was eight years fagging at Latin and French, knew
no more of either than when he left school," and
who remarked, with regard to the Governor's
mention of "lex terrce" that he "did not know
Mr. Terry referred to him." [I may, however, be
wronging him, and it may have been J. M. Farrell,
1815 and 1825-26; E. W. Mead, 1816-17; T. R.
Backhouse, 1822-24; J. G.Forbes, 1826-27 ; orR.M.
Sneyd, 1827.] He retired as Treasurer, and died in
October, 1854. A son was Francis Buller Templer,
C.C.S., born Jime 12, 1819, retired 1882. Another
son, James Bidkely, died at Colombo on November
30, 1822. A daughter, Alice Trevor, married John
Ouchterlony of Madras, April 6, 1844.
Sacred to the memory of SoPHXi. Mooyaaet, bom
Nov. 7th, 1815, died April 27th, 1838.
" Blessed are the meek, for they shaU inherit the
earth." V. Matthew, 5.
She was the eldest child of James Nicholas Mooyaart,
who was bom at JaSna, September 3, 1781 ; the
second son of Gualterus Mooyaart, Hoofd Adminis-
trateiu: of Jaffna, was in the Civil Service, 1822-44,
retiring as Acting Auditor-General on a pension of
£800 a year, and died on February 9, 1866, at
Ladywood, near Birmingham. He married, at
Tranquebar, February 27, 1815, Johanna Catherina,
daughter of Rev. Dr. Christopher Samuel John ( Jahn)
.of the Danish Mission (see page 254). Ho was
Assistant Government Agent of Chilaw 1833-40. His
eldest son Edward became Archdeacon of Colombo,
and his son Henry, born October 10, 1828, was in
the Civil Service, from which he retired in 1865, took
orders, and is now Rector of Uplowman, near Tiverton.
He is still drawing his pension of £200 annually.
Henry Mooyaart's daughter, Anne, married, on June
24, 1908, John Neil Campbell, late Planting Member
and General European Member of the Ceylon Legis-
lative Comicil. A third son of James Nicholas.
Richard James, bom at Matara on August 6, 1831,
also took orders, and held the living of Lambom-ne,
Berks. From which it would appear that the Dutch
and the Danish take quite naturally to the English
ways and English institutions. (See No. 792.)
CHILAW.
" Cephas, " whom we quoted pn Kalpitiya, refers to " that elegant church recently erected at Chilaw,"
and called St. James's Church in compliment to Mr. Francis James Templer. The elegant church was exactly like a
bungalow in appearance, with verandahs on three, it not four, sides, and possessed a font, the bowl of which was
constructed out of a " globe," which had probably served for the education of Mr. Templer's children, with the
continents still depicted on it, although truncated of a portion of their areas. It had a stone let into the wall
with the following inscription : —
St. James' Church, built by pubhc subscription under
the auspices of F.J. Templee, Esqr., of H.M. Civil
Service in Ceylon, Collector and Provincial Judge.
Chilaw, A.D. 1831.
This has been built mto the east wall of the new church (which is on the same site), with the addition of
the words —
REBUILT 1897.
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The Cemetery, Chilaw.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1052 . .
Feb. 26
1858
William Edward Lewis
1053
Nov. 21
1877
Eugene McDonell
1054
1055
Oct. 4
1893
Aug. 6
1897
Mrs. Liesching
Matilda Liesching
Inscription.
To the memory of W. Edw. Lewis of Exeter. Boriv
24th Nov., 1818. Died 26th Feb., 1858.
Latterly he kept a school at Madampe, I believe..
He married Martha Brian Hagans, Jxme 10, 1844,
at Kandy.
He was Deputy Postmaster-General and Head
aerk, Post Office, Kandy, in 1846; Teacher of the
Government Mixed School at Puttalam in 1855-57,
on a salary of £36 a year and £9 for rent.
Sacred to the memory of Eugene McDonell.
Died Nov. 21st, 1877, aged 43 years.
He was 'a Superintending Officer in the Public
Works Department, and had been stationed at
Vavuniya, where he contracted malarial fever. A
daughter married Keith Maqjeod, CCS. A son,
John, died in 1903, was the Provincial Engineer of
the Northern Province.
In memory of Mrs. Aethur Liesching, the beloved
daughter of J. Gelson Geegson, bom July 18th,
1865.
Matilda Liesching, daughter of J. Browning, went
home 6th August, 1897, aged 33.
Wife of Arthur Liesching, son of Charles Liesoh-
mg, CCS.
Both these Mrs. Lieschings died when on visits-
to Chilaw.
1056
1057
April 1
1835
Oct. 27
1851
John Baker
Edward Mitford
RATNAPURA.
The Old Cemetery.
Sacred to the memory of John Bakee, late of His
Majesty's LXI. Eegt., aged 33 years.
. . Edwaed Miteokd, bom and died 27th October,
1851.
A child of Edward Ledwiok Mitford, CCS., 1844-
67, who was Assistant Government Agent, Batna-
pura, 1847-52. He published in 1884 an account
of his " Land March from England to Ceylon Forty
Years Ago." He journeyed overland through Asia
Minor. (See No. 30.)
" Edward Ledwick Osbaldeston-Mitford, of "Mitford
Castle, formerly of the Ceylon Civil Service, was born
31st Oct., 1811, and is stUl alive in his 100th year,
with about thirty grandchildren ! He also
published ' Poems Dramatic and Satirical.' He
married, (1) April 11th, 1844, Janet, daughter of the
Bev. Benjamin Bailey, Senior Colonial Chaplain, by
whom he had five sons and four daughters. She
died July 13th, 1896, and he married again, at the
age of 85, on October 27th of the same year, (2)'
EUa, daughter of Cloudesly Shovel Fitzroy Mason,
P. W. D., Ceylon, who died, February 16th, 1865,
at Mutwal, aged 34. (See Nos. 30 and 228.)
" His second son, Robert, Lieutenant, 73rd Perth-
shires, was with his regiment in Cejdon in 1870. He
was bom 25th Nov., 1846, and married, 24th Nov.,
1875, at Meerut, Annie, second daughter of Major-
General Chas. Stuart Lane, CB. He is a Magistrate-
for Northimiberland.
" His third son, Edward, Vicar of Hunmanby,.
Yorks, married Annie Maria Lousia, daughter of the
Bev. E. H. Price, of Maidenhead, and their son, John
Philip Mitford, Captain 98th, now in Colombo, born
June 12th, 1880, n;iarried, October 17th, 1907, Edith
Christina, eldest the daughter of F. W. Tytler, of
Belgaum, India.
" E. L. Mitford's fourth son, Bertram, F.R.G.S.,.
is a prolific novelist of the present day.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1057 . .
Oct. 27
1851
Edward Mitf ord
The Old Cemetery, Ratnapura — contd.
Inscription.
-contd. " His elder brother, John Philip Osbaldeston
Mitford, Lieut.-Col., 18th, was with his regiment, the
Royal Irish, in Ceylon, as Lieut., in 1840. He was
born February 16th, 1809, married, May 30th, 1844,
his cousin, Fanny, daughter of Chas. and sister of
Wm. Townley Mitford, M.P., and died November
25th, 1895. E. L. Mitford retired on Dec. 1st, 1866,
on account of ' age ' ! and has been drawing a pension
of over £500 sterling ever since, i.e., £22,000."
1058
1059
June 12
1868
June 20
1871
Thomas Jefferson Glenny.
Israel Segar
Thomas Jeffeeson Glenny, who departed this life
• on the 12th June, 1868, aged 28 Years.
In memory of Isbael Segab, Esq., of Bogawanna
Estate in Dickoya. Accidentally drowned ia the
Wallawe Oya on the 20th day of June, 1871.
He owned Bogawanna estate.
Israel Segar was a brother of Jonas Segar, who
started the Royal Hotel at Colombo on February 5,
1844, and was ia 1854-56 managing proprietor of
Pooprassie estate, PiisseUawa.
He was at one time assistant to John Nortbmore
on Whyddon, PusseUawa, and married Miss Sarah
, who was Mr. Northmore's governess, at
PusseUawa Church, October 9, 1857. He was later
on Shrubs Hill, Hantane.
He was drowned whilst attempting to cross the
Walawe river near Balangoda, when returning to his
estate with Mr. T. C. Roberts, who crossed with much
difficulty. He left a widow and sue children. A
younger brother of his, David, was killed by an
elephant in Dolosbage in 1856.
"I was much interested in H. B.'s* narrative
of the narrow escape of himself and several other
Dimbula planters from a flooded river above St. Clair
falls ia the early days Their experience coidd
be paralleled in nearly every district in the Island,
and ia some not a few pioneers lost their lives
trsring to cross rivers in flood before the days of
roads and bridges. There was the case in Dikoya
where two planters were drowned on one occasion
There was a case of river drowning, recently referred
to in Dolosbage. There was Willie Allen's case in
Matale East. There was Palmer ia the Black Pool.
Youag men of the present day, when bridges abound,
if they had seen their district streams in flood before
these bridges were made, would hold up their haads
and bless the often much-abused P. W. D." (Corre-
spondent of Ceylon Observer, September, 1908.)
1060
Sept. 14
1877
George Albert Twynam
George Albert Twynam of Ailington, Rakwana,
aged 35 Years.
He was of the same family as Sir William Twynam,
K.C.M.Gr., of the Ceylon Civil Service, retired. The
fandly traces its descent from the first Saxon invaders
of Britain, and settled in Hampshire circa 1560. The
head of the clan, Thomas Delmege (alias Telmage
or Taknadge) Twynam, died ia 1898. He was a
large landed proprietor in Hampshire. They were
chiefly soldiers, sailors, &c. His son, Thomas
Telmage Twynam, is or was a solicitor in London.
Possibly George was a brother. Sir William Twynam
says, " he was distantly related, probably ia the
Scotch cousin manner. I never heard from or saw
him." (See Nos. 558, 952.)
1061
Nov. 29
1878
Edward Akers Walker
Edward Akers, son of Joseph and Janet Jane
Walker of -Kersall, Manchester, England, aged
30 Years.
1062
Dec. 29
1885
Samuel James Butcher
Samuel James Btttchbr, son of the late Samuel
James Butcher, Paymaster, Royal Navy. Bom
11th March, 1821.
* Henry Brown, nephew of " Sandy " Brown, first Secretary of the Planters' Association of Ceylon.
2Q
82-09
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The Old Cemetery, Ratnapura — contd.
Inscription.
John Herbert Fearnly Hamilton, C.C.S., of
Preston, Lancashire, England, aged 36.
He entered the Civil Service in 1879, and had been.
Acting District Judge of Ratnapura for three years
at the time of his death.
There is also a tablet in St. Luke's Church, " erected
by his fellow civilians and friends in this Province."
1064 . . Sept. 25 . . Robert Bartrum . . Robert Bartrum, aged 54.
1902 He was proprietor of Stub ton estate, Rakwana.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1063 . .
May 20 .
1894
. John Herbert Fearnly
Hamilton
Maha Saman Dewale, Ratnapura.
" Let into a niche in the basement of the raised quadrangle, a little to the north of the flight of steps leading
from the outer courtyard, is a mural stone of some historic value, and of singular interest from the strange and
unexpected position in which it is found. On it, sculptured in bold relief, are two figures about half the size of
life. They represent the closing event of a mortal combat between a Portuguese, armed cap-a-pie, and a Sinhalese
warrior. Conquered in the encounter, the latter has been stricken down ; his sword and shield are cast despairingly
aside ; and his antagonist, trampling under foot his prostrate form, is now with one final blow about to deprivQ
him of his life. The inscription below, partly in Roman and partly in Sinhalese characters, is so much eifaced
as to be only very partially readable ; some portions of the figures are also damaged, seemingly from the action
of the weather upon the stone. The whole is, however, most spiritedly executed, and enough of the inscription
remains to show that the name of the Portuguese soldier was Gomez. The Sinhalese say the prostrate warrior
was their champion, one Kuruwita Bandara, a dreaded enemy of the Portuguese, whose soldiers he had^ repeatedly
cut off, and that some fifty had fallen by his hand ere he himself was slain. The sculpture was no doubt executed
in Europe by royal or vice-regal command, and sent hither to do honour to the soldier whose valorous deed it
commemorated." (" Adam's Peak," chapter V., by William Skeen.)
COM • ESTA* • BENDI • ESTEf • HA ' 23J • ANNOS ■ QVE
ANDO • NA ■ INDIA • E • HA • 15J • QVE • SIRVO • DE
CA • PITAO • E • TA6QVE§ • OS ■ REIS . . . DB . . . B •
O • RBI ■ DB • lABANAPATAO • EV ■ SIMAO " PINHAO •
O VENCI.
* Soil, espada. | Soil, homen. % Conjectural. § Or ao que ?
Transcrift.
[Com esta rendi este, ha 23 (?) annos que ando na
India, e ha 15 (?) que sirvo de oapitao ; e taoque (?)
OS reis. . . .de. . . .(?) e o rei de Jafanapatao, eu
Simao Piahao o venci.]
Translation.
With this (sword) I overcame this (man), it being 23 (?)
years that I have been in India, and 15 (?) that I
have served as Captain ; and as soon as (?) the kings
.... and the kings of Jafanapatao, I, Simao Pinhao,
conquered him.
The above are the late Mr. Donald Ferguson's transcript and translation. (The contractions have been
expanded.) With regard to Mr. Skeen's description, he remarks that it " contains several errors. 1 think it more
probable that the sculpture was executed in Ceylon, where there would be no lack of artists in the Portuguese
ranks competent for the work. There are no Sinhalese characters in the inscription, which is entirelyin Portuguese.
Moreover, the name of the Portuguese warrior (who is hardly 'armed cap-a-pie ') was not Gomez, though any one
ignarant of Portuguese might easily conclude so from deciphering the first few letters."
Mr. Ferguson goes very fuUy iato the question of the identity of the Simao Pinhao commemorated, and
comes to the conclusion that he was the son of Fernao Pinhao of the village of Punhete in Portugal, who on account
of a brawl with another resident of the village, in which he had given his opponent a sword cut in the face, had
been sentenced to five years' banishment in Africa, but had been pardoned. In 1590 he went out to India,
probably with the Viceroy Mathias de Albuquerque, whose ship did not reach Goa until May, 1591, having
been just over a year on the voyage.. In 1598 he was at Cochin, where he had again distinguished himself by
breaking out of jail, to which he had been committed for non-payment of a fine. He had already been for some
time in Ceylon, to which Colony he may have been banished foi a term of years as a punishment for the offences
of looting and breaking the jail, for wMch he had been tried.
In Ceylon he distinguished himself as a soldier, and was greatly dreaded by the Sinhalese. In 1597 he
had saved, by his prowess, the Portuguese forces from being defeated in a battle which took place six leagues
from Matara, and put " the King of Uva " to a total route, pursuing him for a long distance, slaying many of his
men, and capturing many arms and spoils. He then joined the garrison of the fort at Batugedera, near Ratnapura,
and set about erecting a fort at Attanagala, whence the Portuguese troops were able to make incursions into the.
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Maha Saman Dewale, Ratnapura — contd.
territories of the King of Kandy. Later he was in command of native troops in the Portuguese service at Alawwa in
Seven Korales, where a strong wooden stockade was erected and more incursions made. Nexf he was despatched
with a company of soldiers and 800 lascoreens against the Sinhalese in SafEragam, whom he defeated in the village
of that name, and he then paid a visit to the forts at Kuruwita and Batugedera, which he provisioned. Thence
he proceeded to the neighbouring territories of Malwana.- This was ia 1599. Nothing further is known of his
doings until September, 1616, when we find him, though over sixty years of age, in command of one of the four
companies sent on an expedition against that part of Sabaragamuwa and Two Korales which had risen against
the Portuguese. The expedition had a walk over, so the troops burnt the almost deserted villages, and proceeded
destroying the land without seeing any signs of an enemy. This, no doubt, was the last of his warlike exploits ;
it is the last of which there is any record. Of his domestic affairs a little is known. He seems to have married a
Dona Maria Pereira, described as the heiress of a certain Raju, of whom nothing is known, except that his daughter
inherited some lands and houses from him. He may have been an adherent of the late King, Raja Sinha I. , who
died in 1592, and have sought an asylum with the Portuguese when Kunnappu Bandara took possession of the
throne, and, with his family, have turned Christian. His daughter's hand may in that case have been bestowed
on Simao Pinhao as a reward for distinguished services. Further, he appears to have given as alms to the convent
of St. Antony at Colombo a village situated probably in the neighbourhood of the city. He himself had been
granted " for three lives " (the usual term) ' ' the adjacent villages of Opanake and Kuttapitiya on the confines of
Sabaragamuwa and the Kandyan kingdom, where some of the fiercest fighting between the Portuguese and
Sinhalese had taken place." He had a niece at the Court of Portugal named Joana de Mendoca, and her name
" shows- that he was connected with one of the noblest families in Portugal." His death must have occurred in
1617 or 1618, when he would be between sixty and seventy years of age." (Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XVI.)
With reference to the Sinhalese tradition mentioned by Mr. Skeen, Mr. Ferguson does not think that the
Sinhalese warrior can be Kuruwita Bandara or Kuruwiti Ralahami, " which was the title of the renegade Antonio
Barreto, the priace or ' king ' of Uva, referred to above, as Simao Pinhao was certainly dead at the time of the
miserable ending of this man at the hands of some Lascarins while lying on a bed sick and wounded in the
mountain hamlet, to which he had fled after the defeat of the confederates by Constantino de Sa, and there is no
mention of Simao Pinhao in Sa e Menezes' account of the affair. Nor were the circumstances attending
Barreto's death such as to call for self-glorification on the part of his slayer."
AVISAWELLA.
Compound of the Resthouse.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1065 . . Dec. 23 . . James Edward Jevons . . In memory of Jambs Edwaed Jevons of Liverpool,
I860 born at Liverpool 25th December, 1828, died in
Ceylon 23rd December, 1860, and buried beneath
this spot. Then shall the dust return to the Earth
as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it. Ecclesiastes, chap. 12, ver. 7.
An upright headstone with a plain inscription
about 50 yards from the resthouse, down the hUl, on
the same side and about the same distance from the
road as the resthouse, erected to his memory by his
old friend Mr. Harvey, who was then in the firm, of
George WaU & Co., Colombo.
Mr. Jevons had been on Gammaduwa estate,
Matale, which he left for Everton estate, Kakwana,
of which he was superintendent at the time of his
death. Old friends of his supphed the following
particulars of his death to the Monthly Literary
Register in 1895 : — " He left Everton estate ill of
dysentery, and started for Colombo, driving his own
dogcart, to obtain medical advice. When he reached
Ratnapura he looked so very unwell that he was
advised to go no further ; but he was determined to
push on, and, alas, the end came before he reached
the AvisaweUa resthouse. The horsekeeper drove
the trap the latter part of the way, perhaps the whole
way, and was not aware, I believe, that his master
' had breathed his last tUl the resthouse was reached.
He was buried within a few yards of the bungalow
in the garden. He died in the carriage, about half a
nule from AvisaweUa resthouse.
" I knew him weU, and first met him in either 1857
or 1858 when I was on ' Inchola-oya,' and a very
nice man he was, besides being a fine btult and well-
made one. He was then on one of the Elkaduwa
estates, or one that Peter Moir had — I do not know
^ which , but one or the other." (Edward Hope. )
It happened that the late Mr. W. D. Lee, whilst
travelling from Colombo to Balangoda, was at the
AvisaweUa resthouse a day or two after Mr. Jevons'
death, and at the request of the resthouse-keeper.
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Compound of the Resthouse, Avisawella — contd.
Inscription.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1065 ..
Dec. 23
1860
James Edward Jevons— ccmfd.
he wrote an account in the resthouse book of his
death and burial.
Mr. Jevons was highly esteemed by all who knew him.
I^. Alfred Payne wrote : " I knew the late Mr. Jevons
well. I lived some time with him on the Algooltenne
estate, Hunasgeria. He left the district for Rakwana
in the year 1857, or early in 1858. I believe Mr.
Harvey and Mr. Jevons were at Natal together before
coming to Ceylon."
It appears that Rakwana had a rather bad name
in those days, at any rate Everton. I have heard
Sinclair tell how, when on his way he reached Pel-
madulla, he asked the resthouse-keeper, old " Allis
Appu," if he knew anything of Everton ; the answer
was, " I don't know, sir, gentlemen all die there, sir."
He was succeeded by Alexander Greig, who was
there about two years, and was followed by " Old
Colonist " (John Stephens).
ANURADHAPURA.
Near St. Andrew's Church.
1066 . . 1868 . . James Gordon . . This stone has been placed here by certain members
of the Public Service in memory of a noble action
wrought in the year 1868 by James Goedoit of the
Public Works Department, who being wounded
to the death by the accidental discharge of Ms gun,
thought less of himself and his pain than of the
safety of the servants who were with him, and lest
suspicion of foul play should attach to them,
devoted the remnant of his fast faihng strength to
the task of recording iji his note book the exact
nature of his accident.
The circumstances are described in the following
extract from a letter from Mr. Hardinge Hay Cameron,
C.C.S., the Acting Government Agent of the North-
Central Province, to the Coloiiial Secretary, dated
June 14, 1895 : —
" Mr. Gordon was walking behind his cart along the
Central road, which was then a mere track through
the jungle, and, for the purpose of following some
game (jungle fowl or deer), reached out his hand to
take his gun from the cart. The hammer caught in
the cane work of the cart tent and the whole charge
lodged in the young man's side close below the arm-
pit ; then, whilst his life's blood was welling from the
wound, the thought came to him that his servants
might, when he was dead, be suspected of foul play,
and he at once took out his pocket book and pencil
and wrote down a short account of the occurrence.
" Mr. Gordon Uved long enough to reach Mihintale
and, give oral testimony to the facts, so that his
heroic effort was practically superfluous."
The montunent was erected in 1895 over the
grave through the exertions of Mr. Cameron by
subscription, as Government was of opinion that the
cost could not be properly defrayed from pubUc
funds, and Governor Sir Arthur Havelock headed the
list of contributors to what he described as " a kind
and graceful act of respect to the memory of this
brave man."
» James Gordon, son of Mr. Thomas Gordon of
Pallai, Jaffna, was temporarily employed in the
Public Works Department as (Acting) Superintending
Officer from May 11, 1867 ; age not known.
Thomas Gordon,, a coconut planter, married Eliza
Cecilia, daughter of George Shaw Brook, at the Fort
Church, Jaffna, on July 6, 1847, so that James
Gordon, who was no doubt his eldest son, cannot
have been more than twenty years of age. He was
therefore a grandson of Jean David Rabinel (see
Nos. 709, 977). Thomas Gordon was, in 1862, in
charge of Klaly, Tadduvankatti, and Waverley
estates, and proprietor of Nongavil estate, on which
he resided.
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BADULLA.
.Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1067 . .
May 24 .
1817
. Sophia Wilson
The Old Cemetery.
The old military cemetery lies behind the BaduUa jail. It is now enclosed with a wire fence, but it seems
ior many years to have been unenclosed, hence many tombstones have disappeared. " Until a comparatively
recent period, we believe, the natives were permitted to carry away the tombstones from the British graveyard
to be used for building purposes, so that it is possible that memorial slabs of Europeans who died or were HUed
in Uva may form the door steps of Buddhist temples or the floors of dewales. (One native in 1883 mentioned
baser uses still.) While the tombs of Mrs. Wilson and the other young English woman have been happily
preserved, and are so conspicuous, the graveyard must have once included many interesting memorials, for which
we now look in vain. Mr. Wragg, when District Judge here, did his best to stop long-continued sacrilege by
sentencing to three months' hard labour a man who was found grinding curry stuffs on a stolen tombstone."
{Ceylon Observer.) Miss Gordon Gumming writes in a similar strain : " The natives to whom a neglected
•cemetery is simply a valuable quarry whence to obtain ready-hewn flat stones just suitable for grinding curry
stuffs upon Of course, this sacrilege is punished when detected, but its perpetration is easy and the
temptation ever-recurring, so that many and many an old gravestone has vanished in all parts of the Isle."
(" Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. II., p. 39.)
It may be added that about a dozen miHtary officers died or were killed in action in Uva during the
period 1815-19, not one of whom has any existing memorial. " It would be deeply interesting to trace the
previous and subsequent history of the officers and their famiUes who occupied the various military posts in Uva
and who survived. But what is chiefly left to us are the records on such tombstones as native cupidity has spared
in the old cemetery at Badulla, which has been the scene of neglect and spoHation little" creditable to the British
Government. There are inscriptions which date back to the period of the rebeUion of 1817-18, and the young
wife of one officer must simply have come, to Badulla to die, for her age at the period of her death was only
nineteen. One mortuary record goes back to just before the eve of the outbreak, and we can but feel that it was
well that poor Mrs. Wilson, wife of the Agent of Government in Uva, should have been taken away in May, 1817,
at the age of twenty-four, so as to be spared the knowledge that her husband shortly afterwards was killed by an
arrow sent into his brain, while his head was subsequently exposed on a pole. This was the first act in the rebellion
■on which such terrible retribution followed. There is something of poetical interest surely in the fact that the
poor young lady who died at Badulla owed her birth to the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon
Badulla, which is now one of the healthiest as it is one of the most beautiful stations in our mountain regions, had
an evil reputation for deadly fever in those early days." (Ceylon Observer, July 25, 1883.)
Inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory of Sophia Wilson, only
daughter of the late Edmiwd Batteesbee, Esqr.,
of Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, wife of
Sylvestek Dotjglas Wilson, Esqr., Assistant
Resident and Agent of the British Government in
the Province of Ouwa. She departed this life at
Badulla after a few days illness on the morning of
the 24th May, 1817, aged 24 years.
" Mrs. Wilson's tombstone is safe, from a singular
cause. The branching roots of a bo-tree, one with a
striking resemblance to a human hand, have grasped
it, as if they appreciated its sacredness, and the idea
of the Buddhist-Kandians is that she whom the tree
of Buddha had thus honoured must have been
possessed of a good deal of merit." (Ceylon Observer,
July 25, 1883.) " Some of the bricks of the; tomb
have been Ufted up into the tree beyond the reach of
a walking-stick.* The tablet to the memory of the
young Enghshwoman, whose birthplace was on the
banks of that Avon which was one of the
first objects that met the eye and inspired the genius
of Shakespeare, while her burial place is within
hearing of the murmurs of the Badulla-oya and
almost under the shadow of the mighty Namunakula-
kanda There is poetry as well as pathos in
the belief of the natives that the young English lady,
who so soon after her arrival, and so early in life,
fell a victim to the deadly malarial fever for 'w;hich
the station of Badulla was long so notorious, must
have been of a specially sweet disposition to induce
their sacred tree so lovingly and tenaciously to clasp
her memorial tablet in its vigorous arms ; yes, and
we can imagine the gentle grace with which, while her
young life was spared, she presided over her hus-
band's abode, and the society, not only of the central
station where he resided, but that which occasion-
ally a;ssembled from the numerous military outposts
then scattered over Uva — all of which we beUeve
could be seen from the lofty fort of Himbiliatawella."
(A. M. F., in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II.,
pp. 292-94.)
* The tomb is a " table tomb," and the whole of it has been lifted. There are similar instances of " skyed'
stones in the Battlcaloa cemetery and at Madras and Agra (see Cotton, p. 123).
tomb-
srial No.
Date.
Name.
1067 . .
May 24
1817
Sophia Wilson-
( 290 ),
The Old Cemetery, BaduUa — contd.
Inscription.
-contd. . . Mrs. Wilson died after an illness of about three-
weeks' continuance, not however of fever, but of
dysentery, and she had been nearly six years in the-
Island. Mr. A. M. Ferguson's imaginary delineation
of her character, however, derives singular corrobora-
tion from a letter pubHshed in the Gazette, written
at Colombo by a friend, under date May 27, 1817 :
" Our httle society here has been plunged into sorrow
from the accounts which yesterday reached us of the
death of one, who, for a length of time, had formed
one of our social circle, and whose amiable manners-
and kindly disposition had greatly endeared her to
many here. She had had an attack of dysentery,
but on the 23rd Wilson wrote to say she had been
pronounced out of danger, but she died on the
morning of the 24th."
She was married on March 2, 1811, on which day
she had completed her 18th year, and arrived in
Ceylon in August the same year.
" Chiefly do we miss any monument to the memory
of Mrs. Wilson's wounded husband, who was, so soon
after her death, murdered in the performance of his
duty. Even if his body was never recovered and
brought into Badtdla for interment a slab
ought surely to have been placed beside that which
records the death of his wrfe, showing the time and
mode of his death. We have no evidence that the
body was ever rescued and decently interred. But
some memorial to Wilson, the first victim of a
rebellion which it took the British two full years to
repress, and which left Uva largely depopulated,
ought certainly to have been erected in the centre of
his rule at BadixUa. We submit that it would be a
graceful act on the part of Government to sanction a
moderate expenditure of money even now to place
such a memorial tablet beside that which perpetuates
the memory of the murdered civilian's young wife."
(A. M. P., loc. cit.)
S. D. Wilson was Second Assistant to the Resident
and Magistrate at Kandy in 1816, and succeeded
Henry Wright at Badulla as Assistant Resident and
Magistrate. He was killed at Hewilwela or Etana-
watta, a small village situated in Yalkumbura
wasama in Welassa, about 30 miles from Badulla
on the Badulla-Batticaloa road. There was an old
temple there. It is near Lunugala and Bibile. The
tradition there is that he was killed close to the
stream and buried where he fell. The people can
point out the spot (1906). A detachment of soldiers
was shortly afterwards posted at YatUewela in the
immediate neighbourhood.
1068 . . May 28 . . Mary Hester Nicholson . . Sacred to the memory of Maey Hester Nicholson,
1819 wife of Staff Surgeon Nicholson. Obiit 28th
May, A.D. 1819. ^tat 19.
He was " Assistant Staff Surgeon, Ouwa," in 1816,.
and before that had been at Jaffna. We find Staff
Assistant Surgeon Brinsley at Colombo, on September
8, 1818, on his way to BaduUa from Kandy, which
seems a curious march, and arriving at Colombo
from Badulla in January, 1819 (here he is styled
"Hospital Assistant"). He left again for Badulla on
February 10.
1069 . . Dec. 14 . . John G, Blankenberg . . Sacred to the memory of Brevet Major John Blan-
1^2^ KENBEEG, late Captain in His Majesty's 1st Ceylon
Regiment, who died 14th Deer., 1822, aged
38 Years.
Ensign J. G. Blankenberg was gazetted from the
3rd Foot to be Lieutenant in the Malay Regiment,
May 24, 1804. He became 1st Lieutenant, 1st
Ceylon Regiment, March 20, 1806, and Captain in
January, 1807. He was Deputy Commissary-
General at Badulla in 1816, and took part in the
operations in Uva in 1817-18. (See Ceylon Literary
Register, vol. II. , pp. 329, 334, 347, &c. ; vol. III., pp..
28, 56, 178, 196.) He was acting as Commandant of
Badulla at the time of his death, which took place
at Alupota. There was a 2nd Lieutenant Charles-
Blankenberg in the 1st Ceylon Regiment from 1809,
( 291 )
The Old Cemetery, BaduUa — contd.
"Serial No.
1069 . .
1070
Date.
Dec.l4
1822
Nov. 7
1823
Name.
John G. Blankenberg — amtd.
John Hoatson
1071
Anne Byrne
Inscription,
who was gazetted Lieutenant in the 103rd Foot,
January 26, 1813. He was probably a brother.
There was a Captain Blankenberg of the cutter
Swallow, which was plying between Galle and
Tuticorin in 1803.
Sacred to the Memory of John Hoatson, Esq.,
Assistant Surgeon, 1st Ceylon Regiment, who
died 7th Novr., 1823, aged 31 years.
Assistant Surgeon John Hoatson joined the 3rd
Ceylon Regiment on January 28, 1816, and was
gazetted Assistant Surgeon in the 73rd from May 29,
1817, vice Kennedy, killed in the field. (Gazette of
December 10, 1817.) He wrote " On the Cingalese
Practice of Medicine and Materia Medica " while he
was stationed at Alupota in 1822, but the paper was
not published. There is a reference to it in Ainslie's
" Materia Medica," vol. II., p. 527.
Sacred to the Memory of Anne Bybnb, wife of
MAtTEiCE Bykne, H. M. 83rd Regiment, who
departed this life (the rest illegible).
The Registers date from 1857.
in Sinhalese : —
St. Mark's Church, Badulla.
In the church is a tablet with the following inscription in English and
Serial No.
1072 .
Date.
June 7
1845
Name.
Thomas William Rogers . ,
Inscription.
A.D. 1845. This Church was erected to the honour
of God in memory of Thomas William Rogers,
Major, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Assistant Govern-
ment Agent and District Judge of BaduUa, by all
classes of his people, friends, and admirers. He
was killed by Lightning at Haputale June 7th, 1846,
aged 41.
In the midst of hfe we are in death.
" So truly did they appreciate his justice and
ability, and so greatly was he personally loved, that
at the suggestion of a Kandyan Buddhist chief
these very people (who had attributed his death to
an act of retribution for his destruction of elephants)
subscribed for, and erected to his memory a pretty
Uttle Christian chixrch in the town of Badulla ,
so Badulla owes her church to this ' the most
prominent planting pioneer and the most famous
sportsman. Ceylon ever saw,' of whom Major Skinner
wrote at the time of his death that ' he was performing,
to the entire satisfaction of the Governraent and the
pubUc, the offices of Government Agent for the
district of Uva, District Judge, Conamandant of the-
district, and Assistant in charge of the roads of the
province — duties which after his death required four
men to perform, with far less efficiency, promptitude,
and punctuaUty than when they were administered
by him alone. He was long Commandant of the
little fort at Badulla, in the heart of the country,
which in those days was so overrim by all manner of
destructive wild animals that the sportsman who
could best thin their ranks, and especially those of the
crop-devouring and all destroying herd of wild
elephants, was the truest benefactor of mankind — a
fact which it is essential to bear in mind in view of
the amazing number of about 1,600 elephants which
feU to Major Rogers' own rifle. He kept count of
each up to 1,300, and after that gave up reckoning,
but the extra 300 is considered well within the mark.
Up to 1840 it was by no means uncommon for a man
to have killed a himdred elephants to his own gun."
(" Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. I., pp.- 218-9,
226.)
Miss Gordon Gumming relates a narrow escape of
Major Rogers when an elephant carried him off in its
trunk, flourished him about as if he had been an
infant, dropped him, and attempted to crush him,
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
i072 . .
June 7
1845
. . Thomas William Rogers —
contd.
( 292 )
St. Mark's Church, BaduUa — contd.
Inscription.
but was frustrated by the sloping nature of the ground'
and through Rogers gradually slipping away into thfr
bed of a stream (pp. 223-24).
As regards liis prowess as an elephant killer, Hoff-
meister remarks : — " When, six years ago, he had
reached his thirteen hundred, he ceased reckoE'
any longer. His whole house was filled with ivoj
for among the hosts of the slain were sixty tusli
elephants. At each door of his verandah stood hii
tusks, while in his dining room every corner!
adorned with similar trophies."
" The first estate opened in BaduUa District
Ridipane by Major Rogers, and it still goes by tl
name of ' Major Totum.' It is on the Batticald
road, and only a couple of miles away from town!
[Ceylon Literary Register.)
Major Rogers joined the Ceylon Regiment onT
January 7, 1824, as a 2nd Lieutenant, and was
Adjutant in 1826, Captain June 7, 1827. He was
Commandant at Alupota from 1828 to 1833, and was
appointed Assistant Goveniment Agent at BaduUa
in 1834.
" The record of the career of the indefatigable
Rogers at BaduUa is, I should imagine, almost
unique. For the greater part of the time he was
single-handed in BaduUa, as Commandant, Assistant
Agent, and District Judge. He either traced or
constructed nearly all the roads in the Province, and
framed the estimates for and supervised most of the
public works executed during his time ; he built most
of the resthouses, and kept in repair all the civil and
military buildings in the district, and single-handed
he carried out the no easy task of arranging the
commutation of the grain tax. In the course of his
lifetime he shot at the lowest 1 ,400 wild elephants ;
he was killed by lightning in the flower of his man-
hood, and marvellous to relate, his very tomb was
also struck by lightning. " ("Manual of Uva," by
H. White, CCS.)
1073 . . Sept. 17 . . Sarah Elizabeth O'Grady . . Sacred to the memory of Sarah E. O'Geady, bom
1870 at Alipy, 13 April, 1843. Died at BaduUa, 17 Sep-
tember, 1870.
(A marble tablet in the church.)
She was a daughter of JohnMorphew, late Resident
of Travanoore, whose widow came to Ceylon with her
children, where her sister, the wife of James Steuart,
Master Attendant of Colombo (see Nos. 27 and 37),
was living. Her elder brother, John, died as District
Judge of Jaffna, and another brother, James Boyd
Morphew, opened the branch of the O. B. C. at
Jafina, and was subsequently manager at Colombo.
A sister, Annie Steuart Morphew, died at Matale in
1887. Mrs. Morphew died at Batticaloa in 1896,.
aged 99. Sarah Elizabeth Morphew married, on
September 18, 1885, while her brother, John, was
Assistant Government Agent of Batticaloa, WilUam
Hervey O'Grady, a coconut planter and part owner
of coconut properties south of Puliyantivu. Their
daughter, Dora, married Henry Luttrell Moysey,
CCS. A son, Osmund, also a coconut planter of
Batticaloa, died in 1909 at Colombo. Mrs. O'Grady
died of cholera at BaduUa on her way to Batticaloa,
and was buried at night. W. H. O'Grady was a son
of Dr. Edward O'Grady, who was a physician at Paris,
and is said to have been attached as such to the Court
of King Louis Philippe. Dr. O'Grady married in
1815, at St. James's, Piccadilly, Laura Amelia Pearce,
a niece or grandniece of Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop
of Rochester. He died in 1869 at Batticaloa, and is
probably buried in the Roman Catholic burial ground
there. His son, Henry Edward, had been Private
Secretary to Sir Edward Bulwer, and came out to
Ceylon with General Sir Robert Arbuthnot (1839-41)
■ in a similar capacity. It was intended at first that
he should join the Ceylon Bar, and Governor Stewart
Mackenzie was in February, 1839, arranging for a
course of study for him. It was important, in the
Governor's opinion, that he shoud be conversant with
Paley's "Moral Philosophy" and with Cicero's "De
( 293 )
Serial No.
1073
Date.
Sept. 17
1870
St. Mark's Church, BaduUa— con^c?
Name.
Sarah Elizabeth O'Grady —
contd.
Inscription.
Officiiis," " as it is well said a man can never be a good
lawyer who is not well grounded in his Ethics." But
the prospect of Paley was perhaps not persuasive,
and he joined the Civil Service July 31, 1839, having
obtained a nomination from the Marquis of Normanby ,
and remained in it until his death in December, 1867.
He died while on leave. (See Ceylon Literary Register ,
vol. V. , p. 4. ) He married at the Fort Chm?ch, Jaffna,
in 1845, Henrietta Smith. His brother, William
Hervey O'Grady, followed him to Ceylon in the
forties and got a place in the Pubhc Works Depart-
ment, which he abandoned for coconut planting. A
sister, Amelia, married Captain George Adolphus
Tranchell, Ceylon Rifles, son of Lieutenant-Colonel
Gustavus Adolphus Tranchell. Another sister, Laura
Caroline, married at Trincomalee, February 25,
1865, John Frederick Dalrymple. The O'Gradys are
supposed to be of the Kilballyowen, County Limerick,
family, and to have settled in France, as many Irish
did, in the eighteenth century. A daughter of Dr.
Edward O'Grady still survives, aged 85 (1910).
Churchyard of St. Mark's, BaduUa. •
" A COMPLETE contrast to the old and neglected graveyard behind the BaduUa gaol is the new cemetery
attached to the church." [Ceylon Observer, July 25, 1883.)
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1074 . . Nov. 21 . . John Smyth . . John Smyth, died at BaduUa, aged 26 Years.
1846
1075
Nov. 26
1858
Children of Frederick Layard In memory of the infant twin daughters of Pbb-
DERiCK Layard, Esq., Asst. Govt. Agent, BaduUa,
and of Rosamond , his wife. Born November 26th,
1858, and survived but a short time.
Frederick Layard, third son of C. E. Layard, born
September 25, 1823, was appointed Writer, January
1, 1S46; was Police Magistrate, Matara, 1847;
Assistant Government Agent, Kandy, 1849 ; District
Judge, Kalutara, 1851 ; Assistant Government
Agent, Kalutara, 1851 ; Assistant Government Agent,
Matale, 1857; and Badulla, 1858. A daughter,
Rosa, was born, June 28, 1867, at Matale. He
married, August 17, 1854, at Llangattock, Carmar-
thenshire, Rosamund Elizabeth Lloyd. He retired
July 1, 1862, and died on April 27, 1872, at Venice.
1076
May 13
1871
Paul Leon Famin
1077
Sept. 20
1871
Charles H. Bayley
•2e
Paul Leon Famin, born 17th January, 1851.
Son of Leon Famin, one of the Directors of the
Colombo Commercial Company , who was also Director
for 30 years of the Ouvah and Spring Valley Coffee
Company.
"The son was on one of the Ouvah Company's
estates, and was killed by a gun accident." (Ceylon
Observer, November 14, 1905.)
He was out shooting deer with Messrs. Charles
Spooner, Henry Martin Berry, and Robert Morrison,
when Mr. Berry's gun went off while being loaded
with slugs or buckshot, and the charge lodged in the
side of Famin, who was instantaneously killed. He
was assistant to Spooner on Hindagala estate, and
had only been a few weeks in the Island.
C. H. Bayley, born in Boston, U. S. A., July, 1837,
aged 34 Years.
Erected by a few friends who esteemed him for his
good qualities both of head and heart.
' ' Between the Legal Oya, above Deyanawatta,
and Debeddathe " Edmund Woodhouse passed the
place ' ' where afterwards poor Yankee Bailey came
to so untimely an end, nearly opposite the ravine
across the river where Mortimer met a somewhat
similar fate." It is inferred from this that they were
both drowned crossing streams, but of the manner
of their deaths the compiler has no record, and in tlie
case of Mortimer, there is not even a tombstone
inscription.
82-09
( 294 )
Churchyard of St. Mark's, BaduUa — contd.
Serial No.
1077
Date.
Sept. 20
1871
Name.
Charles H. Bayley-
-contd.
1078
Sept. 5
1879
Thomas Wood
1079
Dec. 20
1880
William Bennison
1080
Jan. 28
1893
James Derick Hoste
Inscription.
" I should have said ' Mr. Byers,' for none of his
assistants ever got further than that with him, either
to him, or when speaking of him to others. It was
always ' Mr. Byers,' even with Linton and Pineo
and all the others, with one notable exception,
Yankee Bayley, so, of course, they did not get on
very well together ; and Bayley liad not been long on
Kalupahane before the Nova Scotian Pineo was sent
to relieve him of his charge of that estate. " (R. W. J. ,
in Ceylon Observer, May 30, 1907.)
Thomas Wood who died at Dotlands
Erected by those whom he loyally and faithfuUy
served.
" With Spring Valley the name of Sir William
Reid is connected, and afterwards with Mr. Banna-
t5rne, who would not proceed further than Nuwara
EUya when he came to see his property, thereby
nearly causing a split between himself and his very
independent Manager, the late Mr. Thomas Wood."
(" Early Planting Days in Uva," Ceylon Literary
Register, vol. V., p. 8.)
William Bennison, Junr., of Mausa Estate, Hewa
Elha aged 23 years.
This monument is erected by his brother planters of
Madulsima and Hewa EUia as a token of their
respect for his memory.
He was shot by his appu during dinner.
«
James Derick, son of Major General Hoste, C.B.,
of Brighton, England. Born 13th Nov., 1869.
The Lord hath need of him (Luke, 19-3).
Haputale Churchyard, BaduUa District.
1081
Aug. 20
1872
Maitland Balfour Smith
1082
1083
Nov. 2
1875
June 15
1904
James Andrews
W. H. Goldie
Maitland Balfour Smith, RatnagaUa. Fourth
son of Charles Smith, Whittmghame, Scotland,
aged 36 years.
The estate is near Koslanda, but the name is almost
illegible, and it is doubtful whether the reading is
correct.
Sacred to the Memory of James Andrews, Esq.,
Sherwood Estate, who was accidentally kiUed at
Kalapahane.
His horse backed down a steep bank when he was
riding from Haputale to the estate.
W. H. Goldie, M.D., son of David and M. Goldie,
of Auckland, New Zealand, aged 32.
DIYATALAWA.
Military Cemetery.
There are 133 Boer prisoners buried in this cemetery, viz., 118 Free Staters, 11 Transvaalers, 3 from the
Cape Colony, and 1 German. Ficksburg contributed the largest number of Free Staters, and next come Smithfield,
Wepener, and Thabanchu. With the exception of three which have marble tombstones, all the graves are
marked by wooden crosses or boards, giving the name, place of birth, and date of death of the deceased, and a
reference to a text of Scripture. The prisoners, soon after their arrival in Ceylon, suffered from an epidemic of
enteric fever, which accounted for most of the deaths in the earlier period of their stay at Diyatalawa.
Inscription.
Psalm 110, vers. 7.
Feerar Reginald Mostin Cleaver, van Johannes-
berg, Zud Afrik. RepubUek. Sanft rust seine
asche. 1900. Oud 29 Jaare.
Evidently of British descent.
Nov. 21 .. Andrias S. Henning .. Andrias S. Henning, geboren den 27 Dec, 1870,
1900 over, den 21 Nov., 1900.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1084 . .
1900
. . Ferrar Reginald Mostin
Cleaver
1085
( 295 )
Military Cemetery, Diyatalawa — contd.
Serial No.
1086
1087
Date
Nov. 23
1900
Nov. 28
1900
Name.
Daniel de Villiers
J. H. Olivier
1088
1089
1090
1091
March 5
1901
July 20
1902
Aug. 13
1902
Dec. 25
1903
P. A. H. Grobler
Martha F. F. Riekert
Gidion G. Cronje
Philip Charles Gubbins
O.V.S. Oud 25
Ps. 146. vers. 3.
Inscription.
Daniel de Villiees, Ficksburg,
Jaar. Over. 23 Nov., 1900.
(A marble tombstone.)
In liefde aandenking van zyn treurende moeder aan
J. H. Olivier, Lady Brand, O.V.S. , Zud Afrika.
Geb. 17 April, 1878. Overl. 28 Novr., 1900, in
ballingschap voor Vryheid.
(A marble tombstone.)
He was a son of the Boer General Olivier, who was
himself a prisoner in Ceylon.
P. A. H. Geoblbb, Thabanchu. Geboren 26
Februari, 1850. Overleden 5 Mart, 1901, in
ballingschap te Ceylon. Voor Vryheid en Recht.
Ter Gedachtenis van echtgenoote en Kinderen.
FiHpp. I., 21.
Maktha F. F. Riekeet, Pretoria, Z.A.R.
Jaar. Overl. 20 JuU, 1902. Gez. 20-8.
The only Boer woman buried in Ceylon.
Oud 27
Commandant Gidion G. Ceonje, Barkly, O S T
K. K. Oud. 53 Jaren. Overl. 13 Aug., 1902.
Job. 14.
(A marble tombstone.)
Major Philip Chaelbs Gttbbins, Royal Engineers.
Born March 11th, 1859. Died X'Mas Day, 1903.
He died of enteric fever.
KANDY.
Old Garrison Cemetery.
," There is above the lake of Kandy a small oblong plot of cleared ground bordered on three sides by rank
jungle, and covered with equally rank weeds and trailing grasses. In this plot of ground there are a few tomb-
stones sparsely scattered. There are more black headboards marking the resting places of the departed, and
telling the name anddate of their death. There are, however, afarlargernumber of low mounds which tell no tale,
beyond a sad one that the remains of some stranger rest beneath. This is the European graveyard of Kandy. A
stranger visiting this spot would be charmed at the magnificent scenery which surrounds it. The silvery waters
of the lake lap the shore just below ,[whilst the city itseK, with its marrying and giving in marriage, its din and
tumult, lies a few hundreds of yards to the west. Across the lake the wooded slopes of the Mahapatana crowded
with English bungalows rise some thousands of feet in the skies, whUst the Hantane mountains slope gently down
into the Peradeniya plain, and the distant sunomits of AlagaUa, Batalakanda, and Lapulakanda close in the view
on the far off horizon. In this lonely spot — ^f or it is lonely, notwithstanding its near proximity to the great city —
lie many hundreds of kindly Scots, who, cut off in the very prime and vigour of their manhood, sleep the sleep
which knows no waking, under the rank weeds and wiry grasses which cover their neglected graves. Many a sad
tale of hardship, agony, and pain could the tenants of these nameless graves tell were they permitted to speak.
"Few of them had any kind friend or neighbour near to comfort them in their last sad agony, to place even
a glass of cool water to their parched and burning tongue, or to speak a word of comfort to their often troubled
mind. Left to the care of native servants, many of these young men died friendless and neglected in some distant
jungle bungalow, from fever, from cholera, diarrhoea, or dysentery.
" The brandy bottle finished many of them, for, as Anthony TroUope justly remarks, there is no other solace
at hand to cheer the loneliness of the wild jungle life, and there are but few minds so constituted as to take kindly
to the history of England and other equally recondite subjects of improving literature. Many were brought into
the Kandy hotels in a dying condition, but their fate was not much improved by the change. Possibly a fellow-
planter might be at hand and look in to see the dying man, but what could he do for him in his ignorance and
helplessness in everything connected with the sick bed ? " (" Autobiography of a Periya Durai.") There is no
doubt some exaggeration here both as to numbers and the circumstances attending the deaths of the " kindly
Scots." It can hardly be the case that there are hundreds of them buried here uncommemorated ; the registers
do not bear this out. The statement would be correct as to numbers if it referred to privates of British regiments
and their wives and children. In 1824, for instance, there were 168 of these burials, in 1825 there were 50, in
1826 29, and in 1827 23. There are about a dozen tombs of the " table " tomb pattern, from which the name-
plates have disappeared, which probably date from the twenties and thirties. The register goes back to 1822, in
which year doubtless the cemetery was opened.
Serial No.
Date.
1092 . .
Dec. 2
1817
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Name. Inscription.
. James Edwin McGlashan . . Here lies the body of Capt. James McGlashak of
H. M. XIX. Regt., who died on the 2nd of Dec,
1817, aged 26 years.
He distinguished himseH in the battles of Busaco and
Albuera. He served in Germany, where he was
appointed a Companion of the Guelphic Order of
Knighthood, and he obtained the Medal bestowed
by their grateful country on all who fought at
Waterloo. In his last illness he received the Holj'
Sacrament with exemplary devotion^ and under
the lingering approach of a painful death he
was sustained by manly fortitude and Chri?tiar
hope.
This tomb is not in situ. It was found, some
twenty years ago, just above " Lady Longden's
Drive," on the cacao estate of Mr. L. Pieris, south-
£)ast of One Tree Hill, which was the citadel of Kandy
"in the early years of the British occupation."
(Bennett, p. 424.) Burials must have taken place
here before the opening of the present " Old
Garrison Cemetery," to which this tombstone was
removed a few years ago. It is a very well-preserved
fiat stone. There is no trace of other tombs to be
found here now. Yet several military officers.
Surgeon Reeder of the 51st (see Cordiner, chap. 19),
Captain. Carrington, Lieutenants Henderson and
Bausset of the Malay Regiment, and Blakeney, Byne,
and Plenderleath of the 19th, as well as two civilians,
Messrs. Joseph Wright and Edward Tolfrey, were
buried at Kandy between 1803 and 1821, not to
speak of the officers killed in the massacre of 1803.
Probably they lie buried under the dense shade of the
cacao trees which now cover the site, and theil
gravestones are several feet deep under accumulations
of silt and humus.
Captain MoGlash&n exchanged, with Captain
Charles Driberg, from the 19th Regiment into the 1st
Ceylon Regiment on September 16, 1817. At
Colombo on October 25, and again on December 31,
1816, he was one of the stewards of a subscription
ball held at the mess of the 73rd Regiment. In the
Gazette of November 29, 1817, there is a paragraph —
" Captain McGlashan, we regret to say, has had
a severe attack of fever, but is this day rather
better." The next issue announces his death.
" He was seized with a violent fever on Friday, the
21st of November, and expired at 3 o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 2nd instant. He had arrived at Kandy but
a few days before from Trincomalie, and although
his road lay through some of the most un-
healthy places in the Island, that confidence in
youth and strength which despises danger led him
unfortunately to neglect every precaution of safety.
Heated with walking, drenched with rain, and wading,
sitting, and even sleeping in wet clothes he must have
greatly increased the risk of fever. The progress of
his disorder was rapid, and in spite of all the medical
skill and unremitting attention of Mr. Marshall,* his
recovery soon became more than doubtful. On the
morning of Friday, the 28th, he was better, but in the
evening his fever returned, and the next day his
danger was apparent. He was well aware of it
himself, and by his own desire received the Holy
Sacrament with great devotion. He never betrayed
the least emotion of apprehension at the thought of
his approaching death, but expressed his earnest
desire to be released from his sufferings with a
fervency of manner i that was most deeply affecting.
He retained his sense till within a few hours of his
death, when after a little delirious wandering he
sank into a dozing stupor and at last expired without
a groan. In Spain and Portugal he had served in
the German Legion In Germany he was with
the Allied Armies as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General
* Henry Marshall was Staff Surgeon, Kandy, 1816-21. He arrived with the 89th Regiment in 1808 and was subse-
quently Surgeon of the 1st Oeylou Regiment. He was author, years after he left the Island, of a book called "Ceylon : A General
Description of the Island and its Inhabitants," London, 1846, and of various papers on botEtnical and medical subjects connected
with Ceylon.
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Ksmdy—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Xame.
1092 ..
Dec. 2
. . James Edwin McGlashan-
1817
contd.
1093
June 14
1819
William Macarmick Cox
1094 . ,
1095 . ,
Aug. 18 .
1820
William Thompson
May 22
1824
Alexander Thompson
Dec. 25
1824
. Mary Ann Thompson
March 2
1821
, . Archibald Montgomei
1096
July 5
1822
James Basset
Inscription.
Sir James Lyon. Captain McGlashan had bepn only
a short time in this Island, but his prepossessing
appearance and polished manners had ooncihated
general regard. His last illness was soothed by the
constant attention of his friend, Captain Kitson,*
who scarcely for a moment ever quitted his bedside.
"His Excellency the Governor and all the Garrison
of Kandy were present when the remains of this
gallant soldier and accomplished gentleman were
consigned with all military honours to the grave."
On this account of his death, ilr. H. C. P. Bell,
C.C.S., remarks : "Captain McGlashan, it will be
seen, fell a victim to that reckless disregard of ordi-
nary precautions which has proved fatal to so many
Europeans in Ceylon since. ' ' ( Ceylon Literary Register ,
vol. XL, p. 311.)
Wm. Macarmick Cox, Lieut. H. M. 83rd Regiment,
died at Kandy aged 26 years.
He died of "an epileptic disorder which seized him
on the 12th."
He married at the Cape, January 17, 1817, Johanna
Magdalena — — , evidently a lady of Dutch descent.
William, Albxandeb, and Mary Anne Thompson,
children of Wm. and Mary Thompson of H. M.
83rd Regt., who departed this hfe, viz., Wm.
aged 1 year 2 m. 17 days ; Alex
aged 1 year 5 m. 13 d. ; Mary Ann aged
3 years 8 m. 15 d.
To the memory of Ensign Archibald Montgomebie,
45th Regt., fifth son of Alexander Montgomerie
of Annick Lodge, County of Air, North Britain,
and of Elizabeth Montgomerie, his wife, who
died the 2nd of March, 1821, of jungle fever, in the
20th year of his age.
His afflicted widowed mother erects this inadequate
memorial to a most affectionate and dutiful son.
Ensign Montgomerie joined September 17, 1817,
and arrived at Colombo from Cork on July 26,
1819. Major Skinner was stationed at Kurunegala
with him in 1821-22, where there were two flank
companies of the 45th under Major Martin, and
a company of the Ceylon Light Infantry
Regiment (as the 1st Ceylon was then called) under
Lieutenant Skinner, also a small detachment of
Artillery. He says of Montgomerie: " Amongst the
officers of the 45th was an extremely nice fellow of
the name of Montgomery (sic), an ensign of about a
year's standing, a good deal my senior in age. He was
a keen, active sportsman, and we went out elephant
shooting nearly every day. We used to breakfast early
and start off to the jungle on the chance of finding
the track of an elephant, which we generally did, and
often that of a herd, which we followed up till we
overtook them. Sometimes we were led on imper-
ceptibly until, late in the evening, we found ourselves
many miles away from the post. The country was
well marked by high rocky features, so that as long
as it was daylight there was httle fear of oiu' losing
ourselves, but unf ortimately we were often in large,
deep jungles, far away from home, after dark, when
it was quite unpossible to return without a guide ;
many a time we did not get back to our quarters till
a very late hour My friend Montgomery
and I became desperate sportsmen It was
not much wonder that we were both laid up with
severe attacks of jungle fever, to which my poor
young friend succumbed. He died in Kandy."
("Fifty Years in Ceylon," pp. 23-24.)
Second Lieut. James Basset of His Majesty's First
Ceylon Regiment aged 22 years.
" Ensign James Basset from 4th West India Regi-
ment to be 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment,
April 14, 1819."
* Captain J. Kitson belonged to the 2nd Oeylon Begiment, 1811-21.
1S19 he was Aide-de-Camp to Major-Greneral Alex. C'. Jackson.
He went through the Uva Rebellion of 1817. In
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Serial No.
1097
Date.
March 29
1823
Jan. 21
1828
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Name.
l^eale Swinburne
Charles Swinburne
1098
April 25
1824
John Johnson Michel
1099
May 25
1824
John D'Oyly
Inscription.
Nbaie and Chables Swinbtiene, infant sons of Capt.
SwiNBUBNE, 83rd Eegt. The former departed
this life aged 6 days. The latter aged
4 years 8 months and 19 days.
Lieutenant Joseph Swinburne was Fort Adjutant,
Colombo, 1819-20; at Kandy, 1821-28 (?); and later
Fort Adjutant, Trincomalee. Another son, by hiswife
Alicia, called Alfred, no doubt after Captain Alfred
Mylius, whom Captain Swinbmne's sister Sfffah
married in 1827, was born at Kandy, January 21,
1828 (the very day when his son Charles died), and
baptized on July 25, 1828. Captain Swinburne died
at Brighton on September 18, 1900, in his 81st year.
Mrs. Alfred Mylius died at Lichfield , F ebruary 7 , 1 860.
[John] MiCHEL,Lieutenant Corps of Eoyal Engineers ,
son of General Michel of Dorsetshire, England.
He died at Kandy on the [25th] day of April in
the year of our Lord 1824 and in the 26th year of
his age of a malignant fever caught in the discharge
of his duty at the Kospotta-oya, Seven Korles, in
this Island.
The name is spelt " Mitchell " in. the register and
Michell in the Gazette. The inscription is becoming
illegible, and the words and figures in brackets
have been supplied from the register. "The district
of the Seven Korles towards Kandy terminates at the
Kospeta-oya, which is a furious torrent dm'ing the
wet seasons. We have there built a good resthouse
with convenient offices attached to it for travellers.
This post is situated on a rising ground encompassed
by lofty wooded mountains, which often reminded
me of many parts of the Pyrenees." (Campbell's
" Excursions," vol. II., p. 152.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell saw it in 1821-22.
In memory of the Hon'ble Sir John Doyly, Baronet,
Resident of theKandyan Provinces, and one of the
members of his Majesty's Council of this Island.
Whose Meritorious Services to this Government from
the year 1802 and his talents during the Kandyan
War stand recorded in the Archives of this Govern-
ment and in the office of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
Bom June 11th, 1774.
Died at Kandy, May 25th, 1824.
Aged 49 years.
He was the second son of the Rev. Matthias Doyly,
late Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex.
And this Memorial is erected by his three surviving
brothers.
A broken fluted column of masonry with marble
tablet. (See also No. 12.)
Sir John D'Oyly died of remittent fever contracted
while he was on an ofiicial torn in the Seven Korales.
The funeral took place at 6 a.m. on the 26th. It
was headed by the Koralas and Arachchies " of the
Udaratte," who were followed by the Band of the
Ceylon Regiment. Then came the coffin, the paU
being borne by six Field Officers and Captauis of the
Garrison, then the Chaplain, Rev. N. Garstin, and
Medical Attendant, Surgeon Armstrong, then the
Commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel GreenweU, Com-
missioners of the Board, Messrs. Sawers and Wright,
as chief mourners, the Officers of the Garrison and
gentlemen of Kandy, and the procession ended with
the Adigar of the Kandyan Provinces, the Kandyan
Chiefs, Mudaliyars, Clerks, &c.
John D'Oyly was educated at Westminster School,
where he is said to have been a contemporary of
Bishop Heber's, and at Cambridge, where he was a
Commoner and Fellow of Benet's (Corpus Christi)
College , Cambridge. At Westminster , in his time , Dr.
Vincent was an undermaster, and was a great friend
of his. At Cambridge he took his degree as a Senior
Optime in 1796, and was second for the Chancellor's
Medal, being beaten by Samuel Butler, afterwards
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy—^contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1099 . .
May 25 .
1824
. John D'Oyly— cowid;
Inscription.
Headmaster of Shrewsbury and Bishop of Lichfield.
He went out to Ceylon, September, 1801, havmg been
appointed to a Writership through the interest of the
Earl of Liverpool, some time Secretary of State for
the Colonies, who was resident in his father's parish
of Buxted. . , . ,N 1 1.
From the time of D'Oyly's arrival m Ceylon he
devoted himself to acquiring an intimate know-
ledge of the Sinhalese language, " and made himself
a master of it to a degree which, it was stated, had
seldom or never been attained by any European . .
It is understood that he acquired extraordinary
influence over the natives by the opinion which
prevailed of his integrity and upright views in
settling and adjusting their disputes, insomuch that
there was no person in whose decision they were at
all times more ready to acquiesce."
On July 6, 1803, he was appoinUed President of the
Provincial Court of Matara ; on February 22, 1804,
Agent of Revenue and Commerce for the District of
Matara ; and on May 2, 1804, the District of Galle was
united under his charge with that of Matara. There
is extant a set of verses addressed to him while
holding this office by Gajaman Nona, the Matara
poetess.
On July 10, 1805, he was appointed Chief Translator
to Government ; on July 13 " President of the Court
of Justices of the Peace to be held twice a month at
Negombo " ; on February 12, 1806, Agent of Revenue
for the District of Colombo, and in addition, on AprU
2, Fiscal of Colombo; and on August 12, 1814, Civil
Auditor-General; and again, on September 1, Chief
Translator to Government. To these offices was
added, on December 12, 1814, that of Military Auditor-
General, and he was to be styled in future Auditor-
General.
He accompanied the Army to Kandy in February,
1815, in order that he might give its leaders the
advantage of his knowledge of the language and of
the country.
Kandy having been taken, and its king captured,
he became, on October 1, 1816, Resident and First
Commissiqner of the Board of Commissioners appoint-
ed to administer the affairs of the Kandyan Provinces ,
and Member of Council, offices which he held until
his death. The birthday of King George IV. was
celebrated at the Resident's house, the Old Palace,
on August 12, 1820,* by adinner at 7 . 30p.m. " The
fine band of the 45th attended," and D'Oyly and
Edward Tolfrey proposed the health of the Governor,
the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Edward' Barnes), and
Colonel Kelly, and the healths of D'Oyly and Tolfrey
were also drunk. D'Oyly was created for his distin-
guished services a baronet of the United Kingdom on
August 29, 1821. He never visited England, and
died unmarried. It was found on his death that
there were 115 indigent natives who were monthly
recipients of his bounty, and that his payments to
them amounted to 163 rix-doUars a month. Among
them was a natural son of Major Davie.
The patent of baronetcy apparently was confined
to himself and heirs of his body, for it did not pass to
his surviving elder brother.
His " Sketch of the Constitution of the Kandyan
Kingdom " was communicated by Sir Alexander
Johnston (Chief Justice, 1811-20) to the Royal
Asiatic Society, read at a meeting on May 7, 1831,
and published in the "Transactions," vol. III., part II.
Another work on the Kandyan constitution and laws,
and his diary from 1810 to 1815, exist in manuscript.
He sent home some translations of Sinhalese poems,
but these with his Cambridge diary (he always kept
a diary) are not now forthcoming.
His father was Rector of Buxted from 1787 tUl his
death in 1815, and from 1805 Archdeacon of Lewes."
He was the second son, and he had four brothers,
Thomas, Serjeant at Law and a Fellow of All Souls,
died 1855; Sir Francis, K.C.B., of the Guards,
* Possibly the dinner took place on April 23, St. George's Day, which was the day fixed for celebrating George IV.'s
birthday. The statement on p. 10 that it was the birthday of George III. that was celebrated is incorrect.
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
1099
Date.
May -25
1824
Name.
John D'Oyly — contd.
1100
June 6
1825
Margaret Bradshaw
1101
June 1
1828
1102 . . April 17
1829
R. M. Gunn
John Manwaring
Inscription.
killed at Waterloo ; George, Second Wrangler, 1800,
a D.D. and Chaplain to King George III. and to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, one of the editors of
D'Oyly and Mant's Bible, died 1846 ; and Henry, of
the Guards and a Major- General, wounded at Water-
loo, died 1855. A son of the Rev. Dr. George D'Oyly,
Wilham, was in the Indian Civil Service from 1848 to
1873 and died in 1908. From him these particulars
were obtained. Sir Warren Hastings D'Oyly, late of
the Bengal Civil Service, belongs to a younger branch
of the same family, which is descended from Gilbert
D'Oyly, the yoimgest of three brothers who came over
with the Conqueror ; the eldest of whom btiilt Oxford
Castle.
Arms. — Or, two bends aziire, or with colours
reversed sometimes. Azure : two bends, or.
There is an interesting reference to D'Oyly dated
"Colombo, March 2nd, 1810," in the "Life of the Right
Hon'ble Sir James Mackintosh" (vol. II., p. 6): —
" Among the society are three old Westminsters —
Twislelion, Coke, and D'Oyly. ,
" D'Oyly, you recollect, was one of the prixty who
rowed us in 1799 from Cambridge to Ely. He is the
only Cingalese scholar in the Ceylon Civil Service, and
like many Orientalists has almost become a native in
his habits of life. He lives on a plantain, invites
nobody to his house, and does not dine abroad once
a year ; but he is generally esteemed, and seems an
amiable and honourable, though uncouth, recluse.
When I saw him come in to dinner at Mr. Wood's,
I was struck with the change of a Cambridge boy
into a Cingalese hermit, looking as old as I do."
The successful careers of three contemporaries of
D'Oyly's may be here glanced at. The Mr. Wood
referred to was the " Hon'ble Alexander Wood,
Esquire" (which was the official style of members of
Council up to the fifties), who was a member of the
Civil Service from 1801 to 1811, when he left with
Governor Sir Thomas Maitland. When Sir James
Mackintosh dined at' his house, he was " Sole
Commissioner of Revenue." He retired on April 1,
1811, after nine years' service, on a pension of •
£700 a year, and was living in 1844 as Sir
Alexander Wood. He, Richard Plaskett, the Civil
Auditor-General, and Lieutenano-Colonel Frederick
Hankey, 51st Regiment, who had distinguished
himself in the operations against the Kandyans,
were all high in favour with Sir Thomas Maitland,
and all left with him ; Hankey as Military Secretary.
Plaskett retired from the Ceylon Civil Service in
August, 1814, having completed the twelve years'
service entitling him to pension. Both he and Hankey
held ofiice imder Maitland in Malta. Hankey was sent
on a mission to Timis in 1817, and on April 2, 1835,
Plaskett was appointed Civil Commissioner of St.
Helena. He finally retired on August 12, 1844, and
died in 1847.
Wood, Plaskett, and Hankey were all knighted.
Plaskett was one of the first Knight Commanders of
the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
• Maegajbbt Bradshaw, wife of Sergeant J. Bradshaw ,
83rd Regt., who departed this life aged 37
years, leaving an affectionate husband and 4
children to condole her loss.
" When join'd we were in mutual love
And so we did remain
Till parted by the God above
In hopes to meet again."
Qtr. Master Sergeant R. M. Gunn, 78 Highlanders,
who died at Kandy, aged 33 years.
Capt. John Manwaring, of the Ceylon Rifle Regi-
ment, Staff Officer of Kandy aged 35 years,
deeply lamented by his disconsolate widow and
brother officers.
The name is spelt indifferently "Mainwaring" and
"Manwaring." The latter is the signature in the
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy—contd.
Serial No.
1102
Date.
April 17
1829
Name.
John Manwaring — contd.
U03
1104
Feb. 12
1830
May 16
1830
Mary Ann Proudfoot
John Peter Lardy
2s
Inscription.
marriage register, and it is the spelling used on the
tombstone, but in some of the " Ceylon Calendars "
the spelling is " Mainwaring." He joined the first
' Ceylon Regiment on September 24, 1812, and was
with the 8th Division in the Kandyan War of 1815;
at Kurunegala on February 3 ; captured Muttusami
near Teldeniya, February 16 ; was Assistant Commis-
sary at Badulla in 1816, and Deputy Commissioner-
General at Kandy in 1816, at Colombo in 1817 ; held
the Adjutancy of the 1st Ceylon Regiment from 1817
until 1824, succeeding Lieutenant R. Pollington, and
obtained his company on June 18, 1825. Major
Skinner says of Manwaring: "The Adjutant of the
regiment was one of the strictest disciplinarians I
have ever met with" (p. 8). He was succeeded by
Lieutenant T. W. Rogers, " a most efficient officer."
{Ibid., p. 5.)
Captain Manwaring married Jane Ueorgiana alias
Johanna Justina Gertruida, born April 1, 1801, the
youngest daughter of Diederich Thomas Fretz, late
Commandeur of Galle. She married (2) at Colombo,
on June 14, 1832, Lieutenant Frederic Augustus
Morris, Ceylon Rifles. Her elder sister, Henrietta
Thomasina, married at Colombo, in 1818, Lieutenant
Charles Button, 2nd Ceylon Regiment. Lieutenant
Button appears to have died in 1827. His piano
was advertized for sale in the Oovernment Gazette of
July 28, 1827. Mrs. Manwaring and Mrs. Button
were sisters of Lieutenant Gerrard Fretz of the
Ceylon Rifles, and half-sisters of Henrietta Justina,
born April 2, 1783, who married (1) Lieutenant-
Colonel John Macdonald, and (2) Surgeon Michael
Reynolds.
" It has been our painful duty to record the loss of
many valuable friends lately, but of none could it be
said more faithfully that he was deserving of every
, promise that could be bestowed on him as a zealous
officer and an upright man." {Gazette.)
Maky Ann, daughter of Thomas and Maky Ann
Peoudfoot, 78th Regiment aged 1 year and'
20 days.
J. P. Labdy, Captain in H. M. 78 Highlanders.
He died of remittent fever aged 39 years.
Highly esteemed and respected by his brother
Officers through life. They raise this humble
tribute of their Regard over his Remains.
Captain Lardy arrived at Colombo, with the
remainder of the 78th, by the ship Melpomene on
August 28, 1826. Captain A. O'Keefe of the same
regiment, writing to Mr. R. Brook, Master Attendant
of Trineomalee, on August 16, from Galle, says :
" On the arrival of our regiment in Ceylon Sir
Edward (Barnes) was very anxious that om* senior
Captain (Lardy) should undertake the work {i.e., the
exploration of the Mahaweliganga). He agreed to do
so, but in consequence of his illness and his subse-
quent death I volunteered to do so , but the
thing was abandoned." (Letter printed with R.
Brook's Report on the Navigation of the Mahaweli-
ganga.)
There was a " Lieut. -Colonel P. Lardy " in De
Meuron's Regiment, who, with "Mrs. Lardy and two
children," embarked with the regiment on March 2,
1806, at Colombo, on its way to Madras in H.E.I.C.'s
ship Admiral Gardner. Probably Captain J. P.
Lardy was a son — in fact, he may have been one of
the two children.
" To great zeal and abUity in the discharge of His
Majesty's duty, Capt. Lardy muted a mildness and
cheerfulness of disposition which had gained him the
esteem of all, and more partictdarly endeared him to
his Brother Officers, by whom his loss is deeply felt
and lamented.
" The memory of his upright and honourable
-character and of his many estimable qualities will be
impressed on the minds of his surviving friends long
after the first bitter regrets for his loss shall have
passed away." {Gazette, May 29, 1830.)
82-09
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Serial No.
1105
1106
1107
Date.
June 29
1830
April 10
1831
April 21
1831
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy
Name.
Margaret Allan
Jessy Douglas
Charles Boyle De Lafre
1108
Jan. 20
1832
Thomas Ireland
1109
Feb. 6
1832
Frederick Gorman
1110
March 19
1833
Mary Gunn
nil
May 31
1833
Alice Bill
contd.
Inscription.
Maegaret Allan, the wife of Andeew Allan, 78
Eegiment aged 37 years.
This stone was raised by the children of the 78th
Regimental School to mark their affection for the
memory of their companion Jessy Douglas,
daughter of Sergt. and Mrs. Douglas aged
7 years and 8 months.
Lieut. Chakles B. De Latee, Ceylon Rifle Regiment
aged 25 years 6 months.
Lieutenant C. B. De Latre was the eldest son of
Major Philip De Latre, who was on June 16, 1803,
promoted from Captain-Lieutenant in the 86th Regi-
ment to be a Captain in the Malay Regiment, and was
afterwards Quartermaster-General. Major De Latre's
daughter, Mary Aime, married at Kandy, on Septem-
ber 23, 1822, Lieutenant Samuel Braybrooke, 1st
Ceylon Regiment, afterwards Colonel commanding the
Ceylon Rifles, and a general. He lost a son, James, at
Trincomalee, on April 23, 1812, aged six years, twelve
days after the birth of another son. C. B. De Latre
was born on September 14, 1805.
Tlie Revd. Thomas Ieeland, M.A., Chaplain to the
forces. Died at Kandy, January, 1832. Sincere-
ly and universally respected by all his acquaint-
ances.
He arrived off Galle on October 6, and at Trinco-
malee, October 17, 1813, by the Marchioness of
Exeter, his fellow passengers being Mr. and Mrs. E.
Tolfrey, Captain Benezet, R.A., and Mrs. Benezet,
Captain Lenn, Lieutenant Manwaring, and Ensign
and Mrs. Preston. He had been appointed " Chaplain
to the Forces serving in Ceylon, to do duty at Trinco-
malee, visiting Jaffna, Mulletivo, and Batticaloa
occasionally." He officiated at the funeral of Sir
William Coke. He seems to have served at two
different periods in Ceylon, for his name disappears
from the " Ceylon Calendar" of 1821 and reappears in
that of 1829, when he was again a chaplain on the
general staff. He was stationed at Kandy from 1828
till his death. He was appointed Colonial Chaplain
at Kandy, November 15, 1831.
Feedeeiok Goe]vian, son of Adjutant Goemaij,
H. M. 58th Regiment, who departed this life at
Kandy aged 3 years three months and
ten days. Deeply and sincerely regretted by his
afflicted parents.
Quartermaster Owen Gorman, 58th Regiment, was
appointed Adjutant with the rank of Ensign on April
28, 1829.
Mary, wife of Mr. Gunn, 78th Highlanders, who
departed this life on the 19th day of March, 1833,
aged 59 years. Much and sincerely regretted.
This inscription is rapidly disappearing. William
Gunn, who was Quartermaster of the 78th, appears
to have married again shortly, for on December 16,
1836, a son, William, by his wife, Amelia Johnston,
was born at Kandy.
Catherine Gunn' married Lieutenant McPherson,
78th Highlanders, at Colombo, on August 30, 1827 ;
Jane Gunn married George James Mee Tomms, late
Captain in the 8 3rd Regiment, at Kandy, on September
15, 1827 ; and Mary Gunn married J. B. N. Bull,
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 78th, at Kandy, on
April 17, 1830. These were no doubt daughters of
Mary and William Gunn. In 1835 Lieutenant
McPherson was discharging judicial duties at
Kurunegala.
To the memory of Alice, the affectionate and beloved
wife of Thomas Bill, Sergt. in the Rl. Regiment
of Artillery, who departed this life aged 29
years, and also to the memory of Alice, the
daughter of the aforesaid Thomas and Alice, who
was born two months before the death of her
mother and survived the event but tiiree months
and 28 days.
( 303
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
nil
Date.
May 31
1833
Name.
Alice Bill contd.
1112
1113
May 21 .
1834
Robert Brownrigg Fraser
April 4
1835
. . Charles Campbell Fraser
June 14
1835
Henry Frith Firebrace
1114
1115
July 31
1837
March 4
1838
Caesar Augustus Sillery
Heyliger
Harriet Fraser
1116
1117
Sept. 16
1838
1829-1838
John Heyliger
Mien of the Royal Artillery
1118 .. June 30
1839
Jean Innes
Inscription.
Called by a sainted mother's voice away,
Her spirit burst its infant form of clay,
Their sorrow.-stricken husband, weeping father hears
Their accents sweetly blend upon his ears.
Unto the narrow, blessed way that leads to life, _
Sin's fetters break and join thy Saviour, child and wife.
RoBEET Beowneigg, bom 20th October, 1832
, Chaeles Campbell, born 11th October,
1834 , and another little boy who pre-
deceased them, and whose remains are also
deposited here ; children of Lieut. -Colonel Tbasee,
D. Qr. Mr. Genl.
Henby Feith Firebeace, son of Captain Fiee-
BEACE, H. M. 58th Regt., who departed this life at
Kandy aged XI. months and 2 days.
Captain W. Firebrace was Commandant of the
District of Seven Korales and Assistant Government
Agent for the District. This son was bom at Kuru-
negala, July 12, 1834. Another son, JohnBlaine, was
born at Kandy, July 11, 1832.
C. A. S. H., son of Lieut. Heyligee, Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, died 31st July, 1837, aged 8 months
24 days.
There was a Robert Seymour Croxton Sillery, a
planter in Dikoya, on Kolapatana, Kotmale, in 1862,
and on Menickwatta, Dikoya, in 1866-68.
Haeeiet, wife of Lieut. -Col. Feasee, Deputy
Quarter Master General to the Forces serving in
this Island, & daughter of the late Lieut. -Col.
Hook, H. M. 16th Regt. of Foot. Born 6th Janu-
ary, 1804, died (with the infant to whom she gave
birth) 4th March, 1838 ; also three of her children,
whose remains repose in the adjoining grave.
That her daughter may be enabled by divine
Providence to foUow in the path in which she
walked and fondly hoped to lead them is the
earnest prayer of their Father by whom this tomb
has been erected.
She married Major John Fraser, Assistant Quarter-
master-General, 1st Ceylon Regiment, at Kandy,
October 1, 1823; another daughter of Lieutenant-
Colonel Hook, Eliza, married, at St. Peter's, Colombo,
on August 8, 1826, Horace Robert Scott, C.C.S.,
1824-40; and a third, Charlotte Carpenter, married
George Bird, the pioneer coffee planter, at Colombo,
December 26, 1828. (See Nos. 91 and 1112.)
Lieut. Jn. Heyligee, Ceylon Rifle Regt
aged 32 years.
2nd Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifles, September 30, 1830.
He was in command of the 5th Division of Pioneers
of the Civil Engineer's Department at DambuUa in
1838 (July).
This memorial is erected by a detacht. of the 2nd
Batty., Royal Artillery, to the memory of their
comrades, whose remains are interred near this
spot : Gunner Weight died 24th April, 1829.
J. Stuaet died 1834.
A. BuENS 13th October, 1834.
W. Patteeson 21st November, 1834.
G. Deew nth January, 1837.
J. STEPHEisr 31st May, 1837.
T. Holding 18th September, 1837.
W. Eliott 6th October, 1837.
C. MooEE 20th May, 1838.
Jean Innes, daughter of Adm. Innes, who died at
Kandy aged 3 years 11 months and 16 days.
Deeply and sincerely regretted by her affectionate
parents.
These were Adam and Margaret Innes, his wife.
Adam Innes died at Kandy, July 30, 1841, aged 41.
304 )
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial jS!o.
Date.
Name.
1119 ..
Dec. 25
1841
Mary Anne Feneran
Jan. 1
1842
Emily Feneran
1120
1121
May 13
1842
Nov. 13
1842
July 28
1848
William Nonus Saunders
John Tate
James Resell Tate
Inscription.
Beneath this stone lie the remains of Mary Anne,
aged 5 years and 5 months, and Emily,
aged 19 months, daughters of F. Feneran, Esq.,
58th Regt.
Inscription rapidly becoming illegible.
" Paymaster Feneran was at Waterloo. In 1841
there were five Waterloo officers at Colombo, viz.,
the Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, the General (Sir
Robert Arbuthnot), Capt. Lillie J. Dalziel, Police
Magistrate and Paymaster Feneran." (Colombo
Observer, 3 xmsll , 1841.)
Brevet' Major W. N. Saunders, late of H. M.'s 95th
Regiment, aged 48 years This tribute
of Esteem is erected to his memory for his many
amiable qualities by his brother officers.
He died of dysentery.
Mr. John Tate, who departed this life aged
42 years and two months ; also James Rosell
Tate, who departed this life aged seven
months and 21 days.
Life how short. Eternity how long.
John Tate kept the resthouse at Gampola. This
James Rosell was probably his grandson, son of
James Rosell Tate (see No. 1286). Maria Tate, widow,
presumably of John Tate, married James Scarlett,
widower, at Kandy, April 2, 1844 (see No. 1385).
Serena Tate, probably a daughter, married George
Oakley, Superintendent of Karagastota estate, 1843,
and of Gonavy, on December 1, 1843, also 'at
Kandy.
"Mr. Tate of Gampola Rest House, a noted
character in his day, took credit for persuading Sir
Emerson Tennent not to accept the Governorship
of St. Helena." (" Ceylon in 1837-1846," by A. M.
Ferguson.)
1122
March 10
1843
Fanny Arabella Agar
1123
April 20
1843
Elizabeth Segar
Beneath lies (Fanny) Ar.abeu:.a, the beloved child of
Lieutenant Agar, Ceylon Rifles aged 2
years.
This sun of comfort for a moment given
Just rose on earth then set to rise in heaven.
Lieutenant Agar died at Galle in 1845 (see No. 616).
Mrs. Elizabeth Segar, late of Manchester, England.
After having been a member of the Methodist
Society upwards of fifty years she departed this
life in Kandy, Ceylon, in conscious peace with God ,
May, 1843. Aged 66 years. Princes shall die
and turn to dust. This monument was erected
to her memory by her sorrowing son, Jones
Segar.
According to the register she died on April, not
May, 20, 1843. SKfe was the widow of Richard Segar.
Mr. and Mrs. Segar arrived by the brig- Thomas Wood
on December 20, 1841. This probably means
Mrs. Segar and her son Jones, who, on February 5,
1844, opened the "Royal Hotel," which was ap-
parently the successor of "The Royal Hanoverian
Hotel " of 1835, which may also have been his for a
time, as he seems to have been a hotel-keeper as early
as 1842. Mrs. Elizabeth Segar' s youngest daughter,
Elizabeth, married, at Kandy, on May 3, 1847, James
Stone, a coHee planter, son of " the late Mr. James
Stone of Drayton, Long Port, Somerset." She was
buried at Kandy on October 29, 1857, aged 32.
Jessie Stone, aged 18, had been braied there on the
18th, and WilUam Henry Stone on the 24th of the
same month. They all died on an estate in the
Dolosbage district. It looks as if there had been a
visitation of cholera there. Jones Segar married
Anne Hartley on Jiily 23, 1845. She was the
" Mrs. Segar of the Royal Hotel" referred to in the
newspapers. (See No. 1059.)
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
1124
Date.
Aug, 15
1843
Name,
Felix Edmonstone St. HUl
1125
1126
Dec. 20
1843
March 19
1844
William Swan
Henry Ingleby Templer
J 127
June 27
1845
Edward Poingdestre
1128
Feb. 27
1846
Eliza Ann Phillpotts
Inscription.
Lieut. P. E. St. Hn.L, Ceylon Rifle Regt., one of the
many victims to the climate aged 17 years.
His days a hand-breadth, his cares and pleasures but
a dream.
Mrs. A. St. Hill, wife of H. St. Hill, Esq., died
at Trincomalee, July 22, 1844.
Eliza Antoinette, daughter of Henry St. Hill,
Ordnance Storekeeper, Trincomalee, married Lieut.
Alfred T. Heyland, 95th Regiment, at that place
on August 3, 1 842. W. (= H.?) St. Hill was Ordnance
Storekeeper in 1 8 1 5. (See No . 99 1 . )
William, son of Alex. M. Swan of Hythe, Kent,
aged 34.
He died " at the Bockawella plantation " in Haris-
pattu. "James Swan, Esq., of Bokkawela," was
appointed a member of the Legislative Council in
September, 1848.
Henby Ingleby, the beloved child of I^ancis
BuLLEE Templee, Esquire, and Emma, his wife,
born at Weraloo, July 29th, 1844, died at Kandy.
Their eldest daughter, Jane Ellen Mary, died at
Nuwara Eliya, June 21, 1849, and is buried in the old
cemetery there. Mr. F. B. Templer was Commissioner
of Requests and Police Magistrate of Nuwara EUya,
October 1, 1849, to January 31, 1852. "Lieut.
Templer, then an officer in the Ceylon Rifles, became
subsequently captain in a cavalry regiment, sold out
and entered the Ceylon Civil Service, of which his father
had been a member." {Ceylon Literary Register, vol.
v., p. 253.) He entered the Civil Service, May 23,
1845, and was appointed Police Magistrate of Avisa-
wella, December 1, 1846. Lieutenant Templer was
originally in the 29th Regiment, and he retired as
Government Agent of the Central Province in 1882.
He married on October 20, 1843, at Calcutta, Emma,
daughter of Sir J. E. M. Turton, Bart., Barrister-
at-law. Registrar of the Supreme Court, Calcutta.
Edward , eldest son of the late John M. Poingdestbe ,
Esqr.,of the Island of Jersey, died at Kadoogan-
nawa aged 17 years.
John Matthews Poingdestre resided on Belungala
estate, just above Kadugaimawa. His third son,
WUHam Wilson, married August 6, 1859, at Galle,
Selina Jane Helen, second daughter of Commander
John Appleby Pritchard, Master Attendant, Colombo.
Eliza Ann, second daughter of Lieut. -Col. G. Phill-
potts, R.E., who died at Kandy aged 27
years.
Lieutenant-Colonel Phillpotts was " one of those
who prepared and originated the plan of the edifice of
St. Paul's, Kandy," but plans and estimate
were prepared by the Civil Engineer and Sm-veyor-
General in 1842. Lieutenant-Colonel Phillpotts'
elder daughter, Sibella, married at Hong Kong,
November 10, 1849, Major William Hill of the
Madras Fusiliers. Lieutenant-Colonel Phillpotts was
at that time C. R. E. there. The death of Miss
Eliza Phillpotts was very likely the foundation of the
episode of "Miss Helen Leith," in the "Autobio-
graphy of a Periya Durai," whom Boyd describes as
his second love at Kandy (circa 1843-46). At any
rate, no other unmarried daughter of a military officer
died and was buried at Kandy in the forties. Boyds'
imaginary Helen died shortly after her engagement to
him. The name " Helen " he took from the Christian
name of the daughter of another miUtary officer, who
did not however die, but was married at Kandy. In
any case Boyd's description of the burial of Helen
Leith would apply equally well to that of Miss
Phillpotts, at which he may have been present.
" We buried my betrothed that evening in the grave-
yard overlooking the lake." The rest he probably
imagined for the purposes of the " Autobiography."
" I almost lived in Kandy. I rode with Helen
round the lake, or along the picturesque paths and
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1128 ..
Feb. 27 .
1846
. Eliza Ann Phillpotts— cow«(^
1129
July 14
1846
Henry James Albrecht
1130
1131
Aug. 29
1846
Oct. 24
1846
Abraham Newton Duncan
Anthony Deane
1132
March 27
1849
James Smith
Inscription.
roads extending from the ancient mountain city. 1
accompanied her in rambles to places of interest
around the town, and stood watching, whilst she with
rapid pencil and skilful touch sketched some quaint
Hindoo or Buddhist temple or Muhammedan mosque,
or dashed ia the bold outlines of the magnificent
scenery with which Kandy is surrounded." (Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. III., pp. 219, 288-291.)
Sacred to the memory of Hbnby James Albbbcht.
[This is all there is, there is no date.]
" The Society of Ceylon have just sustained a great
loss in the death of Mr. H. J. Albrecht of the Firm of
Messrs. C. D. Parlett & Co. (see No. 140), who had
been suffering from an attack of dysentery for some
time. He arrived at Kandy from the Estate of
Ingoya in a weak state of health." [Ceylon Times.)
Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht came from Bombay by the
barque Resolution, which arrived at Colombo on
January 29, 1841, returning apparently from a visit
to India.
Died at Kandy, Ceylon Abraham Newton
Duncan, aged 21 years.
He did not live long enough for his name
to get into the directory published in the " Ceylon
Almanac."
Anthony Deane, Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifle Regt.,
aged 24 years, died of Cholera at Kandy
deeply regretted by his brother officers.
" We regret to hear that cholera has re-appeared
in Kandy. A correspondent writes : ' Lieut. Bagenall
has had a severe attack, but is recovering.
A few days after his attack Lieut. Deane's servant
died suddenly of the same disease. Mr. Deane, who
lived with Bagenall, was himself attacked on Satur-
day at 10 in the morning and died at 5 p.m. He was
buried on Sunday morning. Mr. Deane was
generally esteemed.'" {Colombo Observer, October
29, 1846.)
Judging from his name, he probably belonged to a
family of Deanes descended from Sir Anthony Deane,
who was Controller of the Navy in the reign of Charles
II. , and who is mentioned in " Pepy's Diary." The
Rev. Anthony Deane, formerly on the staff of
"Punch" and editor of the "Treasury," is of this
family.
The cholera " commenced with two Malabars."
The following is a memo, of deaths from it : — 95th
Regiment, about 68 ; Moormen, about 27 ; Sinhalese,
about 20; others, about 20. {Ibid. , Oetohev 19, 1846.)
There is a story that only one officer of the Rifles at
Kandy was nervous about the cholera, and that he
was the only one of the offiiers who died of it. There
were 52 bm'ials of men of the 95th Regiment in the
month of September, apparently all died from cholera.
" This yotmg officer experienced much suffering.
His servant died the previous day of the same dread-
ful disease. We imderstand that cholera prevails
amongst the men of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment at
Bambragaha, and that some fresh ceises have occurred
about 3 or 4 of Lieut. Bagenall's servants
have perished by this disease. All the above cases
took place in the Commissariat Quarters near the
Cutcherry." {Ceylon Timer, October 27, 1846.)
The Lieutenant Bagenall referred to was Lieutenant
William Bagenall (see No. 128). The Commissariat
Quarters were in the old Kandyan building, now the
Kandy Museum.
Revd. Jambs Smith, first Presbyterian Minister at
Kandy
Though his age was only 47, the Colombo Observer
strangely describes him as "an old man of the
old school, burning with no indecorous missionary
zeal, actuated by no old world scruples against a
friendly hand at whist," and, evidently under, the
same misconception as to his years, which seems to
show that the editor had no personal acquaintance-
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kundy—contd.
Serial No.
1132
Date.
March 27
1849
Name.
James Smith — contd.
1133 . . Sept. 27
1849
1134 .. April 25
1850
1135 .. May 31
1850
David Bell
Carey Durand
Haughton George Rohde
1136
1137
1138 .
Aug. 31
1850
Nov. 12
1850
May 4
1851
William Tait
Maria Anne Bell
George Henry Freekleton
Inscription.
with the gentleman whom he was attacking, adds
that the advanced age of the reverend gentleman
"left little room to hope that his constitution would
cope with the disease — an acute liver attack com-
plaint terminating in ahscess." He had been only
six weeks in the Island, but his qualifications for the
chaplaincy had i^iven rise to a controversy, in which
he •was defended from the aspersions of the Observer
by the Rev. Dr. Mac Vicar, Colonial Chaplain of
St. Andrew's Church, Colombo, through whose
instrumentality he had been appointed, and by
the Geylon Times. This paper described him as
" totally devoid of canting sectarian hypocrisy," and
spoke of his having been " taunted in certain quarters
with playing a hand at whist occasionally." Its
references to him at the time of his death were very
eulogistic. " Possessed of the entire confidence and
respect of all classes of the community, and with-
drawn in the full tide of honour and usefulness, a
void is felt, which has caused universal mourning.
His more intimate friendships were fervent, en-
lightened, and unchanging, while his hospitality was
unbounded. His moral reputation was unspotted.
He was possessed of genuine nobility of mind, with
unvarying manifold integrity of sentiment and pur^
pose. Superior to the jealousies which sometimes,
alas, prevail, conscious of great and pure principles,
and most tender in the choicest sympathies and
affections of life, he established himself in tmiversal
and high regard, and in this delightful and full
possession his career has prematurely closed."
{Geylon Times, April 2, 1849.)
David Bell, who died at Kandy aged 32
years. Much respected by all who knew him.
He was on Galaha estate, and was the yoimgest
son of Dr. Bell of Diuadee. He cannot have been in
Ceylon more than two or three years, as he does not
appear in the directory of 1847.
To the memory of Carey Dtjeand, Esq., born at
Guernsey on the 9th July, 1830, and died at
Kandy This Memorial is erected by his
affectionate mother.
Also a recent arrival.
Haughton Geoege, infant son of John Rohde,
Esq., Madras Civil Service aged 11
months.
A Royal Commission was issued under which
Messrs. Rohde and Morehead, two of the most
experienced Judges of the Madras Presidency, pro-
ceeded to Ceylon to inquire into the matter of the
proclamations issued or alleged to have been issued
by Captain Watson during the Kandyan rebellion of
1848. ("History of the Rebellion during Lord
Torrington's Government," by Captain J. Macdonald
Henderson, late 78th Highlanders, London, 1868,
p. 187 ; "The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals,"
Generals Osborn and Johnson Wilkinson, London,
1896, p. 171.)
The report of the Commissioners is dated June 20 ,
1850. (Cotton, p. 216.)
William Tait aged 28 years.
Theregister gives " James Tate of Kandy, aged 30,"
buried on September 1, 1850.
Makia Anne, the beloved wife of J. R. Bell. She
died at Kandy aged 23 years.
She was the eldest daughter of Lieutenant.
Robertson, Gun Lascars, of Galle Face, Colombo,
■and married J. R. BeU, a merchant of Colombo, at
St. Andrew's, Colombo, October 16, 1846.
George Henry Freckleton, who died in Kandy
in his 26th yeai .
There was a Thomas Freckleton on Great Valley,
Deltota, in 1851, probably a brother, who married
Ceciha Waring, June 5, 1851, at Kandy. There was
a firm, Freckleton, Keir & Co., in Kandy in 1851
(See No. 1223.)
( 308 )
Serial No.
1139 .,
1140
1141 .
Date.
Sept. 16
1851
March 14
1852
Feb. 20
1853
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Name. In.scription.
Henry William D'Esterre. . Henry William D'Esteeee of Limerick, who died
at Kandy on the 16th September, 1851, aged 20
years.
A brother of J. H. D'Esterre, long a resident of
Kandy.
John Henry Cornell
Mary Ann Keir
1142
1143
April 4
1853
Dec. 12
1853
Francis Hubble Douee
Joseph O'Brien
1144
1145
May 19
1854
Sept. 21
1854
Mary Ann Stavers
David Meaden
1146
April 28
1855
Margaret Cheape
1147
Dec. 3
1855
John Macfarlane Plunkett.
James Plunkett
John Hbney Cobnbll, late of Newera EUia, eldest
son of John and S6phia Cornell of Maldon,
Essex, England, who departed this life much
lamented in Kandy aged 39 years.
Man appoints, but God can disappoint.
Erected to the memory of Mary Ann Thompson,
the beloved wife of Wm. Kbeb, aged 33 years.
" I must not dismiss the subject of the stand made
at the Messrs. Keirs' bungalow so lightly, nor forget
to name the hero of the rebellion, Mr, A. Keir. At
this bungalow where so gallant a stand was made
against the marauding natives, on thievish thoughts
intent, the ' Great Rebellion ' may be said to have
been put down." {The "Matale Rebellion," by
Captain J. M. Henderson.) Presumably, William
and John L. Keir were brothers of A. Keir.
Francis Hubble Dotjcb, late Lieutenant in H. M. 37
Regiment, who died at Kandy aged 27
years. This is erected as a token of esteem and
regqid by his brother officers.
The register gives his second name as " Hubbald."
Joseph O'Brien, only son of Peter- O'Brien,
Armourer Sergeant, 37th Regt., who was born at
King's Court, County of Cavan, Ireland, June,
1833, died at Kandy aged 20 years.
Open mine eyes the Lord is King
Who bears the general sin away
And to my ransomed spirit show
The glories of eternal day.
Mary Ann Stayers, aged 22 years.
P. W. Stavers was on Gonavy, Hewaheta, in
1844-51, probably later.
Capt. David Meaden, H. M. Ceylon Rifle Regiment,
who after a residence of 36 years in this Island died
at Kandy aged 66 J years.
Sergeant-Major David Meaden, 83rd Regiment, was
gazetted Ensign on November 17, 1818. He was
appointed Adjutant of the Armed Lasooreens,and on
March 25, 1820, Adjutant of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment
with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He was a fellow
passenger of Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell,
45th Regiment, author of "Excursions, &c., in
Ceylon," when he retimaed to England in the Princess
Charlotte, which left Colombo on August 27, 1823,
another passenger being the Rev. J. S. Pering,
Chaplain at Kandy from December, 1821. Captain
Meaden had married at the Cape on January 8, 1815.
His wife died at Colombo in' 1849 (see No. 175). He
was father of Lieutenant-Colonel James Meaden
of the Ceylon Rifles (see No. 448). His daughter,
Margaret Susan, married at Kandy, on January 9,
1857, Captam Lionel Hook, Ceylon Rifles. She died
at Trincomalee, February 2, 1858, aged 24. Another
daughter, AUce, married Captaia C. T. Clement, C.R. .
on January 1, 1852 (see No. 132).
Margaret, infant daughter of Sir John Cheape
born the 28th April, 1855, died at Galaha "
Major-General Sir John Cheape, G.C.B., com-
manded the British forces in the Second Burmese
war of 1853. He was the proprietor of several coffee
estates in Deltota, including Galaha and Vedaheta.
(See Cotton, p. 257.)
John Macfarlane Plunkett aged 47 years.
The remains of his brother James also rest here.
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd..
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1148 ..
Jan. 26
1856
. . Margaret Garvock
1149
Feb. 28
1856
Edmund Sampson Waring. ,
1150
June 12
1856
John'Spottiswoode]^Robert-
sori
2t
Inscription.
Margaret, widow of the late Major John Gabvook,
Assistant Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards.
She died at Kandy in the 69th year of her
age. This stone is placed by her beloved and
gratefully affectionate son.
A Colonel Garvock was Acting Quartermaster-
General. He married at Colombo, on March 2, 1857,
Blanche, youngest daughter of Colonel Clayton.
Edmund Sampson Waring, late of H. M.'s Ceylon
Civil Service, who died in Kandy aged 60
years.
E. S. Waring was a son of Sampson Waring,
Ordnance Storekeeper, Trincomalee, who arrived at
Triiicomalee in 1816, and died there in 1818, as did
his wife. The son was appointed Assistant in the
Cinnamon Department, December, 1822, under John
Walbeoff, who succeeded James Maitland, C.C.S.,
1805-22, just retired from the post of Superinten-
dent of the Cinnamon Plantations and Sitting Magis-
trate of the Mahabadde (Cinnamon Peelers). E. S.
Waring was appointed Assistant Government Agent
at Galle, on October 1, 1833, and Acting Assistant
Agent in charge of the Cinnamon Sorting Store at
Colombo, on February 17, 1838 ; District Judge,
Ma tale, on May 1, 1842 ; and Commissioner of
Requests and Police Magistrate, Matale, on January
1, 1845 : this office, under the new minute, super-
ceding that of District Judge. In accordance, too,
with the new arrangements, he had a kachcheri, and
performed certain revenue duties. He left Matale on
July 28, 1848, when the kachcheri was looted by the
Kandyans. His conduct was called in question by
Government, and he retired on October 1, 1848.
Captain Henderson, £he author of " The Matale
Rebellion," however, defends him (pp. 16, 30).
This memorial is erected by his sorrowing parents to
the memory of John Spottiswoode Robertson,
Esq., of HiUside, Dolosbage, born in Edinburgh,
13 October, 1823. Killed by an elephant
Eldest son of William Robertson, Esq., late one
of the Deputy Keepers of the Records of Scotland.
He was on a shooting trip with some friends. The
obituary notice in the Colombo Observer of June 24
states that the catastrophe happened in the Penylan
jiuigle, but an old resident of the Dolosbage district
informs me that it really took place in the Barna-
galla jungle, below the road leading from the main
road at the 9th mile to Bamagalla estate and
Penylan. This was the seventh and last death of a
European in Ceylon caused by an elephant. The
first case was that of a Sergeant of the 73rd Regiment,
who in 1815, diu'ing the march of the British forces
on Kandy, attacked, with Lieutenant Lyttleton
(the artist), an elephant, which pursued them. The
Sergeant was torn piecemeal, and the Lieutenant
found safety in a tree, where he was obliged to remain
many hours closely watched by the elephant (" Asiatic
Journal " ). This was followed by the deaths of Major
Haddock in 1828 ; of Private James Buchanan, of the
78th Highlanders, near Nuwara Eliya, on March 28,
1833; of young Wallett in 1838; of John Keane, a
planter, near Rahatungoda, in 1846; andof David
Segar and Robertson in Dolosbage in 1856. The
Observer in its account of the death of Robertson states
that " it was not the same tusker that killed Mr.
Segar," so that the death of the latter must have
taken place not long before that of Robertson, but no
account of it can be obtained from contemporary
newspapers. 'The following account is from the
recollection of Mr. George Lindsay White of Nuwara
Eliya : — " The brothers Jonas and Israel Segar withMr.
White started planting on Puprassie and Torrington
estates. There was with them a younger brother
David. The three brothers went after an elephant.
David had no rifle, so he made a cross with two sticks
and fixed a shirt on it, intending, if chased by the
elephant, to plant the cross in the midlde of the path.
82-09
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Serial No.
Date.
1150 ..
June 12
1856
Old Garrison Cemetery, iKandy
Name.
John Spottiswoode Robert-
-contd.
1151
1152
Sept. 29
1856
Feb. 5
1857
son — conid.
Mary Anne Meaden
Otellne Rudd
Inscription.
The elephant did chase him, and David, whether he
had time to make use of the cross or not is not
known, slipped and fell, and the elephant trampled
him to death." Mr. White states that this happened
in the sam.e year as Robertson's death. An account
of the fatality to Keane is given elsewhere.
Maey Anne Meaden, who died at Kandy.
This must have been a third daughter of Captain
Meaden, C.R. (See No. 1145.)
Oteline, late wife of William Rudd, Esq., 5th
February, 1857 ; aged 37 years.
She was a Miss Prins, daughter of Cecil Arnoldus
Prins, Acting- King's Advocate Fiscal, "who had
elected to remain in Ceylon when so many of his
relatives left for Batavia. Prins had by studying the
English language qualified himself for the post which
he occupied " She married William Rudd on
December 23, 1839, at St. Peter's, Colombo. He
married (2) Harriet, daughter of John Berry, on
May 25, 1861, and (3) Adelaide Smith, in June, 1873.
W. Rudd was a Norfolkshire man (born June 6,
1822, died March 29, 1877), and was trained at
Maudslay's foundry as a fitter, came to Ceylon in
1830 with his uncle Henry, who had been commis-
sioned by Government to bring out the machinery for
the Puttur well in the Jaffna peninsula (some of it can
still be seen there, lying about). French Gray was a
fellow passenger. He was at first in Government
employment as an engineer, then in that of Aekland
and Boyd, and as a planter under George Bird at
Sinnapitiya. He was a planter in Balangoda in
1839, opened Galoya, Hantane, in 1840-41, with
Dowdall as his assistant, also Haloya, then called
Wattegoda. He was on Handugala during the
Ma tale rebellion and received a bullet wound. He
sold Handugala to S. Thwaites. His second wife
bought the greater portion of New Galoya and called
it Uplands. In 1847 he purchased 300 acres in Kitul-
gala from J. C. Albrecht. He was for 42 years in
active work as a planter. He was " a man of broad
mind, somewhat reserved and stem, and of great
mertal and physical vigour." ("Pioneers of the
Planting Enterprise," by J.Ferguson.) His first wife
left seven children, two of whom have settled in the
Island ; one, John Rudd, was for many years Super-
intendent of Police at Jaffna.
"In the coffee crisis of 1847-48, BUly Rudd, who
divided with Mr. Tytler the honoior of being the oldest
planter in Ceylon, was among the first to be sold up.
He had large and extensive estates in Hantane,
Ambegomuwa, and other parts of the Island, besides
a tract of land about the size of an ordinary Scotch
county in the kingdom of Travancore. This last
was held by the Rajah of that country, subject to the
payment of a peppercorn yearly of feu-duty in the
event of its being demanded, and at Rudd's sale
in Kandy it was knocked down to the writer for
£1. 19s. 6d. He sold it the same afternoon for £5
to Mr. Francis, and it is now covered with plantations,
which for some time yielded a handsome return to
their owners. Rudd's other estates were sold for
sums equally ridiculous, and properties which a couple
of years before would have fetched tens of thousands
of pounds were disposed of for a few hundred rupees."
("Ceylon and its Pioneers," by W. Boyd, Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. II., p. 225.)
"Billy Rudd, whose domains, both in India and
Ceylon, covered whole mountain ranges and provinces,
and who dispensed a princely hospitality, was
reduced to utter poverty. I have sat at Billy's
board, I have drunk his champagne, and listened to
his anecdotes and Latin quotations untU my sides
ached with laughter, and I have some satisfaction in
thmking that I was one of those who sincerely
sympathized with him in his misfortunes. I met him
in Kandy after the crash, when he told me with a
heavy sigh, but with a manly and cheerful counte-
nance, that they — I suppose his creditors — had not
left him with a chair to sit on. ' If I had one they
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1152 ..
Feb. 5
1857
Oteline Ruii—contd
1153
1154
1155
1156
1157
Sept. 2
1857
Oct. 1
1857
Dec. 22
1857
Aug. 12
1858
Aug. 23
1858
David Moir
Martin Fraser
William Elleray
James Macpherson
Sarah Bury
1158
Nov. 27
1858
Louisa Sliipton
1159
Jan. 24
1859
Alice Capel Le Marchand
1160
1161
May 24
1859
June 9
1859
Alexander Lumsden
Farquhar McDonald
Inscription,
would roup it,' he said, ' yes. Sir, they would roup it,
but nil desperandum is my motto.' " (W. Boyd in
Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 282.)
" Recalling old Kandy acquaintances of this time,
how well I remember Billy Rudd amongst others,
a cheery old boy, and always amusing, with a
considerable contempt for the amenities of the
English language as spoken. His verbal report on
a coffee estate he went to visit was, ' that it was all
vhiteveeds,vips,andvalking sticks.'" (JohnTindall
in Monthly Literary Register, vol. III., p. 64.)
David Moib, who died at Halgalla, aged 31 years.
A planter in the Matale District. There were four
brothers, belonging
Moirs ,
Kincardineshire
to
the first, Peter,
St. Laurencekirk,
came out in 1843.
Martin, eldest son of John Pkaseb of Laggan,
Invernessshire, who died at Kandy aged
21 years.
William Elleray, Surgeon, lat? of Winster,
Windermere, Eagland, who died at Mahatennre
aged 33 years.
He was resident at Hunasgiriya.
James Macpherson of Kingussie, N.B., who died at
Kandy aged — years.
This stone is erected by Highlanders who desire thus
to record the piety, integrity, and sterling worth
of a countryman whose loss they deeply deplore.
Sarah, the dearly beloved wife of C. H. Bury
aged 22 years.
She is described as of Rambodde.
C. H. Bury was onDetallagalla, Matale, in 1851-53,
C. G. Bury on Raxawli in 1855.
One Mrs. Bury is described by Mr. R. Wade
Jenkins as the first lady resident on the Haputale
estates, as Mrs. Maingay (see No. 711) was the first
on the Badulla estates.
Louisa, the beloved wife of JohnShipton, who died
in Kandy aged XXV. years, and of her
infant son who died at Sinhapitiya, 25th Nov.,
1858, aged 2 months.
She was a daughter of Mr. A. Hickey, and married
Dr. Shipton, on April 2, 1857, at Coolock. She was
his third wife. (See No. 1284.)
Alice, wife of P. W. Le Marchand, aged 20 years.
She was a daughter of Captain Higgs, R.N. , Master
Attendant, by his second wife (see No. 211), and was
married on August 5, 1858.
F. W. Le Marchand was manager of the Mercantile
Bank at Kandy. and was known as " The Banker."
He married (2), on September 18, 1861, at Instow,
North Devon, Clara Maria, youngest daughter of Rev.
Rowland Bradstock. He was a brother of the Misses
Le Marchand of Jaffna, who married E. S. Whitehouse
(see No. 829) and Thomas Clark. He died at Instow,
North Devon, on April 21, 1873.
Captain Higgs's second daughter, Sarah Ann, by his
first wife, married at Trincomalee, on August 28,
1841, Lieutenant H. G. Remmett, Ceylon Rifles. (See
Nos. 149, 329.)
Alex. Lumsden, late of the Kadienlena Estate,
Kotmalie, died in Kandy aged 22 years.
Much and justly respected by all who knew him.
This stone is erected by his Aunt S. Lumsden
Shirrees, of Knowsie, Aberdeenshire.
Farquhar McDonald, eldest son of Capt. Donald
McDonald, late 42nd Highlanders, who died at
Kotmalie, aged 32 years. This stone was erected
by his Ceylon friends in affectionate remembrance
of his many amiable qualities.
He was in Kotmale in 1853.
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
1162
1163
Date.
Oct. 8
1859
■ April 12
1860
March 18
1858
Name.
Lewis Herbert Kilby
Grey Scott Cargill
Dora Grey Thompson
1164
May 12
1860
Philip Fineham
1165
1166
1167
May 13
1860
May 14
1860
Aug. 25
1860
Oct. 31
1860
Arthur Donald Spottiswood
William Donald Spottiswood
Harriet Scott Mitchell
Mark John Hill Sprott
1168 .,
Dec. 28
1860
James MacEwen
1169 .
May 9
1861
. . Elizabeth McKenna
1170 ..
. Aug. 13
1861
David Findlay
Inscription.
Lewis Herbert Kilby, late of 132, Fenchurch
street, London, who died in Kandy of acute
diarrhoea, aged 33 years.
He arrived in Ceylon on August 23, 1858, with
Hugh Blacklaw, went over to Cochin, but afterwards
came back to Ceylon.
Geey Scott Cargill, whodied atAlmaEstate
aged 27 years. Here also are interred the remains
of Dora Grey, niece to the above, and eldest
daughter of W. M. and Helen Thompson of Alma
Estate, Maturatte aged 17 months. This
monument is erected by David S. Cargill, Esqr.,
in affectionate remembrance of a beloved sister.
W. M. Thompson, of Templestowe estate, Ambe-
gamuwa, married Helen Cargill at Colombo,
September 6, 1855. David S. Cargill, of Messrs.
Milne, CargUl & Co., of the Fort, Colombo, married
Margaret, eldest daughter of John Traill, F.R.C.S., at
Arbroath, June 6, 1861.
Philip Fincham aged 31 years.
There was a wooden board with inscription , which
in 1903 was detached from the grave and was fast
decaying. It has now disappeared. He married
Sarah (Marion) Iraray, at St. Paul's, Kandy, on
September 16, 1850 (?). She was, it is presumed, a
daughter of Quartermaster Robert Imray (see
No. 29). Another daughter, Mary Anne, married at
Kandy, July 17, 1884, S. D. Thwaites, a brother of
Dr. G. H. K. Thwaites. There is land still called in
the plans " Fincham's Land " in Dumbara.
Arthur Donald and Wm. Donald, the twin sons of
Col. Arthur Cole Spottiswood and Jessy Eliza,
his wife, born 28th October, 1859.
Colonel Spottiswood, who belonged to the Bengal
Army, was living at Fairieland. According to the
obituary notice in the "Ceylon Almanac," William
Donald, the younger twin, died on May 14. Ciiriously
enough it is silent as to the death of the elder.
Harriet Scott, the dearly beloved wife of Robert
Mitchell aged 28 years.
She died at Kandy. He wae on Bambragalla
estate.
Mark John Hill, infant son of Revd. George W.
Sprott, Colonial Chaplain, born at the Manse,
Kandy, 20th May, 1860.
Dr. George Washington Sprott was Chaplain,
Scots' Kirk, Kandy, 1859-66, and afterwards
Minister of Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, and
of North Berwick (see No. 642). He died on
October 27, 1909, in his 81st year. He attained some
eminence as a writer on liturgies, and was one of the
founders of the Scottish Church Service Society.
James MacEwen, Manager of the Oriental Bank
Corporation.
He was manager of the Kandy branch.
Elizabeth McKenna, widow of Gunner jAMEa^-
McKenna, R.A., aged 36 years. ^
David Findlay, who was killed by the falling of
Mullegodde house, Kandy aged 38 years.
The house stood on the site of Miller & Co.'s shop.
The house was being repaired, when on Tuesday at
5 P.M. it collapsed. Besides Mr. Findlay, a European
assistant named Miller and also a Burgher assistant
received various injuries. The house had stood for
upwards of fifty years, and was the property of
Advocate J. A. Dunuwille. It had originally belonged
to Moligoda Adigar. In May, 1843, the Governor,
Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, was given by
the Adigar " a splendid entertainment at his house at
Kandy." Mr. Findlay's fu-st wife, Eleanor Faith,
died at Colombo, October 27, 1849, aged 22. He
married (2), at Colombo, October 1, 1850, Anne
Hicknell.
313 )
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy— cow^^^.
Ssrial No.
1171
Date.
Nov, 23
1861
Name.
Thomas Reeve Tucker
1172
May 29
1862
John Fraser
Inscription.
Thomas Reeve Tucker of Gona Adika Estate,
Kadooganawa, aged 34.
He married at Colombo , August 14, 1860, Elizabeth
Sarah Bennett.
Possibly a relative of the well known coffee planter
Herbert Tucker, owner and manager of Waradammana
and Lochnagar in the Matale District, and partner of
George Wall in dev loping a grant of land at Nalande,
in the sixties and early seventies, which did not prove
a success and was subsequently abandoned. Herbert
Tucker was a great sportsman and very exemplary-
planter — his estates being a picture of neatness and
careful husbandry. (H. B., in Ceylon Observer
Christmas Number, 1909.) He died in Ceylon, I
believe, from an accident with machinery, but there
is apparently no inscription to his memory.
Lieut. -General John Feasbe, Colonel of the 37th
Regt., andfor many years Deputy Quartermaster-
General to the Troops serving in Ceylon, who died
at Kandy aged 72 years.
A brave and accomplished soldier.
A devoted and affectionate father.
This tomb is erected by his surviving children.
General Fraser ' ' was with General Sir Charles Napier
at Marlow, and led the forlorn hope at the siege of
Burgos." ("Ceylon in 1837-46," by A.M. Ferguson.)
' He was gazetted to the 1st Ceylon Regiment from
the 24th Regiment as Captain on January 2'8, 1813.
He took part in the Kandyan war of 1815 and in the
suppression of the Uva rebellion. During the latter
operations he commanded an expedition into Kot-
male in August, 1818, and was in pursuit of Pilame
Talawwa (the third chief of notoriety of that name)
in the Kurunegala 'and Nuwarakalawiya Districts.
He was at " Dambool Vehary" on the morning,
and at Nikawewa, 16 miles distant, on the evening
of September 28. Next day he proceeded to Tirip-
pane, 18J miles, and the same night to " Nogere
Tank" (Nuwarawewa) at Anuradhapura, leaving
his detachment behind under Lieutenant O'Neill.
"In 1822, after the suppression of the rebellion,
Government having learned that another Pretender
to the Kandyan throne had set himself up (in
Neureoalava), Major Fraser of the Quartermaster
General's Department was sent off with a body of
troops, with orders to proceed by forced marches, so
as to lay hold of him and his abettors." This was
done, and Major Fraser caught the Pretender and
some of his ill-advised adherents. (Campbell, vol.
II., p. 231.) But, perhaps, General Fraser is best
known in connection with the satinwood bridge that
for many years spanned the Mahaweli-ganga at Pera-
deniya, and was one of the sights of Ceylon. It was
erectedin 1832-33. Work was begun in July, 1832,
and the bridge was finished by January, 1833. The
span was 205 feet with a single' arch. It was designed
by and set up under the superintendence of Lieutenant-
Colonel Fraser. Major Skinner says in his book :
"In 1833, while I was in charge of the work, the
Peradenia bridge was completed. This is a very
graceful bridge made entirely of satinwood
without a nail or bolt in it. A model of this bridge is
now in the South Kensington Museum" (p. 168).
The bridge lasted until 1905, wheti it was replaced bj-
an iron one. General Fraser had a great deal to do
with court martials and inquiries during the Matal©
rebellion and afterwards. He engaged in coffee
planting , and bought land extensively in the neighbour-
hood of Kandy, especially on the side of the road to
Haragama. " Fraser Lodge " in Kandy was built or
occupied by him.
In the fifties, " General Fraser (' Cheetah ' Fraser,
as the Kandyans termed him, because of his severity
in 1818) who did so much as Deputy Quartermaster -
General with his Assistant, then Lieutenant Skinner,
to map and road the island, resided in patriarchal
fashion with his family at Rangboda. One daughter
afterwards married Captain David Stewart of the
( 314
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1172 ..
May 29 .
1862
. John Fraser— comici,
1173
July 2
1862
Emily Viner
1174
1175
1176
Sept. 8
1862
Peb. 26
1863
May 21
1863
Oct. 9
1863
Charles Burnett
Edwin Matthew Kinsey
James Blacklaw
Francis Blaeklaw
Inscription.
Ceylon Kifles, and a second the Rev. W. F. Kelly,
Chaplain." (John Ferguson.)
" Married to one of General Fraser's daughters was
the late Col. David Stewart, who at one time delighted
the readers of the Observer with a series of graphic
letters signed 'Ane of Jock Tamson's Bairns.'
A heart more genial and a soul more Christian never
inhabited a human body than in the case of David
Stewart." (A. M. Ferguson, loc.cit.) (See No. 1115.)
Emily, the wife of Lee Viner, who died 2nd July,
1862, aged 35 years.
Lee Viner was brother of Thomas Viner. Wiltshire
and Hampshire estates in the Matale District belonged
to the latter, and were, " when coffee was king, a
veritable gold mme to T. L. V. , who spent a fortune in
races at home." Both he and his brother were very
horsey men. Lee Viner was the father of John
William Viner, Ceylon Survey Department, 1877-
1910.
Chaeles Bttenett, born at Fraserburgh on the 3rd
day of September, 1833, and died at Kandy
This stone was erected by his sorrowing friends in
Ceylon in remembrance of his Amiability and
Worth.
Edwin Matthew Kinsey aged 27 years.
Jambs Blacklaw aged 40 years. Feancis
Blacklaw died in Colombo aged 31 years.
Hugh Blacklaw, another brother, was long a planter
in Ceylon, and left the Island in 1907. He was on
Harmony estate in 1864, and married Maria Tate of
Dolosbage, February 16, 1864, at Kandy. He
writes in 1907, in the Times of Ceylon: — " The late
Mr. Peter Moir, who came from the same place as I did,
had come out to Ceylon in 1843. He was manager of
Messrs. Hadden's properties out here, and enticed a
lot of young people from our small town to come out
here. It was through his influence that my brothers
and I came to Ceylon. It is a very small town, ours.
It is St. Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, with a
population of about 2,000 souls, yet at one time there
were as many as fourteen St. Laurencekirk men in
Ceylon. There were my four brothers and I, the
four Moirs, James Taylor of Golconda, pioneer of tea
and cinchona, Robertson, father of Robertson
of the G. P. O., Petrie, the two Bissets, and Stiven
of Ancoombra, Matale West, who afterwards went
to Kandenuwara and died at the Galle Face Hotel
in 1868. Of my four brothers, James, who was in
Kotmalee, died in 1863, Alexander went out coffee
.planting in Brazil and died at Rio de Janeiro about
four years ago. Charles was long in Ceylon, and I
don't know where he is now. I arrived in Ceylon on
the 23rd August, 1858, in the good ship Briton, a sailer'
which came round the Cape, and did the voyage in
three months — just 120 days. She was a little ship
of but 350 tons Colombo was just a one-horse-
show sort of place. There were none of these big
buildings and hotels and shops. There were no
rickshaws and trams. You could not get a bandy for
hire in the streets unless you made special arrange-
ments with one of the hotels in the Fort. The Fort
was up then, with all its walls and fortifications and
gates, and you could not get through without being
challenged. There was very little of the town outaide
the Fort. There were two ho tels , frightfully dirty and
undesirable places to stay in. The Royal Hotel stood
where the Post Office is now, and there was a shanty
called the Galle Face Hotel, where the modem one of
that name stands to-day. They were both paragons
of dirt. The Galle Face Hotel was the sort of place
you get away from as soon as possible — it was so bad.
No privacy, no cleanliness, canvas partitions, and
dirt — worse than the fifth-rate places you see in some
towns now."
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Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1177 ..
Nov. 6
1863
Jane Grant
1178
1179
Nov. 26
1863
March 15
1865
Margaret Jolly Bisset
George Baxter Wilson
1180
April 6
1865
Walter Ross Dull
1181
April 12
1865
Margaret Jessie Northway
1182
April 23
1865
William Robert Lyte
Inscription.
Jane Fbasee, wife of William Grant, Esq., of the
Templestowe Estate, Ambegamoa, where she died
suddenly aged 31 years. This stone is
placed on her grave by her bereaved husband, who
mourns the loss of an affectionate wife and
exemplary mother.
" My first billet was on Templestowe estate, a
coffee plantation of about 400 acres, ten years old at
that time. It belonged to Lakeman. The Superin-
tendent was Chevenaux, a Frenchman from
Mauritius. From Kandy. there was one road to
Nawalapitiya. To get to Ambegamuwa you had to
hire a horse in Kandy at a shilling a mile. I went to
Templestowe riding the 33 miles on horseback from
Kandy, starting after breakfast and getting there at
5 o'clock in the evening — a long, trying ride. The
Templestowe coffee had to be taken down to Nawala-
pitiya on coolies' heads and carted down to Colombo
from there. There was no Dikoya then. It was
Ambegamuwa. There were a few estates around us
Agrawatta Galboda, Kurukudiya,
adjoining Templestowe." (Hugh Blacklaw.) There
were only three estates in Dikoya : Darrawella, Dikoya
and Dunbar, the latter just being opened. " You
will understand how isolated and helpless we were
when I tell you that there was no doctor nearer than
Gampola." {Ibid.)
Maegaebt Jolly the beloved wife of W. Bisset of
' Bowhill Estate aged 26 years.
W. Bisset and his brother James came from St.
Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.
Geoege Baxter Wilson, a native of Aberdeenshire,
Supt., Galaha, who died at Kitoolamoola of
remittent fever in the 21st year of his age.
Kitoolamulla is the estate just under " the Asses'
Bars," which are a conspicuous object at the 7J mile
(Akurana) as one drives into Kandy along the Matale-
Kandy road. Galaha factory is 17 miles from Kandy
on the Deltota road.
Waltee Ross Dxtsf, born at Edderton, Rossshire,
Scotland, 24 May, 1825, died at Kandy
aged 40 years. Much respected by a large circle of
friends and acquaintances.
He was in charge of several estates in the Kotmale
district . Upper Kalugala, Gowraka, Harangolla,
Halgoda, Oonoogal-oya, and Tispane.
Maegaeet Jessie, the beloved wife of William
NoETHWAY, died in Kandy aged 25 years.
Mr. Northway was on Bowlana estate, Deltota.
She died on Mount Pleasant estate, Kandy. Samuel
Northway, father of William { ?), was a sugar planter in
1835 on Sir Edward Barnes' estate of Gangoruwa,
where sugar planting was first tried. His eldest
daughter, Rebecca, married at Gampola, June 3; 1858,
Herbert To-wgood , a planter and a descendant of one of
the "Ejected Ministers of 1662.'"^ Another daughter,
Maria Catherine, married, on April 26, 1849,atKandy,
Lieutenant George Thomson Dawson, Ceylon Rifles.
Mary Emily Northway married, on November 1 , 1862,
at Kandy, E. C. Waring, son of E. S. Waring (No.
1149). Samuel Northway died at Gangaruwa on
July 29, 1850, aged 47. (He was buried at Kandy,
July 30.) (See No. 1268.)
William Robeet, second son of the late Henry
W. Maxwell Lyte of Berryhead, Devonshire,
England, died in his 19th year.
He was in the Gampola district. He was a
grandson of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, author
of the hynm " Abide with me," who married a Miss
Maxwell, daughter of Dr. Maxwell, a friend of Dr.
Johnson's, and went to live at Berryhead in the
* More probably the Bev. Richard Towgood, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Bristol, who was ejected by the Commonwealth
Government in 1646.
( 316 )
Serial No.
1182
1183
Date.
April 23
1865
July 14
1865
Feb. 20
1854
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy—contd.
Name.
William Robert Lyte—contd.
John Baker Graves
Campbell Mackinnon Graves
1184
July-18
1865
James Urquhart
1185
Jan. 20
1866
Josiah Philip Archbald
1186
1187
Oct. 26
1866
Nov. 19
1866
Donald Bain
Eliza Doveton Jolly
Inscription.
neighbourhood of Brixham in 1 822. He built a church
or Lower Brixham, and resided at Berryhead for
25 years, dying at Nice, November 20, 1847. (He
was bom at Marazion in 1793.) Berryhead was
originally built for a hospital, during tlie invasion
scare occasioned by Napoleon Buonaparte.
Captain John Bakee Geaves, late District Judge,
Kurnegalle, died at Kandy aged 66 years.
Campbell Mackinnon, infant sou of the above and
of Louisa Rose, his wife, died at Kandy
aged 6 months.
Captain Graves had been an officer in the 55th and
19th Foot. He was a son of the Rev. John Graves,
Rector of BalHngarry, Co. Limerick He joined the
19th Foot on November 10, 1825, and went on
half pay as a captain, December 24, 1825. He was
subsequently a Stipendiary Magistrate in Ireland.
The story is that having met Mr. Hanna, Police Magis-
trate of Kandy, while the latter was on leave, they
agreed to an exchange of appointments, which was
approved by the authorities. Captain Graves was
appointed to the Police Magistracy of Kandy, May 7,
1851, and became District Judge of Kurunegala
on March 1, 1861. He was generally known as
" Paddy Graves," and his character was in accordance
with his nickname. The stories about him and his
friend Denis Purcell, also of the Ceylon Civil Service,
would have suited the pages of Charles Lever. He
married (1) Lousia, daughter of Robert Bellew of
Balindini?s, Co. Cork; (2) Anne, daughter of James
Howlin of Ballycronigan, Co. Wexford ; and (3)
Louisa Rose, daughter of David Mackinnon, at Galle,
November 29, 1852. His daughter, Anna, by his
second wife, married Charles Murray, of Kotmale, at
Kandy, on February 1, 1853. She is still living.
Their son is Major-General Sir Archibald James
Murray, K.C.B. , C. V.O. S. Hanna was in the Queen's
Advocate's Department, and acted as Magistrate
at Kandy from May 5, 1847, during the absence of
Andrew Walker, C.C.S., being afterwards confirmed
in the appointment. During the Ma tale rebellion
Hanna commanded a company of Mounted Volunteers
{ Europeans ) raised at Kandy. {Henderson , pp . 46-7 . )
James Uequhart, born in the Parish of Mary town,
Scotland, who died of Cholera in Kandy
aged 32 years. Erected by the Proprietors of
Hantane Estate in appreciation of the worth of the
deceased, and of the zeal displayed by him for
their interest, while Manager of that property.
Josiah Philip Aeohbald, who departed this
life aged 38 years. Requiescat in Pace'.
Erected by his brother W. A. Archbald, 1868.
J. P. Archbald was on Galagedara estate in 1851 and
W. Archbald on Ambokke. The latter was in 1848
superiutendent of one of Lee Viner's estates in the
Matale District. "In 1859 Matale was the
worst district in the Island. There was a lot of
sickness." (H. Blacklaw.)
Donald Bain, who died at Kandy aged 33
years. The deceased was a native of Kingussie,
Invernessshire. He was a true Highlander, a
sincere fiiend, and much and greatly regretted by
all who knew him.
Eliza Doveton, widow of John Keith Jolly who
died at Parieland aged 49 years.
Their daughter, Elizabeth Catherine, married at
St. Paul's, Kandy, June 8, 1865, Thomas Steele,
C.C.S., who retired as Assistant Government Agent of
Hambantota. Another daughter, Isobel, married,
October 9, 1866, at St. Paul's, William Raymond
Kynsey , afterwards Sir William Kynsey and Principal
Civil Medical Officer of Ceylon.
( 317 )
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1188 ..
Feb. 20
1867
Charles Henry Newton
1189
1190
1191
1192
Oct. 4
1867
Nov. 22
1867
March 4
1868
March 5
1868
March 20
1908
Christopher Wren
William Watson Mackwood
Camillo Di Montebello
Drew •
James Souter
Alexander Fyfle Souter
1193 .
1194 .
1195 . ,
1196 ..
May 17
1869
Oct. 27
1869
May 24
1870
Nov. 26
1871
Henry Mackenzie
George Crowe
Louis Magnus Henry
William Charles Macready
Inscription.
Charles Henry Newton, C.E., of the Government
Engineering Staff, Ceylon Railway.
He was stationed at Kadugannawa, and died at the
age of 43. " Bishop Claughton went to his house
yesterday afternoon to rest on his journey down-
wards, and fcund Mr. Newton still conscious, but
dying of inflammation of the bowels. So Newton has
followed Home, each a victim to the exposure incident
to a great work which they did so much to initiate,
but the completion of which neither was destined
to see. The names of such men ought to live in the
Colony's annals." [Observer, February 21, 1867.)
Christopher Wren, 4th son of Richard Wren,
Buntingford, Herts, England. He died
aged 27 years.
He was a brother of the celebrated coach, Walter
Wren.
William Watson Mackwood, of Scarborough, who
died at Gampola from injuries received in an
accident aged 20 years.
He was alighting from his horse on a clearing on
Galboda estate, when he was transfixed by a stake
placed to mark out the ground. (See No. 159.)
Capt. C. M. Drew, late H. M. 24th Foot, Provincial
Superintendent of Police, Southern Province,
Galle, who died at Kandy aged 42 years.
(See No. 634.')
James Souter, who died suddenly at Kataboola
Estate aged 24 years. Much respected by
all who knew him. This tablet is erected by his
two brothers, Joseph Robert and Alexander
Souter.
Also Alexander Fyffe Souter of WesthaU.
Kotmalie, and WiharegaUa, Haputale, who died
at Agra-oya, Watawala aged 61 years.
Kataboola estate is between Nawalapitiya and
Kotmale.
Henry Mackenzie, Superintendent of Newton,
Dickoya, aged 28 years.
George, 3rd son of Alex. Crowe, Esq., of Woodcote
Grove, Epsom, Surrey, who died at Kandy
aged 25 years.
He was a planter in the Matale District.
Louis Magnus Henry, planter, Dickoya, son of the
late Joseph Henry, SoUcitor, Dublin, who died at
Gampola aged 41 years.
L. M. Henry was on Angammana, Gampola, in
1868.
William Charles Macready, late of the Ceylon
Civil Service, died at Puttalam aged 39
years.
The burial did not take place until December 30,
the body having been brought up to Kandy from
Puttalam.
W. C. Macready was a son of the celebrated actor,
WiUiam Macready, by his first wife Catherine Frances
Atkins, an actress, whom he married and who died in
1852. The actor married in 1860 (2) Cecilia Louisa
Frederica, fifth daughter of Henry Spencer, whose
wife was a daughter of Sir William Beechy, R.A.,
the portrait painter. He died on April 27, 1873.
Charles Dickens was an intimate friend of the family,
and the following extract from a letter of his to
Clarkson Stanfield, the artist, refers to William
Macready's sons by his first and second wives : — •" His
boy by the second marriage is a jolly little feUow, and
leads a far easier life than the boy child you and I
remember, who used to come in at dessert and have a
biscuit and a glass of water." W. C. Macready was
82-09
( 318 )
Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy— cowid.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1196 ..
Nov. 26 .
. William Cliarles Maeready—
1871
contd.
Inscription,
educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford,
was appointed to the Ceylon Civil Service on June 12,
1854, and was successively Assistant Government
Agent at Kandy, Puttalam, Kurunegala, Colombo,
and again at Puttalam. In 1862 fie was District
Judge of Kurunegala. His Administration Reports
are most able and interesting documents, and his
literary and administrative capacities were of a high
order. He published in 1865 a translation of the
Sinhalese poem by Sri Rahula of Totagamuwa, " Sela
Lihini Sandese ; the Sela's Message, with Notes and
a Glossary, for the use of Students."
He married, on October 6, 1857, at Kandy, Mary,
daughter of E. S. Waring, CCS,, retired. His son,
William Charles Maeready, is Assistant Postmaster-
General of Ceylon.
1197
Dec. 13
1871
Frederick Wernham
This Tomb is erected by Jessie Weenham in
affectionate remembrance of her husband Fee-
DERiGK Weenham, late of Banffshire, Scotland,
who died on Troop Estate, DimbuUa aged
38 years.
F. Wernham of Kabbaragalla, Yakdessa, married
Janet Anne Anderson, of DaUeagles, Dolosbage, at
Gampola, November 8, 1864. Witness : G. S. Ander-
son. He was on Harangolla, Kotm.ale, in 1868.
1198
Jan. 20
1872
Henrietta Maria Waring
1199
Sept. 10
1872
Thomas Denroche McCall
Henrietta Maeia, widow of the late E. S. Waeing,
Esq., Ceylon Civil Service, born November 30th,
1805, died at Kandy aged 66 years.
She was a daughter of Jean David Rabinel, and
married E. S. Waring, C.C.S., on November 3, 1820,
at Galle. Their eldest daughter (?), EUza Johanna,
married Lieutenant J. R. Graham Pattison at Galle
on September 21, 1840 (see No. 611). The third
daughter, Henrietta Anne, married Major Vanderspar
(see Nos. 565 and 566). Another, Maria, married at
Kandy, August 12, 1848, John Forbes Moir. A
fourth daughter, Cecilia, married at Kandy, on J\ine
5, 1851, Thomas Freckleton. A fifth, Anne, married
at Kandy, on December 16, 1851, William Parker
Charsley, Principal Civil Medical Officer. The son,
Edmund Charles Waring, afterwards superintendent
of Horakele estate in the ChUaw District, married
at Kandy, on November 1, 1862, Mary EmUy
Northway. Cecilia Freckleton, widow, married at
Kandy, November 29, 1866, Richard Hawksworth
Barnes, of Gannoruwa estate, Peradeniya, a son of
Sir Edward Barnes, the former Governor of Ceylon.
Her daughter by Thomas Freckleton, Alice Mary,
married, on October 5, 1876, Lieutenant Bromhead
of the 24th Regiment, one of the heroes of Rorke's
Drift. (See No. 1149.)
Thomas Deneoche McCall, beloved son of Thomas
and Anna McCall of Fairfield, Hamilton, Scotland,
who was drowned in the Bogawantalawa-oya ....
aged 24 years.
Erected by his fellow planters in Hewahette who had
learned to love him well, and by those in Ceylon
who had known him at home.
Messrs. McCall, Chisholm, Watts, and L. H. Kelly
were crossing the Hambantota-oya (as it is called in
the Ceylon Observer of the time), which was in flood,
in a canoe belonging to the last named, from Castle-
reagh in Dikoya to Somerville estate in Maskeliya,
and while landing McCall caught hold of a stump
and the canoe capsized. McCall and Chisholm were
carried over the rapids and drowned. Kelly and
Watts managed to swim ashore. Chisholm's body
does not appear to have been ever recovered. A
similar fate happened to McKenna of Blfindale
estate, Maskeliya, in the early eighties. He bathed
in the river just above the falls when it was in flood.
He was carried over the falls, and his body was
never recovered. McCall was on Wanarajah estate
(south). There were " terrible floods " on the Maha-
weli-ganga and other rivers up-country in 1872.
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Old Garrison Cemetery, KsLndy—contd.
Serial No.
1200
Date.
Feb. 19
1873
' Name.
Herbert Edward Compton
Gray
1201
1202
March 10
1873
June 28
1873
James Gibson
Elizabeth Gregory*
1203
June 28
1873
Harmood Banner
1204 .
. Nov. 13
1873
. . A. MeGill
1205 .
Aug. 14
1874
Sarah Louisa Sackmann
1206 .
. Nov. 14
1874
Russell Drummond
1207 .
Jan. 8
1875
Jane Lewis
1208 .
. Feb. 27
1875
Robert Arnott
1209 .
. April 15
1875
Amelia Anderson
Inscription.
Herbert E. Compton Gray, the only and dearly
beloved son of Charles Edward Gray, Vicar of
Skipwifch, Yorkshire, and Adeline Geraldeste,
his wife, and grandson of the late Sir Herbert
Compton. He died at Kandy aged 27
years, deeply lamfented by family and friends,
and irreparably by his sorrowing mother and
twin sister.
He was on " Calloogallatenne " estate, Rattota,
Matale. He had previously been in Kotmale.
James Gibson, second son of Charles Gibson,
merchant, Pitlochry, Perthshire, N. B., who died
• at Kandy aged 26 years.
He was on Meddecnmbra and had been on Waria-
pola.
Elizabeth Gregory died at Kandy
She was wife of the Right Hon. William Henry
Gregory, who was Governor of Ceylon, 1872-1877.
She was a daughter of Sir William Clay, Baronet,
bom July 13, 1817, and widow of James Temple-
Bowdoin, Esq. She married Sir William Gregory on
January 11, 1872. She died at the age of 43 after a
trip to Anuradhapura. Sir William Gregory says in
his " Autobiography " (p. 324): "On my return from
my journey I foiuid her suffering from illness brought
on by too much exposure to the heat of the sun.
After a few days, first of anxious, then of hopeless,
watching, she passed away, conscious to the last."
She ' ' was a sister of Sir Aithur Clay, whose father
had been a great City man. She had a remarkable
charm of manner, which was all too soon lost to
Ceylon society, through an attack of illness
(dysentery) which she herself, I believe, treated
improperly, on the way to Anuradhapura." (Rev.
R. Abbay in Ceylon Observer Christmas Number,
1908.) Sir William Gregory, after he left Ceylon,
married (2) " Miss Persse of Galway, who writes freely
on irish legendary lore."
Harmood Banner of Derryclare, Dimboola, eldest
son of Harmood Walcot and Margaret Banner
of Liverpool, England aged 25 years.
" Three or four (planters) crossing to get to
Maskeliya (all in forest then) had a narrow escape on
a raft, and an amusing incident occurred, which gave
one of them the name of ' Pedigree Banner ' (Harmood
Banner from Liverpool)." (Correspondent of the
Ceylon Observer, September, 1908.) One of the present
M. P.s for Liverpool is Mr. Harmood Banner.
In the early seventies there were in Dimbula ' ' a
score of men, such as Gow, Stronach, E. L. Thomas,
Harmood Banner, Cameron, Grant, Bree, and Martin,
that are now but names pretty well forgotten."
H. Banner had been on Handurukanda, Ktirunegala
District.
Erected by a few friends in Kandy in memory of A.
McGiLL, who died suddenly from Sunstroke at
Rozell Estate, Ambegamoa aged 36 years.
Sarah Louisa, the well beloved wife of Frederic
Sackmann at Kaduganawa.
Russell Drummond, who died in Kandy aged
33.
Jane Lewis, the beloved wife of Frederick Lewis
of Battagalla Estate, Rangalla.
[Aged 50.] F. Lewis was on Mahaberitenna estate,
near Teldeniya,"in 1861.
Erected by his sorrowing relations in memory of
Robert Arnotis of Inverness, Scotland, who died
at his estate of Midlothian, Maskeliya aged
33 years, and is interred here.
Amelia, widow of the late Major J. F. Anderson,
K.H. She departed this life at The Parsonage,
Matale aged 65.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1210 . .
April 10 .
1843
George Tumour
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St. Paul's Church, Kandy.
A SUBSCRIPTION list for building a church at Kandy was issued in 1841. Plans and estimates, the latter
amounting to £2,371, were prepared by the Civil Engineer in 1842, the foundation stone was laid by the Bishop
of iladras in 1843, and the church, though unfinished, was opened on Sunday, August 10, 1846. The estimate
had been increased to £3,000, but the building, in its uncompleted state, had already cost £5,000. The tower had
been only partly built. The Ceylon Times of August 21, 1846, describes the church as " an ignoble monument
of bad taste and a preposterous example of ignorance of design and of architectural principle," and discusses the
question " whether the ugly tower, of a piece with the whole design, should be raised to the Intended height."
Apparently it was answered in the affirmative. But whatever may be said of the architecture, the church was
well buUt of excellent bricks made at the Government brick works. It was completed and consecrated in 1852.
It contains a marble tablet, erected in 1843, on which are recorded the names of the building committee,
which included, among others, Captains W. T. Layard, R. MyUus, Lieutenant Henry Bird, Messrs. Louis Bird,
S. Butler, C. Delagal, D. B. Luidsay, J. N. Mooyaart, C. Webster, and Josiah Lambert, F.G.S. A new chancel
was added by Archdeacon Matthew in 1878, but the bricks used were very inferior to those of 1842-52, and
had to be cemented over to preserve them from decay.
Inscription.
. . Sacred to the memory of George Tuenoub, Esq.,
the eldest son of the Hon'ble George Turnour
and Emelie, his wife. Born March 1 1th, A.D. 1799,
di^ at Naples, April 10th, A.D. 1843, aged 44 years.
Appointed to the Ceylon Civil Service in 1817, he
served under Government ivith distinguished
ability for a period of 24 years, and was enabled by
his researches in Oriental literature and profound
acquaintance with the ancient Pali language to
throw an important light upon the early history
and chronology of this Island, the scene of his
literary labours and valuable public services. In
erecting this tablet to the memory of one who
united in himself the accomplishments of a gentle-
man, the erudition of a Scholar, and the piety of
a Christian , his family are anxious to record in an
especial manner the deep, constant, and mutual
affection which in no ordinary degree subsisted
between him and his youngest sister, Jane, wife
of Capt. H. A. Atchison, Ceylon Rifle Regiment,
who died the year before her brother at Plymouth,
April 20th, 1842, in the 36th year of her age, leaving
behind her a bright example, in which were blended
the inestimable qualities of a devout Christian, an
affectionate wife, a devoted mother, and a faithful
friend.
George Turnour was born at Jaffna. He went to
England in the same ship as Governor Maitland, the
H. C.'s ship Thomas Orenville, which left Colombo on
March 15, 1811 (see No. 799). He was gazetted to
the Civil Service in 1817, and on his return to the
Island in 1820 was appointed. Assistant to the Com-
missioner of Revenue, succeeding Edward Tolfrey,
and next year Assistant in the Chief Secretary's Office ;
Assistant Collector, Colombo, and Collector, Kalutara,
January to Jrnie, 1822; Agent of Government in
Saffragam, 1825-27, and at Tamankaduwa ; Revenue
Commissioner, Kandy, 1828-32 ; Government Agent,
Central Province, 1833-41 ; Assistant Colonial
Secretary, and finally Treasurer, 1841. He left for
Bombay bythe Sea/ort/ionSeptember 21, 1841. Heis
buried in the "Old Protestant Cemetery" at Naples.
George Turnour made a name as the first translator '
of the Mahawansa, into EngUsh. In the Oizette of
July 20, 1 836, he advertized " The First Twenty Chap-
ters of the Mahawansa, tmA a Prefatory Essay on Pali
Buddhistical Literature," one volume, price £1. 10s.
He published " The Mahawansa in Roman characters
with the Translation subjoined, and an Introductory
Essay on Pah Buddhistical Literature, Part I.," in
the following year. He had contributed " An Epitome
of the History of Ceylon from Pah and Sinhalese
Records with Dates " to the " Ceylon Calendar " for
1833, and " An Epitome of the History of Ceylon to
the ' Ahnanac' for 1834," and the latter paper was
separately pubhshed -with the addition of " Trans-
lations of Historical Inscriptions," which had also
appeared ni the " Ceylon Ahnanac" at Colombo in
1836. " A Revised Chronological Table of the
Sovereigns of Ceylon " had appeared in the "Ceylon
Almanac " for 1834, and "An Examination of some
points of Buddhist Chronology " in the Journal of the
Bengal Asiatic Society for 1836.
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St. Paul's Church, Kaniy—contd,.
S:irial No.
1210
Date.
April 10
1843
Name.
George Turn our — contd.
Inscription.
"The Maftawansa, or Genealogy of the Great, is a
history of the Sinhalese kings. Its first section, which
was compiled about the year 470 a.d. from native
annals, treats of the Great Dynasty, i.e., the kings
who reigned from 543 b.o. to 301 a.d., after which
comes the history of those who are known as the
Suluwansa, or lower race, although the list includes
the great King Prakrama Bahu, by whose orders
the work was completed up to his time, r.e.,
1208-1266 A.D. Finally, it was carried on to the yeai-
1768 A.D. by command of the last King of Kandy,all
compiled from authentic native documents. Being
written in Pali verse, none but the most learned
priests could possibly read it , until in 1826
Mr. Turnour of the Ceylon Civil Service set himself to
master this terribly difficult task, and with marvellous
patience and ingenuity succeeded in so doing/'
('f Two Happy Years," vol. I, pp. 400-1.)
"As a man of considerable intellect, Mr. Tumour's
loss will be felt by the Colony. He was the ornament
of the Civil Service, and the only member of the body
who devoted his leisure hours to scientific pursuits.
Mr. Turnour was in politics a Tory, and the exclusive
principles of the party were still more narrowed in him
by the circumstance of the greater part of his life
having been spent in the Colony. But his bearing
towards those from whom he differed was always
most coiu'teous, and the delivery of his opinions most
inoffensive. If education, limited intercourse with
the world, and a conscious superiority of abUity io
those around him produced aristocratic feelings,
gentlemanly manners and easy address concealed
them — whilst his failings and foibles excited a smUe,
his talents commanded respect." So Dr. Elliott in
the Colombo Observer of June 12, 1843. This, of
course, was from the point of view of a Radical and
persistent opponent of the Government and of most
Civil Servants, but the Wesleyan Mission approved
of him.
"Mr. Gisborne was succeeded in the Collectorate
(of Kalutara) by Mr. Turnour, the learned translator
of the Mahawanso, who took great interest in the
work of the (Wesleyan) Mission, and gave it all the
assistance in his power, setting a good example by
regular attendance at the chapel, and imparting an
impulse to educational effort by visiting the school,
with the efficiency of which he expressed himself as
being highly pleased." (Hardy, p. 200.)
Lieutenant Heruy Alexander Atchison, Ceylon
Rifles, married Jane, youngest daughter of the Hon.
George Turnour (senior), at Kandy, on November 10,
1832. He was Staff Officer at Kandy, 1836-40. He
left for England on sick leave in January, 1841, with
Captain Roddy and Major Wallett, and did not
return to the Island. His son, born September 8,
1833, at the Old Palace, Kandy, became Captain.
George Turnour Horton Atchison, 67th Regiment.
He died, July 21, 1861, of smallpox. Captain H. A.
Atchison died a Lieutenant-Colonel at Rose Hill,
Dorking, September 25, 1869.
In January', 1825, Lieutenant Atchison explored
"the course of the Walawy river from the mountains
to the sea." (R. Brook's Report on the Mahaweli-
ganga.)
" Lieut. Atchison, tmder whose superintendence
the carriage road from Fort McDowall to Kandelly
or Dantalawa has recently been traced and opened."
(Report by G. Turnour, 1833.) He had been in
charge of the building of the abutments of the satin-
wood bridge at Peradeniya in 1832.
1211
June 17
1844
Sophia Lindsay
Sophia, wife of David Baird Lindsay, Esquire, in
the prime of life and dawn of maternal happiness
was called hence 17th June, 1844. Let this tablet
raised by pious sorrow as a memorial of her many
endearing and estimable qualities bear witness to
the Christian spirit wMcb influenced her life and
to the preciousness of that faith in the Commimion
of Saints by which the intercourse of dear friends ,
tried though it be and overcast by the dispensations
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1211 ..
June 17
1844
. . Sophia Lindsay
( 322 )
St. Paul's Church, KaMy—contd.
• Inscription.
-contd. . . of time, is held pure and perpetual in the resur-
rection to life eternal through Jesus Christ our only
Saviour and Redeemer. Aged 22.
She was the youngest daughter of the Rev. Norman
Garstin, Colonial Chaplain (No. 108), and married at
Galle, August 10, 1843. There is a curious reference
to her m the " Autobiography of a Periya Durai " :
" I was riding out on the Lower Badulla road one
evening when, passing a bungalow, I perceived a
young English lady plucking flowers in the garden in
front of the house. Now, with the exception of the
ladies I have already mentioned (Mrs. George Bird and
Mrs. Delegal) , I had never spoken a word to, nor indeed
scarcelj'' seen, a woman of my own race during m5^
long stay in Ceylon On the present occasion
the back of the fair one was towards me, but such a
beautiful fall of the shoulders and such a magnificent
contour of a head I had never before dreamed of, far
less gazed upon. The lady was dressed in a low-
bodied muslin gown, with short sleeves, which showed
her white, swelluag shoulders and rounded arms to
perfection, whilst her black glossy hair hung in wavy
ringlets down her swan-like neck. My heart fairly
swelled ia my bosom whilst I gazed on this picture of
unconscious loveliness. When I had ridden past the
house a short distance I turned and rode back, that I
raight gaze once more on a sight which, I felt, was
filling my soul with a dehcious intoxication. The lady
was still there and apjjarently speaking to some one
within the house, and her position remained unaltered.
I passed and re-passed the spot several times until I
began to fear that my movements might be observed ,
and that I would be exposing myself to ridicule."
This was an amplification of a previous description
of the same occmrence which he had included in
a series of papers called " Days of Old in Ceylon "
in the Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III. In the
earlier account he describes the lady as standing not
in the garden, but an open window, and he adds "I
never saw the lady again She was married
shortly after and died within a year of her marriage,
but her appearance as she stood at that open windo^v
is as fresh in my recollection now as it was when it
startled me more than forty years ago " He
adds in a note "that this lady was Miss Garstin,
afterwards the wife of Mr. David Baird Lindsay, and
that her brother was an officer of the 83rd Regiment."
(The last sentence refers to Lieutenant William Garstin
who joined the 83rd Regiment on May 23, 1829.)
David Baird Lindsay is chiefly remembered owing
to his connection with the great Rajawella case —
" a cause celebrein Ceylon. A coffee estate of large
extent and great value was the bone of contention
between certain executors of the orginal (then
deceased) proprietor. Money for the upkeep of the
estate had been advanced by the Oriental Bank
Corporation, and eventually, in satisfaction of claims
from the Bank, the estate was put up for Piscal's
sale and sold. One of the executors, Mr. Lindsay,
on his return from England, where he had made
financial arrangements, was startled to find that the
estate had been seized. Proceedings for recovery
were imrnediately commenced, and Mr. Morgan, with
the Queen's Advocate, was retained for the Bank.
Leading on the other side was Mr. Morton, an
Advocate from Calcutta Judgment was given
ten days after in favour of the Bank, but was appealed
against, confirmed in the Supreme Court, yet once
more went in appeal to the Privy Council." (Digby
vol. I., pp. 183-4.)
" Rajawella, the very finest estate at that time
(1847) in Ceylon, belonged to Lieut. -Colonel Lindsay
of the 78th Highlanders. In 1846 he was offered
£80,000 for this property, which sum he refused,
although he was wilhng to accept £100,000 for
it. The Colonel died in 1847, and his son David
Baird Lindsay reigned at Rajawella in his stead.
Mr. Lindsay had obtained advances on the security
of this property from the Oriental Bank. When
the great crash came, he was called on to repay
these advances. This he was uJiable to do at the.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1211 ..
June 17
1844
. . Sophia Lindsay-
( 323 )
St. Paul's Church, Kandy — contd.
Inscription.
-contd. . . moment, but he went to Colombo and arranged with
the Manager of the Bank that he should have six
months' grace allowed him to go home and try to
raise the money with which to pay off his debts.
Lindsay went home and returned with the cash before
the expiry of the allotted six months, but he found
that his properties had been sold in the meanwhile, and
himseK reduced to comparative destitution. Orders
had been sent from England to realize the property at
once, and the Bank Manager had obeyed their order
but too faithfully. The estates, for which £80,000
had been refused, were sold for a few hundreds.
Mr. Lindsay raised an action in the District Court
of Kandy for the restitution of his property, and he
obtained a decree in his favour. The Bank appealed
to the Supreme Court against this decision and got it
reversed. Mr. Lindsay then appealed to Her Majesty
in Council and obtained a decree in his favour, when
the Oriental Bank Corporation had to pay him the
full value of the estates, with the estimated profits
for the years during which this long and expensive
litigation was going on." (Boyd, "Ceylon and its
Pioneers," in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 226.)
The editor corrects this account by stating that ]\Ir.
D. B. Lindsay did not come back to the Island with
cash to pay for the property. "On the contrary,
he had to ' zigzag down from Kandy anonymously '
to avoid arrest." Further, " the action against the
Bank was brought in the name of Colonel Lindsay's
widow, and her son was made a co-defendant." Boyd
utilizes this story of the Rajawella case in his " Auto-
biography " as if it had been a personal experience
of his own.
On July 3, 1911, there occurred the death (place
not given) of " Eleanor EHzabeth, widow of the late
David Baird Lindsay, and daughter of the late Rev.
Anthony Garstin, aged seventy- three." Whether
she was the second wife of this David Baird Lindsay
or the wife of a son of his bearing the same name,
and how the Rev. Anthony Garstin was related to
the Rev. Norman Garstin, the compiler is unable
to say.
1212 . . June 7 . . Thomas William Rogers . . In memory of Major Thomas William Rogers of Her
1845 Majesty's Ceylon Rifle Regt., and many years
Assistant Government Agent of Badulla, this
tablet was erected by his brother officers &
numerous friends of all ranks, professions, and
occupations in, or connected with, the Island of
Ceylon in testimony of their respect and regard
for his integrity as a man, his ability as a public
servant, his gallantry as a soldier, and his amiable,
social qualities as a friend. He was stricken to
death by lightning at the Happootalle pass
Bungalow on Saturday, June 7, 1845. Aged
41 years.
A marble tablet.
" The sculpture represents a wood or forest in a
mist with a lowering sky above. The roof of a cottage
on the left appears embowered among lofty trees,
and in the foreground just by a palm tree struck by
lightning, the trunk, broken in two, falling down.
The forked Ughtning is most vividly portrayed. A
tableau quite in keeping with the quotation to signify
the cause of death." It may be added that the palm
tree is of a species which cannot be identified as
that of any fotmd in the Island, and that in the
background is Adam's Peak.
" Ensign Rogers, Ceylon Regiment," arrived at
Trincomalee by the Timendra in January, 1825.
" 2nd Lieutenant T. W. Rogers " was appointed
Adjutant, 1st Ceylon Regiment, vice Manwaring,
May 1, 1825. He visited England two years later,
for on August 22, 1828, he arrived at Colombo by the
transport Stentor, which 'also, brought Major Samuel
Bircham of the Ceylon Rifles and Mrs. and Miss
Bircham. In 1833 he was commanding at AUput.
For a further account of Major Rogers see No.
1379.
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St. Paul's Church, Kandy—contd.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
1213 ,.
March 8
1846
. Thomas Fletcher
1214 . . July 20 . . Charlotte Alexander Ken-
1846 nedy
Inscription.
To the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
Fletcher, who for 11 years held the command of
the Ceylon Rifle Regiment conjoined latterly with
that of the troops in these provinces this tablet
is erected by his brother officers to commemorate
their deep sorrow for his loss and to bear record of
the military worth for which he was so highly
appreciated as a soldier, the zeal and rectitude
that marked his public services, and the amiable,
sincere, and social virtues that endeared him to all
and adorned his character as a man. Having
served in early life in the Peninsula and at Wal-
cheren in the 6th Foot, and being present at RoUia,
Vimiera, and Corunna, he was appointed to the
Ceylon Regiment in 1810, was actively employed
in the Kandian operations in 1815 and 1818, and
after thirty-five years of Civil and Military duties
in Ceylon he retired and died at Malta on the 8th
March, 1846, aged 60 years, when returning to his
native land.
A marble tablet showing a female figure weeping
over an urn under a palm tree. Shako and sword
above, with guns and colours. The " Albert hat,"
a shako for infantry designed by the Prince Consort,
first appeared in Ceylon in 1846, but this shako is of
the older pattern.
Lieutenant Thomas Fletcher was gazetted from the
6th Foot to be Captain, 4th Ceylon Regiment,
October 6, 1810, and to command at Caltura, vice
De La Harpe, April 8, 1812. He was Captain, 1st
Ceylon Regiment, commanding at Bategedera, 1816 ;
ditto at Ratnapura, 1817-18 ; ditto at Alupota, 1820,
and again in 1825-27 ; Major, 1833. He engaged in
coffee planting, and had an estate " near the Peacock
Mountain' ' in 1 842. This is the present Peacock estate.
Bennett refers to " that excellent and distinguished
officer. Colonel Fletcher " (p. 309).
Sacred to the mem.ory of Chaelotte Alexander,
the beloved wife of J. Kennedy, Esqr., who
departed this life the 20th July, 1846, and to the
above James Kennedy, who died the 16th Novem-
ber, 1871.
She died at Hantane estate bungalow " after a
long and painful illness." Ciu-iously enough a Mrs.
Kennedy and her daughter died of cholera at Kandy
on August 12 and 13, 1846.
1215
Jan. 28
1847
Martin Lindsay
Sacred to the memory of Colonel Maetin Lindsay,
C.B., 78th Highlanders, died here 28th of January,
1847, in his 66th year, esteemed and regretted by
aU who knew him.
He was Commandant of Kandy. He was gazetted
Ensign in 1794 (when he was in his thirteenth year) ;
Captain in 1801; Major, 1810; Lieutenant-ColoneL
November 25, 1813; Colonel, July 22, 1830. He
arrived in Ceylon with the 78th, which regiment he
commanded from 1819 to 1837. He was Comman-
dant of Trincomalee in 1 833. He married at Aberdeen
in 1817, Elspet, second daughter of James Hadden,
Provost of Aberdeen " and ancestor of nearly all
the Haddens of Ceylon." Their second daughter,
Charlotta Anne, married, on June 5, 1845, Alexander
Pirie, an imcle of Captain Duncan Vernon Pirie, who
was A.D.C., 1890-93, to Sir Arthur Havelock, Gover-
nor of Ceylon, 1890-96. On January 27, 1829, a son
of Colonel Lindsay, Edward James, by his wife Elspet,
born December 7, 1828, was baptized at Kandy,
when Sir Edward Barnes and George Turnour, C.C.S.,
were ?he godfathers. He had a son, Martin George
Thomas, a Captain in the 78thi also stationed at
Kandy apparently, for two days before this baptism a
daughter of Captain Lindsay, born on January l,had
been baptized at Kandy. Another son of Colonel
Lindsay, Alexander Hudson Lowe, born August 10,
1830, was baptized at Kandy, September 2, 1830.
( 325 )
Serial No.
Date.
1215 ..
Jan. 28
1847
St. Paul's Church, Kandy
Name.
Martin Lindsay — contd.
-contd.
1216
May 9
1850
June 3
1850
Harriet Margaret Gaskell .
William Rothwell Gaskell
1217
May 17
1850
Ellenor Ann Simpson
1218
June 13
1851
Henry Templer
Inscription.
Colonel Lindsay had served in the campaign in Java
in 1811, including the actions of August 22 and
September 16, in which latter he commanded eight
companies of the 78th, also in the campaign in
Holland in 1814, including the action at Mersem and
the bombardment of Antwerp.
Id memory of Harriet Margaret Gaskell, who
died in Kandy on 9fch May, 1850, aged 33 years.
Also of William Rothwell Gaskell, husband of
the above, who only survived her a few weeks and
died on the 3rd June in Bombay, aged 31 years
and 9 months, at the residence of Alexander
Hadden, Esquire.
Lo, these are parts of his ways. But the thunder of
his power who can understand ? Job. 26-14.
Mrs. Gaskell's tomb with inscription is in the
Garrison burial gTOund. W. R. Gaskell was on
Naranhena estate in Hewaheta in 1842-44.
In 1842 " the bungalow of Messrs. Pride and Gaskell
at Hewaheta, 10 or 12 miles from Kandy," was broken
into by thieves. In May, 1848, W. R. Gaskell wrote
a letter to the Ceylon Times opposing the poUcy of
the Colombo Observer as regards the Matale rebellion,
charging it with ' ' causing the unhappy disturbances
and destruction of property we now daily witness."
Sacred to the memory of Ellenor Ann, the beloved
wife of James Simpson, Kandy, who died the 17th
of May, 1850, aged 21 years and 2 months.
On June 23, 1849, at Kandy, James Simpson,
Manager of the Bank of Ceylon at Kandy, married
Ellenor Ann, eldest daughter of Charles Morrison of
Yagahahena estate, Dumbara. Simpson was after-
wards Police Magistrate of Point Pedro and Chava-
kachcheri. Of Mrs. Simpson Sir William Twynam
says, " old Mrs. Fisher told me that she was a very
pretty girl." The Mrs. Fisher referred to was the
wife of Captaiu William Fisher, mother of Lord
Fisher and of F. C. Fisher, CCS. James Simpson
died at Point Pedro, May 29, 1871.
In memory of Henry Templer, Esquire, son of the
late George Templer, Esq., of Sandford Orleigh,
Devon, of Her Majesty's Ceylon CivU Service^
Assistant Government Agent and Police Magistrate
at Matelle, this tablet was erected by the Ratte-
mahateyas, Koralos, Aratchies, and other influen-
tial natives of the district, as a token of the
high estimation iti which they held his character
and their sorrow for his loss. He was endeared to
them by his amiable disposition, and by the
conscientious discharge of his public duties he
commanded their respect ; in the midst of a useful
and honourable career he was cut off by disease
incidental to the climate at the early age of 28
years, 13th June, 1851.
Also an inscription to the same effect in Sinhalese.
Henry Templer was a son of George Templer of
Sandford Orleigh, Devon, a brother of F. J. Templer,
CCS., and came out to Ceylon by the ship Achilles',
arriving September 10, 1839. He was Acting Sub-
Collector of Customs at Kalutara from April 6, 1841
and for a short time, in November of the same year',
during the absence of J. Lavalliere, acted as District
Judge, Kalutara, which occasioned the Colombo
Observer to complain of "a lad of about nineteen
acting as District Judge." He was appointed to the
CivU Service, July 6, 1842 ; Assistant Government
Agent, Galle, February 1, 1843 ; ditto, Jaffna, March
1, 1845 ; acting ditto at Kurunegala, May 13, 1848 •
ditto, Jaffna, August 27, 1848 ; Assistant Government
Agent, Matale, October 1, 1848, succeeding E. S
Waring. He married at Galle, June 5, 1844, Cornelia
Theresa, daughter of Captain Bagenall (see No. 128)
Then- son, George William Templer, CCS. (1866-95)
was bom at Jaffna, January 7, 1847. A sister of
Henry's, Caroline Mary, married at Kandy, April
1845, Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Svdnev PlrmlrAf'
youngest son of Lord Louth.
Sydney Pli'inket^
2x
82-09
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1219 ..
June 21
1854
James Armar Butler
( 326 )
St. Paul's Church, Kandy — contd.
Inscription.
In memory of Captain James Armar Butler, half
pay, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died June 21,
1854, aged 27, at Silistria, on the banks of the
Danube, from wounds received whilst gallantly
aiding the Turkish forces in their heroic defence
of that fortress against the Russian Army. By
his firmjiess, skiU, unwearied energy, and intrepid
daring, this young Volunteer infused into that
Garrison the spirit of determined resistance which
led to its triumphant defence. His brilliant
services obtained the approbation of his Sovereign,
the intelligence of which honourable distinction he
did not live to receive.
Sept. 22 . . William Leman Braybrooke Lt. and Adjt. William Leman Braybbooke, of the
1854 Ceylon Rifle Regiment, who died September 22nd,
1854, aged 26. He fell mortally wounded on the
20th of the same month whilst serving as a Volun-
teer in H. M. 95th Regt. and heroically leading a
Company of tliat Corps to the assault of a formid-
able Russian entrenched position at the battle of
the Alma. As adjutant of his Regiment for a
period of nearly seven years he was deservedly
beloved & respected, and his loss is deeply and
universally deplored. This tablet is erected by
the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates
of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment as a tribute of regard
and esteem and as a memorial of the admiration
inspired by the distinguished gallantry of their
lamented comrades.
A marble monument consisting of a tablet flanked
by figures of a British and a Turkish soldier, rather less
than life-size, resting on their arms reversed, with the
badge of the Ceylon Rifles.
Of persons commemorated in this church. Captain
Butler shares with George Tumour and Sir F. Dickson
the honour of a notice in the "Dictionary of National
Biography." He was a son of Lieutenant-General
the Hon. H. E. Butler, and joined the 90th Regiment
as ensign in 1843. He went through the Caffre war,
1846-47, and purchased a captaincy in the Ceylon
Rifles in May, 1853. He was on leave when war
broke out, and with Lieutenant Charles Nasmyth, of
the Bombay Artillery, joined the garrison at SiUstria.
He and Nasmyth " soon obtained over the garrison
the same absolute power that Eldred Pottinger
acquired at Herat." He was severely wounded on
Jime 13, and privation and hard work made the
wound dangerous. ' ' On June 22nd , two hours before
the Russians retired, the hero of Sihstria, who
deserves the credit, though but a young EngUsh
Captain of 27, of defeating a whole Russian army,
died peacefully without hearing of his triumph."
Wihiam Braybrooke was appointed 2nd Lieutenant,
Ceylon Rifles, July 11, 1845; Lieutenant, January 10,
1847. He was Adjutant in 1853 with Lieutenant
W. J. Gorman.
" When Sir Henry Ward came to Ceylon from the
Ionian Islands, the Titanic warfare in the Crimea was
fast drawing to its termination, and it fell to me to
convey to the Governor intelligence brought from
Galle by our carrier-pigeons of the faU of Sebastopol.
For the first and only time in history, I suppose,
royal salutes were fired to celebrate victory the
tidings of which were received by winged messengers.
The Crunea claimed many victims from the ranks of
those who had been loved and honom-ed in Ceylon.
Young Braybrooke, of the Ceylon Rifles, who had
volunteered, was one of the first to fall on the heights
of the Alma, and Colonel Champion, an accomplished
writer on the botany of Ceylon, was mortally wounded
while leading a charge at Inkerman. Sir George
Carthcart feU hi that terrible battle."
Sir WilUam Twynam describes Lieutenant Bray-
brooke as a:" fine cheery fellow, well liked m the
Regiment, generally known m the Regiment as
' Flapper. ' ' ' When the Crimean war broke out he got
leave and attached himself with one or two other
( 327 )
St. Paul's Church, KaniY—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1219 .
. June 21 .
. James Armar Butler,
&c.—
1854, &c.
contd.
Inscription.
Rifles officers to the 95th, which had not long before
gone home, having been stationed for a time in Ceylon
and Hong Kong.
He died after the amputation of a leg on board
H. M. S. Vulcan, Captain Von Donop, and his father,
Colonel Samuel Braybrooke of the Ceylon Rifles , under
the erroneous impression that he had not received
proper medical treatment on board the ship, wrote a
pamphlet criticizing the action of the naval and
medical officers. Colonel Braybrooke joined the 1st
Ceylon Regiment as a Lieutenant in 1812, arriving at
Colombo by the H. I. C. ship William Pitt on October
13, 1813. He married at Kandy, on September 23,
1822, Mary Ann, daughter of Major De Latre.
Another son of his was Philip Watson Braybrooke,
C.C.S., 1849-69, who retired in the latter year as
Government Agent, Central Province, which office he
held for nine years, and died, August 3, 1906, aged 82.
A third son, Charles, was a coffee planter, and for a
time Police Magistrate of Point Pedro. He retired
owing to an affection of the eyes. Of the daughters,
one, Isabella Boustead, married at Colombo, on
January 29, 1848, Lieutenant Edward Henry Powell,
7th Madras Cavalry ; another married George Vane,
CCS. ; and a third, W. D. Wright, CCS. Colonel
Braybrooke had a brother, John Frederick Garth
Braybrooke, also a Lieutenant in the Ceylon
Rifles.
1220 . . July 24 . . Henry Hermann Von Dad-
1852 elszen
This tablet is erected in memory of the Reverend
Henry Hermann Von Dadelszbn, Colonial
Chaplain of Kandy, by his congregation to record
their deep sense of his public usefulness and private
worth. He commenced his ministry in India in
1838 as a missionary of the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1842 he
was removed by the Bishop of Madras to Newera
EUia, Ceylon, where he remained four years ; in
1846 he was appointed Chaplain of Kandy, where
his earnest labours for six years endeared him to
all. The non-commissioned officers and privates
of H. M. 15th & 37th Regt., -vdio participated in
the benefits of his ministration, havs testified their
respect to his memory by erecting a monument
over his grave. During his last illness he expressed
a wish that this record should be placed on his
tonib — " The chief of sinners saved by grace
alone." Born 7th April, 1816, died at Kandy,
24th July, 1852, aged 36 years.
The tombstone alluded to is in the Garrison Ceme-
tery, Kandy. It bears an inscription stating that it
was erected by the non-commissioned officers and
privates of the 1 5th and 37th Regiments. His widow,
Mary Ann, married at Nuwara Bliya, June 1, 1854,
Lieutenant T. Jackson of the 37th Regiment.
His son, H. R. Von Dadelszen, a planter of Mora-
halkele estate, married Miss Mary McClaine at
Gampola on June 17, 1861. Their daughter. Amy,
married Lionel W. Booth, CCS. (Government Agent,
Central Province, 1911).
1221
Feb. 27
1865
John Keith Jolly
In loving memory of John Keith Jolly, who
departed this life at Mount Lavinia on Feb. 27,
1865, in the 50th year of his age, this tablet is
affectionately inscribed by his two daughters.
(Also an inscription on his tombstone in the Galle
Face Cemetery.) He had been a captain in the
Indian Marine, and was the owner of Fairieland
estate, near Kandy. One daughter married Dr.
W. R. Kynsey, the other Thomas Steele, CCS. (See
No. 768.)
His brother, Stewart, a planter, was the author,
under the pseudonjrm of " Aliquis," of a poem on
" Coffee," described by Mr. A. M. Ferguson as
" spirited." J. K. Jolly was in Ceylon from 1841 until
his death.
( 328 )
St. Paul's Church, Ka,ndy -contd.
Serial No.
1222
Date.
July 15
1874
Name.
Lawrence St. George Carey
Inscription.
To the glory of God and in loving memory of Law-
rence St. Gboege Caeey of Le-Vallon, Pusilawa,
who died at Guernsey, 15th July, 1874, aged 28
j'ears, the east wmdow in this church is given by
his widow, 1877.
On another brass it is recorded that the organ was
given in his memory "by his brother C. B. N.
Strachan. ' ' He married a daughter of James Strachan ,
proprietor of the Polwatta Mills. Hence the firm
Carey, Strachan & Co. (See No. 331.)
' ' The price of coffee nearly doubled itself in a very
short tune, and St. George Carey, who bought many
estates on the rise in quick succession, was estimated
to benefit to the extent of over £1,000 for every
shilhng in the rise of price. He went home on
financial business, in 1873 or 1874, and died suddenly,
quite a young man." (Rev. R. Abbay.)
1223
Jan. i
187S
John Parsons
In loving Memory of John Paesons, Government
Agent, C. P. , who entered into his rest January 4th ,
1878.
This brass is placed in the Church in which they
worshipped together by his widow and children.
John Parsons entered the Ceylon Civil Service on
May 1 , 1 850. He had held the office of Deputy Fiscal
at Kandy from Jixne, 1846, and acted as Assistant
Agent, Jaffna, in 1850. He filled appointments at
Matara, Matale, Tangalla, Hambantota, and in the
Customs, Colombo ; was Government Agent, Southern
Province, and Government Agent, Korth- Western
Province, 1870-72 ; Government Agent, Southern
Province, 1872 ; and Government Agent, Central
Province, from November 11, 1872, until the time
of his death. During the Matale rebellion he rode
from Kandy to Matale with a message from the
Government Agent (C. R. BuUer) to the Assistant
Govermnent Agent there. He accompanied Mr.
Buller to Matale on the day the troops proceeded
there, July 28, 1848. (Henderson, p. 18.)
He married, on June 17, 1854, at St. David's,
Exeter, Isabel Templer. Their daughter, Mary
Isabel Templer, born at Galle, August 11, 1860,
married a planter named Fitz Clarence , a descendant
of King William IV. A son entered the Royal
.Artillery and distinguished himself in the Egyptian
war of 1882. Mrs. Parsons died at Exmouth, April
12, 1882.
1224
June 30
1881
Henry Thompson
In loving memory of Heney Thompson, for many
years a resident in Kandy and a worshipper in
this Church, in the improvement of which he took
a sincere & active interest ; born September 17th,
1825, died June 30, 1881. Death is the entrance
mto Glory. This tablet is erected by his sorrowing
widow.
His tomb with inscription isv.in the Garrison
Cemetery, Kandy. He was generally known as " The
Count,'-' and noted for his dinners. He was a Free-
mason, P.M. and P.L.
1225
Aug. 22
1885
John Douglas
To the memory of Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G.,
Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of
Ceylon, born at Limerick, 5th December 1836,
died at Wilford, 22nd August, 1885. This tablet
IS erected by some of his many friends.
He was seventh son of General Sir James Dawes
Douglas, G.C.B., Colonel of the 42nd Regiment and
Governor of Guernsey.
lo^A Z"'^" Douglas,.''was Auditor-General, Ceylon,
1870-76, and Colonial Secretary, 1878-85 (Lieut-
enant-Governor from 1S83). Ho married, on Sep-
tember 6, 1871, AUce Anne, daughter of Bishop
Claughton of "Coloitiljo , 'widow of Chriatonher
Temple. (See%^'68'3..)
( 329 )
St. Paul's Church, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
1226
Date.
Feb. 19
1889
Name.
Walter Edmund Matthew.
1227
Dec. 21
1891
John Frederick Dickson .
1228
Oct. 30
1901
Evelyn Layard Reeves
1229
1230
April 27
1902
June 13
1902
Robert Hamilton Tennant
Oliver Collett
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of the Ven. Walter Edmund
Matthew, M.A., formerly Scholar of St. John's
College, Oxford ; for thirteen years Archdeacon
of Colombo and last Colonial Chaplain of Kandy.
Here as pastor for ten years and in Colombo for
three, but present by lore and sympathy in every
part of Ceylon, he was a worker together with God.
It was his aim by God's grace to help in forming
of many races and languages one Church, and by
his own zeal and love to kindle in others both
Clergy and Laity such zeal and love as to establish
the Church only the more firmly when the aid of
the State was withdrawn. To his exertions are
mainly due both the enlargement and adornment
of this House of God and the endowment fund of
this Parish. Wise of head, strong of hand, warm
of heart. His death was felt as a public loss.
But he is blessed, for he died in the Lord and rests
from his labours. Born 25th February, 1848, died
19th February; 1889.
"The late Venf^rable Walter Edmund Matthew,
M.A. Oxford, Scholar of St. John's College, third son
of David M^thew, of Cambridge, was born February
25, 1848, and married, November 18, 1875, at Christ
Church, St. Pancras, Ada Mary, daughter of the late
Wm. Thomson, C.E., of St. Helen's, Lancashire.
He was in Ceylon from 1875 to 1889, in February of
which later year he died of fever and blood poisoning."
Archdeacon Matthew came out with Bishop
Coplestonin 1875. He was a very energetic man, and
had much influence.
Erected by his friends in memory of Sir John
Frederick Dickson, K.C.M.G., Government
Agent of the Central Province, and afterwards
Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, a
faithful servant of the Crown, and a true friend
of the Sinhalese. Born September 17th, 1835,
died Deer. 21, 1891.
J. F. Dickson was in the Ceylon Civil Service from
1859 to 1888. Ha was Service Tenures Commissioner,
1870-72, and first Government Agent of the new
North-Central Province, the headquarters of which
were established at Anuradhapura, where he had
served as Assistant Government Agent. Ha held
this appointment from September 6, 1873. He was
educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford
(Student, 1865; First Class in Classics at Moderations,
1857; B.A., 1859). He wrote the account of Ceylon
in the " Encyclopaedia Britanuica."
To the glory of God and in loving memory of
Lieutenant Evelyn Layard Reeves, 4th Somer-
setshire Lt. Infantry, «ldest son of Major E. G.
Reeves, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, and Annie J.
Reeves, who was drowned while serving his
Country in S. Africa, 30th October, 1901, aged
19 years.
This tablet is erected by his parents, brothers, and
sisters.
In memory of Robert Hamilton Tennant, of Aldie
Estate, Bogawantalawa, second son of Lt.-General
J. F. Tennant, R.E., who died and was buried off
Perim, 27th April, 1902, aged 47. This tablet is
erected by his brother and a few friends.
Sacred to the memory of Oliver Collett, F.R.M.S.,
M.C.B.R.A.S., Binoya Estate, Ambegamuwa, who
departed this life on the 13th of June, 1902,
aged 35 years.
This tablet was erected by some of his friends in
Ceylon as a token of their esteem.
He was a diUgent student of natural history, and
contributed papers on the subject of beetles to the
journals of learned societies.
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St. Paul's Church, KsLndy—contd.
Serial No.
1231
Date.
Sept. 5
1902
Name.
John Shelton Agar
1232
Sept. 18
1903
Edward Devereux Harrison
1233
1900-1901
A. H. Thomas
Walter Max Kelly
Alexander Cheyne
A. S. Hopper
Kenneth Hamilton
Charles Cotes Bell
1234
May 28
1906
Herbert Wace
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of John Shelton Agar, who
died of Cholera at Wuhu, China, 5th September,
1902. This memorial is erected by his sorrowing
children.
One of three brothers, all coffee and tea planters,
the others being Walter and Charles. (See No. 1334.)
To the memory of Edwabd Deveeeux Harrison,
born 13 AprU, 1857, died, Kandy, Sep. 18th, 1903.
Planter and Visiting Agent 1876 to 1903. This
tablet was erected by his brother planters, who lost
in him the best of companions and the truest of
friends.
The inscription on his tomb in the Mahayaya
Cenietery adds that he was visiting agent of the
Eastern Produce and Estates Company.
The central window in the transept was erected by
the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Men
of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry in memory of
their comrades who fell in the War in South Africa,
1900-01. Killed in action, Lieutenant A. H.
Thomas, Trooper W. Max Kelly. Died of
disease, Qr.-Mr. Sergeant A. Cheyne, Sergeant
A. S. Hopper, Trooper K. Hamilton, Trooper C.
C. Bell.
Lieutenant Thoma^ was a son of Mr. Matthew
Henry Thomas, of Galhiriya estate, Kelebokka, and
grandson of Major Skinner. Quartermaster-Sergeant
Cheyne came out to Ceylon with the 1st Battalion,
Gordon Highlanders, and was subsequently a Drill
Instructor in the Ceylon Volunteer Forces. W. M.
Kelly was a son of Lillie Kelly. (See Nos. 146, 1 343,
1392.)
To the glory of God and in memory of Herbert
Wage, C.M.G., Government Agent, C. P., 1900-
1906. Born 31 Dec, 1851, died 28 May, 1906.
Erected by his Ceylon Friends.
Mr. Wace joined the Civil Service in 1874. He was
Government Agent successively of theSabaragamuwa,
North- Western, Southern, and Central Provinces,
and took much interest in the education of the
Sinhalese villager, in Gansabhawaa, in irrigation, and
in the efficiency of th-ii headmen and police under
his charge. He was educated at Westminster, and
was a brother of the present Dean of Canterbury.
Mr. Wace is commemorated at Ratnapura by the
"Wace Memorial Hall," and at Kandy by the "Wace
Park."
Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy.
1235 .. Feb. 18 Anne Marie Uranie
1857 Chermont
En memoire d' Anne Marie Uranie Chermont.
Decede le 18 Fevxier, 1857.
Clemence Young la petite fille decede le 10 Decem-
bre, 1858, agee de 2| Ans.
Anne Marie Uranie GotteUer (daughter of Jean
Marie Gotteher) married Prosper Hyacinthe de
Chermont, son of the Chevalier de Chermont, Lieut-
enant in the Regiment de Royal Contois, by his wife
Maria Franfoise Fontoine Lossieux (married 1773).
Her daughters, Celine and Clementine, married John
Dent Young and W. M. Young respectively, and
Clemence Young was a daughter of one of them (see
No. 728). Her son, Prosper de Chermont, of Orion
estate, Gampola, died there, August 30, 1900. She
had previously married Charles D'Espagnac by whom
she had three sons, Leon, Nemour, and Emile, all
planters.
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy— cowic^.
rial No.
Date.
Name.
1235 . .
Feb. 18
Anne Marie Uranie
■ 1857
Chermont — contd.
1236
April 15
1875
Rhoda Boake
1237
1238
June 29
1875
Feb. 19
1876
John Glen
George Balfe Behring
1239
1240
July 10
1876
Sept. 9
1876
Rose Maxwell Fuller
Alexander Brown
1241
1212
March 5
1877
Dec. 7
1877
James Murdoch
Charles Carrier Maturin
Inscription .
This grave is in the Roman Cathohc part of the
cemetery, which apparently was used as a bijrial
ground before the opening of the rest of it. The
Chermonts, or more correctly De Chermonts, inter-
married also with the Hawkes, Gotteliers, and
Northways. The first De Chermont came to Ceylon
from Mauritius as a sugar planter in the forties. On
the barque Volunteer, which left Colombo on April 9.
1843, among the passengers were " two Messrs.
Chermont and three Misses Chermont." (See Cotton,
p. 374.)
Rhoda, the beloved -wife of W. J. S. Boake.
William John Slade Boake was appointed to the
Civil Service, May 23, 1867. He was Magistrate
successively at Kalpitiya, Balapitimodara, Dumbara,
Matara, Galagedara, Jaffna, and Colombo; District
Judge, Tangalla and Negombo ; and Assistant Govern-
ment Agent, Nuwara EUya, and finally at Marmar.
His Mannar diaries, illustrated by clever pen and ink
sketches, are interesting, and he compiled a " Mono-
graph" on the Mannar District, which, though some-
what slight and not always accurate, has the merit
of showing an original mind and of being the first
of the " District Manuals " to be written. In fact,
it was owing to its pubhcation that Governor Sir
Arthur Gordon made an order that every Assistant
Agent should compile a manual of his district — an
order which has been carried out in respect of only
four other Provinces and Districts. He was the son
of the Rev. Dr. Barcroft Boake, of Trinity College,
Dublin, for many years Principal of Queen's College,
Colombo, now the Royal College. Dr. Boake
married (1), on March 22, 1843, Mary Catherine Slade,
and (2), on August 27, 1861, Agnes Jane, daughter
of the Rev. J. Marsh. Mr. Marsh died on the voyage
to England, February 2, 1839. He was Principal of
the Cotta Institution. The inscription refera to the
first wife of W. J. S. Boake. He died on Jime 3, 1889.
John Glen, Linlithgow, Scotland aged 32.
He was on Tientsin estate, on the road to Bogawan-
talawa.
Geoege Balfe Behring of Maskeliya, aged 20.
He was killed by a sambm-, which was at bay in
the river somewhere near Elfindale estate. He went
to stick it, holding his knife daggerwise. The stag
struck him with his foreleg on the arm, and the blow
drove the knife into his heart and he fell dead in
the stream. A kangany or cooly only was with him.
Rose. Maxwell. The beloved wife of Oswald W.
Fuller. Born 10th March, 1844. Died at
Gingeran Oya, Kotmalie.
" Maxworth " in register.
Alexander Brown, Planter and Merchant in
Ceylon for 31 years. First Secretary of the
Planters' Association . Died at Kandy ']
This stone was placed over the grave by old friends
and acquaintances, Kandy, May, 1895.
He was known as " Sandy " Brown, and was a
partner in Gerard, Brown & Co., at Kandv, in 1853
(See No. 214.)
.aged 33
James Murdoch of St. Blane Estate. .
years.
He sent me from above, He took me, He drew me
out of many waters.
Charles Carrier Maturin, Medical Officer, Doles -
bagie District, Gampola. Born 9th September
1852. Drowned in fording the AUagalla River
1243
April 12
1881
William Dickson Skrine
William Dickson Skrine, Engineer, P. W D born
March 9th, 1857
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1244 . .
April 16
1883
David Robert Imray
1245
1246
Dec. 7
1884
April 27
1886
Humphrey Grey
Robert Hamilton Sinclair
1247
April 28
1886
Alfred Mathieson
1248-
1249
Sept. 10
1886
Dec. 29
1888
Frances Isabella Madden
Mary Elizabeth Harper
1250
Feb. 19
1889
Walter Edmund Matthew .
1251
1252
Aug. 18
1889
April 2
1890
James Elphinston Maitland
Howden
Edward John Perry
Inscription.
David Robert Imray, who died in Kandy
aged 56.
He was a well-known coffee planter, and married a
sister of Dr. John Shipton. He was, I think, a son
of Quartermaster Robert' Imray (see No. 29). In
1862 he was on " Nartakanda," and in 1868 on
Gonawatta, Gampola.
Humphrey Grey, for niany years on Karagastalawa
Estate, Ramboda aged 38 years.
He was on Maousakele, Madulkele, in 1868.
Robert Hamilton Sinclair, Ceylon Civil Service.
Born at Kenmore, Perthshire, February, 1853,
drowned in the Kandy Lake Erected by
friends in Ceylon.
He was in the Civil Service 1874r-86. He had
been for some time Police Magistrate of Kandy, and
had just been appointed Second Assistant to the
Colonial Secretary. He and Captain Fraser of the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders had just returned
from a walk on a rainy afternoon, and as they were
wet through, one of them suggested that they should
swim to the island in the lake just as they stood in
their clothes. Sinclair sank when he was halfway
across, and Fraser was rescued when in an exhausted
state. There is a saying among the people of Kandy
that some one is drowned in the lake every year.
Drummer Alfred Mathieson, Ist Battl. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, who was drowned in the
Kandy Lake on the night of the 28th April, 1886,
while searching for the body of R. H. Sinclair,
CCS.
A party of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
went out in a boat to search for Mr. Sinclair's body.
Mathieson, who was one of the party, fell into the lake.
Frances Isabella Madden, daughter of the late
Rev. Hugh Hamilton Madden, late Chancellor
of Cashel in Ireland. Born June 18th, 1848
Mary Elizabeth Harper, wife of John S. Harper,
Esqr., died at Rock Villa, Kandy aged
69 years.
J. S. Harper was for many years Naval Storekeeper
at Trincomalee. A daughter, Cecilia Augusta,
married Dr. Hayman Thornhill at Trincomalee on
December 7, 1874; another, Florence, G. A. Baima-
gartner, C.C.S., 1871-1907, on November 16, 1878.
The eldest daughter, Letitia BUen Ninetta, married
Cunningham Atchison at Trincomalee on April 11,
1866. (See No. 715.)
Em Memoria de Walter Edmund Matthew,
Archideacona de Colombo . Nascido 25th de Feb '
1848. Morto 19th de Feb., 1889.
Ellotros te descanca de seus trabelhos c' suas
obras te per ellotros secui.
The inscription is in English, Smhalese, Tamil, and
Portuguese, the four languages in which the services
at St. Paul's, Kandy, of which Archdeacon Matthew
was Chaplain from 1876-86, were held. (See No
1226.)
James Elphinston Maitland Howden. Born in
Edinburgh, 14th December, 1867, died at West
HaU, KotmaUe
Edward John Perry, M.A., Principal of Trinity
College. Died near Alutnuwara aged 34
years.
Erected by the Students of Trinity College.
The Rev. Mr. Perry had'been a master at Merchant
Taylors School. He was of Worcester College,
Oxford, and Pusey and EUerton Scholar. A boy
shot at a buffalo and hit Mr. Perry in the breast.
The accident occurred 3 miles from the Alutnuwara
hospital on the BaduUa road.
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy—contd.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1253 .. Feb. 16 . Henry James Warren Walker Henry James Waeebn Walker ...... aged 4«-
1891 Also of his mother, Charlotte Fullarton
Oct. 22 . . Charlotte Fullarton Walker Walker aged 73.
1893 H. J. W. Walker was killed by a fall from his horse.
• He was a nephew of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Torrens Walker, commanding the 2nd 25th Regiment
at Colombo, 1868, and a grandson of Lieutenant-
Colonel George Warren Walker, the botanist, (gee
No. 1328).
1254 .. June 4 . Robert Scott .. Private Robert Scott, " G " Company, 1st Batt.
1891 Gordon Highlanders, who was drowned in the
Mahaweh-ganga aged 27 years.
1255 . Oct. 23 . . William Forest Mill .. William Forest Mill, second son of C. J. Mill,
1891 Surgeon, Kirrie Mmr, N. B., who died at Kandy
on his way to Australia.
1256 .. May 2 . James Taylor .. James Taylor of Loolecondera Estate, Ceylon, the
1892 pioneer of the Tea and Cinchona enterprises in this
Island aged 57 years. This stone was
erected by his sister and many friends in Ceylon.
James Taylor planted 19 acres of Loolecondera
estate with tea in 1868. These form the oldest tea
field in Ceylon, which was still flourishing in 1908.
The estate belonged to Messrs. Harrison and Leake.
He was of St. Laurencekirk in Kincardineshire. (See
No. 1176.)
1257 . . Sept. 30 . . Jane Amelia Byrde . . Jane Amelia, wife of Henry Byrde, late Captain,
1892 57 Regt., Lieut. -Col., C. L. I aged 53
July 10 .. Henry Byrde years ; and Henry Byrde, Captain, 57th Regt.,
jg-Q^ Colonel, C. L. I. Bom 3 Dec, 1837
Henry Byrde was eldest son of Lieutenant Henry
Charles Bird, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Byrde
(he changed the spelling), Ceylon Rifles, by his wife
Rebecca (Mais), whom he married at Colombo,
January 5, 1837. With the 57th Regiment he saw
active service in the Crimean war, was present at the
battle of the Akna and at Inkerman, and was promoted
at the age of 19 to Captain after his last engagement,
the assault on the Redan, where so many of his
senior officers fell, that it was said at the time that he
was the youngest Captain in the British Army. This
was very nearly true ; as a matter of fact, so Colonel
Byrde informed the compiler, there was an officer of
.the 77th who obtained his company on the same
occasion, who was still younger. Captain Byrde sold
out of the army and joined his father in business at
Kandy, a step that he often regretted. On the
creation of the Municipal Council in 1866 he joined
it as an elected member, and in 1873 was appointed
Secretary and Superintendent of Works, offices which
he held until his death. The construction of the
Kandy waterworks with the massive masonry dam
which these works involved was carried out xinder
his immediate supervision. On the formation of the
Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteer Corps in 1881 he
joined the force as a Captain, and held the rank of
Major when he assisted Colonel Clarke in the arrange-
ments connected with the first Voltmteer Camp of
Exercise at Urugasmanhandiya in 1890. On the death
of Colonel Clarke in 1891 he succeeded him as
Commandant, which office he held until the appoint-
ment of Colonel Vincent, C.M.G., in 1896. Colonel
Byrde was a man of many parts. He was a good
amateur actor, had a great knowledge of trees and
tree-planting, and was a walking dictionary of infor-
mation about Kandy, of which he was the oldest
European resident, and about times past. He
married at Aden, on January 15, 1859, a Miss Waller,
daughter of Major Waller.
1258 . , Aug. 21 . . George Kydd . . George Kydd, who died at Windsor Forest Estate,
1895 Dolosbagie, Ceylon aged 51 years.
1259 . . Oct. 14 . . Charles Donovan Cave . . Charles Donovan Cave, Major 12 Suffolk Regt.
1896 Bom 29th March, 1857 This tablet was
erected by his brother Officers.
2 Y 82-09
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Mabayaya Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1260 . .
Oct. 16 ,
1896
Henry Trimen
1261
Nov. 12
1896
Albert Watson
1262 .
May 4
1897
1263 .
March 3
1898
1264 .
June 10
1898
1265 .
. June 27
1898
Robert Nethereote Anley
Sarah Ellen Hay
Frank Coventry
Dorothy Hutton
Inscription.
Henry Teimen, M.B., F.E.S., aged 53 years
Director, Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya.
Henry Trimen was born at Paddington, October 26,
1843, and graduated M.B. with honours at London
University in 1865. Btit his inclinations were
towards botany rather than medicine, and after
assisting Sir William Thisleton Dyer in the prepara-
tion of " The Flora of Middlesex," he became an
assistant in the Botanical Department of the British
Museum, and was also lecturer in botany at St.
Thomas's Hospital. He was for a time editor of the
"Journal of Botany," and from 1875 to 1880 issued,
in conjunction with Professor Robert Bentley,
" Medicinal Plants " in 42 parts. He became Director
of the Peradeniya Gardens in 1879. " The zeal with
which on his appointment he tookupThwaites'
work was seen in the thorough re-arrangement of the
plants in the Gardens in scientific order, in much work
at economic botany, especially recorded in his annual
official reports, and in a diligent exploration of the
Island for materials for his work on its flora." He
published " Hortus Zeylanicus " in 1889, and a
" Hand Guide " to the Gardens in 1890. He began
the " Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon " in 1893, but
the last volume did not appear until after his death.
(From the biography given in vol. V. of the work
last named.) There is a brass to his memory in the
Museum in the Peradeniya Gardens, placed there by
the Planters' Association of Ceylon " in recognition
of Dr. Trimen's services to the Planting Community."
He has obtained a place in the "Dictionary of
National Biography."
Lieut .-Col. Albert Watsok, late of the 58th and
83rd and Ceylon Rifle Regiments, born 9th June,
1803
When he was reviled, he reviled not again. .....
He was eldest son of Lieutenant-General Alexander
Watson, R.A., and was gazetted to an ensigncy in
the 83rd Regiment, August 25, 1820. From the 58th
Regiment, to which he had been transferred, he was
gazetted Captain in the Ceylon Rifles. He took a
prominent part in the suppression of the Matale
rebellion in command of a company of the Rifles ;
and his conduct with regard to certain proclamations
issued, it was alleged by his orders, formed the subject
of a Royal Commission of Inquiry held by two Indian
civilians, Messrs. Morehead and Rohde, whose report
was iinfavom'able to him, of a court martial, which
acquitted him, and of questions and debates and
special committees in Parliament. It was also the
occasion of Captain Henderson's book, " A History
of the Rebellion in Ceylon during Lord Torrington's
Government," published in 1868, which is a fierce
indictment of Colonel Watson, the Colonial Secretary
Sir James Emerson Tennent, and the Governor.
The text on the tombstone is an allusion to these
controversies. Colonel Watson obtained his majority
in 1851, and was appointed Staff Officer of Colombo
in July, 1854. He was subsequently Superintendent
of Police at Galle. He married (2), Emily, youngest
daughter of J. J. Staples, in 1848 (see No. 184). On
March 28, 1834, whilst elk hunting, he and Captain
William Fisher "discovered " the Horton Plains.
Born 3rd October,
Robert Nethercotb Anlby.
1869
A planter.
Sarah Ellen, wife of Malcolm Hay of Bents Green
Lodge, Sheffield aged 47 years.
Frank Coventry. Born September 30th, 1854.
Well known as a planter and gentleman rider. He
married a daughter of Sir J. J. Grinlinton, a Member
of the Legislative Council.
Dorothy, beloved wife of Charles Eustace
Htttton of Gateburton Hall, Lincoln. Died at
Galga watte, Elkaduwa aged 22 years.
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kaniy—contd.
Serial No.
Dat?.
Name.
1266 . .
Dec. 17
1898
. . John Stephens
1267
1268
April 6
1899
Feb. 14
1901
Charles Tottenham
Frederick Thomas Hawke.
1269
March 18
1903
Frederick William Burleigh
Campbell
John Stephens.
Inscription.
Born 26th August, 1816
Of the Diggings, Gampola. He was a pioneer
planter, and was superintendent of Kadirane cinna-
mon estate in the forties. William Boyd, in his
"Autobiography," chapter XXXVIII., describes a
visit to him which he made at the time of the death
of F. L. Dick, which took place in 1847. But the
estate records show that John Stephens was in
temporary charge of Kadirane estate from August,
1849, until September 29 the same year, during the
absence of Mr. David Smith, when the latter resumed
charge. Possibly he had been in charge before, but
it is likely that, as usual, Boyd is playing fast and
loose with dates, for he himself left for England in
1849. He says : " I had been invited to spend a few
days with Mr. Stephens, a brother of my old friend
Stephens of Pallakele. He Hved in a long, rambling,
old bungalow, which had been the residence of the
Principal Superintendent of the Cinnamon Plantations
during the time that the Island was under the domi-
nion of the Dutch Government , but now the
gardens, which extended all along the coast, were
broken up into estates of a few hundred acres , and
owned principally by commercial agents in Colombo
or their constituents at home" (see No. 110).
Kadirane at this time belonged to Messrs; Ackland,
Boyd & Co., but judgment having been given against
Messrs. Boyd and Thomas, it became the property of
Mr. Alexander Smith, the mortgagee, on May 1,
1850, and Mr. David Smith left for England, and was
succeeded by Mr. Charles Reid. John Capper,
afterwards editor of the Oeylon Times, was one of
David Smith's predecessors as superintendent.
Arthur Stephens, to whom Boyd so frequently refers
in his book, after he left Pallakele, owned a coconut
estate at Miriswatta, on the 5th mile on the road
from Negombo to Dunugaha, called Arthur estate or
HoragasmuUehena. ' ' Mr. Stephens , familiarly knowrs
as ' Stumps,' found a wife, of all places in the world,
at Pondicherry." (Editor, " Autobiography," p. 194,
note.) His wife died on June 2, 1853, at " Ootaca
mund," Kandy, and he himself on December 29 the
same year at Panangalla estate. John Stephens was
a frequent correspondent of the Ceylon Observer under
the nom-de-plume of " Old Planter." His son, Arthur
J. Stephens, is a well-known Dolosbage planter, who
spent some years as a planter in Fiji.
Charles Tottenham, Esqr., born 13th September,
1837
He was an estate proprietor.
En Memoirs de Fredeeiqtje Thomas Hawke.
Decede a Kandy le 14 Pevrier, 1901, age de 66 ans.
He was a son of James Hawke , who was a sugar
planter at Peradeniya in the early fifties, and had been
coconut planting with Alfred Gottelier at "Neywelle,"
Siyane korale. A. Gottelier's father, Jean Marie
GotteUer, married Marie Prospere de Chermont, and
he himself married Uranie de Chermont, daughter of
Prosper Hyacinthe de Chermont who had married
Uranie Gottelier. Her sisters, Celine, Aurelie, and
Clementine married John Dent Young, James Hawke.
and W. M. Yoimg respectively. James Hawke was
born at Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1802. One of hiw
daughters, Marie Aurelie, married S. J. Northway.
F. T. Hawke was on Old Godapola, Matale, in 1862,
and on Bellwood, Deltota, in 1868. (See Nog 728
1235.)
F. W. B. Campbell, Supdt. of Surveys, C.P
aged 49. Erected by his friends.
He was eldest son, bom on January 1, 1854, of
Frederick Hugh Pearson Campbell, of the Ceylon
Civil Service, by Mary Spencer, eldest daughter
of Joseph Price, C.C.S., District Judge of Jaffna,
whom he married on April 18,1848, at. " the Cathedral!
JafiEna." ("The Cathedral," asshownby theregister^
means the Dutch Church, any large church being in
the eyes of many people a cathedral.) She died July
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1269 .
March 18
1903
. Frederick William Burleigh
Campbell — cojitd.
1270 .
. April 13
1904
. John Sealy
1271 .
June 17
1904
. Cecil Harry Twig Wilkinson
1272
Nov. 19
1904
Alexander Philip
1273
March 24
1905
Arnoldina Dulcima Wilmot
Inscription.
17, 1880. F. H. P. Campbell was fourth son of Sir
Alexander Campbell, Bart., of Aberuchill and Kil-
bryde Castle, County Perth, and he was brother of
Sir James Campbell, Bart., Ranger of Forest of Dean.
(See No. 810.)
John Sealy, Junior, of Shortalstown, Co. Wexford,
Ireland, 3rd Son of John Sealy, Dundrum,
Dublin, who died at Arratenne, Madulkelle
aged 31 years.
C. H. T. Wilkinson aged 48 years.
He was for seventeen years superintendent of Kunde-
sale estate, of which he was in charge at the time of
his death. He was born in 1856, spnof Captain James
Alhx Wilkinson, late of the 15th Regiment, which he
joined on August 4, 1840. Captain J. A. Wilkinson
came out to Ceylon with the regiment in 1845, and
his younger brother. Lieutenant Johnson Wilkinson,
of the same regiment, subsequently joined him there.
He was temporarily employed under the Commissioner
of Lands, 1848-49, and was an Assistant in the Civil
Engineer and Superintendent of Roads' Department,
1860-61, on £300 a year, having sold out of the
regiment. He was in lireland in 1864-66, and at
Peradeniya as a planter 1866-68. He bought Stellen-
berg and Newmarket, and for some years lived on
Newmarket. He married at Pussellawa on March 7,
1854, Elizabeth, daughter of W. H. Whiting, CCS.
(see No. 106), anddied at Peradeniya on March 22,
1868, and is biiried in the Garrison Cemetery there
(grave not known). While in the 15th Regiment he
was known as " Jilks," and liis brother Johnson as
" Twig." The latter, who became a Major-General,
published with his twin brother, Major-General
Osborn Wilkinson, C.B., Bengal Army, "The
Memoirs of the Gemini Generals " in 1896, 'which
contains a chapter on his Ceylon experiences, by
Major-General Johnson Wilkinson, who was in Ceylon,
1848-51, with the 15th Regiment. C H. T. Wilkin-
son married, April 13, 1882, at St. Mary's, Bogawan-
talawa, Agnes Clara, second daughter of the Rev.
Wadham Huntley Skrine, and a cousin of Sholto and
Harcourt Skrine, Ceylon planters. (See No. 29.)
Alexander Philip, born at Stonehaven, 4th Decem-
ber, 1850, died at the Uplands, Kandy
after a brief illness. For 29 years Secretary of the
Planters' Association of Ceylon. To his con-
scientious untiring devotion to the Planters' work
is attributed his early death. A lover of truth
and righteousness in aU the transactions of daily
life, he leaves in Kandy, where he was so well
known, a shining record, which will be in estimation
as long as time .endures. This Monument is
erected by his devoted sorrowing wife.
Arnoldina Dulcima, Relict of the late Edward
Parr Wilmot, Advocate of Ceylon, and of Co.
Derby, England, who fell asleep in Kandy, aged
97 years This monument is erected by
her daughters.
She was a daughter of William Abram Kriekenbeek
and his wife Frangoise Ursula Frederika Even du Hil
(see No. 815), and married, on September 2, 1835,
E. P. Wilmot. He was eldest son of Edward Coke
Wihnot, who belonged to the family of that name of
Chaddesden, Derbyshire, baronets. Edward Coke
Wihnot's father, the Rev. Richard Wihnot, was son
of Richard Wilmot, whose cousin was mother of Sir
WiUiam Coke, and daughter of William Coke of
Trasley. Sh Robert Wihnot Horton belonged to
another branch of the Wilmots, the Wilmots of
BarkesweU, Co. Warwick, branches of which
obtained baronetcies, one in 1772 and one in 1821.
These branches were descended from two sons of
Robert Wilmot of Chaddesden, Edward and Nicholas.
The Chaddesden baronetcy dates from 1759. Sir
Robert Wihnot Horton was third Baronet in the
branch descended from Nicholas, which obtained the
baronetcy of 1821. Edward Parr Wihnot was
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Mahayaya Cemetery, Kandy — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1273 . ,
. March 24 .
1905
. Arnoldina Dulcima Wilmot
— contd.
Inscription.
Proctor for Prisoners, and was admitted Advocate,
July 15, 1845. He died on board the Medway, July
1, 1851, on the voyage to England. He is described
in the " Autobiography of a Periya Durai."
" Mr. Wilmot was a stout, burly-looking man, with
a humourous twinkle in his eye, but that eye could be
fierce and stern enough when bullying a native witness
undergoing a cross-examination by him." (Ceylon
Literary Register, vol. III., page 343.)
Of E. P. Wilmot's four daughters, the eldest
married Dr. John P. Morgan, son of William Morgan,
a brother of Sir Richard ; the second married John
Henry Fretz, Public Works Department, who died
at Kandy in 1909; the third John Coleman Hollin-
shed, an engineer enaployed on the construction of
the Colombo to Kandy Railway ; and the foiu-th
Owen Morgan of the Attorney-General's Depart-
ment, District Judjge for a time of Kandy. Mrs.
Hollinshed married, on September 26, 1866, at
the Scot's Kirk, Kandy, and was killed by lightning
at Ambepussa on May 1, 1867, aged 29. Her
husband was afterwards Manager of the Oriental
Hotel, Kandy.
1274 .,
July 14
1866
Holy Trinity Church, Kandy.
Frances Mary Oakley
1275
June 9
1854
Oct. 6
1854
To the memory of Feances Mary, the beloved wife
of the Eev. William Oakley, Church Missionary,
who entered into rest July 14th, 1866, aged 51
years.
This tablet was erected by the members of this
Congregation as a tribute of respect and affection
for the memory of one who for a period of 26 years
identified herself with their highest interest, and
in token of deep sympathy with their faithful
Pastor and friend.
Also an inscription on tombstone in graveyard
adjoining.
The Rev. William and Mrs. Oakley arrived at Galle
by the barque Dorothy Gales from Tutieorin on
September 21, 1839. (See No. 1415.)
Churchyard of.Holy Trinity, Kandy.
Amelia, the beloved wife of the Rev. E. T. Higgens
aged 27 years
Edwaed Albert, son of the above-mentioned
aged 2 years and 8 months.
The Rev. E. T. Higgens of the Church Missionary
Society was for many years a missionary in Ceylon
and local Secretary of the Society.
Amelia Higgens
Edward Albert Higgens
Esplanade, Kandy.
1276.— August 2, I860.— Henry George Ward.
This Statue has been erected from funds subscribed
by inhabitants of Ceylon to commemorate their
appreciation of the energetic admmistration of the
affairs of this Colony by Sir Henry George
Ward, G.C.M.G., Governor from May, 1855, to
June, 1860.
" In semi-civihzed countries it is with material
improvements that aU other improvement begins.
My conscience tells me that to the best of my
judgment and abilities I have tried to do my
duty by you, and it is my hope that you will
think of me hereafter as a man whose whole
heart was in his work."
Passage from Sir H. G. Ward's speeches.
Sir Henry Ward was a son of Robert Ward, M.P. and novelist. He was bom in 1797, and served as T
High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. In June, 1860, he succeeded Sir Charles Trevelyan as Governor of Mad ^
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Esplanade, KanAy —contd.
1276. — August 2, 1860. — Henry George W&ii—contd.
but was struck down by cholera within a few weeks. His widow, a daughter of Sir John Swinburne, whom fie married
in 1824, survived him tUl 1882. One of his daughters married John Bailey, C.C.S., 1847-67; another, A. Young
Adams, CCS. , 1853-78. The statue was unveiled on August 5, 1868. In 1910 it was enclosed by the Municipal
Council with a low wall and railing.
' ' The 1 1th of May, 1855, will ever be memorable in the annals of Ceylon, as the date on which the Government of
tha Island was assumed by Sir Henry Ward, a man, perhaps, the equal of Sir Edward Barnes in energy, his superior,
certainly, in the qualities which go to make up a great statesman, and beyond all precedent fortunate, as he cordially
admitted, in the circumstances under which he found the Colony whose destinies he was called to guide. Sir Henry
"Waid's career could be quoted as strongly favourable to their views by those who believe that genius is hereditary.
His father was well laiown in literary circles as the author of ' Tremaine,' whUe as a politician he was highly estimated
by those who knew him intimately. Pitt mentioned his nanae in his dying delirium, the impression created being that
the expiring Minister regretted not having sufficiently appreciated Ward's claims on him. Henry Ward made himself a
name as a Uberal politician when liberalism was rather at a discount, and as a joiu-nalist (editor of the Weekly Chronicle)
when journalism in Britain was subjected to much discouragement. He had gone through great and varied experiences
in statesmanship before he was called on to exchange his troubledrule of the Septinsular Ionian Republic, now a portion
of the Kingdom of Greece, for the more peaceful government of this ' Utmost Indian Isle.' Canning had chosen him
as the first British Ambassador to the newly-constituted Central American Republic of Mexico, and his book on that
country (illustrated by Lady Ward, a Swinburne, and the aunt of the erratic poet) may still be read with profit. He
also represented British Majesty at Madrid in a style of regal splendour more honourable to his country than profitable
to his family, who ultimately inherited little from him beyond the reflected benefits of his fame as a successful ruler.
In Parliamentary history Sir Henry Ward's name is associated with the ' appropriation clause,' by which a portion of
the revenues of the Irish Church Establishment was devoted to purposes of education. Sir Henry Ward served for
some time as an Under Secretary of State, and he probably would have risen to a post in the Cabinet had his pecuniary
position been such as to render him independent of the emoluments attached to Colonial posts. In the Ionian Islands
Sir Henry Ward exercised a very stringent rule over the Greeks, whom Britain at great cost ' protected,' but never
succeeded in conciliating, and, in consequence of a proclamation which he issued regarding the leaders of a political
rising, obtained the sobriquet of ' Dead or Alive Ward.' He relieved the cares of protective Government, however,
by varying them with a good deal of devotion to out-of-door exercise in the pursuit of sport. The result was that he
brought to Ceylon a physical frame, the very type of that we are accustomed to associate with the British farmer.
Undeterred by the greater fervour of a tropical climate, or the malaria which haunts such scenes of ancient but aban-
doned industry as Tissamaharania, the Giant's Tank, and other great works. Sir Henry Ward continued his outdoor
active habits in Ceylon, fulfilling in the first year of his rule hie promise, that whereas when he first met those associated
with him in the Government and Legislature he knew less than any of them by personal inspection of Ceylon, the case
would be reversed when he next formally met them And well did he fulfU his pledge. The collected voliftnes of
Sir Henry Ward's Minutes are a monument of industrious, persevering research, such as not one of his predecessors left
behind. Those Minutes would be valuable if but for the stores of topographical knowledge they embody He
did not confine his tours to the beaten tracks of the high roads or rest in the centres of civilization. He bivouacked on
the grassy glades and amidst the jungle bushes, which distinguish the once teeming but now desolate region of the
north and east of the Island, braving in his explorations the attacks of the fever-demon who haunts those scenes of
silent beauty — scenes once of rich fertility ; and it was but a natural and a noble wish to be the means of restoring to them
fruitfulness and population. But Sir Henry Ward's mind was too practical to allow of his being seduced into attempting
impossibilities. He gave up the idea of crowding the work of generations into a few brief years — devoting himself
instead to the really useful tasks within his reach , of restoring or creating irrigation works where population was ready
to enter on possession of the gifts of soil and water — and giving a legislative sanction to such local regulations as the
people themselves might propose as necessary in their various localities for the protection fend encouragement of the
cultin^e of the great native staple — rice. In this direction Sir Henry Ward did much for native interests, and when
every allowance is made for difference of opinion, as to the cost and ultimate benefit of some of the works projected
and in progress, we feel that on the gratitude of the natives Sir Henry Ward has a strong claim Who shall say
that Sir Henry Ward has not well earned the gratitude of the European community ?
" Sir Henry Ward, by judicious and conciliatory measmes, has been very successful in procuring the settlement
of questions such as that of the ' military reserves,' which had embarrassed his predecessors and hindered Municipal
and other improvements. Nor can we characterize otherwise than as a ' wise liberality ' the large increase which
Sir Henry Ward was instrumental in procuring to the allowances of those to whom the civil administration of the
Island is committed. WhUe working hard hhnself , Sir Henry Ward showed a true appreciation of the merits of hard
workers, whom he has generally encouraged and advanced. He proposed and carried through CoimcU a graduated
scale of remuneration, which leaves no room for the old apologies for inertness or incapacity. While noticing the
improvements in the means of commimication which Sir Henry Ward had originated, we ought not to have forgotten
that he restored to usefulness the fine canal system which came down to us from our aquatic predecessors the
Dutch. In the electric telegraph he gave us means and facilities of communication of which our Dutch predecessors
never dreamed, any more than they imagined the possibility of letters being transmitted from Galle to Jaf&ia from
Colombo to Trmcomalee for a penny ; whUe the teeming issues of a free Press are carried from the capital to the
extremities of the Island at half that cost. Nor do we know why, we should omit to mSntion the steamer ' Peari '
She has cost some money ; but she has tended to make the western and southern portions of the Island acquainted
with the previously mythical regions of the north and east. And then we must not forget the ' Peari's ' services at the
pearl fisheries ; nor the Governor's visits to and description of them with the efforts to obtain all possible mformation
tendmg to convert a capricious mto ju;ertam source of revenue. It cannot be said that Sir Henry Ward created the
revenue from the peari fishery, any ^re than he created the surplus saved for hun by Sir George Anderson or the
constantly increasing revenue which jistmgmshed his term of Government. Six Henry Ward was ' a lucky Go;emor.'
Just so, but he had the merit of m^kmg the best possible use of his luck ; and whether he had to dJal ^tlTthe
permanent salt monopoly, the varying retm^ns from sales of lands, or the ' accident of an accident ' which^ave or'
ronderiuUy succesS'"^' "' ""'""' "' improvement untried, and most of his experiments havrbeen
''Passing from the material improvements which the Colony either owes to Sir H. Ward or has experienced
durmg his rule, we turn with unmmgled satisfaction to the areat moral refnrry, wV^i^v, i,^ JlrVu i experiencea
of sanctioning by legislative enactment. We allude to the chTnee ^the ^ITI' '^^'°^. '^^ ^^ *^^ h^PP/ mstrument
expressed by the plople themselves When the sS oTmutiS W^r™? "^''n^ "^'"V"" ""^"^r ^^^
swept over India and seemed for a time to have dWtroyed theTbricTEZ^i^S T "^'^''^^f?,^^^ ungrateful-
an/wenesley and Dalhousie had built up . . th^e ttuSS^l^thrcorn'mi^^rsrH^^^^^^^
a battahon of European mjantry m the shape of the 37th Regiment and a couple of batteries oTartXrv
while for obvious reasons the Ceylon Rifles, then about 1,600 strong, the men being Mala/by race and MulmmS;
by religious profession, could not well be sent to repress mutineers who had, though themselves mainly Hindus
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Esplanade, Kandy — contd.
1276. — August 2, 1860. — Henry George Ward— cowic^.
adopted the representative at Delhi of the Moslem Mogul emperors as their leader. Sir Hem'y Ward did not hesitate
for a moment. He sent away the bulk of our European force and kept in the Island only a few British soldiers. To
produce confidence he ordered doubled guards of Malay soldiers at Queen's House.
" All the details of the work he did in Ceylon cannot be particularized, but I may mention, in addition to what
has been stated, that from long imprisonment in the cellars of the Conrnaissariat godowns he released the clock which
now measxjres time just below the flashing light which issues from the top of the Campanile ia the Fort of Colombo,
built after a design by Lady Ward. From the same obscurity of the Commissariat Store he rescued the fine suspension
bridge which now spans the Mahaweli-ganga near Gampola. It was erected by the late Capt. Donald Graham, who also
repaired, or rather renewed without hindering the trafiic, the celebrated satiawood bridge at Peradeniya erected
oi'iginally by General Fraser. The splendid bridges at Katugastota and so many others by which the crossing of our
rivers is rendered easy and safe stand as monuments of Sir Henry Ward's well-directed energy, while it ought to be
added that he left quite a ntunber of iron lattice bridges in store at the disposal of his successor. One more detail may
be mentioned, it was Henry Ward who had the Galle Face Walk constructed for the sake of the ladies and children of
Colombo, in whose interests he recommended it to the care of his successors. Before its construction a walk on the
seaside of our beautiful and healthy esplanade was next to impossible for ladies in consequence of the effects of the red
cabook or laterite dust on boots and clothing.
"In June, 1860, Sir Henry Ward bade farewell to the scene of his administrative triumphs in Ceylon, a memorial
for his retention at an enhanced salary being met with the iatimation that the man who had so successfully ruled Ceylon
had been transferred to a more important sphere at Madras. At the farewell banquet in Queen's House testimony to
the merits of the departing statesman was eloquently borne by the recently appointed Chief Justice, Sir Edward Shepherd
Creasy, the author of 'The Decisive Battles of the World,' ' A Handbook of the British Constitution,' 'The History
of the Ottoman Turks j' and other well-known works. Sir Henry Ward, alas, had scarcely assumed the reins of
Government in Madras when he fell a victim to cholera, to an attack of which his exposure to malarial influences in
Ceylon had predisposed him." (Mr. A. M. Ferguson in " Ceylon in 1847-1860.") He left Ceylon on June 30, 1860,
and died on August 2, the same year.
Ceylon Contingent Memorial, Esplanade, Kandy.
1277. — The Ceylon Contingents in Soutli Africa.
" This Memorial was erected in commemoration of the services of the Ceylon Contingents in South Africa,
1900-1902, and unveiled by Field-Marshal H. R. H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G., G.C.M.G. , March 18, 1907."
In Mbmoriam.
Lieut. Abthtjb H. Thomas.
W. Max Kelly.
C. Campion.
Q. M. Sergt. Cheyne.
A. S. Hopper.
K. Hamilton.
Claude C. Bell.
N. W. Smellie.
This memorial was designed by Mrs. Thomas, ne'e Geraldine Blake, wife of Edward Hector Le Marchant Thomas,
a brother of Lieutenant Thomas. It represents a trooper of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry giving the signal " enemy
in sight." The names of C. Campion and N. W. Smellie are additional to those given in the memorial in St. Paul's
Kandy. (See Nos. 1233 and 1392.)
Kadugannawa, Kandy District.
" At the summit of the steep Kadugannawa Pass there is a monument to Captain Dawson, R.E. who
had charge of the construction of the original road up the Pass, which for 40 years before the railway was com-
pleted was the only means of access to the mountain district from the north and west. The road was constructed
in 1822. Prior to that time there were only two roads even in the Maritime Provinces, and those so bad as scarcely
to be worthy of the name. Along these travellers were carried in palanquins with a retinue of deeply laden
baggage coolies. As to the Central Province, it was altogether inaccessible to any but hill climbers." (" Two
Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 171.) The monument consists otan obelisk 125 ft. in height, and cost the
sum of £342. 7s. lid.
1278.— March 28, 1829.— William Francis Dawson.
Captain W. F. Dawson, during the Government of
General Sir E. Barnes, G.C.B., Commanding
Royal Engineer, Ceylon, whose Science and SkiU
planned and executed this Road and Other Works
of pubHc utility. Died at Colombo, 28th March,
1829. By a subscription among his friends and
admirers in Ceylon this monument was raised to his
memory. 1832.
Captain Dawson was stationed at Colombo in 1819 as " Second Captain," R.E. He was a great friend of Sir
Edward Barnes, and acted as his Private Secretary.
"Captain Dawson, while employed in sm'veying the Paimaben and Mannar channels, was seized with an attack
of dysentery, but his well-known zeal prompted him, notwithstanding, to continue his exertions until the object he was
engaged in was completed, thus enabling the disease to gain such an ascendency as to baffle every effort of professional
skill, though aided by the strongest constitution.
"In Captain Dawson H. M. Service and his Country have been deprived of a highly talented and most truly
valuable Officer, and its Corps of one of its brightest ornaments. As a Member of Society it is hardly possible to do
justice to his Character. His cheerful good nature, benevolence of disposition, and many amiable qualities rendered
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Kadugannawa, Kandy District — contd.
1278.— March 28, 1829.— William Francis Dawson— cowici.
him an universal favourite. His loss will be deplored by aU, and most particularly by those who were so fortunate
as to be on terms of intimacy with him, by them his memory will ever be held dear." (Gazette, April 4, 1829.)
He also made the road from Kospetta-oya, on the boundary between the Seven Korales and the Central Province,
over the Galagedera Pass. Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell says, " the making of such a noble highway must,
I conceive, be readily acknowledged by those who have travelled along it to have been an undertaking worthy of the
enterprising and lofty genius of a Napoleon, and will, I trust, endure for ages as the best and most appropriate
monument which could possibly have been erected to the niem,ory of Sir Edward Barnes and Captain Dawson of the
Engineers, whose daring and energetic minds, robust frames, and manly habits were so admirably calculated for carrying
on amidst innumerable difficulties such a gigantic undertaking." (" Excursions," vol. II., p. 154.)
He states that in 1822 " my friend Captain Dawson of the Engineers was brought in to Kurunagalla, having been
seized with an exceedingly painful and dangerous ailment which he bore with his usual fortitude. Our surgeon having
been sent off to Kandy, I had to do the best I could for him, but I shall never forget the scene, nor what — assisted by
two other officers — I had to perform, and he most reluctantly had to submit to. The remedy, however, had the desired
effect, and he was enabled in a few days to return to his herculean laboiirs in the mountains." (Campbell, vol. II., p. 314.)
This was after he had constructed the Galagedera Pass-Girihagama road. He proceeded to England in 1822 for the
benefit of his health, with Lieutenant Yule, R.E.
" I lost a very dear friend, and the service a most invaluable officer, in Captain W. Dawson, Commanding Royal
Engineers. The poor fellow died in my arms. The whole Island mom:'ned him. Wherever he was known he was dearly
loved. Sir Edward Barnes had, notwithstanding Dawson's junior rank, selected him for the position of C.R.B. ,
which was a Colonel's command, for Sir Edward knew from his Peninsular experience of him the great merit Dawson
possessed as an officer. * A singular coincidence occurred in reference to the momunent erected to his memory on the top
of the Kadugannawa Pass, which was one of the triumphs of his skill. The foundation of this column was laid at the
same time as that to the memory of the Duke of York, late Com.mander-in-Chief , at the entrance of the Park
at the end of Waterloo Place. The dimensions of these two memorials are identical, the only difference in them being
that Dawson's monument is built of brick, whereas that to the Commander-in-Chief is of granite, surmounted by
a statue Dawson's remains were interred in a vault in St. Peter's Church, Colombo." (Skinner, p. 93.)
Whether the coincidence was in the selection of the same date for the laying of the foundation of the two columns,
or whether in the identity of their dimensions, or whether, in fact, these identities were accidental or purposely intended,
does not appear.
Bennett states that while Captain Dawson was on a tour of inspection in the Hambantota District in 1826 he
gave him " a History of Mahagam in Pali on talipot," which had been presented to him by a Buddhist priest (p. 301).
He was the second son of Eranois Dawson of Pordham Abbey near Newmarket, where Captain Dawson was
born. Francis Dawson was born in Yorkshire, 1760. Captain Dawson was an uncle of Augustine Rawlins Dawson,
CCS. (1867-97), and like him was powerfully built and 6 ft. in height.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Kandy District.
In the Gardens are pavilions or summer houses as memorials of Drs. Gardner and Thwaites. The
memorial to the former takes the shape of a circular-domed temple of classical design, that to the latter is of
Kandyan style. The memorial to Dr. Gardner remained for over thirty years without an inscription, but the
omission was supplied from the pen of Dr. E. S. Copleston, formerly Bishop of Colombo, now Bishop of Calcutta.
1279.— March 10, 1849.— George Gardner.
GEOEGItrS GARDNER
SOC. LINN. SOC.
HORUM HOBTORUM
AB ANNO 1843, AD 1849
CXJSTOS
REI HERBARIiE PBRITUS
VIARTJM STRENUUS
FLOBES HEEBAS ARBOEES
UTRItrSQUE ORBIS DILIGBNTISSIME SERVATUS EST
QUI UT IN MEMORIAM HABEATtTR
HOC CENOTAPHIUM POSUERUNT
AMICI TAPROBANENSES, A.D. 1855.
OBIIT IN URBE NtTWARA ELIYA.
VI ID. MART, ANNO 1849,
^TAT 37.
He ' ' was appointed Superintendent on the recommendation of Sir William Hooker in 1 843 He graduated M D
at Glasgow m 183.5. He travelled m Brazil 1840-41, and made a large collection of plants there, publShins a ioumai
of his tour with descriptions of plants and genera m the botanical journals ; also in 1846 a book ' Travels in the Tnt.eri-nr
of Brazil,' which he compiled on the voyage out to Ceylon. In 1846 he visited Madras and botanized^ the
Neilgherry Hills. He became one of the editors of the ' Calcutta Journal of Natural History,' anjhis' Contribution
towards a Flora of Ceylon were appearing in that journal at the time of his death. He also wrote ' Some Remarks on
the Flora of Ceylon as an Appendix to Lee's translation of Ribeyro. His premature death from apopW
destroyed the hopes that had been built upon his great capacity." (G. S. Bulger in Trimen, vol V pp 375-76 )' " (See
No
in 18.37-46.")
Governor Barnes, with a true instinct, chose Dawson, when a subaltern, to perform a field ofiloer's functions." (" Ceylon
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Kandy District — contd.
1280.— September 11, 1882.— George Henry Kendrick Thwaites.
In Memory of Geobge Henry Kendeiok Thwaites,
F.R.S., C.M.G., PH.D., &c.. Superintendent and
Director of these Gardens, 1849-1880. Nat. 9 July,
1812. Ob. 11 Sept., 1882.
See a biography of him by G. S. Bulger in Trimen's " Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon," vol. V., pp. 376-79. He
was born at Bristol, and began life as an accountant. " He has probably done more for our scientific and practical
knowledge of the vegetable products of Ceylon than any one man." He never left Ceylon after he first set foot in it
in 1849. He published his "Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylanica" in 1859-64, and was madean F.R.S. on its completion
and a C.M.G. in 1878. He retired in 1880, and purchased Fairieland, near Kandy, and died at Kandy while on his
way to the seaside. He is buried in the Kandy Cemetery, but his grave is not indicated by monument or inscription.
There are notices of both Gardner and Thwaites in the " Dictionary of National Biography."
Eladetta in Udu Nuwara, Kandy District.
There is a garden at Eladetta, now planted with cacao trees, which is traditionally alleged to have been
occupied by a European, who must have been Robert Knox, but it does not exactly agree with Knox's description.
There is, however, another garden near it which answers to it more or less, and inay have formed part of the
&st garden, and a stone has been erected on the Gansabhawa path opposite it to mark Knox's connection with
the place. Knox's description of Eladetta and the place of his abode for nine years is as follows : — " It lyes ten
miles to the southward of Cande, in the County of Oudaneur in the Town of EUedat a point of .land standing
into a Com Field, so that Com Fields were on three sides of it, and just before my door a little Com ground
belonging thereto and very well watered." (Knox, p. 144.) He states that he was assisted in building his house
by " three of my Countrymen that dwelt near by, Roger Gold, Ralph Knight, and Stephen Rutland." The stone
stands at the foot of the garden, and below the path the ground drops into a range of paddy fields. It was the
most likely site that the compiler could find at Eladetta.
In 1670 Knox and his three companions at Legundeniya left that place, and KJnox bought this piece of
land at Eladetta, where he built a house, and settled down with the three men named above. In 1672 two of
the four married and settled elsewhere. From 1672 to 1679 Knox and Rutland travelled about the Kandyan
kingdom peddling. On September 22, 1679, they started from Eladetta on their journey northwards, arriving
at the Dutch Fort at Arippu on October 18, 1679 (p. 26). The inscription runs : —
HEREABOUTS
DWELT
ROBERT KNOX
STEPHEN RUTLAND
1670-1679
AND WITH THEM
UNTIL 1674
ROGER GOULD
RALPH KNIGHT.
Erected, 1908.
J. p. L.
Legundeniya in Uda Palata, Kandy District.
In a letter addressed to the English authorities at Madras by the Dutch Governor, Rykloff van Goens,
dated Colombo, October 22, 1669, it is stated that Robert Knox and the three men named below were " in a
village beyond Candy named Legondeny." "We learn from Elnox's narrative that after having endured their
enforced rfesidence at Legundeniya for three years (1667-1670 probably), he and his three companions took
' French leave ' and went off whither they pleased. Knox and Rutland settled at Eladetta, where they were
joined by Gold and Knight." ("Robert Knox," byD. W. Ferguson, p. 22 note.) "Day had a half-caste son,
Peter, who was 16 years of age in 1683. He was probably therefore bom at Legundeniya." {Ihid. , p. 36.) There
is said to be a family called De Appu in the village of Pupuressa near Legundeniya descended from WUHam Day,
but the compiler has not succeeded in coming across a member of it. Legundeniya is in the Kandukara
Pahala korale of the Uda palata division of the Kandy District, about 5 miles from Gampola. The site of the
compound in which, according to tradition, Knox lived is now called Nittamaluwa. It is on the road from
Pupuressa to Pussetenna estate, near the summit of a conical patana-covered mountain, from which are visible,
on the west Adam's Peak, Raksawa, and Ambuluwawa ; on the east Hantane and the road from Peradeniya to
Deltota ; on the south Pussellawa. The place is approached on all four sides by " passes," which seems to have
been the reason why it was selected for the residence of Knox and his companions. The tradition as to the site
came from the late Arachchi of the village, who belongs to the Hunkiripatiyage family, which supplied milk to
the king. There are said to be descendants of Knox's companions living in the neighbourhood. Their family
name is " Nasindeniyegedera." The inscription is as follows :—
HERE LIVED
.A.D. 1667-1670
Robert Knox
John Lovbland
John Berry
William Day.
Erected 1908.
J. p. L.
2 z 82-09
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Bomure, Urugala, in Uda Dumbara, Medasiya Pattu, Kandy District.
The garden where the last King of Kandy was captured is approached by a path from the bend iii
the road just above Urugala, down hill and through paddy fields and a piece of jungle. The house and atuwa
which occupied the compound have disappeared. The present Kotala's father's mother was daughter of the
man who hved here at the time and sheltered the king. His name was Udupitiye Appurala, and the land
still belongs to his family. There are a tamarind tree and two coconut trees still standing which were there at
the time of the capture. There is nothing astonishing in this, tamarind trees are very long-lived, and the two
coconut trees looked quite 100 years old." An old man named Higgahapitiyegedera Appuwa, who lives in the
next compound, informed the compiler in 1907 that he remembered the house ; it was square and thatched with
straw, but " like a walawwa." He pointed out where it had stood, also the site of the atuwa and outbuildings.
He said he was 80, and ceased to pay road tax 20 years ago, which would make him then 75 at least. He also
pointed out Gallehewatta on the other side of the fields, which was the king's coconut garden. This place,
" GaUehewatta," is mentioned in the account of the Kandyan war of 1803, written " By an Officer employed in
the expedition," as the place where the king was captured. (See Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon
Branch, vol. X., p. 324, " The Antiquities of Medamahanuwara," by J. H. P. Hamilton, CCS.)
" On the followiag morning the gratifying intelligence was received at Headquarters that the King had
been surrounded on the morning of the preceding day {i.e., on February 18, 1815)* by some Kandyans of
the Province of Dumbara, assisted by the army followers of Eheylepola Adigar, at a place called Gallehewatta,
within the Province of Dumbara, very near to Meydemahanoowera ; two of his queens and some followers had
been taken with him after a short conflict between a few Malay soldiers, who were with him, and the Singhalese."
(" Journal and Narrative of the Military operations carried on by the British Troops in the interior of the Island
of Ceylon in the beginning of the year 1815," " Ceylon Miscellany," vol. I., 1842, p. 145.)
There is no doubt from tradition that the actual spot was the garden I visited. The old man told the
compiler that the king came from Urugala, along the Udupitiye-ela, and the Malay soldiers through the fields
(there was a detachment of the 1st Ceylon Regiment under Captain Mylius in pursuit of the king). The Udupitiye-
ela comes from Medamahanuwara, and the Meda-ela, a branch of it, goes to Bomure. He also stated that " 15
years ago " there were arecanut trees standing on the boundary of this garden, on which the marks of the bullets
fired by the Malays could be seen. The name of the garden is Udupitiyegedera. It has since been acquired by
the Crown.
Marshall describes the capture : — " On the 18th (Feb.) the King was taken prisoner with one of his wives in
the house of a subordinate headman, about a mile beyond Medda Maha Nuwera (i.e. , the palace, not the mountain).*
His two remaining wives and his mother were at Hangwella (about 3 or 4 miles fromMadugoda),*a short distance
off, and, being sent for -ndth conveyances and an escort, were brought to Teldenia to join the King. It
appears that the few Malabar attendants remaining with the King made some resistance, and wounded one
of the assailants under the command of Eheylapola, on which the party fired upon the house. The King
then appeared and delivered himself up. His pursuers forthwith bound and plundered him of whatever articles
of value he had on his person." ("Ceylon," by Henry Marshall, p. 157.) The King died a pensioner at
Vellore in 1830.
The stone bears the following inscription in English and Sinhalese : —
sbi wtkeama eajasinha
captttbed herb
18 Febrtjaey, 1815.
The pillar was erected in December, 1908. It had to be carried across the paddy fields by a tusker
elephant (only a tusker could carry it safely) to the site. It stands on a step, and is 9| ft. in height, including
the step. It is of Kandyan shape, but quite plain. It is visible from within 100 yards of the 20th milestone
on the high road across the valley, on the top of a conical hQl rising out of the paddy fields. It will have to
be painted white to make it more conspicuous from the road. Near it is a tamarind tree, which from its
appearance, no doubt, stood there when the king was captured. This site is accessible by descending the hill
below the road at the 20th mile, crossing the paddy fields, and ascending the opposite hiU, or by the path first
mentioned.
Hingulwala in Galasiya Pattu of Harispattu, Kandy District.
A STONE has recently (1907) been erected under an old jak (Indocarpus integrifolia) tree in this village, with
an mscription in Sinhalese, to commemorate one of the battles successfully fought by Rajasinha I. with the
Portuguese.
aS§® 8«s^ea o3ffi) S® ^^©j^eotS «fQ8os §8«n®c8ffi}|
e>@® ^®s^cdS @^® (9c3®^aOTcs 8^§Sjd^ ragesaoaSoI
essa g(Ke^^Q d'e>©®saJ5j®c83 §8jsJ 49ob®«)Cjc8.
Translation.—" This stone inscription has been set up this
year of Saka 1829 on the orders of the Gansatahawa and
of Nugawela Ratemahatmaya, in commemoration of
Kmg Rajasinha I.'s witnessing, under the shade of this
jak tree, the battle that was waging in Madure korale."
The notes in parenthesia are the compiler's.
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Serial No.
1281 ,
Date.
Dec. 31
1806
Name.
Maria Maxwell Laurie
St. Mary's Church, Kelebokka, Kandy District.
This church is picturesquely situated below the 20th mile, on the road from Panwila to Kelebokka, which
was opened circa 1859. An inscription on the east waU records that it was built in 1873 in memory of " M. M. L."
(Mrs. Forbes Laurie), and the east window bears an inscription to her memory.
Inscription.
. . To the glory of God and in memory of Maria
Maxwell Laurie, the beloved wife of William
Forbes Laurie. Given by her mother.
W. F. Laurie was on Tunisgalla, Madulkele, in
1868. He died on January 8, 1909, at Palace
Gardens. He was the son of W. F. Laurie, M.D., of
Dunstable. He was Visiting Agent of the Ceylon Land
and Produce Company, and at one time Chairman
of the Dikoya Planters' Association. He had two
brothers, also Ceylon planters, Buxton Laurie of
LeangegoUa and Frank Maxwell Laurie of Detenagala.
, . F. C. Woods of Kandikekettia aged 73.
A well known planter. The compiler \'oyaged
with him to Ceylon in September to October, 1877,
but, strange to say, never met him afterwards in the
Island. He had then been many years in Ceylon.
. . In loving memory of our dear sister Annie Augusta
RuDD, born 17th May, 1862
(See No. 898.)
1282
1283
July 3
1807
Aug. 5
1808
F. C. Woods
Annie Augusta Rudd
St. Andrew's Church, Gampola, Kandy District.
1284
Sept. 27
1852
Mary Shipton
1285
1286
Oct. 31
1852
Feb. 24
1854
Sarina Sophia Tate
James Rosell Tate
In memorj- of Mary, the beloved wife of John Ship-
ton, died at Sinnapitiya aged 22 years ; and
of Mary, her infant daughter, born September
20
This was his second wife. He had married, April
9, 1840, Maria, third daughter of Joseph Metcalf,
(See No. 1158.)
Dr. Shipton was a well known coffee planter. He
ended his days as Police Magistrate of Point
Pedro and Chavakachcheri in the eighties.
Sacred to the memory of Sarina Sophia Elizabeth,
the beloved child of James Rosell Tate of
Gampola aged 2 years 10 months & 24 days.
Sacred to the memory of James Rosell Tate
" In the midst of life we are in death."
He was, I think, a son of John Tate (see No. 1121).
J. R. Tate was on Harmony estate, Gampola, 1842-48.
He married , on August 1 , 1 842 , at Kandy , Miss Sophia
Bailey of Kandy. Reference is made in the news-
papers of 1849 to Mr. J. R. Tate's " Store and Hotel "
at Gampola, so that he must have succeeded his
father as proprietor of the resthouse or hotel there.
Old Burial Ground, Gampola, Kandy District.
1287 .
. May 28
1870
James Sinnot
1288 . ,
June 1
1883
William Cameron
1289
Aug. 30
1896
William Hunter Reid
James Sinnot, of BeKast, Ireland, who died at
Gampola aged 57.
Erected in memory of William Cameron, Inspector
of Tea Estates, who died at Gampola by a
few of his friends and pupils in grateful remem-
brance of his valuable services in the promotion
of the Tea Enterprise in Ceylon.
He came over from India, and there were reasons
for believing that Cameron was not his real name.
He belonged to the Isle of Mull.
William Hunter Reid, eldest son of David &
Jessie A. Reid, Shootfield, Sevenoaks, Kent, who
was drowned near Gampola aged 27.
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Old Burial Ground, Gampola, Kandy District — contd.
Serial Xo.
Date.
Name.
1290 . .
May 6
1898
. . Thomas B. Miller
1291
1292
June 4
1898
May 22
1899
Charlotte Gertrude Snowden
John Henry Guyon
Inscription.
T. B. MiLLEK aged 56 years.
He was a son of Quartermaster Thomas Miller,
Ceylon Rifles, a daughter of whom married David S.
Mantell, Surveyor-General. Anotherdaughter, Emma
Frances Harriet, died at Trineomalee, May 11, 1852,
aged 2 months 12 days.
" It would not be right to leave these reminiscences
of friends in old Ceylon without mentioning T. B.
Miller, of South Delta. I see his name has dis-
appeared from the Directory, hke too many others.
I should like to say that I received as much real,
imsophisticated kindness from him as from any one
in the Island. He had been born in Ceylon and had
never been out of it, and, as a consequence, he had
not the maimers of an English public school boy,
but, when I knew him, he was thoroughly straight
in his conduct, fair to both master and cooUe, and,
so far as his means allowed, would do a kind act to
a neighbour. I thoroughly respected him, though
he had not the garb which education and social
advantage put on many of us, and I can only hope
that his end was good." (Rev. R. Abbay.)
Chaelotte Gebteude, the devoted wife of Somer-
set Snowden, Survey Department, born 6th June,
1864
A daughter of J. Daveran Erskine, Survey Depart-
ment.
Born 23 Dec, 1844
Mr. Guyon was originally a plaiiter, but settled
down in Gampola. For many years he was lay reader
at St. Andrew's Church. The upper part of the
memorial cross is missing.
Cemetery, Gampola, Kandy District.
The first two burials in the Gampola Cemetery were those of Europeans, and took place on April 1, 1901.
Mrs. Elizabeth Louisa Capp, aged 44, widow of Mr. John Capp, Head Guard of the Ceylon Government Railway,
and her son, George, aged 16, were killed by lightning on March 29, at Gangwarily bungalow, Dolosbage. She
was standing in the front verandah , and the thJee sons were in the back yard watching the fowls being fed, her
daughter was in the bedroom sewing near a table on which stood a sewing machine, the Tamil servant was in
the front verandah attending to the bird cages, and the appu was in the kitchen. It was about 5 p.m. There had
been a thunderstorm lasting from 2 to 4 o'clock, but the rain had ceased, and the setting sun Was beginning to shine
through the heavy thunder clouds. The thunder was still rumbhng. , Suddenly there was a vivid flash of light-
ning, accompanied by a terrific peal of thunder, and the bungalow seemed to be shaken to its foundations. There
was complete silence for some seconds , and then the appu , who was in the kitchen half dazed , recovered himself , and
went to look after his mistress. He found her lying dead, the three boys lying motionless on the ground, and the
Tamil servant in a similar condition in the verandah. The girl in the bedroom had also come out, dazed for the
time, and half bUnded by the play of the hghtning on the sewing machine. Two of the sons after a time recovered
and sat up, and so did the Tamil servant. The others were not touched. The lightning struck a large rock and
a papaw tree close to the bungalow. The rock was split, and pieces weighing 2 or 3 cwt. were thrown some
distance. The bungalow had a galvanized iron roof, which had no doubt attracted the lightning. On the edge
of the roof a bamboo sieve with three or four measures of coffee had been out to dry and forgotten. The coffee
was burnt to charcoal, but the sieve was not touched. The hghtning had passed through aU the rooms of
the bungalow, as well as the kitchen, cook's room, fowl house, and pigsty, and its passage could easily be marked
by the splinters knocked off the woodwork and the boards displaced. Not a bird, dog, fowl, or pig was kiUed.
The vegetable garden, a short distance from the rock that was struck, was completely destroyed. Everything
in it withered and died. (Account by J. Gidlow, brother of Mrs. Capp, who arrived on the scene at 6 p.m. from
Oonankande estate.) This part of the Dolosbage district is very liable to violent thunderstorms. Exactly six
months later, on October 28 or 29, Henry Percy Marshall, the Superintendent of Dedugalla and St. Blane
estates, Dolosbage, was killed by Hghtning while seated in the afternoon at his piano. This makes the fifth
death in Ceylon of a European from Hghtning of which there is any record, the others being those of Major
Rogers, Mrs. Holhnsworth at Ambepussa in 1867, and the Capps. The circumstances in the latter case were very
similar to those m the case of Major Rogers. The storm was supposed to be over, and the fatal flash was an
isolated one, which occurred some time after its apparent cessation. John Shipton, aged 52, a planter, son of
Dr. John Shipton, was buried in the cemetery, July 2, 1902.
Inscription.
Francis William Wintle, of Ascot aged 38,
mourned by his loving widow and two sons.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1293 . .
Jan. 28
1907
. . Francis William Wintle
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1294 . .
Jan. 4
1865
. . Mary Sophia Sabonadiere
1295
Feb. 12
1885
Herbert Henderson Corfe
Holy Trinity Chureli, Pussellawa, Kandy District.
The registers date from 1864, but the earliest appear to have been lost. Chaplains of Pussellawa and
Gampola from that date were the Revs. Duncan C. Mackenzie, 1864-70 ; R. Abbay, 1871-74 ; C. Swinnerton,
1876-76 ; Forbes Auchmuty, 1876-77 ; M. Odell, 1883-85.
" In the early ' Fifties ' the Pussellawa and Ramboda districts were not fuUy opened, but presented a
magnificent show of vigorous coffee fields framed by the everlasting forest. A more delightful climate, or
more romantic scenery, did not, at the time, exist in Ceylon ; while the facihties for sport — that is hunting elk
with dogs, the popular form of sport at the time — were unequalled, with the far-extending forests of the Pedro
and False Pedro, and Great Western ranges, and the interminable Wilderness forest of the Peak, available on
the other side. Pussellawa and Ramboda were very favourite residential districts." (J. Ferguson.)
Inscription.
Maey, the beloved wife of F.R. Sabois-adiere, Esqr. ,
who departed this life at Delta, Pussellawa
aged 34 years.
This tablet is erected by a few friends as a small
tribute of affectionate regard and esteem.
She was a daughter of Charles Edward Layard,
C.C.S., born May 31, 1832, and second wife of F. R.
Sabonadiere, whom she niarried on August 19, 1864.
(See No. 1296.)
'• We halted at Pussilawa, and ere night reached
' The Delta,' a charming house with a lovely garden,
which in that month of March was fragrant with
the mingled perfume of roses and jasmines, gardenias,
honeysuckle, heliotropes, salvias, mignonette, violets,
lilies and pinks, myrtles, magnolias, oleanders, and
loquat; and gay, moreover, with luxuriant convolvuli,
fuchsias, and bignonias, brilliantly variegated cala-
dium leaves, fantastic crotons, and beautiful climbing
passion .flowers and tacsonias, covered with largo
crimson stars. Add to these many vividly green
parrakeets and other birds of bright plumage, and gay
butterflies, and you can reaUze something of the charm
of that garden." ("Two Happy Years," vol. I., p. 181.)
This refers to 1873.
In memory of Hebbert Henderson Corfe, for many
years resident in Ceylon and for some time of
Helbodde in the District of Pusilawa. He was
born in the Island of Guernsey, June 24, 1847,
and died at Tunstall in the County of Kent,
England
His kindness and integrity made him dear to his
friends and respected by all who knew him. A man
greatly beloved.
Francis Richard Sabonadiere Francis Richard Sabonadiere, who departed this
life in Colombo aged 68.
This tablet is erected by a few sincere friends.
His first wife died at Jaffna, April 27, 1850 (see
No. 826). The firm of Sabonadiere & Co. was at one
time a leading firm at Colombo. (See No. 50.)
' " Frank Sabonadiere was head and shoulders
above the others as regards both influence in
the City and in the Coffee Industry ; and it was
currently reported that the firm was making £50,000 a
year as agents and exporters. This may have been so
for two or three years. Money was in a very fluid
condition in these years in the Island, and a good deal
of what would have been justifiable speculation, if
Leaf Disease had not appeared, was prevalent. Frank
Sabonadiere was recognised as a fine financier, far
seeing and calculating, but perfectly straight, and
able to deal with large interests and big sums of
money as easily as a champion chess player with his
pawns. He was reticent with strangers, might have
been called a stiff man ; but few could more surely
get at the main points in a question as distinguished
from the less important, or meet difficulties with a
stronger determination to overcome them. His in-
fluence with planters was enormous, and his opinions
were quoted by them as something not to be
questioned. This was due to his straightforward
character, his knowledge of the Coffee Industry, and
his influence in the City as a financier. Apart from
business, his interests were chiefly in French literature ,
L *he lighter side of it, and, I believe, he always chose
a Messageries steamer for his joiu-neys to and from
Ceylon." (Rev. R, Abbay.)
1296
July 18
1891
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Holy Trinity Church, Pussellawa, Kandy District — contd.
Serial N".
1297 .
Date.
July 11
1896
Name.
Henry Alexander Duncan
Macleod
1298
July 20
1897
John Tyndall
Inscription.
In memory of Henry Alexander Duncan Macleod,
for 19 years (1877-1896) Superintendent of Naya-
pane Estate in this district, who died at Nayapane,
This tablet is erected by his personal friends.
A brass. There is also an inscription in the church-
yard.
In memory of John Tyndall, of Glen loch, for many
years resident in this district, who was held in
affectionate regard by a wide circle of friends in
all parts of Ceylon for his generous and kindly
disposition and for the possession in an eminent
degree of those qualities which form the good
neighbour, the sincere friend, the true sportsman.
Born 13th Feby., 1822
John Tyndall was celebrated as a coffee planter,
sportsman, and wag. Many are the stories of his
practical jokes and witticisms.
"When we dispersed some would go down to
Glenloch to see Jack T3radall and try his famous rifles
on bottles and other targets. And here I may tell a
story of Tyndall, which may or may not be true, for
he was the greatest practical joker in the Island. A
visitor had come up with introductions from Colombo,
and Tyndall had put him up. He soon shewed himself
to be somewhat of a bounder, self -asserting and
supercihous. Before dinner they went out to try a
rifle, and in looking round for something to Are at,
the visitor suggested one of the doors of the bungalow.
Tyndall professed to go in to see that there was no
danger, and then let the visitor fire to his heart's
content, himself taking no part in the shooting.
When they went in to examine the door, the visitor
found that his travelling boxes were piled up behind
it ; and he left early next day. Tyndall had been a
great hunter both on the slopes of the Nilgiris and in
the low-country of Ceylon ; and once in company with
Sir (then Mr.) Samuel Baker they had shot fifteen
elephants in two days. This was before the days of
the express rifle and expanding op explosive bullets,
and when there was some real chance of a bullet not
doing its work. He was very hospitable and hearty,
and the most forceful man I met in Ceylon. Love of
sport alone prevented him becoming one of the chiefs
of the coffee enterprise in its bestdays." (Rev. R.
Abbay.)
John Tyndall, in the Monthly Literary Register,
vol. III., p. 64, describes one of his own sporting
adventures : —
" I had some extraordinary escapes myself both
from elephant and buffalo, but I was never nearer
meeting a dreadful death than I was from a wild boar.
This was at Nilgalla too. Fred. Kelson was with me
at the time. It Was only a day or two after I had
been charged and caught by the rogue elephant which
' Banda ' (since Ratemahatmaya of Bintenna) rescued
me from, our coolies were nearly out of rice, and
none obtainable, so I went out for two consecutive
mornings to try and shoot a deer, but could'nt get a
shot. I saw lots of wild pigs, but it is generally
acknowledged that they are objectionable as food on
a sporting trip, as coolies are apt to gorge themselves
on the meat, and get ill, and are unable to carry their
loads, and are knocked up for the remainder of the
journey. On the second morning being unsuccessful
to bag a deer, and as there was actual famine in the
camp, there was no alternative left me but to slay a
porker, and it was not very long before we sighted
close at hand some pigs grubbing in some long grass.
By an extraordinary interposition of Providence,
instead of taking the single-barrelled rifle I usually
preferred for small game, I took a heavy double
No. 10 smooth-bore (why, I don't know), and getting
close up in a short stalk, I selected a fine little fat
swine for a pot shot. I was kneeling on both knees
at the time, and fired. Hardly had I pulled the
trigger when an enormous boar I had not seen, charged
right into me, and I fired the second barrel in his face
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Holy Trinity Church, Pussellawa, Kandy District— confcZ.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1298 . .
July 20
.1897
. . John TyniaW—contd.
Inscription.
at the point of tlie muzzle, and blew his snout away.
Off he scampered, and I after him. The animal
looked exactly like a man's head on a pig's body ; the
cooly could not hand me the rifle in time, so the poor
brute escaped and a dreadful death he must have
died. Had it not been for the double gun, I should
have been ripped up in another second. I often
think this was a wonderful deliverance."
Fred. Kelson was Dr. Kelson, a son (?) of Captain
Kelson, who was Commandant of Kotmale in the
thirties and forties.
Churchyard of Holy Trinity, Pussellawa, Kandy District.
1299
1300
Nov. 16
1859
Sept. 8
1861
Helen Susan Cornelia
Schrader
Henry Western Simpson
1301
1302
March 25
1862
April 29
1862
Anne Richmond
Anne Jane Richmond
1303 .
June 1
1863
1304 .
. Sept. 14
1866
Sept. 14
1866
Sept. 15
1866
John Enoch Armitage
Alice Emma Daniell
Georgiana Margaret Daniel!
Lindsay Murray Daniell
Helen Susan Cornelia, the beloved wife of Rev.
G. J. ScHEADEE, aged 23 years.
She was a Miss Arndt, and married her cousin,
Archdeacon Schrader, April 19, 1855, at Jaffna. He
was Chaplain at Pussellawa. (See No. 698.)
Henry Western Simpson, only surviving son of
David and Lydia Simpson, of Bayham Terrace,
Camden Town, N.W., who was kiUed by the acci-
dental discharge of his gun in this district
aged 23 years.
He was getting his gun to shoot a jackal, when the
trigger went off. He had been only eight days on
the estate.
Anne, wife of Sylvester Trant Richmond, Esq.,
of Colombo. She departed this life at the
age of 32.
She was the widow of B. L. Spyer, and married
S. T. Richmond at Colombo on January 18, 1855.
Anne Jane Richmond, fourth daughter of Sylves-
ter Richmond, Esqr., late of the 49th Regiment.
She departed this life at the age of 27.
His third daughter, Ellen Sarah, married at
Colombo, September 8, 1859, Rev. Richard Phillips,
acting Colonial Chaplain, Galle.
John Enoch Aemitage, who died at Delta.
Id memory of Alice Emma, who died at Hellebodde
aged 4 years.
Georgiana Margaret, who died at Hellebodde,
aged 1 year and 9 months.
Lindsay Murray, who died at Delta aged 2
years and 8 months.
The loving and beloved children of Lindsay Harri-
son Daniell and Alice Caroline, his wife.
Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths
they were not divided. 2 Sam. 1-23 or 28.
" The family was residing at Mr. Sheriff's, Helbodde,
and it was at first supposed that the seeds of a plant
called ' Viper's grass ' might have got into a
rhubarb tart, of which the children partook. But
later accounts point to true Asiatic cholera as the
cause. Two of the children died at Mr. Sheriff's
house, the third at Mr. Sabonadiere's, to which the
family had removed." (Colombo Observer, September
17, 1866.)
The eldest of the three children died at 9 . 30 a.m. ;
the youngest at noon on the 14th ; the boy at 9 a.m'
on the 15th.
Mrs. Daniell was eldest daughter of Captain William
Fisher (see No. 1387), and married L. H. Daniell at
Kandy, on December 4, 1860.
Lindsay Harrison Daniell, of Harrow and Merton
College, Oxford, born 1834, son of Captain Edward
Maxwell Daniell of Chelsea, was in Kotmale , and under
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Serial No.
1304 .
Churchyard of Holy Trinity," Pussellawa, Kandy District— cow^c^.
Date.
Sept. 14
1866, &c.
Name.
Alice Emma Daniell, &c.
contd.
Inscription.
M. H. Thomas, Kandy. He left Ceylon, and <,pok
orders. He died on December 13, 1872. His fifth
daughter, Alice Helen, married, December 12, 1898,
Charles Fry, of Sunny Bank, York. Mrs. Daniell
married (2) Commander Frederick Anthony Sargeant,
R.N., on February 4, 1875.
1305
Jan. 17
1872
William Green
William Green, late of Guernsey, who died at East
Delta aged 39 years.
This stone was erected by his fellow Superintendents
He was on Delmar, Fort Macdonald, in 1868.
1306
May 30
1874
Mary Ann Grant
Mary Ann Grant, the beloved wife of Wm. Grant
of Rotherhithe, London, who departed this life at
Le Vallon, Pusselawa aged 35 years.
1307 . . March 7 . . Alice Maud Massy Swin-
1876 nerton
Alice Maud Massy, daughter of Rev. Charles
SwiNNERTON, Chaplain of this place, and Maud,
his wife, whom God called home
" Fear no more the heat o' the sun."
The Rev. C. Swynnerton (as the name is now spelt)
was Chaplain, 1875-77. He married, September 2,
1875, Maud Massy, a sister of Lieutenant-General
William Godfrey Dunham Massy, C.B., who com-
manded the troops in Ceylon, 1888-93, known as
" Redan Massy." Mrs. Swynnerton died, November
8, 1882. Mr. Swynnerton was afterwards a chaplain
in the Punjab, and author of books on folklore and
historical subjects: "Raja Rasalu," "The Afghan
War," &c. It is inferred from the quotation that the
child died of sunstroke.
1308
Nov. 1
1877
Olivia Tyndall
1309
May 28
1882
E. C. Sweeting
1310 .
Aug. 1
1885
. Horatio Wilton
1311 .
. March 24 ,
1888
, . Annie Mackintosh Smil
1312 .
. Sept. 9
1893.
Emily Lucy Gosset
1313 .
May 22
1895
George Henry Thomas
White
1314
Feb. 29
1896
Henry Ludovic Drummond
Olivia, the beloved daughter of John Tyndall,
Esqr. , of Glenloch in this Parish aged
twenty- one years.
This memorial is erected by her numerous sincere
friends as a mark of regard for one who had
endeared herself in Ufe to all who knew her.
Her eldest sister, Emily Stuart, married (1) James
C. Reibey, and (2), on June 20, 1872, the Rev.
Herbert George Nind. She was drowned in the
Thames, near Cleeve, on October 16, 1902, through
the capsizing of a sailing boat.
E. C. Sweeting, youngest son of the late J. H.
Sweeting, of Kilve Court, Somersetshire, who died
at Rothschild
He married a Miss Hammond, daughter of Captain
John Hammond, R.N. Her sister, Emily, married,
on April 10, 1882, James Whitaker Gibson, CCS.
Horatio Wilton, who died atNayapane, Pusselawa,
aged 38 years.
Annie Mackintosh, the beloved wife of William
Smith, who died at New Peacock Estate, Pus-
selawa aged 30 years.
Emily Lucy, -wife of J. W. Gosset, who died at
HeUbodde.
George Henry Thomas White, only son of Admiral
G. H. P. White, of Newton Abbot, Devon
aged 39.
He died at Stellenberg estate, where he was Superin-
tendent. There is a brass in St. Paul's, Kandy,
erected by his friends in Ceylon.
In memory of Henry Ludovic Drummond, fourth
son of Edgar Atheling and Hon'ble Mrs. Drum-
mond of Cadland, Hants, born 16th October, 1874,
died at Kanapediwatte
This stone is erected by his brothers and sisters.
( 349 )
Churchyard of Holy Trinity, Pussellawa, Kandy District— contd.
Serial No.
Date.
1315 ..
Feb. 19
1897
1316 . .
May 4
1897
Name.
Edward J. M. Sheppard . ,
Walter Lawrence Ingles . .
Inscription.
Edward J. M. Sheppard, son of tho late Philip
Sheppard, Bath. Born Jaf . 11, 1874
Walter Lawrence Ingles, Major, late 32nd and
2nd 16th Eeg., who died at Melfort, Pussellawa,
aged 81 years.
Major Ingles was A.D.C. to the General Commanding
the Forces in Ceylon in 1859. He came out again in
1897 to stay with his son, H. L. S. Ingles of Melfort
estate, and died four days after his arrival. He has
other sons in Ceylon, Walter Culpepper Stanser Ingles
of the Survey Department and Robert Stanser Ingles.
A daughter, now wife of Mr. R. A. Powell, Public
Works Department, was with him at the time of his
death.
Churchyard of Christ Church, Warleigh, Dikoya, Kandy District.
1317
1318
1319
July 9
1880
Feb. 17
1884
April 4
1884
1320
1321
1322
1323
1324
1325
3a
Nov. 10
1884
Nov. 29
1887
May 25
1888
June 2
1888
May
1884
April 3
1897
Feb. 7
1890
April 22
1890
Daniel Stanley Bailey
Cecil Howard Stuart
Thomas Jefferson Brabazon
James Arnold Wycliffe
Madden
Catherine Murray
Felix James Taylor Brown
William Brown
Edward Gray Brown '
James Brown
George Kydd
Daniel Collyer Wood
Daniel Stanley, son of the late Daniel Bailey, of
Moorock, King's County, Ireland aged 26
years.
Here sleeps in the liope of a joyful resurrection
Cecil Howard Stuart, who died in the
18th year of his age.
Erected by his sorrowing wife in loving memory of
Thomas Jefferson Brabazon, born April 12th,
1844
In 1870-71 he was a coffee planter on Rahanwatta
estate, Dunbula.
He was a brother-in-law of Daniel Bailey (see
No. 1342), having married his sister, and came from
Ballycumber, King's County, where his father was
rector. A. L. H. says of him : " Of those who are
gone Tom Brabazon was perhaps the most interesting.
He was the finest wrestler for his size I have ever seen.
He stood only 5 feet 6 inches and weighed 10 stones,
and he could take hold of the biggest of men with
one hand and put them on their backs in a few
seconds." (Times o/Cei/Zon Christmas Number, 1908.)
His widow married William Baillie Seton of Ekolsund,
Ceylon.
James Aenold Wycliffe Madden, M.A., St. John's
CoUege, Oxford, youngest son of the late Sir
Frederic Madden, K.H., F.R.S., born 20th
September, 1850
This stone is erected by his affectionate brother and
sister.
Catherine, widow of Alexander Murray
Alexander Murray died as District Judge of Jaffna
(See No. 831.)
Felix James Taylor Brown , of Abercairney , Ceylon ,
late 1st Highland Light Infantry, son of the late
Brigadier James Brown aged 43 years.
William Brown, son of James Brown, of Netherton,
Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and brother of James
Brown of Hatton, who was drowned while cross-
ing a stream in Maskeliya aged 29 years.
Beloved by all who knew him. Also Edward
Gray, beloved child of James and Annie Brown,
who died at Norwood, Dikoya, aged 18 months.
James Brown, who died at Hatton aged
43 years.
George KydiJ, of Panmure Estate, Ceylon.
He was on Queensberry, Kotmale, in 1868.
Daniel Collyer Wood, Obiit aged 39 years.
He died of cholera. He began his career as a
planter on Wewelhena, Badulla District, under
0. F. C. Maingay. (See No. 711.)
82-09
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1.3:^6 . .
Feb. U
1892
Raymond Edward Waller .
( 350 )
Churchyard of Christ Church, Warleigh, Dikoya, Kaniy District -cow^c?.
Inscription.
Raymond Edwabd Wallee, youngest son of the
late Rev. Robert Waller, Rector of Bourton on
the Water, Gloucestershire, bom June 28th, 1846,
accidentally killed at Darrawela
Also a brass in St. Paul's, Kandy, " erected by his
many friends." He was on Udawela estate, near
Kandy, and was a famous gentleman rider. He was
killed just after winning a race.
1327 . . July 23 . . John Brown . . John Brown, of Glencairn, Dickoya aged
1893 43 years. Erected by a few friends.
1328 . . Oct. 17 . . Emma M. Armitage . . Emma M. Armitagb, wife of Henry T. Armitage,
1894 died at Dunbar
Mrs. Armitage was a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Torrens Walker of the Ceylon Rifles and 3rd
Buffs, who, in 1868, became Commanding Officer of
"the 2nd Battalion of the 25th Regiment, then in
Ceylon. He was a brother of Charles Patton Walker,
C.C.S., who was appointed District Judge and Assist-
ant Agent of Anuradhapura in February, 1835.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walker was baptized, September
13, 1818, and died on November 4, 1881. His father,
Lieutenant-General George Warren Walker, was, in
1818, in command of the troops sent to Ceylon to
assist in the suppression of the Uva rebeUion. He
became celebrated as a Ceylon botanist, and his wife,
who was Anna Maria, daughter of Genera] Parlton,
Governor of St. Helena, painted many pictures of
Ceylon scenery, and assisted her husband in his bota-
nizing. Lieutenant-Colonel George Walker belonged
to the 21st North British Fusiliers, and married Miss
Parlton at Captansgunga in 1809. He died at St.
Thomas's Mount on December 4, 1841, and Mrs.
Walker at Mangalore, September 8, 18 '2, aged 74.
(See Cotton, p. 178.) "Colonel and Mrs. Walker
famous in the annals of Ceylon botany." ("Ceylon
in 1837-46.")
Henry Tumour Armitage is a son of John Armitage,
who founded the Colombo firra of Armitage, Scott
& Co. John Armitage came out to Ceylon in 1837
or 1838. He had been in Brazil from 1808 to 1831,
and wrote a continuation oi Southey's " History of
Brazil," and a poem " O Fluminense." He was a
member of the Legislative Council, 1847-54. The
Aimitages are descended from Godfrey Armitage, a
friend of Oliver Heywood, one of the ejected ministers
of 1662.
H. T. Armitage, born in 1841, married Miss Walker
at Colombo, July 23, 1864. After twenty years'
absence in England he returned to Ceylon in the
nineties as a tea planter. A daughter married Walsh
Wrightson, C.M.G., late of the Ceylon PubUc Works
Department and Director of PubUc Works in Tri-
nidad. The eldest daughter, Julia Mabel, married,
on November 9, 1898, George Henry Fitzjames
Lushington, a cousin once removed of Wilham John
Lushington, CCS.
1329 .. July .. J. D. Macdonald .. This stone is erected in affectionate memory of J D
. '^f" Macdonald, M.D., Assistant to the Principal
April 20 . . Jane C, Maedonald Cml Medical Officer, by his brother officers of the
1904 Civil Medical Dept. and friends. He died at
H,^**?n aged 56 years. Regretted by all
who knew him. Also buried on the 27th May
1904, the cremated ashes of Jane C. Macdonald'
his wife, who died in Scotland
1330 . . Oct 15 . . Arthur William Harris . . The Hon. Arthxtr William Harris, born 20th
^°^' Jany., 1876
He was third son of the fourth Earl of Mahnesbury
and brother of the present Earl. He was a planter.
1331 .. Nov 20 .. Charles Menzies MeCaus- Chaeles M...,.s McCa.sland, for many years
'^^^ Supdt. of Templestowe, Ambegomuwa, born 21 st
Eeby., 1855
For Templestowe estate see No, 1177
( 351 )
Churchyard of Christ Church, Warleigh, Dikoya, Kandy District— cow^c?.
Serial No. » Date. Name. Inscription.
1332 . . Feb. 9 . . T. C. Anderson . . T. C. Anderson, of Gartmore, Maskeliya,. who died
1900 at Glen Morgan, Ootacamund, 9th Febr., 1900,
aged 54. Borne the burden and heat of the day.
(Stone on grave of infant son, Harry Glegg, died
April 21, 1888.)
He was on Kitulkele, Haputale, in 1868.
1333
Aug. 17
1904
William Reeve Tatham
William Reeve Tatham; of South Wanarajah, Dick-
oya, 2nd son of the late Ralph Tatham, P.W.D.,
Ceylon. Born 25th March, 1861 aged
43 years.
Ralph Tatham came out to Messrs. Armitage
Brothers, and later joined the Public Works Depart-
ment. W. R. Tatham married a daughter of the late
Surgeon -Major Lancelot Andrewes White, Ceylon
Rifles.
1334
Jan. 28
1897
All Saints' Church, Maskeliya, Kandy District,
. . Charles Shelton Agar
Chaeles Shelton Agak, who died at Sydney
This tablet is erected by his sorrowing wife and
children.
A brass.
A brother of Walter and of S. Shelton Agar (see
Nos. 616 and 1231). He was on Kandekettia, Madul-
kele, in 1862, and on Batgoda, HaldummuUa.
1335
1336
1337
1338
1339
1340
Churchyard of AH Saints' Church, Maskeliya, Kandy District
James B. Cruickshank
Jan. 21
1877
Feb. 29
1884
May 10
1890
June 18
1895
Aug. 30
1895
Oct. 15
1898
1341
1342
Oct. 18
1900
Dec. 17
1900
Thomas Nattle Gregg
Malcolm H. Clerk
Hugh Montel Toller
Henry Thomas Martin
Edward Mortimer
Alexander Edwards Wright
Mary Augusta Wells
James B. Cbuickshank, son of Revd. J. Cruickshank
of Stevenston, Scotland ...... aged 31 yeais.
The Revd. Thomas Nattle Gregg, B.A., Cantab.,
late Rector of Lambley , Notts. Died at Theberton ,.
Maskeliya, on the eve of his departure for home
aged 73.
Malcolm H. Clerk, bom 14th May, 1853 3rd
son of John Clerk, Esqr., Q.C.
Hugh Montel Toller, late Captain, Devonshire
Regiment, who died Having found what
earth can never give, Death's Treasure -Rest.
Henry Thomas Martin, of Luccombe in the
37th year of his age.
Edward Mortimer, who was born at Picton, Nova
Scotia, 21st May, 1823. Died at Cleveland, Mas-
keHya
This stone was erected by a few of his relatives and
friends in Ceylon.
In 1864 he was on Rajawela No. 2, Dumbara,
" when bearing 15 owt. of coffee an acre all round."
(John Ferguson). He was on Balakaduwa, Matale,
for many years, and left for Maskeliya at the time
that " the forests of the wilderness of the Peak were
being opened up for coffee, now all tea."
Alexander Edwards Weight, seventh son of the
late William Wright, Advocate General of the
Province of New Brunswick. Born March 26th,
1847, passed away October 18th, 1900.
Mary Augusta Wells, widow of the late Lt.-Col.
WilliAm Henry Wells, Royal Marine Light
Infantry, who died at Luccombe aged 54.
( 352 )
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1343 . .
May 22 .
1901
, . Claude Cotes Bell
Churchyard of All Saints' Church, Maskeliya, Kandy Distnct—contd.
Inscription.
. . Claude Cotes Bell, a member of the first Ceylon
South African Contingent during the whole term
of their service. He died on May 22, 1901, soon
after his return, of fever contracted while serving
his country. This tablet is erected by his Ceylon
friends and comrades in arms.
A brass inside the church.
His tombstone in the churchyard records that his
age was 32.
1344 . .
1345 . ,
1346 .
1347 .
Aug. 16
1901
Nov. 28
1901
June 15
1902
Aug. 25
1904
Agnes Mary Bent
Albert Alexander Pillans
Thomas James Gregg
Louisa Greig
Agnes Mary, wife of Eustace H. Bent
aged 32.
Albert Alexander Pillans . Born February 25th ,
1869
Also a brass in the church " erected by his Ceylon
friends." He was on Brtmswick, Maskeliya.
Thomas James Gregg, eldest son of the late Revd.
T. N. Gregg, B.A. Camb., late Rector of Lambley,
Notts, born September 1st, 1835
Louisa, beloved wife of George Greig of
Laxapana estate aged 61 years. '
In 1868 George Greig was on Rajawella, Dumbara.
St. Mary's Church, Bogawantalawa, Kandy District.
1348
April 9
1877
Charles Henry Richard
Vanderspar
1349
1350
May 2
1877
Aug. 5
1898
Adolphus Meyer
Adrian Herbert Pargiter .
Charles Henry Richard Vanderspar, born
13 Sept., 1852
This window is erected as a tribute of esteem and
affection by his many sorrowing relatives and
friends.
A son of Major Vanderspar (No. 565).
Adolphus Meyer, of Tientsin Estate, who died at
Colombo Erected by a few Ceylon friends.
(A window. )
Adrian Herbert Pargiter, late of Bogawantalawa,
who died in Colombo This tablet is erected
by a few friends as a memorial of their regard
and esteem.
(A brass.)
A son of the Rev. R. Pargiter, born in 1856, and
brother of the late R. H. Pargiter, C.O.S. (See
No. 828.)
Churchyard of St. Mary's, Bogawantalawa, Kandy District,
1351
Dec. 19
1879
William Burges Norcott
1352
Jan. 11
1880
Ada Louisa Cooke
William Burges, third son of Gen. Sir William
Norcott, K.C.B., and Marianne, his wife, who
died suddenly on the Lynf ord Estate, aged 26 years.
This tablet is erected by his sorrowing parents.
There is a brass also ui the church, in which the
name of Lady Norcott is given as " Frances," which
supplies the date of death omitted on the tombstone.
Ada Louisa, wife of E. Annesly Cooke, who died
at Lynstead, Bogawantalawa, aged 28 years.
She was youngest daughter of John Jones, of
Houston, Demerara, and married E A Cooke on
February 7, 1878. He was on Berar in 1881, and
afterwards with Mr. T. L. Villiers on Tilljrrie ' He
married (2) Miss Hussey,a sister of Mrs. T. G Haves
His son is Mr. W. H. Cooke, of Mayfield, Hatton'.
E. A. Cooke died in England at the end of June IQTfl'
( 353 )
Serial No. ,
1353 .
Churchyard of St. Mary's, Bogawantalawa, Kandy District— cowfc?.
Date.
May 8
1881
Jan. 26
1879
Name.
Charles Hay Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron
1354
1355
April 10
1882
June 13
1885
Cecil North
Elizabeth Elinor Bessie
Farr
Inscription.
Charles Cameron, bom 1795, died 1880.
Julia Margaret Cameron, bom 1815, died 1879.
Married 1838.
(The date 1880 appears to be a mistake.)
0. H. Cameron, who was a son of Charles Cameron,
Governor of the Bahamas, by his wife Lady Mary
(Hay), daughter of the fourteenth Earl of ErroU, was
born February 11, 1795.
C. H.' Cameron's connection with Ceylon dates from
1830, when he and Colonel, afterwards Sir, WilHam
Colebrooke were appointed Commissioners to report
on the judicial establishments and procedure of
Ceylon. They landed at Colombo (or at least
Mr. Cameron did) from the Sesostris on March 26,
1830, and left for England by^the ship Atherton on
February 21, 1831. Their report was pubhshed on
January 31, 1832. On the recommendations con-
tained in it the present system of courts in Ceylon
was established, as also the Legislative Council.
He was an accomplished classical scholar and a
disciple of Jeremy Bentham, in fact, his last disciple.
( ' ' Dictionary of Natural Biography. ' ' ) He was called
to the Bar in 1820 at Lincoln's Inn.
" We learn from the Bengal Herald of the 14th
ult. that Mr. Cameron succeeds Mr. Macaulay as
4th member of the Supreme Council of Bengal.
The departure of Mr. Macaulay does not seem to
cause any regret among the good people of the City
of Palaces." (Ceylon Chronicle, February 5, 1838.)
The unpopular member of Council referred to was, of
course. Lord Macaulay, as he subsequently became.
Mr. Cameron assisted him in the preparation of the
Penal Code for India.
Mr. Cameron's next connection with Ceylon was
as a coffee planter. He had purchased land in Ceylon
for this purpose. "Cameron's Land" in Dimbula,
near the Kotagala Railway Station, and Rahatungoda
in Hewaheta formed portions of it. He retired from
India in 1848, and he and Mrs. Cameron resided for
years after his retirement at Freshwater in the' Isle
of Wight, next to Tennyson, where Mrs. Cameron
took photographs of the poet and others that were used
to illustrate an edition of his works, also of Browning
and Sir John Barrington Simeon. They migrated to
Ceylon in their old age in 1875. They paid a visit to
England in 1878. Mrs. Cameron died at Glencairn,
Dikoya, and her husband at Nuwara Eliya.
Mrs. Cameron was " one of the beautiful Misses
Patties who took the City of Palaces by storm 60 or
70 years ago." The eldest, Virginia, married General
Colin Mackenzie ; the second, Henry Thoby Prinsep ;
the third was Mrs. Cameron ; the fourth married Dr.
John Jackson, Professor of Medicine at Calcutta ; the
fifth, Henry Vincent Bay ley, a Puisne Judge of the'
Calcutta High Court; the sixth. Earl Somers; and
the seventh, John Warrender Dahymple, B.C.S.
They were daughters of " old Blazer Pattle," the
Nestor of the Bast India f;ompany's Covenanted
Service.
The Camerons' eldest son, Ewen, lived and died
on Rahatungoda estate. The third son, Hardinge
Hay, was in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1870-1904,-
retiring as Treasurer of the Colony, and died Septem-
ber 16, 1911.
Hon. Cecil North aged 28 years.
He was born April 25, 1855, third son of Dudley,
Lord North, eldest son of the sixth Earl of Guilford.
Lord North married Charlotte Maria, daughter of the
Rev. the Hon. WiUiam Eden, Rector of Bishops-
bourne, Kent, who died in 1860.
Elizabeth Elinor Bessie, the beloved wife of
Thomas Farr, of North Cove, Bogawantalawa,
aged 35 years. Erected by her many friends. •
Thomas Farr is weU known as a planter and sports-
man. He is a brother of Mrs. F. Penny, the novelist
and author of books about the Madras Presidency.
{ 354 )
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1356 . .
Sept. 24 .
1885
. Evelyn Gertrude Fetherston-
■haugh
1.357
1358
Nov. 10
1892
Nov. 29
1894
John Sangster Thomson .
Henry Sidney Cowper Mee
1359
Dec. 26
1898
Lillie Henry Richard Kelly
1360
1361
Churchyard of St. Mary's, Bogawantalawa, Kandy District — contd.
Inscription.
Evelyn Gertrude, the beloved wife of Albany
Fetheestonhatjgh, Bridwell
Albany Fetherstonhaugh was on Hayes estate,
Morowaka, in 1868, and on Kirkoswald, Bogawan-
talawa, about 1880, and going on leave in 1881 did
not return until 1882 or 1883, when he took charge
of BridweU, Bogawantalawa, where he remai»ed
until 1891. He died in September, 1909. He and his
brother Charles owned BridweU and Kirkoswald,
now absorbed by the Bogawantalawa District Tea
Company, Limited. They came out in 1863.
John Sangster Thomson died at Bogawana
aged 44. Erected by a few friends.
Heney Sidney Cowper Mee, third son of John
Cowper Mee, of East Eetford, Notts aged
28.
A brother of the late Colin Cowper Mee of Neuchatel
estate, Kalutara, and of Charles John Cowper Mee,
late Suiserintendent of the Government Experiment
Station at Gannoruwa, Peradeniya.
Lillie Henry Richard Kelly, youngest son of the
late Surgeon Major Kelly, born Oct. 15th, 1842.
He married Louisa Maria, second daughter of Major
Vanderspaar, C.R.R. (see No. 565), July 23, 1868,
at Kandy.
He was so prosperous as a coffee planter that he
left Ceylon in the seventies, intending to spend the
remainder of his days in England, but the failure of
coffee through leaf disease in the early eighties
brought him back to the Island, where he was a
suocessfvil tea planter on Castlereagh estate, Dikoya,
and Killarney estate, Bogawantalawa. He became
Chairman of the Planters' Association and represen-
tative of the planters in the Legislative Council. .He
was known among his friends as " The Duke " ; his
Christian name he owed to his godfather Captain
LiUie. His younger sister, Henrietta Marion, married
W. W. Hume, C.C.S., who died at Farnham, May 6,
1897, and the other, James Wheler Woodford Birch,
C.C.S., afterwards Colonial Secretary of the Straits
Settlements. His eldest son entered the Malay
States Civil Service, the second was killed at Nooit-
gedacht. (See Nos. 146 and 1392.)
Hugh Borrer Roberts, son of the Revd. John
LiNSEiELD Roberts, M.A., of Hurstpierpoint
and Shoreham, Sussex. Born March 25th, 1858
Erected by his wife and two little ones.
He married Evelina, eldest daughter of Lillie Kelly.
Caeollne Elizabeth, second daughter of the late
E. S. Waring, CCS
(See No. 1149.) She Hved with her niece, Mrs.
Kelly, on Castlereagh and Killarney estates.
June 9
1903
Aug. 4
1903
Hugh Borrer Roberts
Caroline Elizabeth Waring
Christ Church, Matale.
Christ Church, Matale, consecrated December 29, 1860, stands on a hill above the town which was the
site of FortMacdowal, abandoned in 1836. The foundations of the fort are still to be seen Ensign J Dupont
Jloses, the first European whose death at Matale in 1803 is recorded, no doubt is buried somewhere close by—
where, no one knows.
Serial No.
1362 .
1363
Date.
May 5
1887
June 2fi
1890
iSfame.
Arthur George Robson
James Fenton Wingate
Inscription.
In memoriam. This tablet was erected in loving
remembrance of Arthur George Robson of
Matale, Ceylon, who died deeply regretted May 5th,
1887, at Adelaide, Australia, aged 28.
In memory of our brother James Fenton Wingate
formerly of Nicholaoya, Oodolamana and Hattan-
welle, who died at sea off Aden 26th June, 1890,
while on the passage home after a residence ot 35
years m Ceylon.
A brother of the Sirdar, Lord Wingate. As far back
as 1862 he was on " Oedelmaha," Rattota ; also in
louo.
( 355 )
Serial No.
Date.
Churchyard,
Name.
1364 . .
Jan. 17
1869
. Henry Alexander Graham . .
1365 . .
Jan. 4
1875
. Willie Allen
1366 . ,
Dec. 15
1876
1367 .
Oct. 3
1877
1368 . .
Aug. 1
1882
1369 . .
Feb. 26
1887
Alexander Macdonald
Edmund William Bray
William Henderson
Annie Steuart Morphew
1370
1371
May 25
1890
May 16
1892-
George Grant
Archibald Glen Kidston
Borron
Matale.
Inscription.
Henry Alexander Graham, of Vicarton Estate, a
native of Edinburgh, who died at Matale
aged 26 years.
Willie, son of J. N. Allen, 37, Strand, London, who
was accidently drowned crossing the Ratotta
ferry, and was buried here, aged 26.
Fondly loved and deeply lamented.
" We met the Superintendent of Maousa but once
after that ; he was soon after swept off his horse and.
drowned while crossing the Ratota ferry." {" Notes
by the Way," by Edmund Woodhouse, p. ,57.) In
1868 he was on Dotel-oya, Aranayaka.
Alexander Macdonald, a native of Glasgow,
Scotland, who died at the Border Estate, Ceylon
aged 20 years.
The Rev. Edmund William Bray, Chaplain of this
place aged 28.
William Henderson, Burshill, Aberdeenshire, late
of the Hunasgeriya and Hylton Estates, arrived in
Ceylon in the year 1848, and died at Matale.
His age was 56.
Annie Stettart Morphew, who died at Matale,
aged 57 years.
She was a daughter of John Morphew, late Resident
of Travancore, and sister of John Morphew, C.C.S.,
of James Boyd Morphew, and of Mrs. Sarah O'Grady.
She died at the Residency, then occupied by Mr.
H. L. Moysey, C.C.S., Assistant Government Agent,
son-in-law of Mrs. O'Grady.
Her mother, Mrs. Morphew, died at Battiealoa in
1896, aged 99. Mrs. Morphew was a sister of Mrs.
James Steuart (see No. 27), Master Attendant,
Colombo.
George Grant, of Elgin, Scotland, died at Vicarton
Estate aged 47.
In 1868 he was on Bogahawatta, Dimbula.
Aeohtbald Glen Kidston Borron, of Crystal Hill,
Matale, fourth son of William Geddes Borron,
J.P., of Seafield Tower, Ardrossan, Scotland
aged 47 years.
Erected by his sorrowing relatives.
There is also an inscription at the " Borron
Memorial Hall," Matale: " This hall was erected in
the year 1895 by the Local Board of Matale, with the
help of friends of the late Mr. A. G. K. Borron, of
Crystal HiU, who died on the 16th May, 1892, to
commemorate the universal respect with which he
was regarded."
" Borron and Bisset managed the Crystal Hill and
Suduganga properties in those days,* where some
fine fields of coffee existed and many experiments
with new products were carried on cacao, vanilla,
&c., &c. The coffee was subject to occasional
drought, the same as all lower Matale places; «,nd,
although they had the finest soil in the country!
never yielded very large crops. Bisset married Miss
Bori'on, and both brothers went to Natal to their
father's (General Bisset's) estate, and, I think, were
the pioneers of the tea industry there." {Observer
Christmas Number, 1908.)
Mr. Borron took a prominent part in the discussion
of matters interestmg to the planting community,
and was an unpetuous controversiahst. On one
occasion he wrote to the papers regretting that his
holding the office of Justice of the Peace connected
him m a manner with " such a Government," and in
spite of his explanation that there was nothin<r
necessarily derogatory to the character of the
Government m the use of this expression, was in
consequence removed from that office.
* 1875 to 1886.
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Churchyard, Matale — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1372 . .
May 22 ,
1893
. Josephine Mary Price
1373
Dec. 15
1893
. . Frank Covey
1374 . .
May 4
Oliver Bartliolomeusz
1901
Ellen Bartholomeusz
Inscription.
Josephine Mary, the beloved wife of Walter C.
Price. Born Oct. 13, 1862
Mr. Price is in the Public Works Department.
Prank, youngest son of Charles Edward and
Harriet Covey of Alredford, Hants, Eng., aged
18 years.
He was on Dambulugala estate.
Oliver Bartholomeusz and his wife, Ellen,
drowned in the Tissawewa Tank, Anuradhapura ,
May 4th, 1901.
They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
their deaths they were not divided.
He wrote a pamphlet on the " Island of Minicoy,"
where he was stationed for a time as Medical Officer,
dijring the building of the lighthouse, 1882-84. (See
No. 438.)
Wariyapola, Matale District.
A STONE was erected here in 1909 by Mr. Thomas Maolachlan, acting Superintendent of Wariyapola
Estate, to mark tlie spot wliere the Matale rebels were dispersed in 1848.
wariyapola
rebels dispersed here
^, by troops under
*■, captain lillie, c.r.e. ,
,:. 29 July, 1848.
On the night of July 28 of that year the troops, consisting of one company of the 15th Regiment and one
of the Ceylon Rifles, marched from Kandy and encountered the rebels at Wariyapola. After some scores
of the unfortunate people had been killed by the Malays, at a spot not far from the cart road, the braver
portion of the remainder, along with their king, defended themselves in the coffee store. To quote from Captain
Henderson's book on " The History of the Rebellion in Ceylon" : —
" Arrived in front of a store-house, which had an upper room approached by a flight of outside steps, we
found the rebels in possession of the building and the jungle around Here firing immediately commenced
on both sides There was no mistake about the rebels firing on us here. Their bullets hit the trees over our
heads, passing too close to us to be pleasant The Kandyans made no sort of stand deserving the name
I rushed up the flight of steps and, simultaneously with several of the Malay soldiers, burst in the door and
entered the room Shots were fired and bayonets thrust into a palanquin which stood in the centre of the
room, and on going to the spot I found a man who had hid himself in it and was killed.
" The Malays, I beheve, thought it was the pretender they had kiUed, but they had only got his palanquin,
which they immediately broke into 100 pieces. We found and released a European (a discharged soldier, and
then an estate overseer), who had been captured by the rioters and rather roughly treated " (p. 25).
The Pretender escaped from Wariyapola store-house and was subsequently captured at Elkaduwa, some
miles away. He was, sentenced to death in Kandy, but this was commuted to transportation for life and 100
lashes.
Old Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya.
" There is one spot at Nuwara Ehya which to me has a very pathetic "interest, namely, the neglected
old burial ground, where sleep so many of the early pioneers. Bracken and other ferns, tall spikes of lobeHa, and
trails of bramble veil many a nameless grave and long-neglected monument, overshadowed by kindly trees.
It is a sweet sunny spot, with the grand blue of Kiklomani as a background, and to the right the dark wooded
range at the base of Pidurutalagalla. The monuments are in the solid brick and mortar and stone style, which
certainly lacks beauty till the softening touch of time has clouded them with mosses and lichens." (" Two Happy
Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 218.)
The burial ground has now been thickly planted with trees of the cwpressus family, and has ceased to be
" sunny," neither is it entirely neglected. The date of the earliest inscription is 1838. Nearly all the memorials
are of the thirties and forties, and these all consist of flat table tombs, while the two of the fifties are headstones.
This illustrates a change of taste. There are three monuments — all table tombs without inscription. One of
these is probably the tomb of Staff Assistant Surgeon H. J. Hunt, who died on May 16, 1834, at Nuwara Eliya,
and another that of Murdoch Robertson, who died there on June 15, 1837, aged 25. Nuwara Ehya was made a
miUtary convalescent station in January, 1828. It was the headquarters of the Kotmale raiUtary district.
Serial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1375 . . May 19 . . William Rough . . . In Memory of Sir William Rough, Kt., Sergeant-at
1838 Law. Late Chief Justice of the Island, who died
at Newera Ehya, 19th May,. 1838. Aged 64 years.
This Monument was erected by his sorrowing
children. . ■
( 357 )
Serial No.
1375
Date.
May 19
1838
Old Cemetery, Nuwara E\iya,—contd.
Name.
William Rough— contd.
1376
May 23
1840
Aug. 15
1840
John Peddie
Louisa Peddie
1377
Jan. 24
1841
Ebenezer Gordon Munro
1378
1379
Dec. 25
1844
June 7
1845
Edward Septimus Hodges . .
Thomas William Rogers ,
3b
Inscription.
(See No. 21 .) Sir William Rough had a house at
Nuwara EUya, which since 1833 had become a chief
station. In addition to the Chief Justice, " the
-Senior Puisne Justice (W. O. Carr), the Hon. F. J.
Templer, George Ackland, Esq., Lieut.-Genl. Sir R.
Arbuthnot, Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, and others had
cottages in the place in 1842." {Colombo Observer,
October 24, 1842.)
Sir William Rough was only son of Mr. William
Rough " of the parish of St. James, Middlesex," and
was educated at Westminster School and Trinity
College, Cambridge ; B.A., 1796 ; M.A., 1799 ; having,
therefore, been a contemporary of Sir John D'Oyly's
at the university, and probably at the school. He
was a member of the Literary Society of Cambridge,
with Coleridge and Wordsworth, in 1793. He was
one of the props of the University Magazine, 1795;
was a member of Gray's Inn and of the Inner Temple.
He was called to the Bar in 1801. He was President
of the Court of Justice, Demerara, before coming to
Ceylon. He wrote " Lorenzo di Medici," a drama,
in 1797 ; " The Conspiracy of Gowrie," 1800 ; " Lines
on the Death of Sir Ralph Abercromby," 1800 ; edited
the " Letters of John Wilkes addressed to his
Daughter, the late Miss Wilkes, 1774-76," in the
" Mirror of Life," 1804.
He married Harriet, a natural daughter of John
Wilkes. Crabb Robinson describes her as -"a
woman of some talents and taste, who could make
herself attractive."
To the Memory of Lieut. -Colonel John Pebdie,
K.H., Comm. the 90th Light Infantry, who died
at Newer a Ellia aged 51 years.
This Monument was erected by his Brother Officers
as a mark of their respect and esteem.
ALSO
To the Memory of Mrs. Louisa Peddie, Relict of
Lieut.-Colonel John Peddie, K.H., who died at
Kandy aged 44 years.
This Monument unites their remains.
The " Ceylon Calendar" for 1841 gives the date of
Mrs. Peddie's death as September 15.
A Miss Peddie left Colombo for England by the
ship Isabella on January 16, 1840.
Their second daughter, Eleonora Matilda, married
Lieutenant Digby Francis Mackworth, 90th Light
Jnfantry, eldest son of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart.,
August 6, 1840, at Kandy. Another daughter
married Captain Rattray of the 80th. He died on
the voyage from Bombay to Mauritius, November
27, 1843. James Peddie married Miss Georgina
Hamilton at Kandy, August 15, 1864.
There was an Ensign, afterwards Lieutenant,
J. W. B. Peddie in the 90th in 1838-45, while it was
stationed in Ceylon, a son of the Colonel.
In Memory of Ebenezer Gordon Munro, eldest
son of the late Lieut.-Colonel John Munro, of the
Bengal Arty. He was born on the 10th of
November, 1814. He was accidentally shot by a
native attendant when in pursuit of a wild Buffalo
at the Elephant Plains near Newera EUia
in the 27th year of his age.
Sacred to the Memory of Edward Septimus Hodges, •
Esq., son cf W. P. Hodges, of Dorchester, Dorset,
Esq., who died at Newera EUia aged 39
years. The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest.
Isaiah 63, v. 14.
In Memory of Major Thomas William Rogers, of
Her Majesty's Ceylon Rifle Regiment, many
years Commandant at Badulla.
Stricken to death by Lightning at the HappootaUe
Pass on the 7th of June, 1845, aged 41 years.
(See Nob. 1072 and 1212.) Just below the inscrip-
tion is a crack extending diagonally across the stone,
leaving a gap, which has been filled in with cement.
82-09
( 358 )
Old Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1379 . .
June 7
1845
Thomas William Rogers — contd.
Inscription.
The existence of this crack has given rise to a legend,
firmly believed by writers on Ceylon, that the tomb-
stone, like the distiaguished man whose remains it
covers, was struck by Ughtniag, not only once, but
frequently. So Miss Gordon Cummiag —
" One tombstone has a very peculiar interest,
having been riven asunder by lightning, which,
strange to say, was also the cause of the death of him
whose body rests here The people believed
that these fiery flashes were in very deed the mioisters
of Heaven's righteous retribution on one who had
dealt such destruction to the brute creation." ("Two
Happy Years in Ceylon, yol. I., pp. 221, 318.) The
story was exploded in. the Monthly Literary Register,
1895, thus:—
Truth of May 30 takes up the absurd story about
Major Rogers : —
" The other day my notice was directed to an igno-
minious exposure of a remarkably fine sample of
mendacity which lately rejoiced the hearts of students
of ' the occult.' The story was told by one ' Hein-
rich Hensoldt, Ph.D. ,' in the Arena for last December,
imder the title of ' A Buddhist Mystery of Ceylon,'
and was reproduced by the respectable Dr. Lunn in
his Review of the Churches, and summarized by the
equally respectable Mr. Stead in his Borderland for
January last. The sum and substance of it was that
a Major Rogers had in the year 1845 iacxirred the
' abhorrence ' of the Sinhalese by his ruthless
slaughter of elephants, regarded by them as sacred
animals ; that while out on a himting expedition
he was met by a Buddhist priest, who denoixnced
him, and predicted his impending destruction by
' the lightning of heaven ' ; that Major Rogers was
struck by Hghtniag while shooting elephants a few
months later ; and, finally — this is the cream of the
story for occultists — that after his death Ughtning
struck his tombstone ' at least a hundred times within
the next thirty yearsi'
" The editor of the Ceylon Observer has proved
this story to be, like all others of the same
stamp, a tissue of impudent lies woven round a
microscopical nucleus of fact. The only points that
are true about it are that Major Rogers was an
indefatigable elephant hunter, that he was kUled by
lightning, and that after his death his tombstone was
once struck by lightning. He was not killed while
hunting elephants, but on the verandah of his quarters
while employed on mihtary duty ; and so far from
his prowess as an elephant hunter bringing him into
odium, it earned him the warmest gratitude pf the
Sinhalese in his district (all Buddhists), who actually
testified their affection by erecting a Christian church
to his memory. The fact is that the elephants were
at this time, and for fifteen years afterwards, a
terrible scourge to the natives, who themselves
killed them by hundreds, and were paid the reward '
offered by the Government."
The Observer adds : —
" We have now quite reliable evidence that the story
of the gravestone being struck with Hghtnin^ even
once is apocryphal. The stone got broken at the
wharf in Colombo, and the pieces being clamped
together over the grave gave rise to the tale about
lightning having struck Major Rogers' grave as well
as himseK. Our latest witness to the fact of Ughtning
not having struck the grave is Colonel Byrde of
Goytrey, Monmouthshire, who knew Major Rogers
well, and whose residence at Nuwara Eliya for many
years was not far from the graveyard."
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry C. Byrde, formerly of
the Ceylon Rifles, had written as follows : —
" My family resided part of each year at Nuwara
Ehya, and I never heard that Rogers' tomb was struck
with Ughtning, and the back of my house was not far
from the church, to which we had a pathway; but I
never heard that the gravestone was damaged in
transit or in landing. This is, of course, hearsay ■
but if the stone had been struck with Ughtning, I think
1 should have heard of it when at Nuwara EUya."
( 359 )
Old Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
1379 . .
June 7
1845
Name.
Thomas William Rogers— cowit?.
1380
AprU 23
1846
Henry Peel
1381
Sept. 6
1848
Lydia Bayly
Inscription.
Lieutenant-Colonel A. Watson, also formerly of the
Ceyon Rifles, wrote to the Times of Ceylon ia 1895 : —
" When Major Rogers was having a bridle path
traced from Badulla to Haputale a bo-tree was ia
the way, which he ordered to be rooted up. Some of
the headmen begged him to spare it, sayiag to him
that such sacrilege would be visited by punishment
from heaven (afterwards said to be by ' fire from
heaven '). This act produced a great sensation
among the Buddhists, who after his death got up a
subscription to build an amblam on the spot where
the bo-tree had stood, as atonement for the sacrilege
committed, and which resulted in the building of the
Badulla Church.
"Colonel, then Major, Kelson received Major Rogers'
body and attended to his burial, and told me that
his body was not disfigured, only a shght stroke
down the body to the heel of one foot, the Ughtning
being attracted by his regimental steel spur, which
was twisted, and the -foot discoloured. That his
tombstone was struck by hghtning is simply imagin-
ation, the fractures of the stone showing the cause to
have been the partial sinking of the foimdation of a
badly built tomb.
' ' A stroke of Ughtning would have caused a sprink-
ling, instead of cracks here and there.
"The last words of the sufferer were sadly appro-
priate. Throwing his arm round the wooden veran-
dah post, and stretching his body, lifting his eyes
inquiringly to heaven, he called to Mrs. Reginald
Buller, ' It's all over now ' (meaning the storm).
The flash came, and he fell dead at her feet."
The forest in which the resthouse stood is now the
Sherwood estate. The resthouse was accidentally
bittnt. The present Post Office occupies the site.
There is a contemporary reference to the death of
Major Rogers, " no less excellent as a civil adminis-
trator than unrivalled as an elephant shot," in the
Travels of Dr. W. Hoffmeister , Travelling Physician to
Prince Waldemar of Prussia during his tour in India
and Ceylon in 1845. In a footnote to page 152 of
this work, the translator from the German narrates the
circumstances of Rogers's death.
Hoffmeister himself was killed at the battle of
Ferozeshah, December 21, 1845.
The following account gives further details : —
"He and the Government Agent of Kandy, Mr.
Buller, and others having sought shelter from a
thunderstorm at Haputale, Rogers stepped into the
porch to see if there were any signs of abatement ,
when he was killed by the fatal flash." (" Manual of
Uva.")
Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of
Henky Peel aged 23 years.
He was the son of the Rev. F. P., Rector of Willing-
ham, Lincolnshire, England. He was most deeply
mourned for by a numerous family, to whom his
amiable and affectionate disposition had greatly
endeared him.
The initials only are given of the Rev. F. Peel, as
there was not room enough on the stone for the full
name.
Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Lydia Bayly, widow
of the late Major Thomas Bayly, who departed
this life at Newera EUia
She was a daughter of Colonel Hammond, who fell
at the siege of Seringapatam, and was born in January,
1783. She became engaged to Ensign Bayly (see
No. 95) on the voyage out to Calcutta, where she
learnt the news of her father's death, and married
him there on January 9, 1801. There were seven sons
and two daughters of the marriage : ( 1 ) Thomas Burt ,
born October 8, 1801, of 19th and 20th Regiments
successively, died at the Cape, leaving two sons and
four daughters. Two of the latter allied themselves to
colonists bearing names distinguished in the late war,
viz., Botha and Brand ; (2) Francis Brownrigg, born
1807 (see No. 624); (3) James Twisleton, bom July 19,
( 360 )
Old Cemetery, Nuwara Eliy &—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1381 . .
Sept. 6
1848
Lydia Bayly— contd.
1382
May 8
1849
Sarah Fowler
1383
June 14
1853
William Alexander Filder
Inscription.
1809, died at Glasgow, a Captain in the 54th Regi-
ment 1847 ; (4) Charles Bisset, bom March 7, 1811,
died 'a Commander, B.N., 1873; (5) Henry Hardy
Sawers, born April 6, 1816, at Amunapura, and
baptized there May 21, 1816; (6) Robert Lionel, bom
June 10, 1818 (see No. 997) ; (7) Edward Tumour,
bom May 13, 1820 ; (8) Emily Shipton, bom August
28 1803 • (9) Lydia Eleanor, bom February 1, 1822,
married at Galle, September, 1839, Lieutenant
Henry Robert Du Vemet, Ceylon Rifles, who retumed
to England in 1843 to find that he ha'd inherited from
his father the ancient historical property of Bredis-
hohn in Lanarkshire, and took the name of Muirhead.
He died May, 1849, and his widow married (2) James
Wiseman of London.
Sacred to the Memory of Sabah Fowlee, who
departed this life aged — years.
This Monument is erected as a tribute of affection by
her only daughter, Fanny O'Coottob, in 1857.
Next to Mr. John Cotton, the oldest European
resident in Nuwara EUya in 1907-8, was "Mrs. Fred.
White, wife of the retired driver of the C. G. R.,
presently of Mahagastota." Mrs. Fred. White, nee
Miss O'Connor, Uvedwith her parents in a cottage on
the Ramboda road on a site between Queen's Cottage
and Daisy Bank. The site used to be somewhere on
the golf links , but it is difficult to locate the spot
to-day. Mrs. White's father, Mr. Cotton believes,
was a Labour Recmiting Agent, for his recollections
of the late Mr. O'Coimor are associated with " that
gentleman, who is always going backward and forward
from India," as he was spoken of at school. Mr.
Cotton was at school at Nuwara Eliya with, among
others, two O'Connors. " Mr. O'Connor " was at
the resthotise at Nuwara EUya in 1849 when Dr.
Gardner died. He may have then been the Rest-
house-keeper. In 1863 "there was no lake, and
nobody at that end of the plain but old Fowler, who
held out at Baker's Farm, then, and for many years
afterwards, deserved by the owners. Fowler used
to assert that he had always been a teetotaler, but
somehow or other had managed to break nearly everj'
bone in his body, for which he could not very clearly
account. One could not help connecting the fact
somehow with the hquor bottle, though he professed
to be a disciple of Father Mathew " (" Notes
by the Way," by Edmund Woodhouse, p. 16.)
J. Fowler is described in " Ferguson's Directory"
for 1869 as "Farmer of Marragastotta, Nuware
EUia,'" by which is meant Mahagastota.
Sacred to the Memory of William Alexander
Fdddee, late Captain in H. M. 37 Regt. , who died
at Newera EUia , aged 28 years.
This is erected as a token of esteem and regard by his
brother Officers.
The church and churchyard attached to it were
opened in 1853, and burials in this old burial ground
must have ceased with this one.
Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya.
' ' The pretty little cruciform church and the peaceful churchyard lie in a pleasant sheltered corner
surrounded by rhododendrons, daturas, and other flowering shrubs, and overshadowed by one grand old tree with
a gnarled twisted stem, such as one sometimes sees in miniature on very rank heather. At a little distance it is
hard to believe this is not a veritable stone pine. I was told, however, that it is a Eiigenia of the myrtle family."
(" Two Happy Years in Ceylon," vol. I., p. 201.)
A committee meeting for building a church was held at Nuwara Eliya on May 5, 1843. It recommended
the employment of Mr. Nelson, an engineer (belonging, it is supposed, to the Royal Engineers), as architect. The
cost was estimated at £900. The meeting was attended by the Rev. H. vonDadelszen, Colonel Ca^ppbell, K.H.,
Colonel Slade, R.E., Captain Nelson, Lieutenant Watson, C.R.R., and Messrs. E. R.Power, C.C.S.,H. C. Selby,
C. Temple, and E. F. Gepp.
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Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1384 . .
March 10 .
1849
George Gardner
1385
Aug. 29
1861
Maria Scarlett
Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Ellya,—contd.
The church was, however, not completed until 1853. It has since been twice enlarged. The tree referred
to is a Eina {Calophyllum walkerii). In a water colour sketch of the church by Mr. James Steuart, late Master
Attendant of Colombo, dated 1853, it is conspicuous in the foreground. It is still in existence.
Inscription.
In memory of Gboege Gaednee, late Superintendent
of the Botanic Garden at Psradeniya, bom at
Glasgow, May 10th, 1812, died at Newera EUia,
March 10th, 1849.
Deeply beloved and regretted.
" Dr. Gardner had taken tiffin with Lord Torrington
and left H. E. in apparent good health about
half past three, and soon after, on retiring to his
quarters, he was seized with the attack supposed
to be a disease of the heart. We hear that he had
only time to exclaim to Mr, O'Connor at the Rest
House that he was dying, erfe vitality ceased."
{Ceylon Times, March 13, 1849.) (See No. 1279.)
In Memoriam, Maeia Scaelett, died 29th August,
1861, aged 61 years.
Thy Mercy Lord reacheth unto the Heavens.
Psa. XXV., 5.
This monument is erected by her daughters, Saeah
Bullock and Sophia Bakee, who lameat the loss
of a kind and affectionate parent.
There is an inscription also on her tomb in the
chxirchyard. She was widow of John Tate (No. 1121)
when she married James Scarlett.
" On the site near the Silverdale Bakery, on the
Badulla Road, Ivy Cottage stood. Here Mr. A. Bul-
lock had a general store, from which residents got
their groceries.
In the fifties " Mr. Bullock's first shop was
located on the spot where acacias now grow adjacent
to the bridge on the golf links near Queen's Cottage.
Mr. BuUock was a coffee planter, and did a good
business." (Mr. John Cotton in Times of Ceylon.)
" The Government rest-house and M^rs. BuUock's
boarding establishment were then the only provision
for way-farers. Mr. Bullock died about eight years
ago, in Kandy." {Times of Ceylon, 1907.)
In memory of Lydia, wife of Aethtje Moeice,
Central Province, who died at Edinburgh, 29th
January, 1864, aged 26.
She was the youngest daughter of A. Mackenzie,
and married Arthur Morice of Muloya estate, Hewa-
heta, on December 23, 1861.
Arthur Morice wrote a ' ' Report on Tea Cultivation
in the Districts of India with reference to the
suitableness of Ceylon for Tea," which was published
by the Ceylon Government in 1867.
Sacred to the memory of Willlam Fishee, Ceylon
Civil Service, late a Captain in the 78th, 58fch, and
95th Regiments, who was killed on the spot by
a fall from his horse at Ettampittia, near Badulla,
May 5th, 1866, aged 52 years, and was buried in
this Churchyard.
Also to the memory of Feedeeic William Fishee
and WiLMOT Fishee, who died at Wavendon
Estate, Rambodde, and are buried in the old
churchyard of this place. And of Catheeinb
Emily Fishee and Kate Fishee, who died and
were buried at Doombegastalave Estate, all infant
children of the above and his wife, Sophy Fishek.
There is an inscription also on Captain Fisher's
tomb in the churchyard.
' ' He was thrown off his horse some five miles from
Ampitia (Btampitiya) on his way from BaduUa and
killed. His poor wife was waiting at Ampitia for him ;
she had to go to fetch his corpse home Fisher's
case is an instructive one After years of toil
he hadatlast received, or rather was about to receive,
a fair increase to his salary ; some of his children
had just come out, and just as he might have begun
to expect enjoyment he is cut down." (" Diary of
Sir R. Morgan," Digby, vol. L, pp. 314-16.)
1386
Jan. 29
1864
Lydia Morice
1387
May 5
1866
William Fisher
Frederick William Fisher
Wilmot Fisher
Catherine Emily Fisher
Kate Fisher
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Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliysi—contd.
Snrial No. Date. Name. Inscription.
1387 . . May 5 . . William Fisher, &C. — contd. He came out as an Ensign in the 78th on board the-
1866 MorUy, in command of the Governor's Guard (Sir-
Robert Horton), in 1831. In 1835 he was Secretary
and Treasurer of the Nuwara Eliya Hunt. On June
7, 1835, there was a "Wilson Bungalow Meeting."
He was Staff Officer, Kandy, 1841-42, and at
Colombo until. 1847, when he left the Army.-?
" He was a great favourite with Sir Robert Horton
and his family, anda very active, energetic hunter and
sportsman in his early days." {Colombo Ohserver,-
May 7, 1866.)
" When coffee planting became the rage, Capt.
Fisher sold out of the Army (1847) and became a
proprietary coffee planter, and was well known in
connection with Wavendon estate at Ramboda,
Dambagastalawa in Kotmale, and Raglan in Kuru-
negala His residence of over 35 years was
uninterrupted by any visit to England or by any
serious illness."
He married in 1839 or 1840, Sophia, daughter of A-
Lambe, of New Bond street, and granddaughter of
Alderman Boydell. She was keeping house for her
brother, F. Lambe, of the firm of Lambe, Reynals &
Co., and was " an acknowledged belle in the limited
society of Colombo at the time." (Ceylon Ohserver,.
January 19, 1907.)
When coffee ceased to be profitable, Captaia Fisher
became a Superintendent of Police. He lived on
Wavendon estate, where, on January 26, 1841, his
son, John Arbuthnot, now Lord Fisher of Kil-
verstone, was bom, and later on Dombagastalawa.
Lord Fisher left Ceylon at the age of six, and did
not revisit it until the middle of the sixties. On
September 8, 1845, Captain Fisher had another son
born to him at "Wavendon House," viz., Robert
Wilmot, one of the subjects of this inscription,
who died on November 25 in the same year. At
Nuwara Eliya, on December 1, 1847, a daughter was
born, also named in the inscription. In 1848 his son
Arthur (No. 910) was bom; on May 10, Francis
Conrad (No. 1437), in Dimtaula; and on October 5,
1851, another son. A daughter was born at Domba-
gastalawa estate on November 28, 1854, and a sonat
Kandy, July 13, 1858. Three sons, including John
Arbuthnot, entered the Navy; the youngest was lost
in the Eurydice.
1388 . . June 3 . . John Macdougall Gallwey . . In memory of John Macdottgall Gallwey, of
1887 Concordia, Uda Passellawa, eldest son of Lieut. -
General T. L. J. Gallwey, R.E., who died at
Mount Lavinia aged 31 years.
^his tablet has been erected by his friends in Ceyion
ia token of their regard and esteem.
1389 . . Dec. 5 . . Reginald Beauchamp Vigilans non cadit.
1888 Downall Coat of Arms.
In memory of Reginald Beauchamp Downall, for
many years a member of the Legislative Council
of Ceylon, who during a long residence in the
Colony devoted his abilities to the good not only '
of the Planting but to that of the general Commu-
nity of the Island.
This tablet is erected as a tribute to his many Virtues ,^
■with a portion of the Memorial Fund subscribed "
to shortly after his death.
Born 26th July, 1843, died 5th December, 1888.
Aged 45 years.
He was Member of CoiuicU representing the
Planters. " The present Grand Hotel grew out of
what once was known as Barnes Hall , a bungalow put
up by Lieut.-General Sir Edward Barnes It
was he who selected Mount Lavinia for residence and
put up the building, which is now the hotel there.
But the Imperial Government was at him for hea-vy
expenditure over bricks and mortar, and his energies
were severely handicapped. In course of time
' Barnes Hall ' changed hands and went to Mr. R. B.
Downall a wealthy man, who was, in the
palmy days of coffee, visiting agent of Mr. George
Wall's estates. He had several places in Badulla,
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Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara E\iya,—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1389 . .
Dec. 5
1888
Reginald Beauchamp
Downall — contd.
1390
March 25
1894
Emily Grinlinton
1391
Jan. 12
1895
Harry Payne Gallwey
1392
Dec. 13
1900
William Maxwell Kelly
1393
June 16
1907
Lina Ridgeway
Inscription.
among them the group of Dambatenna estates now
owned by Lipton, Limited, I think." (Mr. J. Cotton
ia Times of Ceylon.) Major-General Johnson Wilkin-
son says in "The Gemini Generals," referring to a
fight between a leopard and a pack of dogs, " Whilst
this savage fight was going on, my only companion,
a Mr. DownaU , ran up and sent his spur into the brute,
but this proved ineffectual." This wasabout 1851.
Emily, wife of J. J. Gbestlinton, who died
suddenly on Easter Sunday
She was a daughter of Tsaac Booth. Sir J, J.
Grinlinton for some years represented the General
European Community in the Legislative Council.
He had been in the Royal Engineers, and obtained a
commission in the 65th Regiment, and during the
(iimean war in the 4th Regiment. He died on May
1*2, 1912, at Middle Wallop, Hants, in his 86th year.
Malo mori quam fcederi.
In memory of Habey Payne Gallwey, son of
Captain Philip Payne Gallwey, late 90th Light
Infantry Regiment, of Kataboola, Kotmalie,
Ceylon, and of Pilmoor, Yorkshire, born 8th June,
1856, died 12 January, 1895, at Calcutta, of abscess
of the liver contracted in Ceylon. This tablet is
erected by his Ceylon friends in loving memory of
a most popular man, a thorough sportsman, and a
genial warm-hearted friend.
Captain Gallwey was stationed with his regiment
in Ceylon in 1838-46. He was associated for some
time with Major Skinner and General Eraser.
"I remember Captain Payn.e-Gallwey visiting
Nilambe in 1846. He had but lately returned from
a shooting trip in the Park country, where he had a
wonderful escape from a wounded elephant at the
expense of a broken arm and other injuries. It was
Captain Gallwey and Lieut. Scroggs of the 18th
Royal Irish who shot the rogue elephant that killed
Mr. WalUngton (was that his name ?). They both
had a most narrow shave being kiUed themselves,
as it was only after miraculous escapes and un-
daunted pluck on their pa^^t that they slew him."
(John Tmdall.) (See No. 22.)
This tablet is erected by some of his friends in affec-
tionate memory of William Maxwell Kelly,
2nd son of the late L. H. Kelly, of KUlarney,
Bogawantalawa, who was killed in action at
Nooitgedacht, South Africa, on 13th December,
1900. Aged 26 years.
He was a member of the Contingent of Ceylon
Mounted Infantry which was sent to South Africa
during the Boer war.
To the gentle memory of Lina, Lady Ridgeway,
wife of the Right Hon. Sir West Ridgeway,
G.C.B. , Governor of Ceylon, 1896-1903, who passed
away at Brackwell, Berks, 16th June, 1907, this
tablet is erected by her devoted husband and
daughter in Nuwara Eliya, which she loved so well.
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya.
1394
Jan. 30
1857
Isabel Susan Temple
Isabel Susan, the beloved wife of R. Temple, Esq.,
died January 30th, 1857.
Robert Temple began his career in Ceylon as a
planter on Galboda estate, where he remained for two
or three years, and in 1847 became Private Secretary
to his brother, who was acting as a Junior Piiisne
Judge of the Supreme Court. He acted in 1847-60
as Police Magistrate at Avisawella, Colombo, and
Madawalatenna, now known as Galagedera, with
Ktu-unegala. On June 1, 1850, he was appointed to
the Civil Service, and was confirmed in the latter
appointment. He was subsequently Magistrate at
Nuwara Ehya, Galle, Matale, and finally at Gampola,
where he remained from 1875 until his retirement on
January 1, 1880. Mr. Temple distinguished himself
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1394 . .
Jan. 30
1857
Isabel Susan Temple — contd.
1395
1396
1397
Sept. 9
1859
Feb. 1
1862
July 13
1864
Eleanor Chisholnw
Hendricks Anderson
John Spurl
1398
June 24
. . Matilda Wedderburn
1866
Helsham
Nov. 26
William Helsham
1866
1399
Oct. 12
1866
Frances Cavendish Reyne .
1400
Nov. 12
1871
David Lindsay Soutter
Inscription.
by refusing to go up for the second examiaation,.
to which members of the Civil Service have had, for-
many years to submit, on the ground that it was not
part of the original contract when he joined. It is
said that a number of civilians bound themselves to
resist this order, but that they all, one by one, gave
in and presented themselves at the examination, and
that Temple was the only one who held out. The
result was that he was ineligible for promotion
beyond the Fourth Class, and remained Magistrate
for the rest of his official life. He died on his estate,
Diyanilakele, in the Dimbula district, on January 23,
1907, aged 90. R. Temple's brother, Christopher,
was Junior Puisne Justice of the Ceylon Supreme
Court, 1856-63; Senior Puisne Justice, 1863-73.
(See No. 683.)
Eleanoe Chisholm, obiit ^Etat 72.
For 30 years the faithful and much valued servant of
Sir Heney and Lady Ward.
This is the second instance of a memorial erected by
a Ceylon Governor to one of his servants, the other
being that of Jonathan Mudge at Batticaloa.
Hekdeicks Anderson, Esquire, son of Jambs
Anderson, Esquire, of Highholme, Renfrewshire,
Scotland. Bom 19th October, 1827. Died at
Wiharegalla Estate, HappooteUe
John Spurl, of Crockhorn, Somersetshire, who de-
parted this life aged 47 years.
A wooden " headstone."
He was one of the labourers brought out by Sir
Samuel Baker for work on his farm. There were
seven of them at Nuwara Eliya in 1861, of whom J.
Spurl was one.
Matilda and WiLLLiM Frobisher, wife and son of
Capt. H. Helsham, 2nd 25th Regt., the daughter
and grandson of Paymaster Forlong of the same
Regiment.
The mother died 24th June, 1866, aged 21 years.
The infant, 26th November, 1866, aged 9 months.
Matilda Forlong married Captain Henry Helsham
on February 16, 1864. He was Commandant at
Nuwara Eliya, and had acted as Chief Superintendent
of Police in 1863. There is a tablet in the church
also to Mrs. Helsham.
Feancbs Cavendish, beloved child of Henry and
Catherine Reyne, who was born on 23rd July,
1860, and died on the 28th Oct., 1863, aged
3 years 3 months and 4 days.
Henry Edward Reyne, of the Public Works Depart-
ment, was son of Captain Pierre Benoit Reyne by his
marriage with Miss Frances Myers, daughter of
Governor Smyth of the Scilly Isles. He married at
Kandy on June 25, 1859, Catherine, daughter of
Vassall Burleigh, Public Works Department, by his
marriage with Catherine Cavendish, widow of Captain
Richard Gray, C.R.R. They had two other children,
Spencer Biu-leigh, bom in 1865, and Catherine, who
died at Nuwara Eliya in 1862. H. E. Reyne was in.
charge of the construction of the Panwila-Kelebokke
road. He died at Gampola, July 7, 1872, aged40.
Captain Reyne was in the Ceylon Rifles, and was
at one time Judicial Agent of the Seven Korales,
and afterwards Commandant of Madawalatenna
(1835), of Galle.and of Trincomalee. He wasason of
Benedict Edward Reyne, " Ancien Chinirgem" of the
Regiment De Meuron, whose daughter, Antoniette
EUzabeth, married, as his third wife, the Hon. John
Rodney. Mrs. Rodney died November 26, 1868.
(see No. 3). Captain and Mrs. P. B. Reyne had three
other children besides Henry Edward, viz., Charlton
Montresor, bom at Galle, March 22, 1837 ; an infant
who died on September 6, 1840, aged 4 weeks; and
Robert Robertson, bom at Galle, September 22, 1842.
David Lindsay Soutter, late of Rajawella Estate,,
who died at Lindula aged 44 years.
Erected by a few friends and admirers in Ceyloa.
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliy3i—co7itd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1401 . .
Dec. 4
1874
Edward Sikes
1402
Dec. 15
1876
Matthew Reymundo
Fortescue
1403
April 20
1878
James Dodwell Palmer
1404
Nov. 7
1879
WUiam McFerran
Inscription.
Edward Sikes, son of Edward and Susanna Sikes
of Muriston, Glanmere, Cork aged 34 years.
There was a John T. Sikes on Batagodde estate,
Haputale, in 1868, and an infant son, Frank Hay,
by his wife Alison, died May 10, 1869. John Sikes
was on Dombagastalawa, Dimbtda, in 1869.
Matthew Reymundo, son of Henry and Ellbe
Fortescue of East Allington Rectory, County of
Devon aged 22 years.
The " cherry loft " at Middleton estate, Dinabula,
collapsed and fell on him, killing him instantaneously.
He had only been on the estate a day or two, but in
the district some time.
James Dodwell Palmer, who died in his
33rd year. Ereoted by his friends in Ireland.
He was on Shannon estate, Ambegamuwa, and
had been attending a Gymkhana at Nuwara BUya. He
was riding back to the estate, with three friends, on
the Dimbula bridle path, when his horse slipped and
fell into Blackpool with him.
William, younger son of William McFerran of
Grotburn, Kersal, Lancashire, born August 9,
1848
1405
Dec. 27
1880
Katherine Cameron
1406
April 17
1882
Henrietta Macartney
1407
Feb. 23
1883
John Garland Baker
1408
3c
Sept. 3
1883
Philip A. Gerard
Katherine, daughter of Norman Macleod, the
beloved wife of Hardinge Hay Cameron
aged 21.
Her father, the Rev. Norman Macleod, D.D.,
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, was the founder
of "Good Words." H. H. Cameron married (2), on
December 2, 1884, Adeline Annie, daughter of Lieut-
enant-Colonel George PUkington Blake, whose sister,
Geraldine, married, February .5, 1907, E. H. L. M.
Thomas. (See Nos. 1277 and 1353.)
Henrietta, widow of the late William Isaac
Macartney, Chief Superintendent of Police for the
Island of Ceylon, who died at Newera EUiya
W. I. Macartney was appointed Superintendent of
Pohce for Colombo, Negombo, and Galle in May,
1848. His son, A. H. Macartney, a planter of
Waloya, Deltota, and of Kobonilla, Nugetenna,
married a daughter of George Wall.
John Garland Baker, Esq., born 29th November,
1822. Died at Mahagastotte.
" I went to stay with a friend, John Baker, brother
of the great traveller. Sir Samuel Baker, also an old
friend of mine." (Major-General Johnson Wilkinsonin
" The Gemini Generals.") This was in 1851 or there-
abouts. John Baker was Sir Samuel Baker's elder
brother, and had been in Mauritius managing his
father's estate there, with Samuel assisting him. In
1846 Samuel paid a visit to Ceylon, and he returned
in 1848 with John and his other brother, Valentine,
to start agricultural operations. Samuel returned to
England in 1855 owing to continued fever, but John
remained. Valentine joined the Ceylon Rifles and
transferred to the 12th Lancers in 1862, was in the
Caffre and the Crimean wars, became a great cavalry
leader and Baker Pasha in the Turkish Service, was
head of the Egyptian PoUce, and died at Tel-el-Kebir,
November 17, 1887. Sir Samuel died December 30,
1893, at Sandford Orleigh, Devon. They were sons
of Samuel Baker of L3rpiatt Park, Gloucestershire, a
West India merchant, by his wife Mary, daughter of
Thomas Dobson of Enfield, and grandsons of Captain
Valentine Baker of Bristol, who "won fame by nearly
capturing with his privateer sloop , the Ccesar , a French
' frigate of 32 guns, on June 27th, 1782." (" Diction-
ary of National Biography.")
Philip A. Gerard aged 65 years. Erected
bj his Ceylon friends.
82-09
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1409 . .
January
. William Kellow
1884
Ellen Mary Kellow
1410
May 3
1885
Jan. 3
1889
Hannah Cotton
George Cotton
1411
May 11
1885
Francis Henry Hamilton
Gordon
1412
June 28
1885
Halliburton J. Macvicar
Inscription.
William and Ellen Mary Kellow, who died
January, 1884, aged 63 and 66 years.
" The biggest landowners " in Nuwara Eliya in the
fifties, says Mr. John Cotton, " were the late Messrs.
William and Mark Kellow; the former owned
'Norman Cottage,' 'The Cot,' 'Salisbury Villa,' and
' Cambridge Villa.' Mr. Mark Kellow owned
nearly every cottage in Lawson Street. The cottages
there were very pretty ones ; the roofs were over-
grown with roses always in bloom ; the street (at one
time a fashionable one) is to-day occupied with model
dwellings (nearly 10), homes for appus, cooks, and
markets Besides these properties in town, the
Kellows had property Hakgala way. Mr. Mark
Kellow had all the stretch of land from Yalta up to
Morireby, where he carried on his farm. Mr. William
Kellow owned a good bit of Scrubbs Estate, and
carried on his farm there.
' ' The old resthouse having fallen into a dilapidated,
ramshaokled condition, William Kellow,
taking compassion on worn and weary travellers, had
established a comfortable httle hostelry in what was
known as the ' Tin Bungalow,' which served as his
residence for many years after, and stands just where
Longden road leaves the plains.
" Barring an unhappy propensity of the roof to take
leave of the disconsolate building and sportively
wander away towards Baker's Farm whenever an
extra blast of wiad playfully gave it a lift en passant,
it was at that time considered a pretty substantial
erection." ("Notes by the Way," by Edmund
Woodhouse.) The time was 1863.
Hannah, wife of George Cotton aged 74
years.
George Cotton aged 77 years.
George Cotton came out to Ceylon in 1845, and
settled in Nuwara Eliya in a cottage on Churchill road.
He then purchased what was then known as the
Lawford Cottages, Nos. 1,2, and 3, with some 20 odd
acres of land attached. These are now known as
Lawford House, Lake View, and The Carlton. Later,
part of Unique View came into the family possession.
At the death of Mr. George Cotton these cottages were
sold and purchased by his three sons, Mr. J. B.
Cotton, Superintendent of Dammeria Group, Passara,
purchasing The Carlton, which he still owns ;
Mr. W. Ingram Cotton (the Lnmigration Agent, who
died in 1897 at Cuddappah, South India, when in
charge of Paumben) purchasing Unique View ; and
Mr. John Cotton, Lawford House and Lake View.
The latter started experiments at Lake View
with English and Australian fruits (plums, pears,
oranges, strawberries, apples, and grapes), with which
he was fairly successful. His residence at Nuwara
Eliya was unbroken for over 50 years. He left in
1908 for Batticaloa.
Francis Henry Hamilton Gordon, born 19th
March, 1861
A nephew of Lord Stanmore, who, as Sir Arthur
Gordon, was Governor of Ceylon 1883-90.
He was appointed by the latter to act as a Cadet of
the Civil Service, and died while attached to the
Badulla Kachcheri.
Halliburton J. Macvicar, aged 33, third son of
the Rev. J. G. Macvicar, D.D., LL.D., the first
Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Colombo.
He was Meteorological Assistant in the Survey
Department. The Rev. Dr. Macvicar held office as
Chaplain of St. Andrew's Church 1846-52, but he had
been Colonial Chaplain from 1839. He was a man of
very considerable literary and scientific attainments,
and was one of the founders of the Ceylon Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society in 1846, and its first Vice-
President. He became Minister of Moffat after
leaving Ceylon. He had published, in 1837, a book
on " The Philosophy of the Beautiful," and is one of
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya,—contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1412 . .
June 28
Halliburton J. Macviear
1885
contd.
UlS .
1414
1415
Nov. 23
1885
Dec. 2
1885
July 18
1886
Charles Harley Lowe
John Murray
Williarii Oakley
1416
1417
1418
1419
Nov. 3
1887
Oct. 26
1888
April 8
1890
April 11
1890
Aug. 30
1890
Hugh Leonard Hubbard
Rennie Kingdon Fulton
Agnes Crawley Boevey
Ethel Lindsay Crawley
Boevey
John Whitefoord
1420 .
. Feb. 10 .
1891
. John Sinclair
1421 .
. March 31
1891
Arthur Sidney Reeves
1422
May 31
1891
May 26
1903
William Ellis
Hannah Ellis
Inscription.
the few Ceylon men who have obtained a place in the
"Dictionary of National Biography," due to his
eminence in moral and physical science. He married
Miss J. R. Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart, Inverness-
shire, a granddaughter of Dr. William Robertson,
the historian. He died on February 12, 1884.
Charles Haelby Lowe aged 37 years.
Erected to his memory by his loving wife.
He started the Bank of Uva at BadifiUa. His
widow married J. H. Cockburn, who has since carried
on the business of the bank.
John, dearly loved son of Lt.-Col. Jambs Florence
and Marianne Murray, born at Kurracliee, Sind,
2nd January, 1853. Died at Maha Uva, Ceylon.
He was crushed by a stone falling on him. Maha
Uva is rather an isolated estate in Walapane, between
Ragala and the Kurundaoya road, near Nildanduhinna.
William Oakley, 51 years a faithful Missionary of the
C. M. S. in Ceylon. Died in his 79th year.
" Oakley Cottage," Nuwara Eliya, where he resided
during the latter part of his life, is called after him.
In 1837 the Rev. William Oakley was " a youth
of a ruddy countenance and curly locks of raven
hue." (" Ceylon in 1837-46," by A. M. Ferguson.)
In March, 1841, he had a controversy in the news-
papers with the Rev. Joseph Harris of the Baptist
Mission, because, as Mr. Oakley put it, "I refused to
publish in my congregation the banns of one Simon
Appu, an Anabaptist." He was accordingly de-
nounced for bigotry by the Colombo Observer. His
only daughter, Mary, married at Kandy, on May
10, 1867, Priestly Jacob, Head Master of the High
School, Poona, third son of the Rev. G. A. Jacob,
D.D., Christ's Hospital. (See No. 1274.)
Hugh Leonard Hubbard aged 35.
A planter.
Rennie Kingdon Fulton, aged 24, youngest son of
Henry Fulton, of Bedford House,
Accidentally drowned in Punduloya
Hamilton
Chiswick.
3rd
Agnes, wife of Antony Crawley Boevey,
daughter of the late Sir Samuel Baker . .
Also Ethel Lindss^y, their child
Erected by his friends in affectionate memory of
John Whiteeoord, who died at Maha Uva Estate,
aged 42 years.
He had been on Wiltshire, Matale, before going to
Maha Uva. He died after riding to the estate from
Kandy, a distance of over 40 miles, on a very hot day.
" John Whitefoord, always so militant for the poor
villager." {Ceylon Literary Register, vol. V., p. 267.)
Maha Uva resembled Hantane at one time in the
ill-fate of its Superintendents. Two met with pre-
mature or violent deaths, one became insane, &c.
John Sinclair, of Glendevon Estate, U.dapusilawa
aged 44 years.
Arthur Sidney Reeves, fourth son of Rev. F. J. H.
Reeves, of East Sheen, Surrey. Born 6 May,
1848, died at Sheen
Cut down, but not destroyed.
He was murdered, while at dinner, by his appu.
There is a tablet also in the church.
Erected by Members of his Congregation to the
memory of the Rev. William Ellis, 18 years
Chaplain of Holy Trinity, Nuwera Eliya
Chaplains at Nuwara Eliya were, since 1847, the
Rev. Messrs. Pargiter, Wise, Von Dadelszen, Lovekin,
Kelly, Ellis, La Brooy, and Brine.
Here also rests HannAh Ellis his wife
She was widow of J. W. Little, C.C.S., and youngest
daughter of R. C. Roosmalecocq.
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1423 . .
Feb. 20 .
1892
. Margaret Brine
1424
April 4
1892
Frances Ellen McLaren
1425
April 5
1892
Cecilia Maude Gordon
1426
1427
1428
1429
May 28
1892
Aug. 16
1897
June 19
1892
Dec. 12
1894
Dec. 18
1894
William White
Eliza White
Alexander Burnett Oliver .
John Arbuthnot Smith
George Wall
Inscription.
Mabgaret, the loving and beloved wife of the Rev.
James E. B. Bkine, Vicar of this parish, aged 29. /
The Rev. James Edward Bouverie Brine, with the
approval of the Bishop, adopted the title " Vicar,"
in substitution for that of " Chaplain," which had
become meaningless since disestablishment. This is
the first instance, I believe, of the use of the title in
Ceylon. He is son of the late Rev. James Gram
Brine, formerly Rector of Lower Hardness, Kent, by
his marriage with Mary Amelia, daughter of the
Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. He married (2), on January
18, 1896, at Kandy, Louisa Florence, daughter of
Colonel George, late of the 21st Hussars.
Frances Ellen, the dearly beloved wife of Jambs
McLaren, aged 43 years.
She was Miss Fanny Kellow, a daughter of Mark
Kellow (see No. 1409). " James McLaren originally
came to Ceylon in 1862 as assistant to his cousin,
Herbert, a brother of W. H. Herbert, the Government
Printer. The brother had a photographer's studio
in Kandy. McLaren had been to Australia before
then — those were the days of the gold fever — and had
passed some time at Ballarat. From there he went
to Penang, ran a shop there for some time, and came
on to Ceylon. He decided to settle in the Island, and
opened a small shop at Badulla, which was successful,
and McLaren, now a man of considerable means, sold
his Badulla business to Lucius M. Glenny, and opened
a shop, first at Bridge Cottage, and then on the site
of Cargill's present establishment. He bought land
in Kandapola and planted the two estates faiown as
Tommagong (called after a petty Malay Rajah with
whom he had been in high favour when in the Straits)
and the Park, the former with tea and the latter with
coffee. The tea was very successful, and eventually
McLaren sold his shop, which he had called "The
Emporium " — with the accent on the i — to Cargills,
and the hotel, which is now St. Edward's School, and
to which, opened in 1884 or 1885, he had given the
name of "The Criterion " — also with the accent on
the i — and his estates, and left Ceylon. in 1902. He
married again in that year. He died in 1910 at
Bournemouth.. He was the pioneer of the modem
hotel and the modem shop at Nuwara EUya. (Corre-
spondents of Times of Ceylon.)
Cecilia Maude, dearly beloved wife of Capt.
Hamilton Gordon
Captain Gordon belonged to the 1st Battalion
Gordon Highlanders, and was A.D.C. toMajor-General
Dunham. Massy, C.B., Commanding the Troops
m Ceylon, 1888-93, and leaving the Amiy became
proprietor of Bl Teb estate, Passara.
Erected by his children in loving memory of William
White, bom at Bath, 15th May, 1819, died at
Newera Eliya And of our beloved Mother,
Eliza White, born in Hants, 8th April, 1822, died
at Newfera Eliya
Alexander Burnett Oliver, Tea and Coffee
Planter, Gowerakellie Estate, Badulla . .-
Erected by his sorrowing mother.
John Arbuthnot Smith, of Rothes, Hatton, who
was born at Edinburgh, 9th May, 1851, and died
at N Elliya
Erected by his dearly loved wife.
George Wall, who died aged 73 years. •
Having served his generation he fell on sleep.
Inscription on tomb . f his infant son, Percivale
Gregory who died Wh, 2, 1876. George Wall
hunself died at St. Tliomas's Home, London, a few
days after his arrival iii England from Ceylon. He
was promment as a merchant, coffee planter, politi-
cian, astronomer, and botanist, as also from making
a fortune m Ceylon and losing it with the failure of
coffee. Li his latter days he was editor of the
Ceylon Jndepemi.ent. He was foremost in the agitation
for the reform of the Legislative Council, of which he
369 )
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara E\iyB,—conU.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1429 . .
Dec. 18 .
1894
. George W&ll—contd.
1430
1431
April 28
1895
May 16
1896
Thomas Frederick Tothill. .
Louisa Sophia Liesching
1432
July 23
1896
Richard Charles Viscount
Boyle
1433
Nov. 1
1896
Eliza Heberden Baker
Inscription,
was hiiuself for some time a member, and latterly for
the abolition of the paddy tax. He wrote a book on
the " Origin of Evil" and many pamphlets and letter.s
on coffee and other tropical culture, and was one of
the naost prominent members of the Planters' Associa-
tion. He was also famous for his knowledge of ferns.
He published two pamphlets on the ferns of Ceylon
in 1873 and 1879, and was a fellow of the Linnean
Society (1872). (See Trimen, vol. V., pp. 379-80.)
At Nuwara Bliya " he built Keena House, and to
prosecute his pet hobby he built an observatory there
and fitted it most elaborately. One single special
lens for the telescope cost him £300 — it was an
Anierican make, I remember. When the crash came
Keena House and the observatory went under the
hammer. The whole observatory went for £50, the
fortunate purchaser being Staniforth Green, brother
and partner of .T. P. Green." (" Anchises " in Times
of Ceylon.)
Thomas HEisrur Feedbrick Tothill, M.D
aged 47 years.
This stone was erected by his friends in Ceylon.
He had been one of the District Medical Officers
under the Estates Medical Aid Ordinance. Latterly
he practised in Colombo.
LomsA Sophia Libsohing aged 64.
She was eldest daughter of Sir C. P. Layard, CCS. ,
born March 6, 1835, and married C. Liesching,
C.C.S., September 7, 1858. Her mother was Louisa,
daughter of General Clement Martin Edwards by his
marriage with Louisa Layard, a sister of H. P. J. and
C. E. Layard, which took place at Mount Lavinia on
March 11, 1806. Captain Edwards came out to
Ceylon by the Windham, which arrived on July 13,
1805, having been appointed to Ramsay's Regiment
(2nd Ceylon Regiment). He at once became A.D.C.
and Military Secretary to the Governor Sir Thomas
Maitland, and on August 8 Town Major of Colombo.
He was again appointed A.D.C. {vice Major Beaver)
on June 14, 1809. He became D.Q.M.G. on February
1, 1811, and was promoted to the Lieutenant-
. Colonelcy of the 1st Ceylon Regiment on July 10,
1816. Sir Thomas Maitland took a great fancy to
him, and gave an entertainment on the birtji of his
first child, ten days after its birth, at which the
mother had to appear. He left £2,000 to each of
Captain Edwards' children. Of the two sons who went
into the Army, one died at Hong Kong and the other
became a General. Captain Edwards seems to have
left Ceylon with Sir Thomas Maitland and to have
accompanied him to Malta, where he died a General,
and there is a verj- large monument to him there.
" Mrs. Liesching was the first to take up Simday
schools here." (Mr. Cotton in Times of Ceylon.) That
was when her husband was Assistant Govemnaent
Agent. On his retirement he took up his residence
in Nuwara Eliya, at Woodlands.
Richard Charles Viscount Boyle, born July 10th,
and died July 23rd, 1896.
The late Earl of Shannon (6th Earl) resided for
some years at Nuwara Bliya, where his principal
recreation was sailing on the lake. He gave a decided
impetus to the Nuwara Eliya Boating Club, but since
he left this pastime has rather gone out of favour.
He married in 1895 Nellie, daughter of Charles
Thompson, Esq., of Bookham, Surrey, and died
December 11, 1906. The present Earl is a younger
brother, born in 1897, of the infant buried here.
The Cormtess died on the R. M. S. Nile, off Oporto,
April 10, 1910.
Eliza Heberden Baker, the loving wife of John
Garland Baker for nearly 40 jears. Born
August 28th, 1821, died on All Saints' day
She founded the Baker Ward of the Nuwara EUya
Hospital. There is a stained glass window in the.
church to her memory. " It was after Mrs. John
Baker came up to reside here that Holy Trinity
Church was fovmded. Mrs. Baker took great interest
( 370 )
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya.—contd.
Serial No.
1433 .
1434
Date.
Nov. 1
1896
May 18
1900
Name.
Eliza Heberden Baker — contd,
Charles Liesching
1435
1436
Nov. 16
1900
Jan. 9
1901
Humphrey John Hare
Villiers Henry Margary
1437
April 2
1901
Francis Conrad Fisher
1438
April 11
1901
Emily Stewart Clark
Inscription,
in it, and was chief collector, among many, of iunds to
build the church. On the site of the graves of Mr.
and Mrs. Baker stood the Military Library. When it
was abolished, the pretty mantelpiece carved by
the soldiers was purchased by the late Mr. James
Bartholomeusz, Proctor, and can be seen at the Tin
Bungalow now." (Mr. f. Cotton, loc. cit.)
Charles Liesching, C.C.S., aged 67
Charles and his elder brother, Louis Liesching, were
sons of a medical man at Cape Town, and grandsons of
an officer who went out to the Cape with a German
or other mercenary regiment — ^perhaps the Luxem-
bomg Regiment — ^whose officers , or some of them, were
Knights of the Holy Roman Empire. Sir Anthony
Oliphant, the Chief Justice (1840-54), and Lady
Oliphant were great friends of the Liesching family,
and it was through their influence that Louis Liesching
came to Ceylon, and later Charles, who, then a youth
of 18, received a free passage in a ship belonging to
the Royal Navy. Both brothers eventually obtained
appointments in the Civil Service. Charles was
appointed Commissioner of Requests and Police
Magistrate, Balapitimodera, April 18, 1859; and held
that post off and on (acting at times as Assistant
Government Agent , Galle ) until 1 8 6 3 . He was Aeeis t -
ant Government Agent, Nuwara EUya, 1867-70 ; and
later District Judge of Batticaloa, Negombo, and
Kalutara; Fiscal, Kandy; and Registrar-General.
" Mr. Liesching's name will always be associated
with the Lovers' Walk he opened under the rhododen-
dron trees along the winding streams of our park."
(Mr. J. Cotton.)
Before the opening of the overland route, many
Indian civilians and military officers used to spend
their furlough at the Cape, and in this way Major
C. D. Mylne of the Bombay Army naarried there
the eldest sister of L. and C. Liesching, and became
the father of Bishop Mylne, late of Bombay, who,
no doubt, was called after his uncle Louis. Louis
Liesching wrote a good deal in religious publications
of " The Christian " type, but at the same time was
a friend of the celebrated Laurence Oliphant, son of his
)3atron , the Chief Justice. He also preached a good
deal, a practice to which he owed a nickname by
which he was generally known in the Civil Service,
as one connected with the tending of flocks.
Humphrey John Hare, Captain, Royal Engineers.
Villiers Henry Margary, of Eskdale Estate,
KandapoUa, eldest son of the late Henry Villiers
Margary, of Haputale, who died at Nuwara Eliya,
aged 24.
Henry Villiers Margary was eldest son of General
Henry Joshua Margary, R.E., and Louisa Jane
Layard, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Brownlow
Villiers Layard, who married (2) Sarah Jane Margary,
February 1, 1821, at Wembley. H. V. Margary's
brother, the third son of the General, was Augustus
Raymond Margary, the explorer, who was murdered
at Manwyne in Burma, February 22, 1875.
Francis Conrad Fisher, C.C.S., Government Agent,
North-Western Province, second son of Captain
William Fisher of the 78th Highlanders, who is
also buried in this Churchyard. Born 10th May,
1850, at DimbuUa, died at the Maligawa,
KurunegaUe. Mizpah, F. C. F. & F. L. F.
F. C. Fisher was an energetic and able civilian and
an enthusiastic sportsman. He was younger brother
of Lord Fisher. (See No. 1387).
Emily Stewart Clark, beloved wife of Alprkd
Clark, Forest Department
A Clark was in the Forest Department, 1876-1906-
Heisawriter offiction: "A Dark Place of the Earth,"
a romance of Ceylon, "Woe to the Conquered,"
&(?. He is a son of the late Rev. William Clark,
C.M.S.
( 371 )
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
1439 .
1440 .
1441
Date.
April 30
1902
Feb. 7
1906
Dec. 29 or 30.
1908
Name.
Arthur Ashfield Pilson
William Clarence Watson.
James Parsons
Inscription.
Arthur Ashfield Pilson, Vice-Principal of Trinity
College, Kandy aged 29.
William Clarence Watson, J.P. and D.L., of
Cohvorth House, Bedfordshire aged 60
years.
The chancel screen in the chvirch was also erected
to Ills memory by his widow.
James Parsons, born 1876, died 1908.
The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God.
James Parsons was Government Mineralogist from
1907. On the morning of December 29, about 10.30,
he went off for a walk through the forest which
on some sides surrounds Nuwara Eliya, bent, aniong
other things, on geologizing. He was seen, about
11 o'clock, walking along the road which passes near
Oliphant estate factory reading a book. The after-'
noon set in very wet and cold, and Mr. Parsons
did not return. The forests round about Nuwara
Eliya were searched the whole of that night by gangs
of coolies from the neighbouring estates, and the
search went on next day and for days until every
square yard of ground in the neighbourhood of Nuwara
Eliya and Pundaloya had seemingly been explored,
but no trace of him could be found. At last on
Easter Day, April 11, 3|- months after his disappear-
ence, his remains were found in some thick scrub
about two chains distance from the south-west corner
of Oliphant estate, between the upper division of the
estate and Pundaloya, about Similes from the Oliphant
bungalow. The forest round the spot was very thick,
and though it was only two chains distance from the
nearest planted portion of the estate, it took the
Superintendent 20 minutes to get back from the spot
to the planted portion. The discovery was made by a
Tamil tracker, who had made many previous searches.
Everything was intact, clothes, gold spectacles, watch
and chain, compass, purse, only his walking cane and a
leather case were missing. Mr. Parsons had evidently
lost his way, been benighted, and died of exhaustion.
His fate recalls that of Gunner Scott at Trincomalee
in 1877 (see No. 1016). There was another case of
Europeans going out for a walk and being lost in the
forest at Nuwara EUya in 1886. It happened to the
Rev. J. Ilsley, C.M.S., Mrs. Ilsley, C.M.S., the Rev. J.
W. Balding, C.M.S. , on August 26. They were lost in
the forest, and without food for 27 hours, and only
found their way on to the railway line near Nanu-
oya through hearing the whistle of the engine. A
similar experience befell Mr. E. Anderson, of Aning-
kanda estate ir Morawa korale, January 9, 1906.
He was lost for a day and a night hx the neighboiu'hood
of Abbey Rock in that district. He left Beverley estate
bungalow at 5 a.m. on the 18th to climb Hinpitigala
peak, which rises to a height of about 3,500 feet, or
1,500 feet above Beverley, and did not find his way
out of the forest until 2.30 p.m. the next day. He
was without food for 31 J hours.
Old Roman Catholic Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya.
1442
Sept. 11
1860
William Daly
Pray for the soul of William Daly, late Sergeant,
18th Royal Irish Regt aged 89 years.
His eldest daughter, Ellen, married Sergeant John
Thornhill, 95th Regiment, at Trincomalee, August 8,
1843. The 18th left for China in 1840.
' Living just at the gate of the Hakgala Gardens,
on the other side of the road, in a little shanty, was
an old retired sergeant, Daly by name, whose house
was a favorurite resort of picnic parties from Nuwara
Eliya. They took their tifiEin or breakfast in the
house, and wandered about the neighbouring
patanas, enjoying the wondrous views of Uva, with
the far-famed Namunakulakanda and Haputale
rangesin the distance." ("Notes by the Way," p. 16.)
( 372 )
Old Roman Catholic Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1443 . .
May 17 .
1877
. . William Hackett
Inscription.
Sacred to the memory of Sir William Hackett,
Chief Justice of Ceylon ,.
Sir William Hackett was educated at Trinity
College, Dublin; called at Lincoln's Inn, 1851,
appointedQueen's Advocate, Gold Coast, 1861; Chief
Justice, 1863; Lieutenant-Governor, 1864; Recorder,
Prince of Wales Island, 1866; after the transfer of
the Straits Settlements from the Indian Government
to %he Secretary o-f State for the Colonies was styled
Judge of Penang ; knighted, 1866 ; Acting Chief
Justice, Straits, 1871 ; Chief Justice, Fiji, 1876 ; Chief
Justice, Ceylon, 1877. Hearrived in Ceylon on Janu-
ary 30, 1877. He succeeded Sir George Anderson,
and was succeeded by Sir John Budd Phear. He
married, on December 5, 1866, at the chapel of
the Bavarian Embassy, Frances Ehzabeth Maria,
daughter of the late William Bryant, Bombay Civil
Service. She died on December 24, 1910, at Nice.
He was appointed Chief Justice on February 3,
1877. " It was at the resthouse at the Police
barracks that Sir William Hackett, C.J. of Ceylon,
took cholera and died. It was then said that it was
due to his having drunk poisoned water from a well
then on the land." (Mr. John Cotton in Times of
Oe.ylon.)
Serial No.
1444 .
1445
Date.
May 23
1878
Nov. 26
1887
Name.
Thomas Arthur Hall
Annie Kate Grimston
Ramboda Churehyard, Nuwara Eliya District.
The little okuich, dedicated to St. John tlie Evangelist, was consecrated by Bishop Chapman on St. Mark's
Day, April 25, 1850, the first English church completed and consecrated in the Central Province. Its situation,
below the road and among the waterfalls for whicli Ramboda is celebrated, is very picturesque. " The spot is
indeed most lovely. The broad deep mountain shadows and gorgeous brightness of a tropical sun give a
vividness and contrast to the greens of our most exuberant verdure, which defy the artist's skill. The little
building of soHd granite, simple but not rude, is quite in keeping with the lovely scene around." (Bishop
Chapman.) There ar^ two or three tombstones in the churchyard, of which the oldest, without inscrip-
tion, may be that of Robert Jeffery, a Colombo merchant, who died at Ramboda on July 18, 1844, on his
way from Colombo to Nuwara EHya, and is either buried here or in the Old Cemetery, Nuwara Eliya. Bishop
Chapman, in a letter dated May 6, 1850, describing the consecration, talks of " the burial ground in which
have already been deposited the earthly remains of several Europeans."
Inscription.
. Thomas Arthue Hall, born Aug, 18th, 1859, died
May 23rd, 1878.
The burial is entered in the register of St. Peter's
Church, Colombo.
. Sacred to the memory of Akkib Kate, youngest
daughter of the late Sir Aethue. Bullee, Kt., wife
of Edvfaed Geimston of Rambodde
aged 35.
Sir Arthur Buller, " facetious Arthur Buller, who,
with his more notable brother Charles, had at one
time Carlyle for tutor " (" Ceylon in 1837-46," p. 9),
was Queen's Advocate of Ceylon, 1840-48 ; Puisne
Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, 1848-58 ;
M. P. for Devonport, 1869. He was a son of Charles
BuUer, of the family of Buller of Morval, Cornwall,
and a brother of Charles Reginald Buller, C.C.S.,
formerly Government Agent, Central Province. He
married Annie, daughter of F. J. Templer, CCS. , and
sister of F. B. Templer, CCS., also a former Govern-
ment Agent of the Central Province ; she died July
23, 1907, at Surbiton, aged 83. William Boyd m his
"Autobiography" mentions an " Ensign Buller" as
a fellow passenger of his to Ceylon in 1837 on board
the Mersey, but as a matter of fact Boyd did not come
out to Ceylon until 1841, and there -^as no " Ensign
Buller" on board. His " BuUers of Buchan" story
(p. 41) was probably suggested by^the name of the
Queen's Advocate and the Government Agent in
1848.
1446
April 10
1897
Mary Dobbs
Maey Dobbs
( 373 )
Dimbula, Nuwara Eliya Distriet.
In 1869 all the Railway Gorge was Crown forest, not surveyed, and the whole of the Agras was one large
expanse of forest, with the lovely patanas lying in the valley." Louisa (now part of Great Western), Nanu-oya,
and Old Radella are the oldest planted Dimbula estates. Radella was opened from Nuwara Eliya.
Lindula Church.
Serial No.
1447 .
Date.
Dec. 1
1886
Feb. 15
1882
Name.
Arthur HeeUs
Edward Heelis
1448
March 20
1892
Agnes Kennedy Bovill
1449
Feb. 25
1901
Walter Sandys Thomas
1450
May 22
1900
Grame Elphinstone
3d
Inscription.
Aethttr Heelis, of Carlabeck , also Edward
Heelis, of Langdale, who died at Malta.
A window.
E Heelis was in 1868 on Langdale, which he opened.
He died of phthisis. He wrote a paper, " On the
Climate of Dimbula," in the Journal of the R.A.S.,
C.B., for 1879. They were sons of Stephen Heelis of
Manchester.
Arthur is buried ia the churchyard (inscription).
"My next door neighbour on Langdale was dear little
Edward HeeUs, the "E. H." of the local press of
the time. Frail of build, delicate in constitution,
and painfully deaf, yet Heelis held his own. He
opened land, planted it, and made a fine property.
His house contained a magnificent library of books,
while out of doors in the garden he had a powerful
astronomical telescope that once was the property of
George Wall. Heelis was always the referee of his
tirae, and "to decide a bet" he was oft times
requisitioned over most impossible questions."
(" I," ia Times of Ceylon Christmas Number, 1909.)
Agnes Kennedy, the beloved wife of Robert
Stephenson Bovill, of Coombewood, Talawakele,
who died at Sydney, Australia
Coombewood was opened by Lambert Sim, and was
afterwards taken over by Malcolm Sim, who sold it
to his brother-in-law, R. S. Bovill, the latter a son
of the late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who
presided at the first Tichbom trial.
Walter Sandys Thomas, of Lindoola This
window is erected by his many friends ia Ceylon .
In 1869 W. S. Thomas was on Lindoola estate, on
which he died. He was an energetic planter and
public man, organized clubs, games, &c., and took
an active part in the local Planters' Association and
in church matters, &o. He married Violet, daughter
of Walter Buchanan. He was a brother of Edward
Lechmere Thomas, who died at Colombo, September
2, 1878, also a planter.
In affectionate remembrance of Sir Gr^mb Dal-
RYMPLE-HoRN Elphinstone, Bart., formerly of
Logie Estate, Lindula. Fourth son of the late Sir
James Dalrymple-Horn Elphinstone; Bart., of
Horn and Logie Elphiastone, in the County Aber-
deen.
He died at Taipiag, Straits Settlements in
his 59th year.
This memorial is erected by his brother planters and
many other friends in token of the high esteem in
which they held him for his genuine Christian
character and for the kindness of heart, unselfish-
ness, and generosity which were so conspicuous in
his daily life and in all his dealings with his fellow
men.
A brass.
A most popular man, generally spoken of as
" Logie."
" Logie Elphinstone was opening land ia both
Logie and Belgravia, for, in the days I speak of, ho
was all-powerful, and had interests ia a huge exteat
of property in the coffee districts. No name was
more popular in Ceylon than Elphiastone's, and no
man of that time could lower ' Logie's' records in
work or in athletics." ("I," ia Times of Ceylon
Christmas Number, 1909.)
82-09
( 374 )
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1451 . .
Sept. 18 .
1879
. Beatrice Lutyens
Lindula Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya District.
Inscription.
1452
1453
1454
June 9
1878
Oct. 17
1879
July 9
1883
Richard Heelis
Minnie Charlotte Sheffield
Buchanan
Mary Anne Clark
1455
1456
1457
Sept. 23
1887
Feb. 13
1900
April 15
1888
Dec. 3
1889
Margaret Dyce Dunsmure
Anita Edith Dunsmure
Annie Macleod Laurance
John Forbes Macleod
1458
May 11
1891
Charlotte Elizabeth Laurie
Bbatbicb LtTTYENS in the 21st year of her
age.
Wife of C. B. Lutyens, a planter, and brother of the
artist. He owned half share of Momington estate.
He was a half-mUe runner in his day.
RiCHABD Heelis, son of Robebt Heelis, M.R.C.S.,
of Brighton, formerly of London.
A cousin of Arthur and Edward Heelis,
Mestnie Chablotte Sheffield, eldest daughter of
Lt.-Col. J. S. G. Ryxey, and beloved wife of Joinsr
BucHANAiT. She died at Harrington Estate . .
aged 28 years.
Here rest the remaias of Maby Anne Wink, the
beloved wife of John Clabk, of Wattagoda, and
daughter of the Revd. John Wink, Minister of
Knockards. Born July 28th, 1849
Wife of "Poother Clark."
This may be Knockard, a village in " Barvas
Parish Hebrides (Outer), Lewis, in County Ross and
Cromarty, one mile south of the Butt of Lewis, 26
miles north-east of Stomoway" ; or a place in Suther-
landshire of the same name.
Maegabet Dyce, wife of Alexandee Hendbeson
DuNSMTJEE, who died at Braemore aged
27 years ; and their infant son, Alexandee ; also
their daughter, Anita Edith, born April 12th,
1882.
. A. H. Dunsm.ure came out to Dimbula about 1869
and retired in 1908. He was, therefore, associated
with the district from, its early days.
Annie Macleod, the beloved wife of Robeet Bissbt
Laueanoe, who died at Balmoral Estate, Agra-
patna, aged 49 years.
In the early seventies, "further down the valley,
R. B. Laurance was developing Balmoral." (See
No. U71.)
John Foebes Macleod, who died at Belgravia
Estate aged 68 years.
Macleod was a planter in Kotmale as early as 1853.
In 1862-68 he was on Kadienlena estate. Belgravia
was origiaally one estate with Logie. It was
bought by Rossiter, who opened a few acres only,
and sold to Sir Grseme Elphlnstone and Macleod, the
latter opening it. They eventually " parted " the
place, Elphinstone taking Logie and Macleod Bel-
gravia.
" I can recaU the Macleod's breakfast ball at the
Middleton store and lev6e on the Craigie Lea patanas
when Sir William Gregory visited the district in
1873." (H, B., in Dunbula Desk Book, 1909)
" Coffee was then boomed, every tree reckoned worth
a rupee, and the ' ' 130/- per cwt." in big letters in the
supper room in Middleton store is still fresh in my
memory. What happy and prosperous days those
were in Dimbula, when leaf disease (although present)
was considered of no consequence and laughed at,
until the day arrived when coffee trees lost their
vitality and gradually pegged out."
Chaelotte Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Buxton
Latjeie, who died at Holmwood Estate
aged 36 years.
Buxton Laurie was a brother of W. Forbes Laurie
(No. 1281). He was on Moncrieff estate, Rattota, in
1868.
Holmwood was bought in 1874 by C. S. Armstrong
and R. W. Wickham, opened ia the same year by
" Shivermg BUI " Northway, from Walaha, in coffee
and cinchona In 1877 Wickham bought out
Armstrong and went to reside on the estate. In 1 893,
the conversion into tea being completed, Wickham
retired, leaving W. D. Bosanquet as manager.
( 375 )
Lindula Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya District— conid
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1459 , .
Oct. 27
1892
. Alice Marion Maclean
1480
Dec. 27
1892
Joseph Burnet
1461
Nov. 24
1893
Jolin Lewis Hampton
1462
1463
Sept. 12
1895
Sept. 13
1895
William Scott
Annie Palliser
Inscription.
Alice Maeion, the beloved wife of A. D. Maclean,
Esq
A. D. Maclean, a planter, now retired, is a nephew
of the late Rev. Norman Macleod, D.D.
He married a cousin, a sister of H. A. D. Macleod
(see No. 1306). With hie brother he owned property
in Maskeliya, but lost money in coffee. He was for a
long time at Kandenuwara, Matale, and later suc-
ceeded William Smith on Mattakele, where he
remained for about twenty years. His father was a
Surgeon-General of some note, who wrote a privately
printed autobiography of interest. Hie brother was
for many years a planter in Maturata , and died there
circa 1905.
The Revd. Joseph Btjenet, Colonial Chaplain, who
died at Belgravia aged 63 years. This
memorial is erected by members of St. Andrew's,
Colombo, and by friends.
" From 1873 to 1875 the acting appointment was
held by the Rev. J. R. Brotchie, one of the chaplains
of the planting districts, and on his departure th»
Rev. Joseph Burnet was appointed chaplain. Mr.
Burnet's incumbency lasted for 17 years, and his
genial and kindly disposition greatly endeared him to
those who came in contact with him." (Observer.)
John Lewis Hampton, born March 27th.
He was son of Colonel Joseph Hampton Hampton,
50th Regiment, of Bodoir, Anglesey, and married
at Colombo, May 16, 1854, Charlotte Josephine,
daughter of Jacob Piachaud, Actuary of the Savings
Bank, by his wife.Agneta Margarita, daughter of
Olke van Andringa, Harbour Master of Colombo, who
came from Enkhuizen. Laura Rose, a daughter of
J. L. Hampton, married James Cantlay of Mount
Vernon estate. His son Joseph Lewis, bom May 7,
1855, was in the Survey Department. (See No. 916.)
William Scott, born February 27th, 1836.
A planter, who was, I think, drowned.
Here rests Annie, the beloved wife of Cecil
Palliser, born at Drontheim, Norway, April 23rd,
1685
1464
Oct. 7
1896
William Smitli
Erected by his friends in memory of William Smith,
late of Mattukelley. One of the founders of Dim-
boola aged 69 years.
A better friend never man had.
He was a Dimbula pioneer. " Poor old Williana
Smith. Kindness of heart (his was too big for his
body),hospitality, and charity were his; losing all in
the end, his heart was broken and he died. ' God
rest his soul ' I say ; it was one of the saddest endings
to a joyous life." (E. R. Wiggin, in Dimbula Desk
Book, 1909.) He was known as " Smith of Mattu-
keUy, or ' The Patriarch.' "
" In 1869 WiQiam Smith was living at Craigie Lea,
opening Drayton. He had 32 of the best hunting
dogs that ever came to Ceylon." (A. and H. T.) He
opened Mattukelly estate in 1865.
Smith's house was a resthouse, and to him it was
a personal insult of the most unforgivable character
did you not partake of his splendid hospitality.
Though he was a prince of hosts, yet Smith was a
fearful man to argue. He would lay down the law
with a fearful voice, and even though in his heart he
knew he was getting the worst of the argument, he
would clinch matters by saying in broad Scotch,
"Young man! you will allow me to know best! "
Poor old Smith ! The failure of coffee and the f a^J
in cinchona broke him, but not his spirit. A more
hospitable, kind-hearted, good, generous fellow never
lived than he, and it is pathetic to think that the
evening of his days did not see the reward of his toil."
(" I," in Times of Ceylon Christmas Number, 1909.)
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Lindula Churchyard, Nuwara Eliya District — contd.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1465 . .
Jan. 8
1898
. . George Gordon Fairgrieve
1466 . .
May 17
1898
. Charles William Tytler
1467 . ,
Aug. 1
1898
Mary Falton Kerr
1468 .
. Feb. 10
1900
Helen Rose Clarke
1469 .
May 2
1900
. . George Sloan Paxton
1470
Nov. 15
1903
Arthur R. Wiggin
1471
1472
May 15
1904
Jan, 6
1905
Annie Isabel Bowden Smith
Robert Edward Temple
Inscription.
George Gobdok Fairgrieve, youngest son of Rev.
George Fairgrieve of Saltcoats, Scotland, born
15th October, 1875. Drowned at Middleton,
Talawakelle
Aa Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.
Erected by a few friends and fellow planters as a
mark of their love and esteem.
He was drowned while boating on the river.
Charles William Tytler, who fell asleep at Cran-
leigh, Lindula aged 45 years.
Mary Faltost Kerr, wife of David Kerb, Aberdeen
Estate, Watawala, and daughter of W. H. Ed-
wards, Esq., Winscomb, Somerset. Born Septr.
21st, 1874
Helen Rose, dearly loved wife of Charles Habward
Clarke, born June 15th, 1865.
She was killed in a trolly accident on the railway,
of which her husband was an official.
George Sloai^^ Paxton, only son of John Paxton,
M.D., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
He was for some years under the Leechmans at
E^adugannawa, and then on Hunukotuwa, Kotmale,
which he left in 1887 for Brazil, his health having
become affected mentally. In 1895 he returned to
Ceylon, but broke down in health again while in charge
of Tientsin. Latterly he was on Waltrim and Kowla-
bena.
Arthur R. Wiggin, who died at Oddington
aged 63 years.
" When I cam.e up here (Dimbula) and ' bought in '
with my brother, it was a rough life we led in all its
forms — food, work, hours, &c. Some of us lived
in thatched wigwams — -' conical buildings ' — some
in apologies for bungalows — and O ! the discomfort
of it aU ; imagine the cigarette youth of to-day eating
and drinking a 6 o'clock meal composed of bitter beer ,
beefsteak (O ! so tough), spring onions — and we could
grow these — and ' rice rotis ' when the bread i^an
out For aU this we lived a life of enjoyment
and good fellowship imknown in these days
Whisky we knew not, brandy was a medicine, and
tea and coffee a treat Hunts on the Bo-pats
were one of our chief relaxations. I had at one time
15 couple of hounds in my godowns, belonging partly
to myself and partly to the district pack, which was
maiatained by subscription." (E. R. Wiggin, in the
Dimbula Desk Book, 1909.) " I remember ' Bob '
Wiggin (A. R. Wiggin) when just out (in 1870)— a
splendid specimen of a young man." (A. L. H. in
ditto.)
A. R. Wiggin was superintendent of Fairfield
estate, Dimbula, 1893-1900.
Oddington was opened in 1868. It was originally
part of Eildon HaU, and known as Melrose. The
owner was A. Forrest-Harper, a Roxburgh man. It
was sold about 1 87 3 to G. W. Goodeve and his brother-
in-law, A. R. Wiggin, and sold on the death of the
latter to T. Fairhurst and W. C. Oswald in 1906. It
is caUed after the village of Oddington in Gloucester-
shire.
Sacred to the memory of Annie Isabel, wife of
James R. Bowden Smith, younger daughter of
the late R. B.Laurance of Balmoral, Agrapatna,
born October 3rd, 1883 . .•
(See No. 1456.)
In memory of Robert Edward, eldest son of Robert
Temple, late CCS.
The estate was the scene of a tragedy on February
27, 1875, when Robert Temple's youngest son,
Henry, was accidentaUy shot and killed by his
brother. Henry Temple was bom January 27 , 1 854 ,
and was educated at Cheltenham College. The inquest
was held by Humphrey Humphreys, a well-known
Dimbula planter, (See Noa. 683 and 1394.)
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St. Patrick's Church, Talawakele, Dimbula.
Serial No.
Date.
Narne.
1473 . .
Sept. 16 .
1872
. Patrick Ryan
1474
1475
Nov. 6
1887
May 15
1882
Anne Marie Louise Celine
Young
William Dent Young
1476
1477
Oct. 13
1895
Dec. 6
1900
Cecil Hamilton Heatlicote.
Andrea Matteucci
Inscription.
Pray for the soul of Patbiok Ryan, who died in the
Red Sea
A granite cross outside the church.
James and Patrick Ryan were brothers. James
oameoutin 1848, Patrick, who was the youngest, some
two years later. A third brother, Wilham, came out
later. He died very young, of consumption, at Gam-
pola. Patrick died on board the Peshawur in the Red
Sea. He had married, before he came out, Emily
Sinclair, a widow. She died at Kandy, August 8,
1860. James Ryan opened and owned Lower
Maddegama, Deltota (in 1857), Orwell (1857), and
Rukatenna, now Sandhurst, Gampola (1861), St.
Clair (1863), Stirling, St. Andrews, and Glenomera
(1870), Dimbula. He married in 1857 (1) Margaret
Skelton, daughter of Captain John Skelton of Orwell,
Kinross, N.B., by his second wife Anne McPherson.
He was induced to come out by Kennedy of UdaweUa,
a Kew man, who had married his aunt, and was at
first under Captain Holworthy. He died in 1877 at
Edinburgh. His sons, James and Charles Ryan, keep
up the connection with the Island and the Ryan
estates. Mrs. James Ryan had two brothers in
Ceylon, George Skelton of Ma tale, who came out with
her in the Albemarle in 1857, and Cumming Skelton,
who was at one time in the New South Wales Survey
Department. George died about 1882 at Edinburgh.
The brothers married sisters named Geddes, of the
Jaffna family.
A la memoire veneree de Anne Marie Louise
Celine Young, nee Db Chermont epouse bien
aimee de John Dent Young
Et de leuT neveu William Dent Young, S.J
Beati Mortui Qui in Domino Moriuntur.
Apoc. xiv., 13.
They are both buried inside the church, the graves
naarked by stones. This inscription is on a marble
tablet. .
John Dent Young was in the Public Works Depart-
ment, and retired as Provincial Engineer, North-
western Province. He was a son of Surgeon W. H.
Young. (See No. 336.)
Mrs. John Dent Young was a daughter of Prosper
de Chermont, of Orion estate, Gampola, by his
marriage with Amelia, daughter of Jean Marie
Gottelier, who married Marie Prospere Amelie de
Chermont. Prosper de Chermont was a nephew of
General Prosper de Chermont, Commandant of
Pondicherry. The De Chermonts belong to the Le
Mercier family. John Dent's brother, William
MandUhon, married Anne Marie Clementine, another
daughter of Prosper de Chermont. (See No. 728.)
Cecil Hamilton Heathcote, who died at Madde-
coombra, Wattagoda, on the 13th October, 1895,
aged 38 years.
A marble tablet. He is buried in the church, and
his grave is marked by a flat marble stone, which has
an inscription giving the year of his birth as 1 856.
Heic
In pace Christi requiescunt
Ossa et cineres
D. Andee^b Matteucci, O.S.B.,
Congregationis Silvestrinse
Qui
Nonis Julii A.D. MDCCCLXVIII.
Ficani in Italia Natus
Relicta domo rebusque patris
In insula Taprobana
Missionis Dimbulse curam agens
VIII. Idus Decembris, A.D. MCMV.
Diem Vidit Supremum
Et Exultabunt Domino
Ossa humiliata.
Ps. 50, V, 9.
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St. Patrick's Church, Talawakele, Dimbula — contd.
Serial No.
Date
Name.
1477 . .
Dec. 6
1900
. . Andrea Matteucei — contd.
Inscription.
A marble slab in the floor.
" Here rest in the peace of Christ the bones and
ashes of Dom Andrse Matteucei, O.S.B., of the-
SUvestrine Congregation, who, bom at Pisano in.
Italy, on July 7, A.i). 1868, left his country and patri-
mony and took charge of the Dimbula Mission. He
saw the Great Day on Dec. 6th, a.d. 1900, and his
bones, though humbled, will rejoice in the Lord."
Ps. 50, V. 9.
The inscription is felicitously worded, as he was
drowned while bathing in the river below the church.-
The corresponding reference to the Authorized and.
Prayer Book versions would be Psalm 51, verse 8.
Pisano is a town in the Italian Marshes, about 25-
miles from Ancona.
1478 . . Sept. 21 . . Margaret Christina de St.
1879 Dalmas
Lower Abbotsford Estate, Dimbula.
Thbke is a stone monumeat with a marble tablet in a grove near a watercourse, a short distance from the>-
dispenser's bungalow, on Lower Abbotsford estate, which belonged to the late Mr. A. M. Ferguson, C.M.G., with
the following inscription : —
Maggie's Grove. Our darling departed peacefully at
Ulwar, Rajputana, September 21st, 1879.
This refers to Margaret Christina, daughter of
Mr. A. M. Ferguson, C.M.G., born April 8, 1852, who-
married on December 10, 1874, Henry Gersham.
Emeric de St. Dalmas, a missionary of Guernsey and
Wellington, Somerset. He married (2) Susan Mon-
tague, daughter of James Fogo Bernard, M.D., and:
sister of Sir Charles Edward Bernard, K.C.S.I., Chief
Commissioner of Burma.
The grove was the favourite haunt of Mrs. St..
Dalmas while she was a girl on Abbotsford, and she
spent a great deal of her time there reading books..
Abbotsford was purchased by Mir. Ferguson in 1871,
when it was in forest, and managed by his son A. M,
Ferguson, junior, who in 1892 became the proprietor,
and gave over charge to Mr. John Fraser, the present
superintendent.
St. Margaret's Church, Forest Creek, Dimbula.
" The traveller who now enjoys the luxury of a comfortable sleep in the well-fitted sleeping carriage on
our railway little thinks as he wakes up for his morning's tea in the refreshment car what a change has come-
over the land he is blinking at as he possibly tries to realize where his next station is. He is in a modern
railway train surrounded by aU that is reminiscent of ' present day ' comfort, even though tinged with oriental
colour. The Dimbula he is travelling through is as old as the frowning pile of hills above him, yet how changed !
The great silent forest of half a hundred years ago is now a smiling land, dotted freely with the pretty homes of
the white man. The rolling hills bathed in their billows of tea, the white-roofed factories with their panting
and throbbing machinery, the ever-occurring crusts and clumps of gums or grevillea, all these objects of to-day
crowd on a land that might truly be called a battlefield, for here was fought the strenuous fight of subduing an
untamed wUdemess of woodland to this now valuable sheet of magnificent property. The traveller I spoke of at
my start little knows how keen that battle was. Probably he never heard of the brave men who led the charge,,
the charge of the axe industry, that fought with the silent forest, that overthrew the raging streams w'ith bridge-
ways, that battled and beat misfortune. It was in the early seventies, when the fight was at its height
to-day we see this splendid monument of early industry and sustained effort as we look on the beaut3ul vale of
Dimbula as it spreads away from lofty Kirigalpotta to the Kotmalie valley : beautiful in its streams and falls,
beautiful in its happy homes to-day, and peaceful as the homeland that bred the men who made it what it is at
this moment — delightful Dimbula." {" I," in Times of Ceylon Christmas Number, 1908.)
Inscription.
In memoriam. This tablet is erected by a few of
his many friends to the memory of Thomas Earle'
Weekes, of Hoonoocotua Estate, Kotmalie, who
died at Bentota aged 32.
He was drowned while bathing in the sea.
Godfrey Bkooks, born June 27, 1869
Erected by his friends.
(A brass in the church. Inscription also on tomb-
stone in the churchyard.) He was on Stonycliff
estate, Dimbula.
Serial No.
Date.
Name.
1479 . .
Dec. 4
1905
Thomas Earle Weekes
1480
Aug. 3
1905
Godfrey Brooks
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Churchyard of St. Margaret's, Forest Creek, Dimbula.
(Serial No.
1481 .
Date.
Aug. 1
1893
March 26
1894
Nov. 25
1893
Name.
Ernest Francis Messervy
Margaret Dyce Messervy
Paul Messervy
1482
1483
May 5
1897
Dec. 18
1905
William Fraser
John Alexander Maitland .
Inscription.
Ernest Feancis Messervy, born May 11/1859.
died at Talawakelle, Ceylon ; also
Margaret Dyce, wife of Ernest Francis
Messervy and daughter of tVndeew Nicol,
DimbuUa, Ceylon, born July 7, 1861, died at 22,
Gt. Cumberland JPlace, London
Also Pattl, second son of Ernest Francis and
Margaret Dyce Messervy, born July 1st, 1892,
died at 22, Gt. Cumberland Place, London.
Alexander Niool opened Niagara and Union, after-
wards called Dimbula estates.
E. Messervy died of enteric. " His sister married
in 1874, as her first husband, A. Hood, who with
Hunter purchased Nanu-oya estate in 1858, to which
they added Talawakele estate. She married (2)
Colonel Himtley Gordon, and (3), in 1887 or 1888,
A. P. Hoskyns, proprietor of Katukele estate. He
came out to Ceylon in 1885 owing to losses, and Uved
at Talawakele old bungalow. They left Ceylon in
1890. She died in April, 1907, at Lindhohne,
Surrey." (Dimbula Desk Book. )
William Fraser, who died at Chrystler's Farm,
aged 48 years.
John Alexander Maitland, born Jan. 17th, 1860
The beloved Husband of Jeannie Tdrn-
BtTLL Stuart Maitland.
Also a brass in the church, erected by his friends.
All Saints' Church, Agras.
This church was built in 1893. In the early seventies, " When I went to Diagama nothing was opened
beyond that estate in the Agras, and I might add that on my first journey to the ' shanty ' I had to hve-in,
I had to cross a blackened mass of new clearings extending from what is now Hauteville Estate, right up within
a short distance of where ' The Grange ' bungalow to-day stands. Glasgow, Mornington, Moreville, Nithsdale,
Waverly, all these were a sea of logs, charcoal, and ashes." [Times of Ceylon Christmas Number, 1909.)
Serial No.
1484
1485
Date.
July 11
1901
May 1
1904
Name.
John M. Smith
Frances Georgiana Farqu-
harson
Inscription.
In loving memory of John M. Smith, of Albion and
Caledonia, Lindula. Born December 18th, 1836.
In memory of my beloved wife, Frances Georgiana
Farqttharson, suddenly called away
aged 42.
For 17 years a resident at Agras Estate, leaving a
bright example of faith, zeal, and love. Her body
rests in Lindula Churchyard.
This memorial, together with the bells in the Tower
of this Church, was erected by her devoted husband
who mourns her loss.
There is also an inscription on the tombstone in the
churchyard at Lindula, which states that Mis.- Far-
quharson was a daughter of Richard Reade of H. M.
Consular Service, and was born December 27, 1861.
Her husband, Captain A. J. Farquharson, had been
in the Navy, and was known as " The Admiral." He
was for some years Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
the Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps.
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OBITUARY OF THE UNCOMMEMORATED.
Colombo.
I486.— July 19, 1790— Frangois Raymond.
He was Grand Juge of the Regiment de Meuron. There were two Grand Juges on the staff of the regiments
There is in the Archivist's office an accouat of a court martial held by Raymond as Grand Juge.
1487. — February 16, 1796 — Jean Frangols Marie de Raymond.
The Chevalier De Raymond, Lieut.-Colonel in the Regiment of Luxemburg.
"Whilst our troops lay here (Grand Pass), the Dutch sent from Colombo a large party of Malays under the
command of Colonel Raymond, a Frenchman, to attack us, which they did rather unexpectedly in the morning about
daybreak. Our troops, however, particularly our flank companies under Col. Barbut, gave them such a warm
reception that they soon retired very precipitately and with great loss ; their brave commander was mortally wounded,
and died a few days after." (Percival's " Ceylon," p. 92.)
This attack was made on the morning of the 12th. Colonel Raymond had his right thigh broken. He died on
the 16th, and was buried on the 17th with all iniKtary honours. The garrison had surrendered on the 16th. (See De
La Thombe's Account of the taking of Colombo, in Journal, R.A.S. , C.B., vol. X. , pp. 382, 386.)
The French Luxemburg Regiment formed part of the Dutch Garrison of Colombo.
A son of Lieutenant-Colonel De Raymond, Charles Alexander, marriedat Colombo, May 17, 1813, Lucilla Henrietta,
daughter of the late Major Francis Piachaud of the Regnnent de Meuron. Toother son,*Fran5ois Marie Regnier, died
at Colombo, July 2, 1810, aged 22. Lieutenant-Colonel De Raymond was bom at Laoourt in the diocese (stricht) of
Ague, district (landschap) of Aquennois, Province of Guienne.
There was a De Raymond at Colombo in 1818. The Gazette announces the death " at the Grand Pass, 18th May,
Juliet Adelaide, daughter of C. H. de Raymond, Esq., aged 10 months 11 days."
1488.— June, 1797— Welbore Ellis Doyle,
-Major-General Welboee Ellis Doyle.
He had only been six months in the Island, for he relieved Major-General Steuart of the conunand on January 1 ,
1797, having arrived in December, 1796, with half of the 19th Foot. The War OfQce records in the Public Record
Office give the date of his death as January 2, 1798, but it was evidently post-dated for pay and pension purposes, as
Percival distinctly states that it occurred in June, 1797 (p. 114), and his successor. Colonel Bonnevaux, is gazetted in the
India Office as having died on July 12, 1797. He was the sixth and youngest son of Charles Doyle of Bramblestown,
County Kilkenny, and his next eldest brother, John, was also a General in the Army, and was created a Baronet in 1805,
which perhaps is the cause of the confusion between " General Sir John Doyle " and " Sir John D'Oyly " of the Ceylon
Civil Service, who, curiously enough, is usually given in Sinhalese writings the title of " General " too, probably
because he accompanied the British Army to Kandy in 1815 in an official capacity, viz., that of Interpreter. General
Sir John Doyle was never in Ceylon.
Major-General Welbore Doyle's grandson. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, the third Baronet, was Professor of Poetry
at Oxford, 1867-77, and author of the fine ballad " The Private of the Buffs." He died June 8, 1888. Major-General
Welbore Doyle was Colonel of the 53rd Foot.
1489.— July 12, 1797— Peter Bonnevaux.
Lt.-Col. BoNNEVATTX, in command of the Forces at Colombo.
He was a Madras officer. As the next senior officer in the Island'he succeeded General Doyle in the command of
the Forces, but was " killed by the upsetting of his curricle as he drove through one of the gates of the Fort, and was
buried within a week of his predecessor." (Percival, p. 114.)
He was succeeded by Colonel Pierre Frederic de Meuron, of De Meuron's Regiment, as Brigadier-General in
command and Chief of the Island. The Hon. Frederic North arrived by H. M. S. Intrepid from Bombay on April 23,
1799, and took over the Civil Government, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Champagn6, of the 80th Regiment, being his
Lieutenant-Governor, and having the command of the troops until relieved of the latter by General Hay Macdowal.
[The date of his death was ascertained from the India Office. There is no record of it in the Island.]
Lieutenant-Colonel Bonnevaux entered the Company's service as Ensign on January 15, 1768 ; became Lieutenant,
August 3, 1770 ; Captain, July 9, 1779 ; Major, February 6, 1788 ; and Lieutenant-Colonel, March 18, 1794. In 1790 he'
was Commandant of Condapilly, a fortress and cantonment in Kistna District. He belonged to the 10th Madras Native
Infantry. See DodweU and Mills' " Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Indian Army from the year 1760,
corrected to September 30, 1837." (London, 1838.)
1490. — September 2, 1799 — John Gerrard van Angelbeek.
The last Dutch Governor of Ceylon. A description of his funeral next day is given by Cordiner, vol. I., p. 36.
He was Governor from February 7, 1785, to February 16, 1796.
1491.— April 15, 1800— Thomas Alexander Kennedy.
Capt. Kennedy of the 19th Foot.
' ' He commanded the detachment of the 1 9th , consisting of the light company and four battalion companies , which
formed part of the escort of General MacDowal's embassy to Kandy in March-May, 1800, and having been very Ul from
the day oi its arrival (March 24) at the ' King's Garden,' which Capt. Percival of the 19th, who was also with the
Detachment, calls ' Resue Ortie Palagomby Watty,' situated on the bank of the Kelaniya river, within a mUe of Ruwan-
wella, ' was sent by water to Cclombo, where he died a fortnight after.' " (Percival's " Ceylon," p. 393.)
Half of the 19th Foot, the North Riding Regiment, arrived in Ceylozj with General Doyle in December, 1796
Five companies had been at the capture of Seriagapatam, and came to Ceylon from Trichinopoly. They appear to have
landed at Tnncomalee, but this may have been the other half of the regiment.
I have only come across one other reference to the death of Captain Kennedy, and that is in the following Oazette
notice :— " Lieutenant Alexander Lawrence from the 77th Foot to be Captain-Lieutenant (19th Foot), vice Thos. A
Kennedy, deceased, 17th April, 1800." He was gazetted Lieutenant (19th Foot), July 31, 1793 ; Captain-Lieutenant,
September 1, 1795. He served in the campaign in Germany, 1794-96.
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Colombo — contd.
1492.-^une, 1800— Charles Moreau.
The Chevalier Chables Moreat: of the Regiment de
Meuron, A.D.C. to General Charles de Meuron.
., . .]^® entered the regiment August 25. 1796, " et suivant I'etat nominatif depose a la bibliotheque de Neuchatel
U alait nautrage et pen (sic) a Colombo, Juin, 1800." (Musie Neuchatelois, Jan.-Fev., 1907.) He is mentioned by
Cordmer (vol. IL, p. 291) as having made a drawing of the ford between Sitawaka and Avisawella, which shows that
he accompamed General Macdowal's embassy to Kandy in March-May, 1800, doubtless as a guest of the General's, and
so got back to Colombo on May 7, only a month or so before he was drowned.
The Swiss Regiment de Meuron for a long time had composed part of the Dutch Garrison of Colombo, but,
" upon the term of its agreement having expired a few months before General Stuart was sent against Ceylon, had
transferred its services to our Government." (Percival, p. 92.) It was formed May 28, 1781. During the investment
of Colombo by the British news was received that it had been ceded to the Bast India Company, but this was not
believed for some time by its officers. It took part in the siege of Seringapatam, and left India in 1806. (See " List
of Madras Inscriptions," by J. J. Cotton, M.C.S., pp. 383-85.)
I
1493 .^January 17, 1803- John Kerr.
Lieut. John Kerb, 19th Regiment.
He joined the 77th Foot as Ensign, February 9, 1792 ,• Lieutenant, 19th Foot, November 18, 1795; Adjutant,
January 18, 1800.
1494.— February, 1803— Gavin Hanulton.
Gavin Hamilton, Esqr., Agent of Revenue &
Commerce for the District of Colombo, & Civil &
Military Paymaster-General.
Thea:e is no announcement of his death in the Gazette, but Alexander Wood was appointed to succeed him on
February 23. In January he had volunteered to accompany the troops in the field, and his services were accepted by
the Governor, and he was thanked for " the zeal and activity which he had already shown upo'i this occasion." He
was appointed to pay the public coolies and bullock drivers attached to the army {Qazette of January 31, 1803), which
left Colombo for Kandy on that day. His death must have occurred before February 11, on which day the army
reached Dambadeniya, where it had to halt four days " owing to the deficiency of supplies, chiefly attributed to the
death of Mr. Hamilton, Collector of the Province of Colombo." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 175.) We learn from the Gazette
that his house was situated ' ' near the sea, above the Mutwal Road, and adjoining to the Government Gardens of Tankey
Salgado." It was formerly occupied by Mr. Joseph Greenhill, a Madras civilian, who was acting Superintendent of
■Revenue at Colombo in succession to Mr. Robert Andrews in 1798 and Collector in 1799. It was used by Hamilton
as a cutcheri as well as a dwelhng-house, and had " a large Mandoe used as stables " on the premises. He had an
office in " Beer street " (Beira street) as well. [Gazette of April 27, 1803.
Hamilton had accompanied Governor North to the Island, and on arrival became Private Secretary to Hugh
Cleghom, Chief Secretary. He was borne on the establishment as Principal Clerk of the Military Department with a
salary of £250 a year. He was Private Secretary to Governor North at Arrippu in September, 1799, was appointed Acting
Civil Paymaster, April 25, 1799. He seems to have been an officer of more experience than the rest of the civilians
who arrived with, or shortly after Governor North's arrival. He had been appointed by the Paymaster-General their
deputy in Ceylon with a salary of £1 ,000, which was ' ' not to preclude him from some small situation in the Civil Service,,
by which his income may be made up to £1,500." (Despatch of Hon. H. Dundas, Secretary of State, to Governor North.)
The " situation " that he first received was that of Head Assistant to the Commercial Resident (Joseph Greenhill), and
he succeeded him as Agent of Revenue and Commerce for the District of Colombo, hence it would be his business to
see to the supphes of the troops.
In 1800 he accompanied Governor North as far as Morotto (Moratuwa) on his tour round the Island. The
Rev. James Cordiner was of the party. (See Cordiner, vol. I. , pp. 167-69.) He was a subscriber of £20 to the fund for
the benefit of the famiUes of the soldiers and sailors fallen in Egypt, June 9, 1802. David Blair, C.C.S., was his sole
executor (heritor) : James Sutherland, C.C.S., was executor of Blair, and John Rose, agent of Sutherland in 1826.
1495.— March 20, 1803— Patrick CTampbell.
Lieut. Patrick -Campbell of the 51st Regt.
He was appointed Assistant Commissary of Grain and Provisions on January 6, 1803, " to do duty as such in
Kandi, Lieut. Ormsby, 51st Regt., to act tiU he joins," but he never got to Kandy, and Lieut. Ormsby who took
his place fell -in the massacre at Watapoluwa. On the outbreak of the war he was stationed with Ensign Parker at
Katadeniya (Kotadeniyawa, on the bank of the Maha-oya in Hapitigam korale).
" On February 6 the army arrived here and remained four days, during which time they built ' a neat redoubt.'
The command of it was given to Lieut. Patrick Campbell, and it was named Fort Frederic in honor of Governor North.
Lieut. Campbell remained behind to superintend the forwarding of stores to the next depot. He had a garrison of 100
Sepoys and twelve Europeans, with an assistant surgeon in charge of the hospital. The place was very unhealthy, it
' gave proofs soon afterwards of a most pestilential air which seemed to increase with the advance of the season,' and
among many others Lieut. Campbell fell a victim.
" On March 11th he arrived at Colombo sick, and on 20th he died." (Cordiner, vol. IL, pp. 170, 192.)
His estate, value 200 rix-doUars, was being administered in 1806.
1496.— April 7, 1803— Sylvester Gordon;
" Slvestbb Gordon, Esqre., First Assistant to the
Agent. of Revenue and Commerce of Colombo."
He died at Colombo. His estate, value 280 rix-dollars, was being administered in 1806. He came' out with
Governor North, one of " the three boys of thirteen," as a " oop3nst," on £100 a year. He was appointed Assistant in
the Chief Secretary's Office in June, 1800, and he was one of the " party of gentlemen " who attended the Governor on
that tour round the Island which began on June 21, 1800. (Cordiner, vol. I., p. 167.) He was subscriber of £6 to
the Egyptian fund.
3 B 82-09
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Colombo — contd.
U97.— April 27, 1803— Abbon de Valliere.
" Lieut. DB VAiLiBEE, of H. M. Regiment of Ceylon
Native Infantry." {Gazette, April 27 , 1803.)
In the expedition against Kandy in 1803 Lieutenant de VaUiere was left on February 10 in charge of the
post near Malgamuwa, in the Seven Korales, with 100 Sepoys. " A breastwork was raised and a plan laid down for
his defence. He received a supply of entrenching tools and other necessaries, so that he could make a firm stand in
case of being attacked, and if a retreat should be necessary he could acbomplish it with little loss and cross the river in
a few minutes." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 173.)
In April, after the return of the troops from Kandy, " the deaths of both officers and men occurred so frequently
that Colombo wore an aspect of great gloom and melancholy, every street contained some persons sick of the jungle
fever ; and the funeral processions marched through the fort in silence , to conceal from those in confinement the mournful
fate of their companions." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 199.) An Abbon de Valliere was married at Jafina in 1844 to a Miss
Kreltzheim. Probate of Lieutenant De Valliere's estate was issued to Dr. Joseph Sansoni in June, 1803,
1498.— May 7, 1803— Alexander Moore.
■' Lieut. Alexander Moore of His Majesty's 51st
Regt." (Gazette, May 11, 1803.)
His estate, value 293 rix-doUars, was being administered.
1499.— May 15, 1803— Richard Bourne.
"At Colombo on Sunday morning last Richard
BoDR,NE, Esqr., 1st Assistant to the Agent of
Revenue and Commerce at Colombo." (Gazette,
May 18, 1803.)
His estate, value 1,731 rix-doUars, was being administered in 1806 and still in 1813. He subscribes £5 to the
Egyptian fund. Moneys belonging to his estate were still in deposit at the Treasury in 1826.
1500. — June 14, 1803 — Beauvoir Dobree.
" On Tuesday night, the 14th inst., Beauvoir
DoBEEE, Esqr., Secretary to the Commissioner
Extraordinary of the Province of the Seven
Korles." (Gazette, June 15, 1803.)
' ' Joseph Jonville , Esqr. , was appointed Commissioner Extraordinary and Mr. Beauvoir Dobree was named
his Secretary on the 18th of May. They immediately repaired to their stations. The latter died of the endemial fever
on the 14th of the following month, and the former menaced by hostile assemblies of the Candians, made good
his retreat to Colombo." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 203.)
It would appear likely, therefore, that Dobree is buried at Dambadeniya. He was a Lieutenant in the Colombo
Militia, which was embodied on March 8, 1803, owing to the absence of the troops, which were taking part in the opera-
tions against Kandy. Jonville, " a very learned naturalist," went out with North to Ceylon, as " cultivation of plants
is a source of revenue." (Wellesley MS., North to Dundas, January 16, ITQS, Ceylon Literary Begister, -vol.11., -p. 223.)
He was " Clerk for Natural History and Agriculture." The Governor had a small private garden at Peliyagoda, near
Colombo, which was in Jonville's charge (Jonville calls it " Ortafoula," a name I cannot explain), but he disapproved
of the site, and he was appointed Surveyor-General, and then, in addition. Superintendent of the Cinnamon Plantations
in May, 1801. He had accompanied Macdowal's embassy to Kandy in 1800, which was perhaps the reason why he was
appointed on May 1, 1803, " Commissioner Extraordinary of Government in the Province of Seven Korles." After this
appointment proved abortive, he resumed his work as at the Ciimamon Plantations, but he cannot have continued at it
for long, as the records have nothing more to say of him. We know that he had a house in the Pettah, and that his
English was imperfect , for in a letter written as Surveyor-General on November 1 8 , 1 800 , he remarks : ' ' Mr. Hassing being
not come in Jaffnapatnam on account of sickness or business." (See "Ceylon Manual," 1909, and Cordiner.) Dobree
was a subscriber of £5 to the Egs^ptian fund.
1501.— July 31, 1803— Johan Baptist Houlin.
" De Lieutenant van de Artillerie Hottline." (Wol-
vendaal Register.)
His name appears in De La Thombe's Account of the Attack and Defence of Colombo, Journal, R. A.S., C.B.,
vol. X., p. 381, where it is stated that he was put into the main guard by the Dutch Governor with two other artillery
officers for having fired without the Governor's orders on an English frigate which had approached the Dutch vessels in
harbour on February 11, 1796. He married in 1790 Johanna Elizabeth Oppenheimer daughter of Johannes Casperus
Oppenheimer of Groswinterheim. Her sister, Anna Elizabeth, married in 1798 David Keith, Sergeant-Major, who in
1812 was a Conductor of Pioneers, and was on September 1, 1812, appointed " Ensign with Colonial rank." Houlin's
estate was being administered in 1824.
1502.— October 10, 1803— Maria Elizabeth de Neep.
De Huus vrouw van de Heer Kaptain Dobbbrich
Dolberg.
She married Captain Solomon Dobberich of Marienburg, March 13, 1798, andhad a daughter (Maria Charlotta),
October 4, 1803. Evidently her death was due to childbirth. At the beginning of the investment of Colombo by the
British forces in 1796, two battalions of Malays were formed for its defence, and the command of one of them was given
to " Captain d'Obrick." (Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. X., p. 375.)
This officer's name is spelt elsewhere " Dobrig " (loc. ci*., p. 389).
1503.— November 11, 1803— Richard King.
" At Colombo Richard Kestg, Esq., Registrar of the
Vice-Admiralty Court on the Island of Ceylon."
(Gazette, November 16, 1803.)
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Colombo — contd.
1504.— 1803— John Winn.
Lieut. Winn.
What his regiment was I have not been able to ascertain. His name does not occur in lists of the officers of the
19th and 51st Regiments in 1803.
1505.— April 30, 1804r-Dominick O'Donnell.
Lieutenant O'Donnell, 51st Regt.
" Lieut. O'Donnell had accompanied Captn. Buchan's detachment to the relief of Chilaw via Hanwella and
Attanagala, at the end of August, 1803." (Cordiner, vol. II., pp. 230, 237.) It passed through the Alutkuru,
Hapitigam, and Hina Korales.
1506. — May 23, 1804 — Wilhelmina Johanna van Vlissengen.
Widow of the Dutch Governor of Coromandel.
^ She was a daughter of Joan Schreuder, Governor of Ceylon. She was second wife of Regnier van Vlissengen , and
waswidowof Dirk van derSluys when she married him on April 29, 1769. He had previously married, on July 7, 1761,
Johanna Catherina Polsdorp of Batavia, widow of Jen van Onkelar. He was a native of Leeuwarden. Haafner,
commenting on the practice of the Dutch Company of promoting persons of obscure origin to positions of authority in
its service, relates a story of " Mr. Van Vlissengen, Governor of Nagapatnam, who one day made his coachman descend
from the seat of his carriage in front of the Council Chamber and presented him, still dressed in his livery, to the officers
of the garrison as a lieutenant." (" Accovmt of Ceylon," quoted in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. V., p. 108.)
1507.— October 3, 1804^— Thomas Rawleigh J'ans.
At Colombo Captain J'ans, Royal Engineers.
He came out in the H. E. I. C. ship Windham, arriving at Galle, June 5, 1803. She was driven out to sea on the
6th, after fruitlessly endeavouring to regain the roads, and was forced to anchor at Tangalle, where part of the troops
were landed, but " on account of the difficulty and inconvenience of transporting troops to Colombo at this Season of
the year when the Roads are covered with water and many of the Bridges carried away," they were re-embarked on the
11th, and the Windham proceeded to Trincomalee. The Windham on this occasion brought the first drafts of the R.E.
and R.A. to Ceylon. She had left Portland Roads on February 20. He was appointed to the charge of the Royal
Engineers at Colombo, June 26, 1803, taking over from Captain Cotgrave, and a member of the Military Board, July 5,
1803.
Urquhart's " Obituary " contains a notice of the death of this officer (vol. I., p. 97), and he was probably buried
in the new GaUe Face Cemetery, as there is no burial entry in the Wolvendaal Register. His estate, value 1,027 rix-
dollBirs, was being administered by the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Colombo in 1806-13.
1508.— October 17, 1804^Thomas Robert Supple.
He was a schoolmaster. His estate was being administered 1813-26.
1509. — January 8, 1805 — Frangois Louis Anselmn.
Lieut. Anselmn, of the Wurtemburg Regt.
Lost in the Government brig Alexander off Colombo ; body washed ashore at Colpetty. His estate, ^'alue 960
rix-doUars, was being administered in 1806.
1510.— March 29, 1805— William E. White.
"At Colombo Lieut. White of the 51st Foot,
from a fall from his horse."
Ensign, 1802. Lieutenant White marched from Colombo to the relief of Chilaw with 20 men en the night
of August 21,' 1803, and helped in succouring the garrison on 30th and 31st, and " in dispersing the Candians and in
destroying their batteries. " (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 230.)
1511.— May 20, 1805— Thomas Farrell.
" On Monday, the 20th instant, a most horrible murder was conamitted on the Person of Thomas Farrell, Esq. , of
the Civil Service and Sitting Magistrate of Colombo. That gentleman was sittiag in the upper Verandah of his house in
the Pettah which overlooks the Churchyard at about ten O'clock in the evening, when a gun fired from the Churchyard
lodged two Slugs in his Body, of which he almost instantly .expired. There was no person in the Street, and the night
was extremely dark, but there was a light in the Verandah which enabled the assassin to take his aim. A Dutch gentle-
man who was sitting in the Verandah of his House near Mr. Farrell's saw the flash and heard the Report of the Gun, and
thought that he heard an Exclamation in Mr. Farrell's Voice. He immediately ran to Mr. Farrell's, and found him
stretehed on the Floor near a Doorway leading from the Verandah into his Room, and totally senseless. Mr. Reynolds,
Surgeon of His Majesty's Ceylon Native Infantry, who had left Mr. Farrell's house not many minutes before, was
immediately called back, but found him without Life. On examining the Body, he discovered two wounds, one under
his left Scapula, the other on the left side of the Abdomen, from the former a large slug was extracted, but that which
caused the other could not be foimd. The Governor and several Magistrates repaired to the House of the deceased to
take the necessary informations; no traces of the murderer have yet been found, but a Reward of Five Thousand Rix-
dollars was published yesterday by Government to be paid on conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators" of this
atrocious deed, which it is hoped wni lead to a discovery." («a2e«6. May 22, 1805.) _ . _^ _ ,. ^^ ^ ^
The assassin was never brought to justice, but there is no doubt, from certam entries m D Oyly s diary, that he
wasa Dutchman and that he escaped to Kandy, where, in the beginning of 1812, he was engaged in helping to transmit a
letter from Maior Davie to Colombo. D'Oyly, in his diary of February 12, refers to " the Dutchman who shot the
Fiscal at Colombo " as having been detected twelve days before in such an attempt, with the result that by February 7
this Dutchman had been executed at Ampitiya, so that the death of Farrell did not go unavenged. It should be noted
that under the Dutch regime the Magistrate was called the "Fiscal," as he is to the present day by the people of the
Matara District where I have often heard the District Judge spoken of as the "Maha Fiscal" and the Magistrate as
the " Fiscal " The Wolvendaal Register shows that " de Engelsch Fiscaal Farrell " was buried in the Pettah burial
ground.
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Colombo — contd.
1511.— May 20, 1805— Thomas FarTell— contd.
From Cordiner it appears that Thomas Farrell was " one of the Magistrates or Judges of the Fiscal's Court,
Colombo," in 1800, when he accompanied Governor North on his tour round the Island. (Vol. I., p. 167.) He was
Sitting Magistrate and Junior Judge of the Provincial Court, Jaffna and Mannar, as well as Registrar of Lands in 1803-5.
and afterwards Sitting Magistrate and President of the Court of Justices of the Peace, Colombo (appointed to the latter
office February 27, 1805). A " Lieut. Thomas FarreU," of the 2nd BattaUon 6th Regiment of Native Infantry, applied
for " leave from Civil duties to be along with his Corps " in April, 1801.
1 Whether the Magistrate was related to Janies Agnew Farrell, who was in the Ceylon Civil Sei^ce from 1809 to
1 820, I have not discovered. His estate, value 24,742 rix-doUars, was being administered by the Colombo Courts from
1806 to 1826, when the balance left was paid to his representatives in England. All that was then left of it was
£11. 5s. 5d. That no memorial was apparently erected to his memory would seem to indicate that he left no relatives in
the Island. He was a subscriber of £5. 6s. 8d. to the Egyptian fund.
The house where he was shot is numbered 115, Main street, Pettah. The Surgeon Reynolds referred to wap
Michael Nugent Reynolds, Assistant Surgeon, 51st Regiment, appointed Surgeon, Malay Regiment, March 17, 1804.
He married Henrietta Justina, eldest daughter of Diederioh Thomas Fretz, Commandeur of Galle, whose first husband
was Lieutenant-Colonel John MacDonald. •
1512.— June 13, 1805 — Reynaldus Hendriksz.
"At Colombo on Thursday, 13th inst., Mr. Reykaldtjs
Hendriksz, late Titular Captain and Old Engineer
in the Dutch Bast India Company's Service. Aged
73 Years." (Gazette, June 26, 1805.) ■
1513.— August 23, 1805 — George Baynham.
Captn. Baynham, Ceylon Regt. , " de Bngelsch Captain
Baynham." (Wolvendaal register.)
Date of burial, August 25. " Captain -Lieutenant G. Baynham frcm^half pay 4th Foot to be Captain in the
Ceylon Regiment (Ramsay's)," April 26, 1803. (General Order, March 16, 1804.)
1514.— November 14, 1805 — Cooper.
At Colombo, Lieutenant Coopee, R.N.
1515.— February 9, 1806— Edward Crofton.
Captain Ceoeton, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted from the 73rd Regiment a Captain in Champagne's Regiment, vice Morris, August 24, 1804.
His estate was being administered at Colombo, 1813-32. Moneys belonging to it were in the Treasury in 1831. '
1516.— March, 1806— De Mackena.
Baeon de Mackena, Captain in the Dutch Service.
1517. — ^May 5, 1806 — Charles Antoine Douglas.
Captn. DoTTGLAS, 5l8t Regt., " den Engelsch Officer
DoEGLAS." (Wolvendaal register.)
" Lieut. Douglas was gazetted from the 10th Foot into Ramsay's Regiment as from 3rd December, 1803 (G. O.,
Jiily 30, 1804), and from this Regiment as Captain into the 51st. Captain, 25th April, 1806, exchanging with Captain
Forbes J. McDonnell." (Gazette, May 7, 1806.)
He was Fort Adjutant of Jaffna When an Ensign till May, 1804, when he proceeded to Europe on sick leave, and
was succeeded by Lieutenant F. Gordon , R. A. , June 1,1804. His estate , value 95 rix-doUars , was being administered in
May, 1806.
The 51st Regiment, then the 2nd Yorkshire (West Riding) Regiment, was in Ceylon from 1801 to 1807. It
arrived from Madras in February-March, 1801, 500 strong, and marched to Galle, February 5, 1807, to embark for
England. It lost in Ceylon the following officers : Captains Napper and Douglas ; Lieutenants Ormsby, Patrick
Campbell, Peter Campbell, Stainer, A. Moore, O'Donnell, White, Chamley, Kirby ; Surgeon Reeder ; Assistant
Surgeon Moffat.
1518.— September 2, 1806— William Kirby.
Lieut. KiEBY, Ceylon Regiment " De Engelsch
Luytenant Kirbie." . (Wolvendaal, September 2,
1806.)
W. Kirby from 51st Foot was Ensign, Ceylon Native Infantry, in August, 1803 ; Acting Ensign in the Colombo
Pioneer Corps, January 20, 1804 ; and Lieutenant, Ceylon Regiment, March 3, 1804.
1519.— November 19, 1806— Gerrit Mess.
Den Lieutenant Geeeit Mess. (Wolvendaal register.) •
1520.— November 24, 1806— Oetavius Reynolds.
At Colombo, Captain Reynolds, 3rd Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted Captain in BaiUie's Regiment from the 52nd Foot, September 5, 1805.
The burial is entered in the Wolvendaal register " den Engelsch Captain Renols."
1521.— March 13, 1807— Christoph August Nett.
" den Capitaine Militaire Nett."
He belonged to Querford, and was an Ensign in 1769 and a Sergeant-Major in 1772. He was Captain in charge
of the Armoury at the time of the surrender of Colombo on February 16, 1796. (Journal, R.A.S., C.B. vol X
p. 391.) ' ' "
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Colombo — contd.
1522.— June 16, 1807— Laughton.
Lieut. Lattghton "den Engelsch Captain Lotten."
Lieut. Laughton, Ceylon Regt.
See Cordiner, vol. II. , p. 260, where " Lieut. Laughton " is included m a list of officers deceased. But if this refers
•exclusively to the period during which Cordiner was in Ceylon, it must be another Lieutenant Laughton.
1523.— October 16, 1807— W. Conradi.
" At Colombo, after a very Painful sickness during 2
Months which he very patiently referred (sic) Mr.
W. Conradi, the second son of Mr. J. P. Conradi,
with the age 32 years." (Gazette.)
The Dutch origin of this notice is manifest, fero = to bear, hence referred = bore.
No other references.
1524.— December 2, 1807— Remmell.
Den Engelsch Cadet genaamt Remmell.
1525.— March 8, 1808— George Nicholas Hardinge.
Captain HASDiiirGE, R.N.
He was killed in action while in command of the San Fiorenzo, which was engaged with the French frigato-
Im Piedmontaise in the Gulf of Mannar on March 6 to 8. He was buried at Colombo with full military honours, and we
learn from Captain Anderson (" The Wanderer in Ceylon") that he was buried in the Pettah Cemetery, but there is
nothing to mark his grave, though there are monviments to him in St. Paul's Cathedral and in St. Thomas's Cathedral,
Bombay. The epitaph on the latter monument is as f oUows : —
In youth mature, in valour tried,
But modest though a Nation's pride ;
At Glory's call to danger led.
The hero fought, the victor bled ;
Fame weeping heard the gallant prayer,
A patriot's death in arms to share.
Her fond regret is cherished here.
And virtue consecrates the tear.
Postera laude recens.
" This monument is erected here by the public spirit of Bombay to consecrate the memory of Captain George
Nicholas Hardinge, R.N. Aniinated by the example of his great master Nelson, he acquired an early fame and died
a hero's death. Commanding the San Fiorenzo of 36 guns and 186 men, he chased and brought into action upon three
successive days the enemy's Frigate Im Piedmontaise, who had 50 guns and 566 men, bore a high character, and was
the terror of the Indian Seas, Nobly supported by his First Lieutenant, William Dawson, by his other officers, and by
his crew, he achieved a most brilliant conquest, but fell with glory in the last and critical portion of his heroic enterprise,
upon the 8th March, 1808, and in the 28th year of his age. His ardent perseverance and skQl in these actions were so extra-
ordinary, that by unanimous vote of the House of Commons there was raised a m.onument in St. Paul's Cathedral for
a perpetual record of honour to his name and character. Thus it is that Great Britain by herself and by her colonies
marks her tribute of national recompense, gratitude, and affection to heroes who devote and sacrifice Ufe itself upon the
altar of Patriotic Valour. These are tributes that will animate the courage and zeal of her champions to the latest
posterity."
He was Idlled by a grape-shot on the third dayof the flght, after the action had lasted one hour and twenty minutes
and just before La Piedmontaise hauled down her colours. The San Fiorenzo had 13 killed, and Lieut. Moyseyand 25
men wounded, wbUe the Frenchman had 48 killed and 112 wounded. " The frigate was towed a perfect wreck into
Colombo on March 13th." (Gazette, March 16.) She was afterwards in the British service. The French Commander
was Captain Eperon.
Captain Hardinge was the second son of the Rev. Henry Hardinge, Rector of Stanhope, Dvu-ham, and he was a
younger brother of Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge, Governor-General of India. He had distinguished himself in many
naval actions, and is described as " a brave and chivalric young officer."
1526.— May 6, 1808— Charles Reilly.
" Den Engelisch Captn. Rielie."
His estate was being administered in 1813-15, but I have been unable to find any other references to him or
even to what regiment he belonged. Possibly Captain ReiUy was the Captain C. O'Reilly who was Commandant at
Matara ia 1796 and at Jaffna from January to June, 1797, who signs himself " Captam-Lieutenant " in February,
1797. (See Cotton, p. 221J He commanded the Malay Corps on its march from Mannar to Jafina in November. 1796.
1527.— August 6, 1808— Charles Pearce (or Pierce).
" Captain Peaece of the 19th Regiment and Brigade
Major to ye troops." (St. Peter's.)
The name is spelt Pierce in the Gazette. He was appointed Brigade Major, vice Captain Hankey, August 19, 1807.
He was at Kandy with the 19th ha the war of 1803, and left Kandy for Fort Macdowal at Matale on April 16
with 55 rank and file of the 19th under the command of Captain Madge, but returned to Kandy, as he was there on
Mav 31 ill and also on June 10, still ill and " ia great danger," but he recovered and returned to Fort Macdowal.
(See letters from Quartermaster Brown and Lieut. Ormsby in. Captain Anderson's " Poems Chiefly Written in India.")
Fort Macdowal bad been ui a state of siege from June 25 to June 27, when Corporal Bamsley arrived, and before the
-officers of the garrison made a formal deposition of the surrender of Kandy. Captam Pearce was in the retreat from
Fort Macdowal to Trincomalee, which was begun on June 27. Of the 55 men who garrisoned Fort Macdowal from
Kandv 19 were left behind sick and were massacred there, 13 reached Trincomalee on July 3, the remainder must
ha™ difid fvf disease (See Marshall, pp. 104-6, 110 ; Captam Johnston's Narrative, p. 31.) He joined the 35th Foot
asEnst^,Aprnu!'l795; Captain 86th Foot. May 22, 1800; 19th Foot, April 24, 1801.
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Colombo — contd.
1528.— September 13, 1808— James Hollowell.
Lieut. James Hollowell, 2nd Ceylon Eegt., 2nd
Lieut. BailUe's Regt. (3rd Ceylon), 13th Augt., 1805.
Lieutenant Hollowell belonged to Wexford. He had a son, James HoUowell, who was also in the 2nd Ceylon
Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant 1811-17, and Commandant at ChUaw in 1818, and a brother (?) Lieutenant WiUiam
Hollowell, 3rd Ceylon Regiment. Lieutenant James Hollowell, junior, married at Galle, in 1811, Catherina Adriana
Fybrandsz, who was bom in 1787 and died December 13, 1858, at Jaffna. Their daughter, Amelia, married James
Thomas Anderson, junior, son of James Thomas Anderson of Jaffna.
1529.— October 16, 1808— James Dunkin.
James Dunkin, Esqre., Advocate Fiscal. (St. Peter's register.)
Also in Wolvendaal register, " den Engelsch Advocate Fiskaal den Heer Donkien in het binne kerkhof."
In September, 1799, Mr. James Dunkin, who had " practised for a considerable time at the bar at Dublin and at
Calcutta," and whom Governor North describes as " well versed both in the Civil and Criminal Law," was appointed
to " act as a Judge of the Court of Criminal Law," with a salary of 400 pagodas per mensem. He is referred to by
Cordiner (vol. I. , p. 187) as being " one of the Judges of the Supreme Court " in 1800, in which capacity he accompanied
Governor North in his tour round the Island in that year. In the same year, however, we find him Provincial Judge
of GaUe, and on February 19, 1801, he was appointed Advocate Fiscal of Ceylon. In July, 1802, he was at Jaffna
acting as Advocate Fiscal, possibly on circuit with the Supreme Court. But on March 24, 1803, he was again at Jaffna,
and wanted " to lease the ground in Wannarponne, formerly the dwelling place of the Dutch Company's slaves."
("Jaffna Diary.") On June 29, 1803, he was appointed " Sitting Magistrate for the Town, Fort, and District of
Jaffnapatam"; in 1806 he was Provincial Judge at Jaffna ; on April 2, 1806, he was appointed Advocate Fiscal again.
He submitted to Government, onFebruary 19, 1801, a "Criminal Code for the Island of Ceylon." Governor North says
of him (July 30, 1800): " Old Judge Dunkin is 70 years of age, equitable, indefatigable, humane, and learned." He was
78, therefore, at the time of his death. There was a Major Dunkin of the 51st Regiment at Sitawaka in March, 1805.
He was commanding the regiment in March, 1806. James Dunkin subscribed £25 to the Egyptian fund.
1530. — ^December 17, 1808 — Johan Frederic Conradi.
"Den Weledele Heer Johan Frederic Coneadi." (Wolvendaal register.)
" He had been in the Dutch East India Company's Service, and set up as an Auctioneer in Colombo during the
first years of the British Rule. He died at the age of 59, and left a widow and eleven children." (Gazette.)
His eldest daughter, Carolina Dorothea, born 1779, married, 1794, George Louis Bemhard of Montebeliard, Colonel
in Regiment Meuron. (Their daughter, Juliana, married at Galle Captain John Pike of the 73rd in 1820.) The third
daughter, Theodora WUhelmina, bom 1788, married in 1 804 Lieutenant Peter SraeUie, 51st Regiment. Another, Carolina
Augusta, married, July 22, 1808, Francis Dickson, commanding the hiig Ariel, afterwards Master Attendant of Colombo.
A fourth daughter, Eliza, married Lieutenant Thomas Henry Green of the 1st Ceylon, January 24, 1816; the second
daughter, Everardina Petronella, bom 1786, married Captain Parker, 2nd Ceylon, 1820, at Galle ; the sixth and youngest,
Johanna, married at St. Peter's, Colombo, August 30, 1828, Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Roddy, Ceylon Regiment.
Johan Frederic came from Kirokheim, and was probably a son of Carl Christian Conradi, Secretary of the Prince
of Nassau in 1779, by Anna Margaretta Dorrhee. (See Nos. 101, 130, 163, 379, 573.)
1531.— April 19, 1809— Herbert Beaver.
Major Herbert Beaver, 19th Regt.
Major Beaver received a public funeral. A general order was issued by the Commander-in-Chief directing minute
guns to be fired at the time of his funeral equal to the number of his years, " this last though unusual testimony to his
merits " and his death was referred to " as severe a loss as the society of this small settlement has perhaps ever
eustained." " He had embarked with his Regiment from Travancore at the commencement of the late Disturbances in
that quarter, and returned a few days since in the Piedmontaise with a complaint that left no hopes of his recovery,
and which terminated his existence this morning at 2 o'clock." (G. O. of April 4, 1809.) He left a widow and three
children in England.
The funeral was attended by the Governor, the Military and Civil Services, the Drum, and Fife of the 89th (recently
arrived) , and the band of the 3rd Ceylon. The Military were under the command of Major McBean, the senior Major in
the garrison (see No. 590) . The firing party consisted of the European Grenadiers and Light Infantryingarrison. H. M. S.
Piedmontoi.se had arrived at Colombo on April 14, bringing Major Beaver and Captain Bates, R.A. For an account of
the doings of Major Beaver in Ceylon see Cordiner, vol. XL, pp. 194-95. One of these was the capture of the Kandyan
redoubt at Mugurugampola, close to where the Mirigama railway station now stands, on March 19 in that year. He trans-
ferred from the 51st to the 19th Regiment in 1802, and in November was Commandant at Negombo. He was Com-
mandant at Matara from August 19, 1803. He had been commanding a detachment of the 65th Regiment at Attagala
in April, 1803. In September he was at " Catoone " (Katvma) in the Matara District, and marched from there to Ham-
bantota, arriving at the latter place on October 6. So far we are taken by Cordiner. The Gazettes show that in 1804 dis-
turbances broke out again, and on September 28 Major Beaver captured Batugedera ' ' by discharge of eight Cohoms and:
a ceneral charge of the troops led by Captain Pollock," and then took his forces by two different routes to Denewaka
after a most difficult march over high hUls, and reached Denewaka at 1 p.m. on September 29 with only one casualty,
a man of the R.A. badly woimded, the First Adigar with his men fleeing before him. One chief and seven other prisoners
were taken and Denewaka destroyed. Major Beaver " proceeded southwards and laid waste that fertile tract of country,
aboundiag in villages and granaries, and extending from Bategedera to Catoone, which he reached on Oct. 15th." The
troops were 13 hours coming 6 miles one day. They joined the party under Lieutenant-Colonel Maddison, of the
65th, Commandant of Galle, a short distance from Catoone. In 1805 he was Acting A.D.C. to Governor Sir Thomas.
Maitland.*
1532.— April 29, 1809— William Hilliard.
Major Hilliard, 89th Regt. (St. Peter's register.)
Also in Wolvendaal register, " den E. Majoor William HiUieaar " (April 30 in both). The S9th arrived at
Colombo, April 14, 1809, by H. M. S. La Piedmontaise, under the command of Major Hilliard. He died little more than
a fortnight after landing. His widow. Eliza Harding, married Mr. George Laughton, Master Attendant, Colombo, May
28, 1810. (See Nos. 303, 579.)
* Major Beaver was born February 24, 1764, son of Rev. Janjes Beaver of Lewknor, Oxfordshire, and was gazetted to
the 48th Foot, March 31, 1783 ; Lieutenant, October 13, 1790 ; 19th Foot, January 16, 1792 ; Captain, December 2, 1794 ;
Major, September 3, 1803. He served in the campaign in Holland, 1794-95, as A.D.C. to Brigadier-General Coates. There is a
memorial tablet to him in Childry Chtiroh, Berks.
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Colombo — contd.
1533.— August 21, 1809— John Wilson.
Major John Wilson, H. M. 12th Regt.
. Also in Wolvendaal register, "Deputy Barrack Master-General on Ceylon" (name as often as not spelt "WiUson,"
«,s It IS in this Gazette). The offices of Deputy Quartermaster-General and Deputy Barraclonaster-General were
amalgamated on his death. This officer is not to be confounded with Lieutenant-Colonel John WUson, who arrived with
bir ihomas Maitland. Each of them was Deputy Quartermaster-General. Major John Wilson belonged to the 12th
J^oot and was i own Major of Colombo (or Brigade Major) in 1802. When the troops set out from Colombo on the
expedition to Kandy m 1803 , they encamped the first two nights on the bank of the Kelani at Pass Betal, and on February
12 were inspected by the Governor. That evening the Governor, General Macdowal, and the greater part of the
officers dmed m the cocoa-nut club bungalow, situate on an eminence on the banks of the river about three furlongs
from the encampment. The entertainment was given by the Town Major, John WUson, who on this occasion gave
a pleasing specimen of his wonted hospitality." (Cordiner, vol. II., p. 169.) He lived in a house belonging to Mr,
Hugonis s widow in " Baan Street " in the Fort.
He was a member of the Military Board at Colombo, appointed to act during the continuance of this expedition ,
January 29, 1803. He had charge of the Caffre Corps from the day of their landing in November, 1802, imtil he handed
over to Colonel BaUlie, and was in charge of the Corps of Free Malays during the absence of Captain Arthur Johnston,
who ha,d proceeded to sea for four months on his return from the first expedition to Kandy, AprU 23, 1803. He was
recruitmg officer for the Colombo Militia on the embodiment of that Corps in March, 1803. On June 6, 1803, he
was appointed Acting Commissary of Grain and Provisions during the indisposition of Captain Macpherson. He was
appointed " Barraokmaster-General on Ceylon " May, 1805, which office he held till his death. His estate was still being
administered by the court in 1813-17 ; its value was 48,596 rix-doUars.
1534.— September 19, 1809— Hamilton Magrath.
Captain Magrath, 89th Regt. (St. Peter's register.)
Also in Wolvendaal register, " den E. Capt. Magrast." There is a reference in Gazette of April, 1813, to " Mrs.
Macgrath, late of Galle, Deceased," possibly his widow. ^
1535.— February 27, 1810— Johan Wilhelmus Uhlenbeck.
"den Weledeln Manhaften Heer Johan Wilhelm
Uhlenbeck," late Captain in the Dutch East India
Co.'s Service. Aged 66 years 27 days. (Wolven-
daal register and Gazette.)
He was son of Christiaan Uhlenbeck and Anna Catherina Brembeek, was born at Velbert, 1744, served under
Frederick the Great, fled the country in consequence of a duel, entered the service of the Dutch East India Company
^s a soldier in 1768, and rose to the rank of Commandant of Galle. He married at Kalutara in 1775 Maria Wilhelmina
GUdemeester. A son of his (probably) was a cadet in the Engineer Corps in the service of the Dutch Company
at the surrender of Colombo. (Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. X., p. 391.) " The famUy of Uhlenbeck lived for many years
on the former vrygoed of the same name , which is in the immediate neighbourhood of the little town Velbert in the dukedom
•of Berg." (Translation from " Genealogy," by Professor Uhlenbeck of Leyden.) " Vrygoed " = free property.
1536.— March 15, 1810— William Hollowell.
" Lieut. Hollowell, 3rd Ceylon. (St. Peter's and
Wolvendaal registers.) Aged 45, surviving his wife
only a few months and leaving a numerous family."
{Gazette.)
"Ensign W. Hollowell from the Mannar Independent Company to be Ensign Caffre Corps," January 1, 1805.
The date given is date of death. One of the sens was probably Samuel HoHowell, who married Henrietta Frederiea
Mortier, and had three children, John Arnold, Sarah Amelia, and William Junius. Daughters of William were
probably Amelia and Sarah Hollowell, who with Lieutenant-Colonel Cosby Warburton and Mrs. Jane Warburton were
sponsors to the children of Samuel in 1829 and 1831. Mrs. William Hollowell died at Colombo on September 24, 1809.
1537.— May 22, 1810— John Lyster.
Lieutenant Lystee, 66th Regt., "den Lieutenant
Mr. Lystee." (Wolvendaal register.)
Lieutenant, May 29, 1809.
1538.— June 11, 1810— Richard Phepoe Nixon.
Lieut. R. P. Nixon, 2nd Ceylon Regt.
"Lieut Nicksen" in Wolvendaal register; "Nixon" in St. Peter's register. "2nd Lieutenant R. P. Nixon
from igthFooi, to be 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, vice Segum, resigned, August 19, 1807." Lwutenant Nixon
made a will at Galle on May 22, 1810, leaving his property of Kilmore County Cavan to his cousin James Swanzy.
His estate was bemg admmistered m 1816-17. Ho was elder son of Adam Nixon of Cre^y, Co. Down by his wife
Rose dauahter of Richard Phepoe, and had been a Comet in the 13th Light Dragoons. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut-
enant in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, August 6, 1807, and Lieutenant 19th Foot, August 7, 1807, and also Adjutant.
1539.— January 17, 1810— Arthur Saunders.
Lieut. Saunders, 19th Regt. (St. Peter's.)
He appears to have been attached to the 3rd Ceylon Reghnent. His estate was being administered in 1 81 3-26.
1540.— January 18, 1811— John Thompson.
Lieutenant Thompson, 89th Regt. (St. Peter's.)
His rank in the reghnent dates from September 4, 1806.
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Colombo — contd.
1541.-^ime 17, 1811— Robert Ball.
At Colombo, Capt. Ball, 19th Regt. [Gazette and
St. Peter's register.)
He was attached to the 3rd Ceylon. (Captain, April 8, 1804.) His estate was being administered in 1813. He-
had been an Ensign in the 1st West India Reginnent and joined the 19th Foot on October 3, 1799 ; became Lieutenant^
June 9, 1803; and rejoined the 19th, October 25, 1809.
1542. — September, 1811 — Thorns J. Hardyman.
Lieut.-Col. T. J. Hardyman, 2nd Ceylon Regt.
He was gazetted from half -pay of the 46th Regiment to the 2nd Ceylon Regiment on September 1, 1808. He
became Lieutenant-Colonel on September 25, 1803. There is no obituary notice in the Gazette, and the only reference
to the date of his death is in the list of deceased persons whose estates were being administered in 1826, where the date
of his death is given as " September, 1811."
1543.— October 14, 1811 — Johan Franken.
' ' Late Junior Merchant in the Dutch East India
Company."
1544. — December 16, 1811 — Samuel Daniell.
Samuel Daniell, Esq.
He was a proteg6 of Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor (1805-11), who appointed him Assistant to the Secretary
to the Board of Revenue and Commerce, March 19, 1806. He had arrived by H. M. S. Qreyhound at GaUe on August
14, 1805. He had lived for four years in the interior of Africa, making drawings, &c. , having gone out early in life to the
Cape of Good Hope. He was nephew of one R. A. of that name and brother of another. He died at the age of 36, (See
European Magazine of September, 1812.) He pubKshed a work called "African Scenery." His copperplates, prints,
water colours, brushes, &c., were advertised for sale at Loughlin's Auction Rooms on May 9, 1812. Coloured prints of
Ceylon drawn by him and his brother WiUiam were for sale at Colombo in November, 1812.' He is described as being
" Superintendent of the Forests " at the time of his death.
" The then eccentric Samuel Efaniell, Esq., Ranger of the Woods and Forests celebrated for his beautiful
drawings of the animals of Ceylon, was known throughout the Island by the soubriquet of 'Sam.' " (Bennett, pp. 386,
260.) Bennett tells two stories of Daniell, illustrating " the known eccentricity of that facetious gentleman." One-
relates to the manner in which he induced Sir Thomas Maitland to appoint him Ranger of Woods and Forests, an
appointment made specially for the occasion, and which was not filled up after his death ; and the other, an anecdote at
one time very current in Ceylon, of his having suggested the sending of "elephants' petit toes" pickled in strong toddy
vinegar and cayenne pepper to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State, as a delicacy.
The two R.A.'s referred to were his uncle Thomas DanieU (1749-1840), and his brother WiUiam, who died in.
1837, aged 68. Thomas was the son of an innkeeper at Chertsey. He went with his nephew William, aged 14, to India
in 1784, and they were there ten years, travelling over a large part of it, " gathering stores in a region then unvisited by
artists," of which they made good use after their return to England. They published " Oriental Scenery " in six volumes
in 1808. Thomas was elected a R.A. in 1799 and WiUiam in L822. The following remarks by Mr. Martin Hardie apply
as regards Africa and Ceylon to Samuel DanieU, as they do as regards India to Thomas and William : — " Towards the
beginning of the nineteenth century there seems to have risen a love of travel, coupled with a keen interest in foreign
countries and the manners and customs of their inhabitants But this interest was not confined to the Continent ,
for Englishmen were beginning to give their attention to India and its Government, its sport and its possibilities. The
principal promoters , by means of book and pictiu'e , of this interest in India were Edward Orme and Thomas and WiUiam
DanieU." (" Bengal Past and Present," vol. III. , pp. 308-10. ) Samuel DanieU published " A Picturesque lUustration
of the Scenery, Animals, and Native Inhabitants of the Island of^^Ceylon, in Twelve Plates Engraved after Drawings
from Nature," in London, 1808. The Edward Orme referred to published a book of " Ceylon Views " by Lieutenant
Lyttleton in 1819. There is a biography of Samuel Daniell in the " Dictionary of National Biography."
1545.— February 19, 1812— Noah Perks.
Captn. Peeks, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
" Ensign Noah Perks from the 30th Foot to be Lieutenant, Champagne's Regiment," June 6, 1805.
1546.— March 19, 1812— Edward Clarke.
Captn. Clarke, 1st Ceylon Regt., Commandant, Negombo.
Commandant, Caltura, October 1, 1811; ditto Negorabo, November, 1811, when he belonged to the 4thi
Ceylon Regiment. His widow married M. J. Smyth, C.C.S. His eldest daughter, Jemima, married W. Huxham,
and his youngest, Sophia, Charles Brownrigg, C.C.S., at Colombo, on the same day, February 2, 1824. (See No. 1565.)..
1547.— July 31, 1812— Oeke Andringa.
Captain of the Navy and Master Attendant of Colombo
in Dutch East India Co.'s Service. Aged 72.
1548.— August 24, 1812— P. W. O'BrieDi
Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
1549.— November 29, 1812— Charles von Oldenkop.
Second Lieut. Van Oldenkop, 2nd Ceylon Regt.
His estate was being administered in 1817. He joined March 29, 1810.
1550.— December 3, 1812— William R. Henderson.
Lieutenant Henderson, 1st Ceylon Regt.
Estate being administered in 1819.
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Colombo — conid.
1551. — ^December 10, 1812 — James Macdonnell.
Lieut. James Maodonald, 2nd Ceylon Regfc.
The name ia spelt "Macdonald" in both St. Peter's and Wolvendaal registers, but "Macdonnell" in Gazette
(a very common practice with regard to this name is to spell it either way). " 2nd Lieut. J. Macdonnell to be 1st
Lieut., 2nd Ceylon, Ist Augt., 1811." The Army List gives the date of his death as December 10.
1552. — January 8, 1813 — John English.
Captain John English, 66th Regiment.
He was tried by court martial in 1811 for " having used insulting language to John Downing, Esq., Customs
Master of Trineomalee," and was sentenced to six months suspension and loss of seniority. The 66th (Berkshire|
Regiment, now the 2nd Berkshire Regiment, arrived in 1804, and left finally in 1814. " After the peace of 1815 it
was disbanded, and the officers who sold out got the offer of free grants of land in Canada." {Geylon Literary Register,
vol. v., p. 419.) It lost in Ceylon Captains Enghsh and Gordon ; Lieutenants Urquhart, Lyster, Hand, N. J. Smith,
John Elsey (Adjutant) ; Assistant Surgeons Campbell and Morse.
1553. — January 13, 1813 — Alexander Johnston.
Alexander Johnston, Esqr., Sitting Magistrate of
Biagam..
He was "son of the late David Johnston, Esq., Advocate of Lathrisk in the County of Fife" ; arrived at Colombo,
September, 1801, and was appointed Assistant in the Accountant-General's Office; succeeded A. Cadwell as Deputy
Paymaster of the Eastern Division, April 15, 1803; Agent of Revenue, Magam Pattu, 1805 ; do. Trineomalee, April,
1805; handed over to J. Kerby, June 20, 1805.
1554. — January 26, 1813 — Patrick Campbell.
Assistant Surgeon of the 66th Regt.
1555.— February 26, 1813— Philip Fanning.
Lieutenant Philip Panning of the 19th Regiment.
There was an Ensign Frederick A.. Fanning in the 66th, who arrived by the WindhamoTi July 13, 1805, and was
gazetted 1st Lieutenant, BaiQie's Regiment, on October 1, 1806. He was Captain, 4th Ceylon Regiment, 1811, and
exchsinged into the 22nd Foot, May 1, 1811. There is no record of Philip Fanning in the Army Lists or elsewhere.
1556. — AprU 23, 1813 — Marie Joseph Benjamin de Breard.
" Late Lieut, in the Regt. of Meuron." (Wolvendaal register.)
He was son of Nicholas Marcetten de Breard and Marie de Gourville, and was bom at Rochefort. His daughter
Dorothea married (1) Lieutenant Giesler, (2) Johan Joachim van der Spar. (See No. 559.)
1557.— September 13, 1813— Pieter Sluysken.
" On Monday evening, the 13th instant, in the 74th
year of his age, the Hon. Peter Sluysken, Esq.,
late of the Dutch East India Company's Civil
Service, and formerly of their Factory at Surat.
His remains were accompanied to the grave by
the whole of His Majesty's Civil and Military
Servants — a token of respect which he amply
deserved, not only from the General Integrity of
his character, but from his unbounded hospitality
to the British Officers at the period of the capture
of this Colony in 1796, which is still remembered
with a melancholy pleasure by a few of the elder
residents in this Island." {Gazette.)
He had come to Colombo for the benefit of his health, and on February 13, 1796, when the Fort of Colombo
waa invested, wrote to Colonel Stuart for permission to leave the Fort with his family. This was granted, and he
" withdrew to a country house on the Grandpass road." (Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. X., p. 383.) In the Gazette of
May 13, 1813, " the house and garden of the late Mr. Sluysken, situated in the ' Greene Weg,' " are referred to.
He belonged to Amsterdam, and was Commandeur of Galle in 1788, and thereafter Gezaghebber of Surat. (See
Nos. 285 and 533.)
1558.— December 20, 1813 — James Anderson.
Dr. James Anderson, Deputy Inspector-General
of Hospitals and Head of the Medical Department
in the Island of Ceylon. (Also in Wolvendaal
register.)
He arrived and was appomted Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, July, 1811. The followLng notice appears
in the GazMe ■— " By the death of this Gentleman his friends have lost a smcerely respected member of their Society, who
wiU long and deservedly be regretted by them, and his Kmg and Country have been deprived of a zealous and honourable
officer who served duiing the last 19 years of his life with more than common Reputation m Great Britam, m Egypt,
at the'Cape of Good Hope, in Spain and Portugal, and latterly in this Island. The whole of Dr. Anderson's conduct
has been marked with the approbation, favour , and friendship of his unmediate Superiors, particularly of Ma]or-General
Lloyd long his commanding officer in the 17th Dragoons, and of thosedistinguished Generals, S^ Thomas Graham and
Sir Rowland Hill. His remains were attended to the Grave yesterday mormng by the whole of His Majesty s Civil and
MiUtary Servants at this Station." ((7a2e«e, December 22 1813.) , o, i«i9
Dr Anderson accompanied Governor Brownrigg on his visit to Galle, August 31, 1812.
Q„ ' 82-09
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Colombo — contd.
1559.— October 14, 1814r— Thomas Blake.
Quartermaster Blake, 19th Foot.
He was bom in 1775. He was appointed Quartermaster from Sergeant-Ma j or, in succession to Quartermaster
Brown, who feU at Watapulawa, April 12, 1804. He served in the Travancore campaign. His daughter, Ann, who
married a Weinman, died July 31, 1824, aged 25.
1560.— November 25, 1814^ William Kerr.
Mr. William Kerr, Superintendent of the Royal
Botanic Gardens.
"In 1813 WiUiam Kerr, a Kew gardener and collector, who had previously been in Java, Canton, and the Philip-
pines, was appointed by Sir Joseph Banks, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden at Slave Island, Colombo. (History
of Ceylon Botany, by G. S. BoulgerinTrimen's " Handbook of Ceylon Botany," vol. V.,p. 373.) The gardens occupied
7 acres of land in part of Slave Island, described by Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell as -being " all but an island m
the lake," but as this site was Uable to flooding, the estabUshment was, in 1813, moved to Kalutara, at a place called
Uggalboda, on the left bank of the river. The site in Slave Island was called Kew, and is still known by that name.
1561.— March 19, 1815— Philip de Buillon D'Auvergne.
Philip, son of the Prince de Buillon D'Auvergne.*
Date is of burial. (St. Peter's register.)
1562.— March 27, 1815— Diederich Thomas Fretz.
DiEDEBicH Thomas Fretz, Esq., late Commandeur
of Galle, in the Dutch Service, aged 71 years 5
months and 25 days.
" The remains of this very respectable gentleman were followed to the grave by the principal Civil and Military
Servants of the Government, and by an intimate ooncoiu'se of the Dutch and other inhabitants." (Gazette.) (See Nos.
573 and 581.)
1563.— April 18, 1815— Thomas (or William) Blevin.
Ensign of the Malay Invalids.
There was a William Blevin, of the Ceylon Pioneer Lascars, appointed Ensign (Colonial rank) of Malay Invalids
at Calpentyn, vice Keith, deceased, March 1, 1813.
1564.— July 21, 1815— Thomas Gerrardus Hofland.
"At Colombo, Thomas Gbbradtjs Hofland, Esqr.,
Merchant in the late Dutch E. I. Company's
Service, Principal of the Commercial Office and
Member of the Dutch Council. Aged 60 years.
•'This Gentleman in his Domestic and Social life greatly endeared himself to a wide circle of Friends, who join
with an afflicted and disconsolate Family in lamenting the loss of a most upright Gentleman and valuable Member of
their Society." (Gazette, July 26, 1815; also in Asiatic Journal.)
1565.— January 9, 1816— Simon Pearee Davies.
"At Colombo, Lieut. Davies, 2nd Ceylon Regiment,
after a raost painful and lingering illness which
he bore with the true patience of a Ciiristian."
(Gazette, January 10, 1816.)
In General Order of January 11, 1816, " The Lieutenant-General takes this opportunity of paying a tribute of
justice to the memory of Lieutenant S. P. Davis (sic) by a Publick acknowledgment of His zealous Service and of the
sincere concern he feels at the loss of so meritorious an Officer." He joined the regiment on July 25th, 1810.
1566. — February 7, 1816— Augustus Chambers.
Lieut. Chambers, 12th Regt., Native Infantry.
He was a passenger by the Honourable Company's ship Wellington from Madras to England. He was appointed
Cadet on January 3, 1806. He died " of a liver complaint." His estate was being administered in 1817.
1567.— March 3, 1816— Jacob Burnand.
"At Colombo, aged 64 years, Jacob Bitrnand,
Esq., late a Senior Merchant in the Dutch East
India Company's Service, universally regretted."
" This gentleman arrived in Ceylon in 1778 as Junior Merchant, and was shortly appointed as Chief of the
Batticaloa District, and then subsequently, on account of his superior local knowledge, to the high office of Dessauva of
Jaffnapatnam." (Gazette, May 27, 1816, and Asiatic Journal, October, 1816.)
" The late Jacobus Bernand, Esq., a Dutch gentleman, whose name is deservedly remembered at Ceylon with
respect and regard, for he was distinguished both by his zeal for the welfare of the Island through the introduction of
the culture of valuable exotics from the Malay Peninsula and the Dutch Islands of Java, Banda, and Amboyna, and by
his botanical acquirements." (Bennett, p. 218.)
In 1809 Jacob Burnand appears to have purchased a house within the Fort of Colombo from the Government
for 9,000 rix-doUars, money of Ceylon. " The house was situated in the street leading to the Main Gate, bounded on
the north by Coernede Street, east by houses of Mr. Max, and so on. The names of Mr. Smith and Mr. Mack and
Uhlenbeek appear on the deed." (Monthly Literary Register, vol. I., p. 264.)
" When the Governor and Council of Ceylon requested Sir Alexander Johnston to go to England officially in 1809
for the purpose of explaining to the late Lord Londonderry, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, the real state of
Ceylon, and the nature of the different alterations and improvements which were deemed necessary by General Maitland
(the then Governor) and himself (he being one of the Members of Council) in every Department of Government, Sir
Alexander, after making them acquainted with the objects for which he was going to England, requested all the Dutch
* Philip D'Auvergne, Prince de Buillon D'Auvergne, was an officer in the British Navy. His ship must have been calling
at Colombo when his son, probably a midshipman, died there.
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Colombo — contd.
1567.— March 3, 1816— Jacob BmmnA— contd.
and native inhabitants of the Island candidly to give him their detailed opinions upon those subjects with which they
were respectively the most conversant. In consequence of this request, Monsr. Burnand, a Swiss by birth, but one of
the oldest and most distinguished of the Dutch Civil Servants, who had been constantly employed in the most confidential
situations by the Dutch Governor Vandergraf , particularly in that of Chief of Batticaloa, and who by his great ability
and knowledge of the people had improved that Province in a very remarkable manner , gave this memoir to Sir Alexander,
in which he, Monsr. Burnand, takes a general view of the different systems of Government introduced to Ceylon by the
Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English, and enters very much into detail. "
Sir Alexander Johnston, at the request of Lord Londonderry, made a translation into English of this memoir.
Ho considered it one of the most useful documents Lord Londonderry could read upon the subject of Ceylon. The
translation is pubhshed in the Monthly Literary Register, vols. III. and IV. (1895-96). It is entitled, " Fragments of
the Ancient and Modern State of the Island of Ceylon, and its Agriculture ; on the LiabiHties to Service of its
Inhabitants ; its Revenue in General ; and some Considerations on the Establishment of the Permanent System of
Taxation, and Administration, for the Interior of the Island," a.d. 1809.
1568.— May 11, 1817— William Turville May.
Of the Ordnance Civil Department.
He " bathed in the Sea 2 miles south of the Fort on the evening of the 11th May with several others, including
Lieut. Gray, who called to him not to go in far on accoimt of sharks.
" Mr. May was an excellent swimmer, and plunging into the nearest Surf he did not rise till he was some way
beyond it. After playing about a short time he struck out into deeper water, when Lieut. Gray, who was within the
Surf and aware of the danger from sharks, called out to him not to go any further ; at that moment the swell of the
Surf hid him from Mr. Gray, but some of the party who were standing higher on the shore saw him on a sudden struggle,
and sink. He rose again directly and cried out ' A shark, a shark, no joke, no joke, upon my honour I am bit,' but he
did not seem to be much hurt, for he swam with great strength towards the shore. Lieut. Gray rushed forward to his
assistance, and just as they were near meeting the shark seized him again, but he was not pulled under water, and only
cried out, ' I am bit, I am bit.' Mr. Gray then got hold of him, and at that moment he saw the shark make a third
attack. They were now very near the shore, and Mr. Gray, with the assistance of another young man, succeeded in
getting him on dry land. He had sunk upon his knees as they were supporting him, and was endeavouring to speak,
but could only utter convulsive inarticulate sounds. They thought he was fainting, and got him some water, which they
pressed him to drink ; he moved his head, opened his eyes, and attempted to swallow, but immediately sank down
again and expised without a groan. The whole of his flesh with all the blood vessels was torn away from the back of
his left thigh for a considerable space above the knee. The laceration was so dreadful that Mr. Martin, the Surgeon,
who hastened to see him on hearing of the accident, declared ' It would have been impossible to save him had he been
on the spot.' The great effusion of blood must have produced immediate death. He did not, in fact, survive above
2 minutes. It is possible the fatal wound was given in the second and third attacks, when Lieut. Gray saw the ravenous
m.onster in the act of seizing his unhappy victim. The shark appeared to be rather small, with a large head, but the
water was so discoloured with blood that it could not be distinctly seen.
" WiUiam Turville May was only 22 years of age. He came to Trincomalee in the Chapman on the 7th of October,
1815, and arrived at Colombo on the 29th of November following. He was an amiable young man, much liked by his
companions, who observed that he had been that evening remarkably cheerful and in higher spirits than usual, just
before the accident happened." {Oazette, May 17, 1817.)
The surgeon referred to was Assistant Surgeon George Martin of the 73rd Regiment, who succeeded John Cassidy
aa Surgeon of the 1st Ceylon Regiment on May 29, 1817.
1569.— July 26, 1817— Johan Pieter Vogel.
" Late Lieutenant in the Dutch East India Company's
Service at Colombo."
He belonged to Bremen, and married, as a Corporal, at Colombo, July 19, 1789, Anna Catherina Philipina
Rumph of Colombo.
1570.— August 12, 1817— Benedict Edward Reyne.
" Ancien Chirurgien-Major du Regiment de Meuron, at
Vancouleur near Colombo, aged 67."
He married at Colombo, March 11, 1798, Hilligonda Carohna Rosetta von Rossum, widow of Johan Hendrik
Schroter. She came to Ceylon with an attestatie of membership of the Dutch Reformed Church from Cochin in 1794.
Her daughter by B. E. Reyne, Antoinette Elizabeth, born 1799, married the Hon. John Rodney when she was in her
16th year in 1815. (See Nos. 3 and 1399.)
She had eight children by him. Her son, George Bridges, probably called after Lieutenant-Colonel George
Bridges, R.E., who was in Ceylon 1803-11, and left with Sir Thomas Maitland, became Lieutenant-General. She
was bom in 1799, and died November 26, 1868. Her brother was Captain Pierre Benoit Reyne, Ceylon Rifles, at one
time Commandant of Galle and afterwards of Trincomalee. The family is said to have come from Vancouleurs in
France. There was another member of it at Colombo in 1817, " Anthoine Pierre Louis Reyne, Esq.," possibly a
brother of Benedict's. Benedict left 40 rix-dollars each to " all godsons of his who should appear within three months
and prove by extract from church register that they were his godsons, or their mothers might do it for them. One of
those absent, he knew, was the son of Captain Dan Perron."
1571.— April 23, 1818— John Badger,
John Badger, Esq., of the Civil Service.
" Died on the evening of the 23rd inst. at the Rest House of Pantura on his way from Caltura to Colombo for
the purpose of obtaining Medical assistance, John Badger, Esq., Collector of Caltura. In him Society has lost a truly
valuable and honest member, and those with whom he was on terms of intimacy a sincere and faithful friend.
' The silent dead Honoiu-s nor Title seek.
But what truth dictates Gratitude may speak.'
"Mr Badger was buried at Colombo on the 24th inst. Every Officer of His Majesty's and the Honourable
■ East India Company's Services attended his remains to the grave. The funeral service was performed by the Rev.
George Bisset AM Senior Colonial Chaplain, in the most solemn and impressive manner." (Gazette, April 25, 1818.)
Appointed Second Assistant to the Cutcherry of Colombo and Custom Master, Negombo, November 13, 1805 ;
Collector, Chilaw, June 14, 1809; Custom Master, Colombo, February 1, 1814; Collector, Caltura, October 1, 1816.
He was succeeded at Chilaw by Joh*n Walbeoff.
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Colombo — contd.
1572.— May 14, 1818— Richard Hooper.
Assistant Surgeon Hooper, 19th Regiment.
" At Colombo on the Idth instant, Assistant Surgeon Hooper of H. M. 19th Regt., imiversally respected by his
Brother Officers and the Commimity in general — ever Uberal and generous to aU whom in his professional duties he
assisted, his loss will be long sincerely regretted." {Gazette.) He was bom in 1781, and joined the 19th Foot on
September 28, 1810.
1573.— October 30, 1818- John Kane.
Lieutenant Kane, R.A.
1574.— November 15, 1818— Edward Smith.
Captain Edward Smith, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted while Ensign, 19th Regiment, to 1st Lieutenant, Baillie's Regiment, June 1, 1805. He arrived
by the Windham with Mrs.^Smith, July 11, 1805. He was Commandant at Chilaw in 1817.
1575.— December 13, 1818— D. Host*
Lieutenant Host, Half Pay 53rd Foot.
He came from Triehinopoly.
1576.— 1818— Kenneth Cockerell McKenzie.
Ensign McKenzie, 16th Regt.
1577:— January 18, 1819— John West Wilkins.
Capt. Wilkins, 1st Ceylon Regt.
He was appointed Ensign in the Caffre Corps, January 17, 1805 ; Lieutenant Malay Corps, vice Rossi, June 2,
1805; and was Commandant at Mullaittivu, 1811-14. He proceeded to England by the H. C. ship Mwerwa from
Galle, March 24, 1816. Whether he died in England or on his return to Ceylon is not clear.
1578.— March 7, 1819— Thomas-Williinson.
Lieutenant Wilkinson, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
" He had been engaged in the operations of 1817-18. He was in command of a detachment at RaUewaweUa
in Uva, and retired from this place to Kiriwanagama on 16 Jan., 1818, having been attacked by the rebels in aU
directions, and considering the fort not tenable, Major Macdonald took measures for estabhshing him in a good position
at Kiriwanagama. In June he was at Passara, and on the 16th he sent a small party into Badulla to announce the
arrival at Passara of a detachment of the 18th Native Infantry on their route to Badulla. The party was anibushed
near Badulla, and two privates of the 73rd, James Sutherland and WiUiam Chandler, kiUed, and Lance-Corporal
McLaughlan of the 73rd distinguished himself. Lieut. Wilkinson made a most favourable report of the improved
state of affairs at Passara." (" The Uva Rebellion," pp. 18, 35, 36.)
He arrived at headquarters from the interior, November 25, 1818.
1579.— July 27, 1819— Richard Thin.
Richard Thin, Esq., M.D., Surgeon, 2nd Ceylon
Regiment.
1580.— December 27, 1819— Charles Hay.
Sitting Magistrate of Calpentyn and lately Lieutenant,
2nd Ceylon Regt."
He was appointed, when a Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment, to similar rank in the 3rd Ceylon Regiment on
January 16, 1810; Fort Adjutant, Jaffna, February 1, 1811 ; Assistant Deputy Commissary-General at Jaffna, vice
Taree, January 1, 1814 ; to the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, April 25, 1815 ; to the 1st Ceylon Regiment, April 25, 1817 ;
and " Assistant Custom Master and Sitting Magistrate, Calpentyn," August 1, 1818. He married a Miss Petronella
de Silva.
1581. — June 14, 1820 — Charlotta Lambertina Henrietta Reynoldius von Bergheim.
At Colombo, on the 14th instant, Charlotta Lamber-
tina Henrietta Reynoldius, eldest daughter of
Baron von Bergheim, "^ged four years.
1582.— July 9, 1820— R. V. Bates.
Captain Bates, 16th Regt.
(Date of burial.)
1683. — January 11, 1821 — Samuel Poyntz.
Lieut. Poyntz, 2nd Ceylon Regt.
1584.— October 18, 1821— George May Pollington.
Lieutenant G. M. Pollington, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Ceylon Regiment from July 18,1814; lat Lieutenant March 8, 1819.
He was probably a son of Richard Pollington. (See No. 1927.)
1585.— May 5, 1822— John Whitehead.
Lieut. Whitehead, 2nd Ceylon Regt.
He was Commandant at Mullaittivu, 1818-19.
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Colombo — contd.
1586.— August 22, 1822— Eliza Catherina Bulkley.
"At the house of her father, Vincent William
Vandbrsteaaten, Registrar of the Supreme Court
of Judicature, the wife of John Comins Bulkley,
Assistant Surgeon, H. M. 16th Regt., aged 22.
Her remains were interred in the Church of St.
XjUcidt "
''Comyi^nsrNt.^'! and llsl.) "^^ ™-^*--*-' -^ ---<i J--^ 7. 1B21. " Comins" should be
1587.— January 31, 1823— Lawrence Walsh.
"At Colombo Quartermaster Walsh, 45th Regt.,
much respected."
1588.— December 11, 1823— John Sprawle.
"At Colombo Sergeant Major John Spbawle, 4:6th
Regt."
. "^tJ^^uT"^^!"^ ^^ ^"""P^ upwards of twenty years, a faithful good Soldier. He was present with his
Regiment the whole of the European Peninsula War, and was conspicuously present with it in every action with the
enemy in Portugal Spain, and France in which the 45th was engaged from the battle of Vimiera in 1808 to the action
of Toulouse m 1814, never having been in hospital during .the period of that arduous service, except from wounds."
1589.— December 15, 1823— Hendrik Schneider.
Lieutenant in the Dutch Service.
1590. — January 8, 1824r— Thomas James Wharrie.
Asst. Staff Surgeon Waeeie, M.D.
The name should be " Wharrie " He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon in the 86th Regiment February 21 1811
and was Assistant Surgeon in the 4th Ceylon Regiment in 1816. In February, 1816,.he left for England in theChcmman
but returned to Ceylon. . ° fiK^iv,
1591.— March 21, 1824— T. B. Hayter.
Lieutenant, R.E.
1592.— April 13, 1824— Henry Brouncker.
Of the Ceylon Civil Service.
He arrived by the ship Orpheus at Colombo from Portsmouth, February 21, 1823, and was appointed Extra
Assistant in the Pay Office the same day ; Assistant to the Collector, Tangalla, March 1, 1823, but to continue to act
in the Pay Office.
Mrs. H. W. Smyth and her two daughters returned by the same vessel. (See No. 1595.)
1593.— May 27, 1824— Carolina Wilhelmina Ludekens.
• " Wife of Mr. Feedinandoo Ludekens and daughter
of the late Feedinand Caspee Heupnee, Major
and Commandant of the Dutch Artillery, in the
33rd year of her age."
Carolus Ferdinandus Ludekens was son of Jeronymus Balthazar Ludekens and his wife Anna Elizabeth Loth
and was born July 6th, 1781. Carolina Wilhelmina Heupner, whom he married, appears to be the same as Helena
Wilhelmina Heupner, daughter of Ferdinand Casper Heupner and his wife Wilhelmina Francken. She was baptized
at Colombo, March 13, 1785, which wotdd make her in her 40th year at least..
1594. — August 4, 1824— Florence O'Brien.
Lieutenant O'Brien, 83rd Regiment, Assistant Engineer.
He waa in the Pioneei; Corps in 1822-23. " There was stationed at Allawwa in 1823 a large force under Colonel
Brown, R.E. There were a physician to the forces. Doctor Dwyer, and six or seven subalterns, some command-
ing divisions of Pioneers, others superintending working parties of Kandians. We had not been there more than two
weeks when jungle fever broke out amongst us, and three or four subalterns were removed to Colombo. Then Colonel
Brown was attacked and hurried off. Doctor Dwyer followed him, and I found myself alone at the station one
morning at breakfast I was seized in my turn and I became very ill. In a day or two I was taken away to Colombo
At Mahora, about 8 miles from that place, I met O'B. of the 83rd Regiment, who, full of sympathy, tried to save me
the trouble of travelling further. He urged me to take up my quarters with him, pointing out, with Irish hospitality,
the uselessness of my going into Colombo, and telling me sad tales from Allow, how one had died that morning, another
was Buried yesterday, and a third, as I knew, had been carried off a week before. I did not, however, concur in his
reasoning, and I thought I noight as well take advantage of any chance of recovery there might be for me, so with his
^ood wishes I started for my destination in a Dhooly " (pp. 36-8). " O'B." was Lieutenant O'Brien, who next year
himself fell a victim to the fever.
Whether he was the " Ensign O'Brien " who commanded a detachment of forty men stationed at Pasbage in
1818, and who defeated a body of about 3,000 Kandyans two miles from that place on the road to Ambegamuwa on
July 16, or whether it was Ensign P. O'Brien of the 73rd Regiment, does not appear from the Gazette (July 26 and
September 5, 1818).
1595.— August 20, 1824^-Matthew Johnson Smyth.
" M. J. Smyth, Esq., of the Civil Service. Aged 34."
He was Assistant to the Collector of Colombo and Sitting Magistrate, Negombo, July 10, 1811 ; ditto at Trinco-
malee, December 26, 1811 ; Agent for Salt, July 16, 1812; Collector, Magampattoo, 1814^15, where he succeeded
James Agnew Farrell; Collector, Galle, January' 1, 1816-17 ; on leave 1820-21. He died at Colombo.
He married, March 1, 1813, Mrs. Sophia Clarke, widow of Captain Edward Clarke, 1st Ceylon Regiment. (See
No. 1646.)
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Colombo — conid.
1596.— February 22, 1825— Richard Kelly.
Lieut. R. Kelly, 45th Regt.
1597.— March 6, 1825 — James Urquhart.
Lieut., 45th Regt.
Moneys belonging to his estate were in deposit at the Treasury, Colombo, in 1831.
This was the Second Lieutenant James Urquhart who died in Ceylon within twenty years, the other, who died
at Trincomalee in 1805, belonging to the 66th Regiment.
1598.— 1825— James Sloper.
Lieut. Sloper, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He was Acting Paymaster and Adjutant, Pioneer Corps.
1599.— April 9, 1826— Richard Fisher Fellowes.
" At Colombo, after a protracted illness, Lieut.
RiCHAED Fisher Fellows, Half Pay, H. M. late
4th Ceylon Regt. and Staff Officer of Koorunagalle. "
He was appointed Adjutant of the 4th Ceylon, March 25, 1811. On its disbandment he joined the 2nd Ceylon,
and was Staff Officer at Galle, 1821-25. He returned from leave in England, with Mrs. FeUowes, by the Mary,
October 18, 1817 (see " Letters from Ceylon," by Captain De Bussche). The name is sometimes spelt " Fellows."
Lieutenant Fellowes, at the outbreak of the Uva rebellion, was in command of a detachment which marched
from Kandy into Walapane on January 13, 1818.
1600.— April 15, 1826— John Eagan.
" At Colombo, on Saturday morning, Mr. John Eagan,
Bandmaster, 97th Regt., leaving a wife and five
children to lament his loss. "
1601.— August 22, 1826— Edward Sanderson.
Capt. Sanderson, 83rd Regt.
He commanded the Pioneer Corps from February 1, 1820, until his death.
1602.— December 4, 1828— John Brahan.
"At Colombo, on the 4th instant. Captain John
Brahan, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, aged 29
years, leaving a disconsolate widow and two infant
Children, Friends, and Relatives to lament Ms loss."
{Gazette, December 20.)
He was killed in a duel with Lieutenant Samuel Keogh of the same corps. (The name of tlje latter ofScer
disappears from the list of officer? of the Ceylon Rifles in the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1829.) There is no reference to the
duel in the Gazette. Lieutenant Brahan was gazetted from half pay of the 83rd Regiment then in Ceylon to a supernumerary
Ueutenancyin the 1st Ceylon Regiment, February 18, 1818. He was in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment and Acting Staff
Officer, Seven Corles, in 1821-25, and married at Kurunegala, May 31, 1822, Ellen, daughter of Lieutenant Hope, Gun
Lascars. He was Assistant Engineer, Pioneer Corps, in 1825, and Lieutenant, Ceylon Regiment, 1826. His widow
married Captain G. Ingham at Trincomalee, February 4, 1830. A daughter, Sophia Mary Anne, married at Colombo,
July 6, 1840, Lieutenant John Urban Vigors, C.R.R. She died in 1852, aged 26. Lieutenant Keogh was put on half
pay as a Captain of Infantry on August 11, 1829.
It may have been a sister of hisj Mary Anne Brahan, who married, January 13, 1818, at Colombo, Lieutenant
Henry Hough, R.A., and another sister, Elizabeth, who married, at St. John's Church, Jaffna, March 13, 1829,.
Dr. George Rumley. (See Nos. S4 and 978.)
1603.— April 3, 1829— Henry^BIrd.
Lieut. -Colon el, 16th Regt., and Deputy Commissary-
General in Ceylon.
" Colonel Bird had seen more hard service than usually falls to the lot of the Military profession, having been
present with Sir J. Moore's Army in Spain, at Walchertn, South America, and through the Peninsula Campaign. He
was considered a most excellent and gallant officer, and highly esteemed and respected by a very extensive circle of
friends and acquaintances. A most amiable widow with four children are left to deplore the loss of an excellent Husband
and the most affectionate of parents." (Gazette, April 18.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Bird died of choleia. He had joiredhis brother George in opening the first coffee plantation
in the Island, at Sinhapitiya, and his death led to the abandonment of the estate there. (See No. 1895.)
One son was Henry, Lieutenant, C.R.R., another Louis, a planter. A daughter married Llewellyn Thomas,
eldest brother of Mr. A. H. Thomas. Llewellyn Thomas left for Sydney in 1879. Lieutenant-Colonel Bird joined
the 16th as a Major from the half pay of the 87th Regiment, February 7, 1822.
The 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment was in Ceylon 1819-28. Durmg this period it lost by death Lieutenant-
Colonel Bird; Captains Bates, Bigney : Lieutenants K. Mackenzie, William Orr, O'Hara, Wall ; Ensign Sidney Smith;
Assistant Surgeon Bulkley.
1604.— November 25, 1829— Hugh van Kempen.
2nd Lieutenant, 26 March, 1823 ; 1st Lieutenant,
2 Feb., 1826.
" On the Evening of the 26th Instant on Slave Island after a Short but Severe illness, in the 23rd year of his age,.
Captain Hugh Vanhempen of Hie Majesty's Ceylon Rifle Regiment, deeply and most deservedly lamented by Colonel
Muller, his brother officers, and all those to whom he was known." (Gazette, November 28, 1829.)
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Colombo — contd.
1605.— November 25, 1829— William Moore.
Lieut. William Moore of the Royal Staff Corps and
Deputy Quartermaster-General, aged 33 years, at
Colombo.
" Of distinguished professional abilities, his death cannot but be felt as a loss to the Service. His upright and
Manly Virtues wiU long hold a place in the memories of those who knew him." {Gazette, November 28, 1829.)
" On the 26th of November we lost another good officer, Lieut. W. Moore of the Royal Staff Corps. He
was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General. Being very ill, a medical board decided that he was immediately to be
sent to England. I had therefore embarked him on board a ship which was to sail for England the following day.
In the morning the Captain wrote to me suggesting the expediency of my landing the poor fellow again, as he had become
much worse during the night, and the Captain thought he could not long survive. I went off at once and brought him
on shore, and was glad I did so, for he died during the night and was buried the next day." (Skinner, p. 94.)
1606.— March 22, 1830— Lachlan Maclean.
At Colombo, Lachlan Maolean, 2nd Lieut., Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, aged 23 years and 7 months.
1607.— May 9, 1830— William Rainey.
At Colombo, Sunday last, the 9th instant (May), in
the 4:7th year of his age, Mr. William Rainey,
Bandmaster, H. M. 61st Regt.
1608.— February 20, 1831— Charles Newport Tinley.
Lieut. Tinley, Ceylon Rifles, aged 22 years 3 months,
at Slave Island.
Ensign by purchase, September 9, 1828.
1609.— July 13, 1831— James Chrisp.
' ' At his residence at Mutwal near Colombo on the
morning of the 13th instant, James Chrisp, Esq.,
aged 65 years."
"A gentleman well known and well beloved in this community, Mr. Chrisp had formerly held the office of Master
Attendant of the Port of Colombo, and for many years executed the duties of that department with singular ability
and professional skill. The infirmities of age pressing upon a long life of laborious Sea service compelled him some
years ago to seek retirement, in which he continued to enjoy till his death a liberal pension from the gracious bounty
of His Majesty. His disposition was benevolent in the highest degree to all, his manners polite and gentlemanly, and
the whole tenor of his life kind and inoffensive. His latest horn's were distinguished by unruffled oalnmess, undisturbed
peace of mind , and sincere piety. ' ' ( Oasette , July 30. )
" One of the most intelligent Master Attendants in the Ceylon service the late Captain James Chrisp, formerly
of the Honourable the Bast India Company's marine The late intelhgent Capt. James Chrisp informed me
that the grand obstacle to ship building here (Trincomalee) for naval purposes was the limited rise of the tides, which
seldom exceeded 38 inches." (Bennett, pp. 206, 240.)
A ketch called the Nelson and three boats belonging to Chrisp were advertised for sale on August 12, 1831.
1610.— August 9, 1831— John Henry Reckerman.
Fiscal of Colombo, aged 63 years and 8 months.
He was succeeded by Andrew Walker.
" The late Mr. Reckerman, Fiscal of Colombo, informed me that coal had been discovered m the Island by the
Dutch." (Bennett, p. 331.)
1611. — July 8, 1833— Adriana Carolina de Moor,
"At Colombo, Mrs. Adriana Carolina van
BuuREN, widow of Dirk Jacob db Moor, late
Secretary of Council at Jaffnapatam under the
Dutch Government."
They were married at Colombo, March 10, 1776. She was probably a great-granddaughter of Lambert van
Buuren, Chief of Mannar, and sister of Jan van Lambert van Buuren, from whom the present Ceylon van Buurens
descend.
1612.— May 28, 1835— Catherina Durand.
At her son-in-law's, Stephanus Johnson db Witt,
Catherine Durand,. aged 87 years, widow of the
late Pierre Durand of the Dutch Honourable
Company's Service.
Pierre Durand was an Ensign at Trincomalee in 1776.
1613.— February 5, 1839— George Shaw Brook.
A brother of Richard Brook.
(See No 977 ) Storekeeper, Civil Branch of the Ordnance, 1818-24 ; Assistant Collector of Customs, Jaffna, in
the thirties ; obtained leave to proceed to England in 1838, but whether he availed himself of it or not is uncertam
He left Colombo for Trincomalee by the Africa on July 14, 1838. (See No 1621.) In January, 1835, with Colonel
Clement, Captain Parke, and F. J. Templer, C.C.S., he was a member of the Managmg Committee of the Colombo race
meeting.
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Colombo — contd.
1614.— September 10, 1839— John Dinwoodie.
Acting District Judge, Colombo No. 1 South.
He was appointed to the Civil Service June 2, 1829; Extra Assistant, Secretariat, 1829-33; Assistant Govern-
ment Agent, Caltura, October 1, 1833 ; District Judge, Colombo No. 4 (Caltura), 1833; Fiscal, Western Province, and
Superintendent of Police, March 1, 1838; District Judge, Matara, May 31, 1838; Acting District Judge, Colombo
No. 1 South.
1615. — May 1, 1840— Henry Bristowe Onion.
"Mr. H. B. Onion of the Ordnance Department,
aged 37, leaving a wife and four infant children."
He was " Established Clerk, CivU Branch of the Ordnance," 1838. He wrote a poem called " The Minstrel
Wanderer," which he published at Colombo in 1838, where it was sold at 2s. Gd. stitched.
Mr. and Mrs. Onion and two children arrived at Colombo on AprU 17, 1838, by the Morning Star, Captain Linton.
The same ship brought Lieutenant Underwood, C.R.R. (see No. 128). Mrs. Onion and four children left for London
by the barque Faery Queen, May 29, 1840.
1616.— January 11, 1841— G. W, A. Wallace.
"At Colombo, G. W. A. Wallace of the late ship
Lady Wallace, and brother of Sir J. Wallace of
Craigie."
Why " the late ship " I do not know, unless she was wrecked. She arrived at Colombo on December 10, 1839,
from Singapore, and went on to Bombay on December 12. That was her last appearance at Colombo. On October
28, 1840, " Capt. W. Wallace and child " arrived at Colombo as passengers by the barque Indian Queen.
1617.— October 13, 1841— Andrew Hope.
Lieut. Hope, R.A., aged 60. "
He was a bombardier, R.A., in 1810, when he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Ceylon Gun Lascars ; 1st
Lieutenant January 19, 1813. His daughter, Ellen, married (1) Lieutenant Brahan, (2) Captain Ligham. His wife,
Sarah, died July 24, 1841, at Colombo, aged 75. Lieutenant Hope assisted Captain Truter in the defence of Hanwella.
(See Nos. 1602 and 1655.)
1618. — January 14, 1842— Alexander M. Duncan.
"Of the Surveyor-General's Department, and Cap-
tain in the late British Legion that served in
Spain." Died at Colombo, aged about 47.
The register of St. Peter's gives his age as 31, which would have made it impossible for him to have served in
the British Legion in Spain.
1619. — January 27, 1842 — Martlnus Leonardus Conrady.
Captn. M. Co2snBADY, Ceylon Rifles, aged 45.
He was a son of John Frederic (see Nos. 101, 130, 163) by his wife Eva Mekem, and was baptized at'Galle,
March 6, 1796. He was ga|Zetted 1st Lieutenant in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment September 28, 1818, and Captain April
1, 1829. He was at Hanguranketa with a detachment of his corps in February, 1818, operating against the rebels.
1620.— September 10, 1842— Johan David Palm.
Rev. J. D. Palm, Minister of Wolvendaal Church.
He was bom at Colberg, a seaport town in Prussia, iu 1775, studied theology at Berlin, joined the London
Missionary Society, and was at the Scotch Church, Swallow street, in 1804. The Hon. F. North applied to the London
Missionary Society for missionaries, and four members of the Society, inoludiag Palm, were sent out. Palm arrived in
Ceylon in 1805, and foimd that the others, Messrs. Evhardt, Vos, and Read, had already arrived. He was first stationed
at TiUepaUi, in the Northern Province, where he buUt a chapel, school, and house. He was there for three years, and
when the L. M. S. withdrew from the Island he removed to Kalutara, where he established a school. He was chosen to-
succeed the Rev. Mr. Giffening as pastor of Wolvendaal on August 27, 1812, and he exercised that office for thirty
years. Mrs. Palm died at Colombo, December 17, 1822. (See No. 398.)
1621.— December 25, 1843 — George Ingham.
Major G. Ingham, Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
Ensign, 19th Regiment, April 22, 1804 ; Lieutenant June 6, 1805 ; married Miss Margaret Delvin, at Colombo^
May 16, 1809; Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon, to be Captain, 1st Ceylon Regiment, vice Clarke, March 23, 1812; Captain, 4th
Ceylon Regiment, in 1814 ; to do duty with 1st Ceylon Regiment attached to 4th Division of the Armv sent against
Kandy, January 20, 1815. (See No. 127.)
He married (2), at Trincomalee, February 4, 1830, Ellen, widow of Captain Brahan (son, bom November 14).
She died May 1, 1837. His daughter, Jane, bom October 27., 1811, married Lieutenant John Frederick Garth Bray-
brook, C.R.R. , at Trincomalee, April 9, 1828. She died at Kandy, November 5, 1833.
A son of Major Ingham, by his first wife, fell from the jib boom of the ship Africa, and was drowned j'ust as she
was clearing the English Channel on the voyage to Colombo, where she arrived at the end of May, 1837. The Africa
was lost in Venloos Bay, between Batticaloa and Trincomalee, on July 18, 1838. She was a ship of 400 tons
Commander John Skelton. (See No. 1613.) ' ''
1622.— March 27, 1844— August Carel Frederic von Ranzow.
"At Colombo, Atjgust Caeel Predekick Count
Ranzow, aged 84.
"Deceased was bom at Holzminden, in the Dukedom of Brmiswick, and early in youth entered the Military-
Service of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, as an officer under the Command of Prince Henxy, and acted in the
war of 1778 against the Emperor Josephus in Bohemia. In 1781 he transferred his service to the Republic in Holland,
where he continued until 1787, when he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Netherlands Navy, and joined a Dutch.
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Colombo — contd.
1622.— March 27, 1844— August Carel Frederic von Runzow—contd.
imn-of-war then under orders to the East Indies, and arrived at Batavia in the same year. Owing to severe indis-
position the deceased was obhged to retire from the service. He subsequently visited Ceylon, and was a resident in
this Island tor a period of 57 years." {Colombo Observer, May 9, 1844.)
• V, ■^® "^^^ ^^^ of Ferdinand Anthon, Count von Ranzow, who was born at Wolff enbuttel, and is said to have been
banished for some offence. He came out to Ceylon under the name of Ferdinand Anthon Schultz, and was given high
office under the Dutch Company. He resumed his name and title after some years. He married in Ceylon, Josina,
and had by her a son , Daniel Ditloff . He returned home , and married in Europe , Louisa Henrietta , Baroness Breoken-
burg, the daughter by a morganatic marriage of Prince Wilhelm Ludwig von Schwarzburg Rudolphstadt, first cousin
of Augusta, Princess of Wales, mother of George II. By her he had two sons, August Carl Frederick and August
Christian Anthon. All three sons came out to Ceylon in the service of the Dutch Company. Eventually Daniel Ditloff
and the youngest left for Batavia. There was litigation between Daniel Ditloff and August Carl in July, 1803. In
April, 1800, Daniel Ditloff von Ranzow, " commonly called Count Ranzow," was appointed " Commissioner of Govern-
ment to the Assembly of Deacons of Colombo," and President Director of the Orphan House. It was probably August
Christian Count Ranzow who was " baker to the troops " at Galle on January 30, 1801. He and Daniel Ditloff
eventually left for Batavia.
" The Countess Ranzow, senior," wife of August Carl, had a son at Colombo, May 30, 1803. She was a daughter
of Jacobus Harmanis Engelbrecht and his wife Sara Corneha Anthoniz. The Gazette in 1829 annoimces the death
at Colombo on March 5 of " The Countess Elizabeth Cornelia of Ranzow, consort of August Carel Frederic, Count of
Ranzow, aged 56." Their second daughter, Johanna Catherina Dorothea, died at Colombo, October 27, 1817, aged 23
years. Their third daughter, Anna Louisa Elizabeth, married P. I. J. Brohier, son of the late Captain Brohier, at
Colombo, October 23, 1816. The youngest daughter, Antoinetta Frederica, married WiUiam Cornelius de Run at
Colombo, July 20, 1818.
The only daughter of August Christian, Henrietta Charlotta, married Peter Carolus Roosmalecocq at Galle on
March 25, 1818. He was Sitting Magistrate at the time of Gangaboda and Talpe pattus. Ferdinand Anthon's father
was Alexander Leopold von Ranzow, whose wife was Catherine Sopina, in her own right Baroness van Hoyen.
1623.-rAugust 5, 1845— A. D. Procter.
At Colombo, A. D. Procter, Esq., Sugar Planter.
He must have arrived only in 1845, for his name is not given in the directory of the " Ceylon Almanac" of
that year.
1624.— January 3, 1846 — Cosby Warburton.
Capt. C. WiUBBTJRTOJT, aged 44, late Ceylon Rifles.
" Cosby Warbiirton, from the Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, July 22nd,
1819." He married at Trincomalee (1), on April 4, 1824, Jane, widow of William Hall, Quartermaster of the 83rd
Regiment. She died at Jaffna, July 26, 1840. He married (2), at St. John's, Cbundikuli, Jaffna, on May 20, 1841,
Arabella Cope Burleigh, daughter of Dr. George Burleigh (see No. 800). She died at Jaffna, March 31, 1848, aged 36
years. He was gazetted 1st Lieutenant, vice Manwaring, May 1, 1825.
His daughter, Susan Jane, married French Gray (see No. 907). " Warburton's road," in the Jaffna Peninsula,
is called after him. He appears to have been employed in the Surveyor-General and Commissioner of Roads' Depart-
ment.
1625.— February 15, 1846— Matthew Wylie Isaeke.
Lieutenant Isacke, 7th Madras Light Cavalry. Aged 28.
He died on board the Monarch and was buried at Colombo. His regiment was stationed at Kamptee- He
joined in 1839.
" A Major William Isaeke of the 2nd Battalion, Madras ArtUlery, died at Madras, June 7th, 1801." (Cotton,
p. 32.) He must have been an ancestor or relative.
1626. — September 25, 1846 — Charles Macdonald.
Quaitermaster Macdonald, Ceylon Rifles, aged 39.
1627.— November 19, 1848— H. F. Dakers.
Assistant Surgeon Dakers, Ceylon Rifles, aged 26, of dysentery.
1628.— January 1, 1849— H. A. Raitt.
Captain Raitt, Ceylon Rifles, aged 32.
Captain Raitt took a prominent part in Ceylon racing.
2nd Lieutenant H. A. Raitt rejoined from leave in January, 1841. He had been on a voyage to China, and
had sent in his papers for retirement.
1629.— July 22, 1849— D. A. Watt.
At Colombo, of dysentery, T>. A. Watt, " one of our earliest planters."
He came out by the Symmetry, July 18, 1841, with W. Gaskell, the Langslows, Mr. and Mrs. W. Mackwood.
He was a planter on AUegoUetenna, East Matale, in 1842.
1630.— November 10, 1850— G. W, Bingham.
Captn. BmoHAM, R.A.
1631.— September 27, 1852— W. F. S. Niell.
At Colombo, Capt. Niell, R.A., aged 28 years 4 months.
He was A.D.C. to Sir Emerson Tennent.
1632,— August 23, 1858— Thomas Turner Murphy.
Lieut. MuEPHY, 50th Regt., aged 21.
(Date of burial.)
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Panadure.
1633.— April 8, 1830— Stephen van Lynden.
Baron Stephen van Lynden von Blittbbswyk, Sitting
Magistrate of Panadure.
He had been a Captain, of Artillery in the Dutch Company's Service. He was born February 23, 1766, and
married, on January 6, 1793, Henrietta Magdalena Leembruggen. His daughters married J. G. Du Bois De Lassosay,
Mattheus Petras Raket, and John Walbeoff, CCS. He was appointed Customs Master at Jaffna, vice L. Sansoni,
October 1, 1816, and he was Sitting Magistrate at Mullaittivu from March 1, 1819, to some date in 1820, when he was
relieved by J. M. Lavalliere. His dwelling house at Colombo was " in the road to the Grand Pass." He was about to
leave the Island in December, 1808, and all claims were to be sent to him there before January 31, 1809. But he
did not leave, and died in the Island, at Panadure, it is presumed. He was son of Johan Nickolaas van Lynden, who
married Anna Schryver. ^
Negombo.
1634.— November 1, 1876— Robert Stott Pargiter.
Assistant G-overnment Agent, Negombo.
He was a son of the Rev. R. Pargiter, and was Deputy Fiscal, Jaffna, in 1863; Police Magistrate, Mullait-
tivu, 1865; appointed Writer, September 1, 1867; Police Magistrate, Point Pedro and Oh avakachcheri, 1868-70;
Acting Office Assistant, Colombo Kachcheri, May 16, 1870; Acting Landing Surveyor, Customs, Colombo, May 1,
1872-75; Assistant Government Agent, Negombo, June 1, 187.T. He was on the commission appointed to inquire
.into charges made against Luke Kelly, Police Magistrate of Point Pedro and Chavakachsheri. Mrs. Pargiter, who
was a daughter of A. H. Roosmalecooq, C.C.S., shortly after her husband's death married a Dr. Lawrence of Burma.
R. S. Pargiter was the first Assistant Government Agent of Negombo, as the compiler was the last. The agency was
abolished in 1896, having just attained its majority. But in the period 1833-45, when judicial officers performed
revenue in addition to their other duties, the District Judge of " Colombo No. 2 (North) " seems to have acted as
Assistant Agent for Negombo, and the District Judges of Anuradhapura and Mullaittivu did the same at those
stations.
Galle.
1635.- April 14, 1803— Peter Campbell.
Lieutenant Peter Campbell of the 51st Foot.
He was appointed Brigade Major to Colonel Baillie on the outbreak of the Kandyan war, January 30, 1803, and
accompanied him to Kandy, returning with him to Colombo, which Colonel BaUlie's division reached on April 11. He
had evidently contracted the fever which wrought so much havoc among the troops in this expedition, for on April 12,
having obtained with Lieutenants Arthur Johnston of the 19th and Hutchins of the 65th permission to proceed to sea
for four months for the benefit of his health, he left by the ship Diana, but died at sea on April 14. The Diana
touched at Galle the next day, and he was no doubt buried there in the Dutch Cemetery.
1636.— October, 1803— John Grant.
Ensign John Grant of H. M.^Malay Regiment.
He was appointed Ensign on December 25, 1801.
An incident in his military career throws some light on the ways of the officers of the Malay Regiment a few
months after its embodiment. He was tried by court martial, 6th May, 1802, on charges (1) of having allowed himself
to be told by Captain Paul CarrLngton that he had ceased to consider him a gentleman, and that in future he would not
treat him as such, without having made an appeal to proper authority to clear his character ; (2) for having denied
to Lieut. Virgo of the Malay Regiment that Captain Carrington had so addressed him ; and (3) for having challenged
Capt. Carrington to fight a duel. He was acquitted on the second and third charges, but found guilty of the first. The
Court, however, found that though he had submitted as above from the 15th to the 23rd April, he had only deferred and
not given up the intention of clearing his character, as appeared from a letter addressed by him to his Commanding
Officer, Major Adam Davie, dated 28th April, 1802. The sentence was that he be publicly reprimanded ; and Major-
General Hay Macdowal in confirming the sentence took the opportrmity of lecturing the officers of the Malay Regiment
on the evils of duelling and the estimation in which they hdd it — their idea that a personal conflict was the only mode
of soothing the stings of wounded sensibility, when a moment's reflection ought to point out to them the enormity and
criminality of the practice, and he avowed his detestation and abhorrence at whatever may tend to promote that
barbarous, unmilitary, and immoral offence of duelling, and he pledged himself most solemnly to bring to trial any
officer who may be led away by passion to commit so atrocious an act.
He desired it to be imprinted in every officer's breast that there is no disgrace in inviting reconciliation by an
apology, or in demanding a remedy through the proper channel for an injury inflicted. It would seem from this that
General Macdowal held ideas on this subject in advance of those generally held in the Army at this period. He went
on to comment on the symptoms of insubordination and want of discipline in the Malay Regiment which the trial had
brought to light. " Ensign Robert Barry, as the leader of a faction among the officers, deserved particular reprehension,
his conduct being extremely unbecoming his rank and years. Officers of more mature age and seniority had been
incited to adopt his erroneoxis judgment ; and a considerable time must elapse, accompanied by a decided change of
manners," before these symptoms referred to could be effaced from his mind. Major Davie was to read these words to
the officers of his Corps. (Gazette, May 31", 1802.)
Colonel Charles Baillie of the 51st was President of the court martial, and Captain T. W. Kerr, who later was in
command of the Ceylon Regiment, Judge Advocate-General.
Ensign Grant distinguished himself a year later by his spirited and successful defence of Dambadeniya " under-
circumstances of extraordinary distress," for which he received the thanks of Governor North, June 11, 1803. He
was rewarded with the command of the Pioneers at Galle, August 20, 1803, but the effects of the pestilential climate of
Dambadeniya, no doubt, were the cause of his death a month or two later. Captain Paul Carrington died at Kandy in
May, 1803, and Ensign Barry perished in the massacre at Watapuluwa. (See Cordiner, vol. II., p. 218, for an account
of the siege.) Ensign Grant's estate, value 564 rix-doUars, was being administered at Colombo in 1806, and stiU in 1813.
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Galle — contd.
1637. — January, 1804^— Henry Stamer.
" Lately at Point de Galle, Lieutenant Henry
Stameb, of H. M. 51st Regiment." {Gazette,
January 25, 1804.)
Lieutenant Stamer no doubt was with his regiment in the expedition to Kandy, and probably died from the
effects of fever contracted m it. He is mentioned by Cordiner as having been sent, about July 30, 1803, with a party of
25 Jiuropean and 50 native troops to strengthen the garrison of Matara against a possible attack by the King of Kandy's
supporters, 'the menaces of the enemy having made their first appearance in that district" (vol. II., p. 222)
Lieutenant btamer s estate, value 415 rLx-doUars, was beiag administered at Colombo in 1806-13.
T ^ tJ^^ Stamers are an Irish family with a baronetcy originally bestowed on WUliam Stamer, who served the office of
V° . *lfy°r °} ^^y'^^^ ^ % way which showed strong public spirit, and who also commanded a regiment of Yeomanrv
during the rebellion m Ireland of 1798 and upwards till 1831.
1638.— May 31, 1807— William Davidson.
" In een Kelder binnen de ring muur van de Kerk,
het lyk van de Engelsch Commissaris van de
Artillery Mr. Davidson."
" In a vault within the circular wall of the church " (register of Dutch Church). The fee paid for this interment
was 140 rix-doUars, with 6 rix-dollars for the use of the pall (bhaar-kleed1.
Davidson was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Ordnance and Stores at Galle, vice Mann, October 12, 1803.
1639.— November 17, 1810— James Brown.
Capt. Brown, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
Killed by Captain Parker of the same regiment in a duel. (See No. 96.)
" The duel took place in the Fort of Galle on the mound behind the late Gun Lascar lines, just opposite the
present residence of the Master Attendant " (now the District Judge's house). " The combatants appear to have fought
at dusk, favoured by the ciroumstance that few residents would venture on the Galle ramparts at that period after sunset.
The place had the unenviable notoriety of being haunted. It was overrun with jungle and infested with snakes and
jackals, the latter making night hideous with their howling. In some lonely spots double sentries had to be frequently
placed at night." (B. A. in Monthly Literary Register, vol. I., p. 95.)
Captain Brown married a daughter of Archdeacon Twistleton. (See No. 13.)
1640.-— June 27, 1812— Joseph Smitz.
" J. Smitz, Agent for Salt."
" This gentleman had been in the employ of the Dutch and afterwards of the English Government on this
Island for upwards of 25 years." {Gazette.) " He was agent of Revenue and Commerce at Galle in 1801, acting ditto
at Batticaloa in 1803. While he was holding the latter post the Kandians invaded the province and succeeded in raising
an almost general insurrection amongst its inhabitants. He conducted a successful expedition against them on the
3rd September (1803), killed eight of the rebels, and dispersed the others with a small part of the garrison of the Fort
of Manmoene, but was delayed in returning to the Fort, having expended all his ammunition." (Cordiner, vol. II.,
p. ^43, and Gazette.)
His second wife died at Galle, August 19, 1806. (See No. 577.)
1641.— February 2, 1814^-Theodore Cooke.
Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment ; 2nd Lieutenant,
27tli March, 1806; 1st Lieutenant, 1st July, 1808.
1642.— September 22, 1814^ William Henry Conyngham Benezet.
Capt. Benezet, R.A.
He arrived off GaUe with Mrs. Benezet on the H. M. ship Marchioness of Exeter, October 6, 1813. The vessel,
however.was not able to enter the port, but was driven to the southward on the 11th by strong currents. After anchoring
atWeligama she parted her anchors on the 12th, and finally reached Trincomalee on the 17th, and landed her passengers,
among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tolfrey ; the Rev. Thomas Ireland, Chaplain to the Forces ; Captain Lenn of
the 3rd Ceylon Regiment, Commandant of Mullaittivu ; and Lieutenant Mainwaring of the 1st Ceylon Regiment. He
was buried in the Dutch Cemetery on September 23.
1643.— November 9, 1814— Thomas Yvon.
Lieutenant Yvon, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He became Lieutenant, September 1, 1807.
1644.— January 11, 1815— John Gordon.
Captain John Gordon.
Buried in the Dutch Church. (Date is date of burial given in register.) He was probably a sea captain, as
there does not appear to have been a military officer of this name in Ceylon in 1815.
1645.— February 9, 1815— A. Brown.
Lieutenant and Adjutant, Ceylon Regiment.
The entry shows that he was buried in the Dutch Cemetery (date is that of burial).
1646.— November 21, 1815— Jean Jacques Daniel D'Estandau.
At Galle, aged 35 years 9 months and 15 days.
He was Fiscal, Galle, under the Dutch ; Notary Public and Land Registrar, Galle, under the English Government.
Administered the estate of Matthew Vanderspaar ; married Johanna Arnoldina Elizabeth Bordes, stepdaughter of M.
Vanderspaar, and daughter of Jacobus Bordes. (See Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 270.) (See No. 561.)
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1647. — June 11, 1816— Jacobus Cornells Gilbert.
He was son of John. Jacob Gilbert of Gertruidenberg, Boekhouder, and Bemarda Susanna Kjiekeabeek ;
baptized Colombo, August 17, 1777, married Charlotta Thomasia Nagel.
Their soo., Thomas Bernard Gilbert, married Bridgetina (nee Prior) , widow of Lieutenant Burke, C.R.B. Thomas
Gilbert's eldest daughter, Victoria McNaghten, married EbenezerGracie, eldest son of the Rev, Robert Gracie , M.A., of
Hastings, Sussex, at Galle, on December 28, 1848.
Entry in Church of England register ; date of burial in Dutch Cemetery.
1648.— August 20, 1816— Charles Henry Steele.
Captain, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted from the 6th Foot into Ramsay's Regiment, November 20, 1806.
He was ordered into arrest by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Kerr and tried by court martial in 1808 for
having used indecent and improper language to Lieutenant T. J. Rodney (see No. 2) , but was acquitted, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Kerr and other officers censured, December 20, 1808. But he appears to have been cashiered in 1812.
1649.— January 25, 1817— George L. Hallilay.
" At Galle, Lieut. George Hallilay, IQth Regimeat."
He was succeeded by Ensign George Dennison, January 29.
1650.— June 20, 1817— Oliver Brush.
Lieutenant, 89th Regiment, aged 30.
Date is of burial in Dutch Cemetery (Church of England register). He arrived with Mrs. Brush onMay 21, 1817,
by the ship Carron.
The 89th (Princess Victoria's), now the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish FusUiers, arrived by the H. C. ships Lord
Castlereagh and iiord Keith at Trincomalee, December 10, 1808. The battalion was 1,130 strong. They lost in Ceylon
Major HiUiard, Captain Magrath, Lieutenants Brush, Reynolds, and Thompson, and Lieutenant-Colonel Macbean
transferred to the 19th Regiment). Only the latter officer is commemorated.
1651.— May 31, 1818— Mary Ann Parker.
Mrs. Parker, wife of J. C. Parker, Indian Civil Service, aged 45.
Date of burial in Dutch Cemetery (Church of England register).
Mr. and Mrs. Parker and child arrived at Colombo from Calcutta by the ship Alexander, Decenxber 26, 1817.
1662. — June 21, 1818 — Thomas Henry Green,
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regimeat.
He was enrolled 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon, March 4, 1815, aged 22. Buried in Dutch Cemetery, June 22
(Church of England register). He married Eliza, daughter of J. F. Conrady, January 24, 1816. He died at Galle
of a fever. " Lieut. Green was an active, zealous, young officer, and frequently distinguished himself in the interior
under the command of Captain Blankenberg. He has left a young widow to deplore his early death." (Oazette,
July 18, 1818.) " Lieut. Green on hie way from Nindagama to BaduUa with a party was attacked in Weyaloova and
had one man slightly wounded. They however succeeded in killing the only two insurgents they saw." (The " Uva
Rebellion," p. 16.) This was in January, 1818. His widow married Lieutenant William Richardson four years after
the death of her first husband, and was again left a widow n'ne months later (see No. 77). Besides those already
mentioned, another daughter of J. F. Conrady married a British officer, viz., Theodora Wilhelmina, who became the
wife of Lieutenant Peter SmeUie, 51st Regiment, who was thanked for his conduct in the defence of Dambadeniya with
Ensign James Grant. Ensign SmeUie became Lieutenant March 7, 1803. He was in command of the Ceylon Regiment -
at Colombo in 1803, and handed over to Captain Thomas W. Kerr on April 11 of that year. Jane EUza, second
daughter of Captain SmelLLe, married, at Galle, on February 5, 1833, Lieutenant Francis Smith, 2nd Queen's Own
Regiment. Captain SmeUie was then dead. Whether he died in Ceylon or in England does not appear.
1653.— April 5, 1819— Pieter Arendt de Moor.
" At Point de GaUe on the Morning of the 5th instant, P. A. de Moor, Esq., aged 75 years."
He was a boekhouder in the Dutch Company, and son of Arendt de Moor, Fiscal of GaUe, and of Agnete Marie
Piereus, married, at Galle, August 16, 1767, Christina Gertruida van Coeverden. He was grandson of Lieutenant
Pieter de Moor of The Hague and Johanna Obrain. His daughter, Justina Maria, married (1) Frederick WiUem Henrich
Gossewyn Baron von Marken ; (2) Captain Lucas Aems, who died at Galle, and is buried in the Dutch Cemetery ; (3)
Johan Godlieb BiittenmuUer of Ludwigsburg, Lieutenant in the Wurtemburg Regiment. Another daughter married
Captain Edward Graham of St. Andrews and of the Bengal ArtUlery, who distinguished himself in the Kandyan war
of 1803. (See Nos. 552 and 575.)
1654.— April 12, 1819— Charles H. Farren.
Lieut. Farren, 73rd Regiment.
" At Point de GaUe on the 12th AprU Lieut. Farren of H. M. 73rd Regt., after suffering for fourteen months
from Liver Complaint and Dysentery. WhUe waiting for an opportimity of proceeding to Europe for his Health, he
was suddenly carried off by the Spasmodic Cholera, leaving a Widow and Infant Son to deplore his loss." (Gazette.)
His age was 31.
1655.— April 9, 1821— James Truter.
Major Trutee, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
" At GaUe, to which place he had removed for change of air, while suffering under severe attacks of fever and
hepatic affections on a constitution naturaUy delicate and debUitated by long residence in a tropical climate. Major
James Truter of His Majesty's 2nd Ceylon Regiment, a gentleman of whom it is but justice to observe that he bears
with him the sincere regret of all who knew him — mild and unassuming in his maimers, benevolent in his nature, and
upright in his principles, a tender parent, an affectionate husband, and a sincere friend. Major Truter has left a wife
and five infant chUdren to lament their loss, to them irreparable." (Oazette, April 7, 1821.)
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Galle — contd.
1655.— AprU 9, 1821— James Trntei— contd.
There is an entry in the register of the Dutch Church, Galle : " Received for the pall of Major Truter 6 rix-doUars,
'9th April, 1821." f i
Lieutenant Truter from the 91st Regiment was gazetted Captain in Ramsay's Regiment April 3, 1806. He was
commandmg a detachment of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment at Jaffna ia 1808, and succeeded Captain AntUl in the command
of Mannar December 19, 1812. He married Ann Brunette, widow of Lieutenant Brunette, at Jaffna, on September 3,
1808, " G. Jenneret, widow," being a witness. Mrs. Truter had a son at Mannar ia 1814 and a daughter at Jaffna
in 1817. Captam Truter was Commandant at Negombo in 1816 and at Jaffna in 1817-18, of Harispattu and Tumpane
in 1819, with headquarters at Gonagoda. Mrs. Truter died at Colombo, December 11, 1842, aged 55. Their eldest
daughter, Charlotte Maria, married, at St. Paul's, Colombo, January, 1843, George Carming Holden, Ordnance Depart-
ment, son of Captain and Paymaster Holden, 1st Rifle Brigade.
On February 15, 1818, the post at Hanwella (in Uda Dumbara) " was ably defended by Captain Truter, who
had come on the night before from Bintenne on his return to Kandy on sick certificate. He was accompanied by no
force but two Caffres of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, everything seeming then quiet between Hanwella and Bintenne.
The rebels commenced their attack about half-past 1 p.m. and were seen advancing in a great force with banners
flying. CaptainTruterdetaohedLieutenantHope(GunLascars)withasmall party who, on meeting the insurgents three-
quarters of a mile distant from the post, received their fire and in returning it killed 3 men and wounded several, after
which the insurgents retreated to the hills, and Lieutenant Hope returned to join Captain Truter, who had advanced
out of the post. The rebels recommenced their attack at half-past two and continued till 6, surrounding the post on
all sides about 5. Captain Truter again detached Lieutenant Hope with 9 men to dislodge a strong party from a
neighbouring wood, which he effected completely, killing six of them, and Captain Truter considers the total number
of insurgents killed as at least 20, with several more wounded. Of his detachment 2 men of the 73rd Regiment and
1 of the 1st Ceylon Regiment were wounded. The rebels on retiring threatened a repetition of attack the next
morning, but though they appeared in great force on every side, and dispositions were made for receiving them, they
forbore making any attack and tried to persuade Capt. Truter to abandon his post which, on a parley demanded by
them, they represented was untenable, all other British posts having been taken. The insurgents, on this attempt
proving, as was to be expected, unsuccessful, thought fit to abandon further enterprize for that day also, and in the
course of the night the post was re-inforced by a detachment from Bintenne ordered by Lt.-Col. Kelly, whom Captain
Truter had found means of apprising of his critical situation, owing to the smallnessof his party and the immense force
opposed to it, by two Pioneers who conveyed the letter to Bintenne in the course of the night of the 18th, on a
promise of reward (well earned) considering the risk they ran." (" The Uva Rebellion," p. 20.)
" We are sorry to have to communicate an unfortunate accident which happened on the llth instant. Captain
Truter was going into Dombera, and about 3 p.m. he embarked in the LeweUe ferry boat, himseK, 10 soldiers, 2
servants, and the boatmen, in all 14. The river being swelled by the late rains, and the current rapid. Captain
Truter took the precaution of making all the men sit down. When they were about the middle of the river, the boatman,
whose hands were sore, accidentally suffered the rattan by which he waspuUing over to sUp from his hold ; the boat was
immediately carried down the stream, and about 150 yards from the place of crossing filled and upset, one private of the
83rd and three of the H. C. 15th N.I. were unfortunately drowned, and 10 stand of arms lost. The rest saved themselves
by getting upon the boat, which luckily struck and remained fast upon a rock about 400 yards lower down. From the
perilous situation in the middle of a rapid river with a flood rising, they were got safe to the bank, chiefly by the exertions
of Privates Butler and Beven of the 19th Regiment and a cooly." (Gazette, June 20, 1818.)
1656. — September 1, 1821 — Wilhelm Hendrik Andree.
" At Point Galle (sic) W. H. Andbeb, Esq., late
Sitting Magistrate of Gangabodde and Talpe
pattus, after a lingering illness of nearly three
years, leaving a wife and 12 children and 6 grand-
children."
He was Sitting Magistrate at Caltura in 1815, and at Barberyn in 1818.
t
1657.— December 9, 1823— Henry van Hek.
" After a severe illness of 10 days died of a fever at •
Galle, whither he had gone to bring his children."
"In him were good nature and Christian meekness personified. He was beloved by all who knew him."
^Gazette, December 20, 1823.)
He was Sitting Magistrate, Barberjm, 1815, and at Calpentyn, 1821.
1658.— September 6, 1825— Francis Dickson.
Master Attendant, Galle.
He was Comjnander of the Government brig Ariel in 1813, Acting Master Attendant at Colombo from January
19, 1814 Commander of the Government brig of war Kandyan in 1816, and of the hired transport Regalia m 1818,
Assistant Inspector of Pearl Banks and Master Attendant, GaUe, succeeding W. C. Gibson, 1815. He married at
Galle on July 22, 1808, Carolina Augusta, daughter of J. F. Conrady. He left a widow and five chfl(h-en (see Nos. 145
•and 163). His eldest daughter, Caroline, married Lieutenant Nagel, 97th Regiment, on March 23, 1831 , at Galle. A
son, Francis Dickson, was appomted to the Customs, June, 1845, and was Assistant Collector at Trmcomalee m 1861.
He retired July 1, 1876, and died in England in 1887.
1659.— November 1, 1828— Pieter Cornelis Johannes Tranchell.
Sitting Magistrate of BeUigam (Weligama).
Date of burial in Dutch Cemetery (Church of England register). , ,^ . ^^ , , „. ^ , ,
He was eldest son of Johannes Tranchell of Romelanda, Sweden and Maria Magdalena Sievertsz and was born
-August 30, 1785. He married m 1814 Mary, daughter of Captain H Selway, 89th Regiment. His fa^er, who died
in 1807 at Jaffna, was Swedish Consul; his grandfather, P. TrancheU, married Brita Maria Rmg. His mother is
'"'"''cL^^^Zs of snake bite appeal^ to have been a hobbj of Mr. Tranchell's. ;' The late Mr. John TrancheU of
BeUigam cured two Singhalese natives of that hamlet after having been for some time in strong convTilsioM, ..... by
•dropping and rubbing kite the punctures made by the snakes' fangs a mixture of nitric and muriatic acid^^and givmg
^hem each fifty drops of Eau de Luce in a little water. They recovered m a few hours, but as the snakes were not
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Galle — contd.
1659.— November 1, 1828 — Pieter Cornells Johannes Tranehell — contd.
caught or killed and were only seen by the parties, who declared the animals to be Nayas, Mr. Tranehell did not feel
that he could so positively vouch for the truth of their report as to make the circumstances the subject of a communi-
cation to the Literary Society of Colombo, as he had at first intended ; but that he did not do so arose from no doubt in
his own mind, or that the preparation he had employed, conjointly with Eau de Luce, would ever be an inefScaoious.
remedy." (Bennett, p. 116.) On another occasion, accompanied by Mr. Bennett, he went to try his nostrum, as the
latter calls it, on a Sinhalese woman bitten by a tic-polonga at a village 2 mUes from Weligama, but arrived too late ;
the patient was already dead. Bennett also relates "a ctmIous incident which happened on the 12th of June, 1827,
whilst we were at dinner with Mr. Tranehell and his family, from which it appears that Mr. Tranehell believed that he
could cure any one bitten by a mad dog." Bennett goes on to say, " whether he relied on the same nostrum in
hydrophobia, with which I had seen him perform most extraordinary cures of snake bites, or not, it is to be hoped that
the papers left behind him will explain. For the latter he employed, in addition to Eau de Luce, given internally, a
mixture of nitric and muriatic acid, which was labelled upon a bottle always at hand in his dressing-room, but I am
ignorant of their relative proportions."
Mr. Tranehell seems to have had a fertile brain. " A proposal was made to Governor Sir Robert Brownrigg in
1817 by a gentleman named Fawkener, an extensive indigo planter in Bengal , to establish an indigo farm and
manufactory in the Island. During the Dutch administration vast quantities of indigo had been manufactured for the
European market and exported from Trincomalie, and it was therefore supposed that the experiment would prove
successful. Nothing, however, came of the proposal. The next in the field was Mr. John Tranehell, a Swedish gen-
tleman of great ability, skill, and enterprise, but unfortunately without capital. Mr. Tranehell had long previously
ascertained that an abundance of indigo grew spontaneously in the Tangalle district, and at length, failing in private
channels, he proposed to the then Governor Sir Edward Barnes to patronise the formation of an indigo factory by a
joint stock company in fifty shares of fi^'e hundred rix-dollars, or 37 pounds ten in each share. The Governor
approved of the plan, and cheerfully consented to become the patron. It was then proposed that, as original mover
of the scheme, Mr. Tranehell should be appointed the company's resident superintendent of such factory. But this
scheme was rendered abortive owing to the death of Mr. Tranehell." (Bennett, p. 72.)
1660.— May^l3, 1840— John Wallace.
Merchant of Baddegama, aged 23 years.
He was a Forfarshire man.
1661.— March 7, 1842— Francis Frome.
Captain, 66th Regt. (retired), aged 67.
(Date of burial in Church of England register.)
" Lieutenant Francis Frome from Half Pay of Murray's late Recruiting Corps to be 1st Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon
Regiment, Feb. 10th, 1810"; Captain, 3rd Ceylon Regiment, February 17, 1814; Captain, 66th Regiment, vice
Gordon, deceased, October 18, 1813 (from 1st Ceylon Regiment). He was a Captain in the 59th Regiment in 1818.
On November 17, 1835, he advertises as an " Agent for the purchase of Cinnamon, having become a Settler at Negombo."
His wife, Frances Catherine, died at Kandy, May 21, 1830, aged 50. Captain Frome was then Staff Officer at BaduUa.
Eyre Massey Frome, Ensign, 47th Regiment, son of Captain Frome, married at Colombo, August 15, 1822,
Harriet, only daughter of Charles Mackenfield, Esq., R.N.
. 1662. — January 15, 1843 — John Dennis Browne.
Assistant Government Agent of Matura.
He. died at Galle suddenly. He entered the Civil Service October 12, 1832, acted as Assistant Agent,
Trincomalee, in 1833, and was appointed Assistant Government Agent at Matara on June 20, 1837. " Browne's Hill,"
on the sea coast, a mile east of Matara, is called after him. On February 1, 1841, he was appointed Assistant
Government Agent, Chilaw, but probably remained at Matara. In 1841 there was a " false report " that he was.
going to marry a daughter of the Rev. J. Wenham, Colonial Chaplain at Galle, which was contradicted by the latter-
in the papers. *
1663.— September 20, 1846— Edmund Buckle.
Captain, Bengal Artillery, aged 40.
(Date of burial.)
1664. — December 13, 1849 — Henry James Hewetson.
Surgeon of the Precursor, aged 31.
(Date of burial.)
1665.— May 20, 1850— Edmund James Wood.
Police Magistrate of GaUe, aged 46.
Date of burial in Dutch Cemetery (Church of England register), also date of death.
E. J.Wood was appointed Commissioner of Requests and Police Magistrate of Mullaittivu (1833-40) ; ditto of
Chavakachcheri, January 1, 1845; of Jaffna, October 1, 1846 ; of Galle, July 7, 1848.
He married (1), on October 5, 1833, Eliza Petronella, daughter of Diederich Comehs Fretz, son of the late
Commandeur of Galle, and (2), on December 28, 1835, Sarah Anne, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Burke, C R R His
first wife died at Mullaittivu, November 25, 1834, aged 17 ; his second at Galle, April 10, 1850, aged 35 By her he
had five children, one of whom, Amelia Georgiana Bridgetina, married at Kandy, September 14, 1861 , Edmund Jackson,
son of Ihomas Jackson of Manchester. Two other daughters married Austins of Galle.
1666.— May 22, 1854^Samuel Wood Hemmon,
Lieutenant, B.N.
Date of burial from Church of England register.
1667.— January 30, 1859— Norcliff Bendycke Walton.
Captain, 17th Regt., died on board the Victoria, aged 34.
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Galle — contd.
1668.— Januarj. , 1869— F. W. Lloyd.
A planter, drowned in the Balapitiya lake. He was, in 1862, on an estate near Balapitiya called " Kohila
Wagura."
1669.— April 30, 1869— Wharton Martham Le Marehand.
Of Aningkande estate, Morowa korale. (Church of
England register.)
He was eldest son of J. L. Le Marohand, and died at Aningkande. T. O. Le Marehand was also on ^Ininskande
in 1868. • •
1670.— February 7, 1876— Frank Colebrooke Willisford.
Collector of Customs, Galle, died at Galle.
He was appointed Writer, January 20, 1862, and acted as Police Magistrate, &c., of Dumbara, August 15, 18(12, to
May 31, 1863; ditto of Avisawella, June 1, 1863, to April 30, 1864; as Landing Surveyor, Customs, at Galle from May 1,
1864, to June 15, 1866, and acted in a similar capacity at Colombo from June 16, 1866, to July 15, 1867, \ihen he went
to Negombo to act as District Judge, which he did until February 14, 1869. He was Police Magistrate of Colombo
from February 15 to March 24 of that year, and then acted again at Negombo as District Judge until he went on leave,
January 30, 1870. On his return, after six weeks in the Colombo Police Court, he was appointed Acting Collector of
■Customs, Galle, July 9, and confirmed in that appointment on December 1, 1871. He was a son of Dr. Willisford (see
No. 38). He married, at Kandy, on August 4, 1863, Sarah Enright of Kandy.
Baddegama.
1671. — January 20, 1845 — John George Brinkley.
" Son of Mathew Brinkley, Esq., and Hakriet his
wife, of the County of Meath. (Register.)
He had recently arrived at Galle by the steamer Precursor, had come to Baddegama, and with two friends bathed
in the river. He was " an athletic young man in robust health and an excellent swimmer, but when returning after
Tiaving swum across the river, either got into an eddy or was seized with cramp. Apparently sensible of his danger,
he suddenly called to one of his companions, but before help could be afforded he sank and never rose again. One of
his friends escaped the same fate by means of a coconut leaf, which was held out to him by some friends on the bank.
A number of persons endeavoured to find the body, but more than an hour had elapsed before they succeeded
and when removed from the water life was perfectly extinct He was interred next day in the verandah of
the Mission Chapel." [Colombo Observer, January 27, 1845.) "The Mission Chapel" is Christ Church. There is
nothing now even to mark the site of the grave.
Matara.
1672. — June 12, 1814 — Blaunt ; Pitt; Alexander Robertson.
Sergeant Blaunt (query "Blount") and Privates Robertson and Pitt of the 19th Regiment were drowned
-while bathing in the sea. Blaunt and Pitt were endeavouring to save Robertson.
1673.— May 4, 1815— George Steuart.
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
(It is not certain that he died at Matara, the locality is not stated.)
1674.— July 21, 1815— W. D. Robertson.
Lieutenant Robertson, 19th Regiment.
" Lieut Robertson was a young man of excellent abilities, which he had cultivated by extensive .reading ; his
:amiable temper and obUging disposition endeared him to his brother officers. His natural talents and acquired
information combined to makehiman ornament to his profession, m which he gave early promise of greatly distmgmshmg
himself He was Senior Lieutenant, and the army was unfortunately deprived of his services at a tmie when the
vacancy of a Company in his Regiment had occurred, to which his professional merit and high character would have
.given him the fairest claim." [Gazette, July 26, 1815.)
Hamlbantota.
1675.— September 12, 1818— Robert Layton.
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
1676.— October 6, 1818— Hugh Holmes.
" At Hambantota Lieut. Htjgh Holmes, 73rd Regt."
In November, 1817, Lieutenant Holmes was at Hansenwela near Btinawatta, Uva, with Lieutenant-Colonel
TCeUy. On JaZry 3, 1818, he marched from Bintemia to BaduUa with 34 men of the LigM Company of the
■73rd-" most of thim lately from England, and many had shared in the glorious triumph of Waterloo. (" Uva
Jlebellion," pp. 5, 12.)
1677.— October 30, 1818— James Mulquinny.
" At Hambantott Hospital Asst. James Mulquinny."
The rank of Hospital Assistant, formerly " Hospital Mate," was immediately below that of Assistant Surgeon.
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1678.— October 8, 1826— Charles Driberg ; Gertruida Elizabeth Driberg.
" At Hangbantotte of fever, Captain Charles
Deibeeg, Commandant of the District, aged 39
years, and on the same day Gbetruida Elizabeth.
his wife. By sudden removal of the heads of the
family within four hours of each other, no less than
seven children have been left totally unprovided
for. To Captain Deibeeg's memory the Corps to
which he belonged has borne honourable testimony,
and the universally respected character of the
parents has given rise to a great f eeUng of sympathy
towards their offspring." {Gazette, November 4,
1826.)
Captain Driberg was a son, probably the eldest son, of Captain F. W. von Driberg, who had other childrem
baptized in 1790, 1794, 1796, and 1800. He was bom in 1788. Captain Charles Driberg joined the 19th Regiment
as Ensign on May 15, 1806, became Captain, July 3, 1808, and was gazetted to the 1st Ceylon Regiment on March
19, 1818. The regiment was styled in the twenties the " 1st Ceylon Light Infantry." He served in the Travancore
campaign of 1809 with the 19th, and became Commandant of Hambantota in 1820. He married, on November 1,
1810, at St. Peter's Chtu-ch, Colombo, Gertruida Johanna Elizabeth, daughter of Friedrich Christiaan von Mullertsz and
his wife Anna Catherina Ehzabeth Medelar. A sister of hers, Petronella Charlotta, married Hendrik Bbell as his second
wife on July 22, 1804. She was called after her aunt, Susanna Petronella Charlotta Medelar, wife of Pieter Sluysken.
(See Journal, R.A.S., C.B., vol. XV., p. 269.) Mrs. Driberg had a son born at Batticaloa, March 26, 1816, while her
husband was stationed there with the 19th Regiment. He was baptized "John Gordon," evidently after the officer
of that name who died at Galle in 1815. Hambantota was fatal to this family. On February 18, 1820, Margaret
Ceciha, the second daughter, who was baptized at Galle, August 27, 1818, died at Harabantota, aged 1 year 10 months
and 14 days, and on March 2 the same year another daughter aged 5 months and 16 days died at the same place. A
third daughter, Martha Julia Bennett, called after J. W. Bennett, C.C.S., who was stationed at Hambantota at the
time, was born there on May 10, 1826 and baptized there on December 17 in that year.
Mrs. Driberg was baptized at Galle on February 27, 1791, so she was probably about 35 years of age. Two
other sons of Captain F. W. von Driberg entered the British Army^ Frederic, who joined the 3rd Ceylon Regiment,,
and died at Trincomalee in 1814, and William, who was also a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Ceylon Regiment, was put on
half pay when that regiment was disbanded, and joined the 83rd Regiment as an Ensign on January 14, 1819, and
afterwards the Ceylon Rifles. He was commanding the Rifles at Hambantota in 1833, at Trincomalee in 1842, and was
Commandant at Nuwara Eliya early in 1 846 ; went onleave to England in 1 849 , and appears to have retired in that year,
as his name is not included in the list of officers of the Rifles in the "Ceylon Almanac" of 1850, and with him this Driberg
family disappears from Ceylon annals. He died at Boulogne on April 30, 1860. He had married at Kalutara, on
August 28, 1835, Anna Henrietta Zelie, relict of Captain Edward Chauval, H.E.I.C.'s Madras Army. Their son,
William Charles Drieberg, Lieutenant in the 84th Regiment, born March 27, and baptized at Galle, July 7, 1839, married
at Penally, Pembrokeshire, on November 14, 1861, Selina Sophia, daughter of Captain Wells.
With regard to the spelling of the name. Captain Charles Driberg signed the register of his marriage " Driberg,"
but later, at the Kelly wedding, signs it " Drieberg." The " von " was dropped early. The family is in no way
connected with the present Ceylon family of Driebergs, descended from Johannes Gerardus Drieberg, who in 1878
married Johanna Horn. (See Nos. 118, 803, 1707.)
" The superstitious inhabitants confidently attributed the death of Captain Driberg to his having shot a
peacock in the preceding August during the period of the Kattregram festival, and that of his excellent wxEe to her
having partaken of it ; but how to account for my having survived a like visitation after having repeatedly incurred a
similar penalty with a view of exposing the absurdity of their notions, for the recovery of Captain Driberg's children
who, including an infant only six weeks old, had been removed to my house immediately after the deaths of their
parents from the same fever, and in the natives' opinion from the same cause, was indeed a puzzler ! Hanbantotte
was considered such a post of danger after the lamented deaths of the Connnandant and his wife that the
Governor determined ' not to send any officer to command the garrison (at that time consisting of 130 men) until more
favourable accounts of the healthy state of the district should have been received,' and for six months it remained in
that anomalous and neglected state."
During the mortality in 1826-27 " there was scarcely a house without some one or other of its inmates dead or
dying " Dr. Julius Casement was the Assistant Sm-geon in charge of the hospital. (Bennett, pp. 290-91.)
1679. — September, 1814 — ^Frangois Louis Senn.
" At PaUtoopane Capt. Sekk, Commandant of the
Sepoy tivaUds, stationed at that station."
According to Mr. J. J. Cotton in his account of the Regiment de Meuron (p. 34), Captains Senn and De la Harpe
transferred from that regiment to the 3rd Ceylon Regiment, which Captain Senn joined on September 25, 1798. On
May 20, 1812, he was appointed " Captain with colonial rank and to connnand the two companies of invalids to be
formed from the 2nd Ceylon and to assemble at PaUtoopane." A settlement at this place was established by Major
WiUerman , and Governor Brownrigg laid the foundation of the new fort , which was to protect the camp , on September 2 ,
1813, when Captain Senn, the Commandant, was present. One bastion was "ready to receive two guns," and the
Commandant's house was also ready. Captain Senn wag succeeded as commandant by Lieutenant Venekam of the
Sepoy Invalids on November 16, 1814.
The Ceylon Independent of August 11, 1909, records ifche death of " Ignatius Basil Senn, son of Mr. William
Senn and grandson of Captain Frangois Louis Senn." Captain Senn's youngest daughter, Mary Sophia, married, on
November 22, 1824, "Andreas Fernando, Clerk of Tangalle Cutcherry." Captain Senn, who was a Swiss, had:
probably, like other officers of the mercenary regiments of good birth, married a native.
" At Paltoopane there is a small but well-built and modern fort garrisoned by a non-commissioned officer's
detachment of the invalid company of the Ceylon Rifle Corps, which affords an agreeable change to the traveller as-
something approaching civilization; for he wiU find very comfortable quarters during his stay." (Bennett.)
Palatupana is 25 miles east of Hambantota. There are considerable remains of the fort left, much overgrown,
with jungle.
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NORTHERN PROVINCE.
Jaffna and neighbourhood.
1680.— May 9, 1780— Jeremias Rudolphus Stoll.
and Sefton^of^thfSmhi^ w!!''°'^.®;,^^'''^'^w.°^ Wurtemburg, and had been residing at Jaffna as " Schoolmaster
cun-encv HeirrweS^ having left at Louisbourg property to the amount of 8,400 florins Rhenish
aTwer'^'diSverrd Ts nolSo^J "^ """ Government Gazette of July 23, 1831, and in succeeding issues, but whether
Jaffna.
1681.— December 24, 1797— John Jervis.
" Mr. John Jeevis, the Assistant Collector, died this
day, and by order of Major B. G. Babbut, the
Commanding Officer, a Committee of Officers was
assembled, and Major Jbanneeet and Lieuts.
CoGHLAN and Jewell having taken an Account of
aU the Papers, &c., and the Cutchery being then
sealed in the presence of those Gentlemen, the key«
were delivered, to Major B. G. Barbut." (Jaffna
Kachcheri Diary.)
R.hJ.if iSLTl^r''^'^^^'"*'^ ^/a V^^' "°^ °^ Benjamin Jervis (1733-74), Chief of Surat, and his wife Rebecca
Robinson daughter of John Robinson of Calcutta. Benjamin Jervis was a first cousin of Admiral John Jervis, created
Earl St. Vincent. John Jervis jomed the Madras Civil Service as a Writer in 1789. He married at Fort St. George,
Ehza daughter of George Ritso She had two brothers in the 76th Regiment and two sisters, one of whom appears to
have taken up her abode with the Jervises at Jaffna early in 1797.* Jervis arrived at Jaffna on December 3, 1795
having been appointed by the Government of Madras " Assistant to Mr. Robert Andrews for the purpose of investigating
and colleetuig the revenues of Jaffanapatnam and Manar and their Dependencies." He met Captain Barbut, thi
Commandant, the next day, and immediately opened his Kachcheri, and reported his arrival and assumption of duties
to Lord Hobart, the Governor at Fort St. George. Thus, the British civil administration was established in the Island
before Colombo and Galle had been taken by the British forces.
Jervis's full style as given in official documents was "John Jervis, Senior Merchant in the Service of the Hon'ble
the Umted English East India Company under the Presidency of Fort St. George on the Coast of Corromandel and
Semor Assistant to the Resident and Superintendent of Revenue of the Island of Ceylon." For short he signed himself
" Assistant Superintendent of Revenue " or " Assistant Resident."
The first duty to which he addressed himself was the taking of measures for the protection of the pearl
banks from being plundered, and for calling for " proposals respecting the renting of the privilege of fishiiig them "
Tenders were advertised for by the Madras Government— 120 boats with 15 divers to each boat were required for a
fishery to last from March 11 to April 10— but eventually the rent was purchased by Jervis himself for the simi of
150,000 Porto Novo pagodas, f Messrs. TuUoh and Brodie, his agents, giving security for him at Madras. He assumed
that he could be Superintendent of the Fishery (as he would have been in the ordinary course) as well as renter, but
his chief, Robert Andrews, took a different view, and appointed Robert Alexander of the Madras Civil Service to this
post. The result was a rather animated correspondence between Jervis and Andrews. Jervis threw up the rent,
on the ground that, owing to the operations then proceeding against Colombo, which took the boats away, he could
not get enough boats to work the fishery successfully, and that it was the duty of the Government to see that he had
the necessary boats. Lord Hobart allowed him to withdraw from his engagements as renter, but at the same time
expressed " his sense of the Impropriety of that Gentleman's conduct both as it respects his engagements as renter of
the fishery and his duty to the Company as Collector of their Revenue." But Jervis himself was satisfied that he had
acquitted himself " in every manner in a light which I flatter myself will reflect credit on my Character both in a
private and Public capacity my private interest has not in any Degree stood in Opposition to my Zeal for that
of the Hon'ble Company." He explains how it was he came to tender for the rent. " Having been assiduously
employed in collecting and transmitting to Government every previous information regarding the Value of the Fishery,
I did not hesitate to make a Tender of Proposals to Rent it at which was considered a large sum, relying implicitly on
the effective aid that Public Authority could alone give me in providing boats, &c., and " But Jervis's relin-
quishing the rent was an unfortunate move as regards his own interests, for the fishery of 1796 yielded £60,000. J Jervis
arrived at Jaffnaj on his return from the Fishery, on \pril 8. He was troubled by various questions of administration
on which he wrote to Andrews for instructions. Captain Ferguson, the Acting Commandant, had been issuing orders,
" without any Solicitation on my part," interfering with the Department of Boats and Vessels. Some " servants of
the Rajah of Candia " had recently come to Jaffna, and Captain Ferguson had issued a Garrison Order that "All
persons who shall entertain strangers that may arrive hereafter are hereby required to inform them that it is their
Business to wait on the Commanding Officer." But Jervis objected to this order, and pointed out that he had " no
concern with the servants of His Excellency the Rajah of Candia." He wished Andrews to communicate with the Officer
Commanding the British Forces in the Island or immediately with Government, " so as to prevent any interference on
the part of the Military Authorities with the Department which Government have immediately intrusted and com-
mitted to the charge of their Revenue Servants in this Inland." He founded his objection mainly on an order
published at Fort St. George on December 10, 1794, " Defining the Separate Powers and Authorities of the Civil and
Military Servants holding appointments in the Northern Ciroars, and directing the same to take effect also on the said
Island as far as circumstance will admit thereof." His contention seems to have been upheld. Another matter that
troubled him was " the existence of so large a band of Robbers in this District." He suggested to Captain Barbut in
December, 1795, that they should be tried by court martial, " as the only Tryal which appears calculated to alarm
the guilty, who are as yet at large, and effectually to deter them from the Commisston of future crimes." Some of
these " Colleries," as they are called, had been caught, and were then confined in Jaffna Fort on charges of burglary.
* " The situation in which my sister Miss Ritso was coming to the Island on the death of her sister and Guardian at Bengal
to my wife's protection led me to propose this visit " (i.e., to Colombo), " as the only means which appeared feasible of bringing
her to her intended Home at Jaffna Major and Mrs. Barbut at length sailing for Colombo, an opportunity occurs of her
coming ii^jhgB^iider their kind care." (Letter to Andrews dated January 30, 1797.)
■^^^OTB^if. N. Pagodas = 306,000 Rix-doUars = £22,950, if the Rix-dollar is taken as equal to Is. 6d.
«P^a^g^on, W. B. Jervis, in his biography of his father writes, under a complete misapprehension of the position,,
that Jo^P^^pifed " a short time after having unadvisably sold the pearl fisheries of Ceylon which had become his property."
3 H ' 82-09
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Jaffna — contd.
1681.— December 24, 1797 — John Jervis — contd.
Colonel Stuart did not approve of this recommendation ; it was not expedient that they should be kept in confine-
ment until a general court martial could be assembled or until orders could be received from Madras, and Andrews
tells Jervis with reference to " Your Letter applying for a Court Martial to try Certain People who have been
apprehended by you for Theft, in all cases unconnected with the Military, your Public Cutchery is the place for
investigating the Subject, and your Authority during my absence Sufficient for the Trial and Punishment of all
ilisdemeanours which are not of a heinous Nature without the addition of any Power which Captain Ferguson
conceived he could delegate." (Letter dated February 20, 1796.) The Secretary to the Government of Fort St.
George also writes (March 6, 1796) :^" Every Collector is vested with the power of confining such delinquents."
•Jervis found some difficulty in the collection of the taxes, and on April 27, 1796, applied to Captain Ferguson for
40 Sepoys " to assist my public servants in collecting the Head Money and Body Tax," and ten days later he asked
for a "Naique " and 4 Sepoys to accompany the " Aumildar " he was sending to the several Districts under Jaffna-
patnam to collect these taxes. In 1797 it was decided to impose a tax on coconut trees, and a census of the trees
in the Jaffna District was started. This was completed by the end of March. There were found to be 113,688 trees
in the Jaffna District. The tax was to be one fanam per tree a year, but trees which did not yield toddy or
produce fruit were exempted, and these amounted to about half the number. Jervis seems to have been
opposed to the tax. He estimated that it would only raise 5,500 Rix-dollars in " the Jaffna Districts,"
and this estimate was not very much exceeded, for after the census the yield was put at 2,524 " Star Pagodas."
or about 0,451 Rix-dollars. He reported that " all the inhabitants were very averse to the payment of this
tax." He had already reported, at the time of the numbering of the trees, " the particular opposition which has
been given to my people who were employed to number the coconut trees, as well as the disposition of the Inhabitants
in general, manifest to oppose my collection of the tax." He wished to know whether it was to be exacted, as he
apprehended " an alarming opposition." The collection of the tax was in consequence suspended by General Welbore
Doyle, who was then in charge of the Coinpany's possessions in Ceylon, "until further orders from Government "
(March 25). But on May 17 an order was issued by Robert Andrews for the levying of the tax. How Jervis further
fared in its collection does not appear. Jervis, however, had a tax of his own. As it was represented to him that
" the sum of four or five thousand rupees might be realized without oppression to the lower orders of men by the
receipt of fees for Passports at Point Pedro," he ordered these fees to be recovered. He procured by his representations
to Captain Barbut the cutting of a channel from the Fort moat to the Lake to prevent the flooding of the low grounds
in the neighbourhood and the destruction of the paddy. This was carried out in December, 1796. On June 21,
1796, Jervis left for Trincomalee, where he arranged for the collection of the sea customs by the Master Attendant and
of the revenue by the Aumildar, relieving the Commandant, who had for some time collected them. He then proceeded
to Mullaittivu, where he remained some days, meeting Lieutenant A. Fair, the Commandant, and Lieutenant Theile,
a retired officer of the Dutch Company. Two Aumildars had been sent to the Vanni by Andrews " to investigate
the revenues " and Jervis wished to observe and report on their conduct. The seven Dutch " Adigars " of Mullaittivu
had been recently recalled by Jervis, and replaced by " Manigars and Conicoplies conformable to the system observed
on the Coast." Andrews highly approved of this step. " Their being stationed about the country only impressed the
Xatives with an idea of our restoring the Island, and gave the Dutch a more general opportunity of instilling such
notions prejudicial to the public interest." (July 6, 1796.) By July 21 Jervis had returned to Jaffna, on which day
he sent to Lord Hobart, " by express cattemaran," the following information, which he deemed of the greatest
importance : — " A Dutch Sergeant has just declared to me that on the Evening of the 21st he saw two Squadrons, each
of 4 sail, engaged near to Chundekolom, about 55 English miles to the Southward of this place. The English ships
being nearest to the shore, he plainly distinguished their Colours, the Enemy's Colours he called White, but from the
Distance he could not so clearly distinguish them. The Sergeant has related the whole of the particulars to Major
Barbut, which circumstantial detail acoompanys this Letter." Those were stirring times even in Mullaittivu. Exactly
a month later he reports to Major Barbut his " having this Instant received a letter from my Aumildar at Moelletivoe
acquainting me that on the morning of the 19th instant six large Vessels of three Masts passed that Port, bending
their course towards the Coast of Corromandel." The " cattemaran people " sent to the Coast with the Express to
the Hon. Major Monson delayed on the way there, and were in consequence imprisoned on their return.
Jervis appears to have been in bad health during most of his time in Ceylon. " A severe indisposition " prevented
him from " applying to business " on his return to Jaffna from the Pearl Fishery on April 8, 1796 ; on May 28 the same
year he refers to "my present bad state of health," and informs Andrews that "the Garrison Surgeon, Mr. Hawkes,
has given it as his opinion that I cannot with any propriety immediately undertake " a journey to Trincomalee. Three
weeks later (June 17) he writes to Andrews, " in consequence of my complaints having taken a very serious turn I have
been unavoidably detained here to this date," and he could not start for Trincomalee until the 21st. He attributes
his breakdown in health to the arduous nature of his duties. Writing to Andrews on January 30, 1797, he says, " Your
presence at Jaffna will, by enabling you to take a general view of my official arrangements and conduct, afford you
proof of my alacrity, indefatigable attention, and correctness in an office of the utmost importance, under the business of
which my health has suffered the deepest injury. Whilst I have drawn a small allowance, with which with difficulty I
have barely supported my famUie, and whilst I have in fact hitherto derived only one distant view of advantage, in the
pleasing hope and assurance of my conduct recommending me in the end to the beneficial patronage and public appro-
bation of Government." His pay, it may be mentioned, was 100 Star Pagodas a month, equal to 375 Rix-dollars,
and 1 per cent, on the collections, and he rented a house at 50 Rix-dollars a month from Mr. C. F. Schreuder. The
Kaohcheri was held at his house. He had three sons, George Ritso, who entered the Bombay Engineers, and died at
Boulogne in 1852 ; John James Sibbald of the Artillery, who died of cholera in India ; and Thomas Best, who was born
at Jaffna on May 2, 1796. The last named became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Bombay Engineers, also F.R.S. and
Director of the Topographical and Statistical Departments, now the Intelligence Division of War Department in
India. He died April 3, 1857. He is described by his son, William Best Jervis, formerly Director of the Conservator
of the Royal Italian Industrial Museuni at Turin, who wrote a biography of him, as " Christian Soldier, Geographer, and
Friend of India." John Jervis had some trouble over the baptism of this son, as Mr. Philippus Kroon, who had been
Accountant-General under the Dutch Company in Ceylon, and Mr. Juriaan Kats, both " Leeden van de Kerken Raad "
at Jafina, objected to the child being baptized by the Rev. Mr. Cadenski, who himself, however, had no objection to
performing the ceremony, and forbade him to administer the rite. Jervis complained of their conduct to Andrews, and
asked him to represent it to Genferal Stuart (September 28). Mrs Jervis seems to have had another child at Jaffna
shortly before her husband's death. He refers in a letter to Captain Barbut to " Mrs. Jervis' approaching confinement,"
and to " the good assistance of Doctor Carnie, who has lately joined your Garrison." This was Assistant "Surgeon John
Carnie, who had succeeded Dr. Hayes, and who held as well the offices of Registrar of Lands and President of the Land
Raad at Jaffna. Dr. Carnie left for Europe in the Bengal in December, 1 802, the same ship which took home Mrs. Barbut.
Mrs. Jervis, shortly after the death of her husband, married Captain Whitlie of the Madras Army, byjjl^i^i^bad a
son, William, who became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Bombay Artillery, and died in the Indian Oce^^^^^^H,ssage
home to England in 1857. This Captain Whitlie was no doubt the " Lieutenant Thomas Whitlie," \^^^^BHRutant
.and in command of a detachment of the Malay Corps at Jaffna in 1797 ; who left that station for T^^^lBBon the
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1681.— December 24, 1797 — John Jervis— com^i.
nnornmg of July 13 with the Second Division of that Corps ; and who was wounded at Pangalumcoorchy on May 23,
1801, having arrived there the previous day with 160 men of the Corps. A Captain WHham Whitlie of the 12th Regi-
ment died at Pondicherry on October 14, 1800. (Cotton, p. 367.) The last document in the Jaffna records bearing
Jerviss signature is a receipt for nails for the sloop, "Ceylon, No. 4," dated December 11, 1797. The "Cutchery"
continued to be held at his dwelling house until January 31, 1798. It was probably then removed to the Fort. Jervis
IS no doubt buried in the old Dutch burial ground. This notice and the Jaffna diary form his only memorial.
1682.— December 31, 1804^John H. Evans.
" At Jaffnapatnam, Brevet-Major Evans, 19th Regt."
He was junior Major, and in AprU, 1802, was appointed Commandant at Calpentyn in succession to Captain
Von Driberg, ia accordance with the new arrangements made by Governor North, under which field officers were
appointed to the command of such outstations as had Land Raads, the Commandant acting as President of the Land
Raad as well. He joined the army proceeding to Kandy in January, 1803, and was in command of the picket that
first entered the town on February 21 (see Captain Anderson's " Journal"). He resumed command at Calpentyn on
April 11, on the return of General Macdowal's forces. He was appointed Commandant of Mannar on October 8, 1803,
succeeding Major Vincent, 19th Regiment. He commanded at Arippu during the absence of Major Beaver in March,
1804, proceeded to the Coast for three months in October of that year, and probably died on his way back from it at
Jaffna. He was succeeded at Mannar by Lieutenant William Thw'aites, 51st Regiment. In August, 1804, at Mannar
Major Evans arrested two men on suspicion of their being Kandyan spies returning to Kandy. It turned out that they
were servants of " the king, who was murdered by the present King of Candia." (This was Rajadi Rajasinha.) They
were sent to him by Captain Jewell with two other men, who asserted that they were spies.
1683.— July 6, 1807— Friedrich Wilhelm von Driberg.
" At JafEnapatam Capt. Dribbeg."
He was Commandant of MuUaittivu at the time of his death. He was probably a son, by his first wife, of
Diederioh Carolus von Driberg, who was a Captain-Lieutenant in the Dutch Company's service at Chilaw in 1766 ; was
Commandant at Galle in 1782 ; Major 1783 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 1791, and was Commandant of the Garrison of Colombo
when it was taken by the British. Colonel Von Driberg died on June 22, 1804, at Negapatam, when he must have been
about 60, and Friedrich Wilhelm was baptized in 1768, so that if he was born in the latter year, he was about 39 when
he died. As there was thus a difference of about 24 years between them, it is probable that they were father and son,
and very likely came out together from Europe. According to Governor North, they were Hanoverians (letter to Lord
Momington of July 15, 1800, Wellesley MS., reprinted in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 2991, and, judging from
their arms, the family held baronial rank. Captain Friedrich Wilhelm was, at the time of the attack on Colombo by the
British, " Captain-Major of the Fortress." Notwithstanding, after Colombo was taken, he entered the British service,
and was Commandant of Calpentyn fromNovember, 1799, to April, 1802. He received the appointment fromGovernor
North. The place was garrisoned by a company or two of Malay Invalids. North refers to him as " a Hanoverian, late
in the Dutch service, appointed to the command of the company of Malays which were on revenue duty, one of eight
companies which were in the Dutch service." It appears that the Dutch had 3,000 Malays in 1791-92. Cordiner met
Captain Von Driberg and his wife at Calpentyn on January 16, 1801 , and writes of them : "Caj)tain and Mrs. Driberg
received us with great hospitality. Theformer is an indefatigable sportsman, famed for his success in shooting elephants,
which he kills for the sake of their tusks. The latter is an accomplished woman, surrounded by a large family of
dehghtful children." (Vol. II., p. 334.) In April, 1802, he was appointed Commandant of Mullaittivuand President of
the Land Raad there. While there, in May, 1803, he proposed to the Board of Revenue the establishment of a cotton
plantation. This was approved with certain modifications, but the matter was postponed. At the same time he made
an application for a lease of land for the cultivation of paddy in the Vaimi, and an agreement was, in July, 1803,
entered into between him and Government for the lease for seven years of the tank " Allegalloepadetecolam " (Alai-
kallupoddakulam) in Melpattu East, which is now abandoned, but is probably in the neighbourhood of Annatevanmadu,
on the old road from Mannar to MuUaittivu. But his agricultural pursuits were soon interrupted. There was
restlessness in the Vanni fomented by the King of Kandy, and on June 17, 1802, Captain Von Driberg had written to
I-usignan, the Collector of Jaffna, " I have great attention to the proceedings of the Candians, and will not
fail to communicate them to Barbut." He refers in 1803 to the orders he had received from Colonel Barbut, who was
at Minneri, commanding the force proceeding to Kandy from Trinoomalee to take charge of the Kandyan prince
" Moetoesami," who was on his way from Jaffna to " Candely Lake," and subsequently to Trrncomalee. Muttusami
was to go first to MuUaittivu, and then to Kantalai in Captain Von Driberg's charge. He also refers to " the third
person I sent to the frontier of Candi to know exactly what was going on— there was nothing extraordinary." Not-
withstanding theseprecautions, his garriSonof Malay Invalids was on August 25, 1803, surprised by " Pandara Wanman "
and his foUowers, who captured the Fort of MuUaittivu. The garrison was withdrawn m good order by Captam Von
Driberg in boats to Jaffna. He also succeeded in bringing off the books and papers and the cash. News of this disaster
arrived at Jaffna the next day. On October 25 the CoUector (Lusignan) went to Mannar " to settle matters for an
expedition into the Wanny under Captain Driberg," and on the 31st the latter defeated Pandara Wanman at Kachchi-
la&nadu and re-captured MuUaittivu. (See " Vanni Manual," p. 19, Cordiner, vol II., p. 245.) As a reward for his
services Captain Von Driberg received the tank of Pandarakulam, tmd it remained in the possession of some ot his
d^cendants untU 1865 or 1866. (Sessional Papers, 1866, p. 244.) Mrs. Von Driberg died at Jaffna in 1843 (see
No 803) Three of their sons entered the British Army : Charles, who died at Hambantota m 1826; Frederick, of the
3rd Cevlon Reffiment who died at Trinoomalee in 1814 ; and WiUiam, who retired as a Major of the Ceylon Rifles.
A daughter married William Ridsdale of the C.M.S. in 1832 (see No. 118). Another daughter, Charlotte Caroline,
married Lieutenant C. C. Torriano in 1805.
1684.— July 7, 1807— Johannes Tranchell.
Provincial Judge of Jaffna.
He was son of Per TrancheU, and was born at Romelanda, Sweden, in 1754 He was for some time in the service
Jie wassonoi jrei j.i» ; Poirlnn nftpritq capturobv the British, and took service under the new Govern-
of the Dutch Company but rema^e^^^^^ STlIS SXt GaUe AprU 25, 'l799. and with this office he held, as he
ment He was gt"^*!^*"!,! ThS^of Swed4c^^ He was appointed Provincial Judge, Trincomalee, February 22,
fstfrd-^Sr ?aff2: ttrir^'?! 'orVarried i^^784 Maria Magdalene, daughter of Pieter Swart.
Siebertz, of Danish extraction, born in 1769. (See No. 938.)
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1685.— February 10, 1808— George Brunette,
" At Jaffna, Lieut. Brunette, 2nd Ceylon."
He was in Jaffna in 1806. Captain Truter, also of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, married his widow at Jaffna on
September 3, 1808, after settling the debts of the Lieutenant. The name is spelt both "Brunette" and " Brunet " in
the Gazette. Lieutenant Brunette died insolvent, but his estate was being administered as long after his death as 1814.
1686.— June 14, 1808— Charles C. Torriano.
" At Jaffnapatnam, Lieutenant and Fort Adjutant
C. C. Torriano, aged 28 years."
" Charles C. Torriano, Gent., to be 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment, vice Bausset, 15th April, 1804." He
was gazetted 1st Lieutenant, October 21, 1807. He was Port Adjutant, Jaffna, from May 9, 1806. He married Charlotte
Caroline von Driberg in March, 1805. The only other episode in the life of Lieutenant Torriano which I a'n
able to record is that in September, 1805, while he was at MuUaittivu, staying, it is presumed, with his father-in-law,
Captain Von Driberg, he was reported by Sergeant Wirgman as having shot a cow, which was supposed to be the
property of Government, though claimed by Lieutenant Torriano. On inquiry it was found to be the property of
Government.
The Torrianos settled in the Madras Presidency in the seventeenth century, and intermarried with English and
Dutch families there. Their earliest known representative, Nathaniel Torriano, married Elizabeth Renouf , and had a
son, George, born in 1700, who on April 4, 1725, married Susanna Catherina de Dorpere. Dorothy Torriano, probably
a sister of Nathaniel's, married (1) Charles Proby, (2) Thomas Lucas. Richard Torriano was one of the Black Hole
victims. Charles Torriano was in the Madras Artillery in 1766. Captain John Samuel Torriano defended Onore in
1783 against Tippu. William Harcomt Torriano was in the Madras Civil Service 1766-1807, and was Resident at
Nagore in 1796. His wife, Eliza, died at Negapatam, October 17, 1795. This Lieutenant Torriano was very likely
a son of theirs. There was another Lieutenant Charles Torriano in the 1st Battalion of the 9th Regiment of Native
Infantry, who was at Jaffna with his corps, 1799-1800. Tlie detachment passed through Puttalam and Calpentyn in
July, 1800, en route to the Coast under Captain Hazard. Captain Hazard and Lieutenant Torriano were both wounded,
the latter mortally, at the attack on " Pangalumcoorchy " on March 9, 1801. This Lieutenant Torriano married at
Galle, on June 22, 1800, Johanna Petronella van Geyzel, and she married, as her second husband, at Galle , on March 21,
1805, the Rev. Michael Cliristiaan Vos of the Gape of Good Hope, who was born at the Cape on January 6, 1760,
and died there on February 2&, 1825. He was the son of Jan Hendrik Vos of Batavia and Johanna Bok, and was not
related to Ceylon De Vos families. He left several children, and one of the Boer prisonsrs in Ceylon, the Rev.
Mr. Postma, remembered seeing an old lady, one of the daughters of Predikant Vos.
1687.— May 26, 1811— William Greenslade.
" At Jaffna William Greenslade, of H. M.
Civil Service and Custom Master, Jaffna." (Gazette,
June 5, 1811.)
He arrived in tlie Island on August 26, 1808, with Charles Scott, C.C.S., and R. M. Sneyd, C.C.S., and was
appointed Extra Assistant at the Secretariat, Jime 14, 1809 ; 2nd Assistant, January 31, 1810 ; Custom Master,
Jaffna, January 2, 1811. He died insolvent. His estate was being administered 1813—26.
1688.— October 23, 1811— Eriek Matfleld.
Ceylon Civil Service, Sitting Magistrate of Point
Pedro.
He first appears as Secretary to a Sub-Committee, of which Alexander Wood, C.C.S., was Chairman, appointed
to inquire into the case of the poor, October 20, 1801. He was Secretary to the Provincial Court of Colombo from
April 16, 1803 ; Sitting Magistrate and Custom Master, Kaits, November 5, 1806 ; ditto at Point Pedro, 1808. There
were moneys belonging to his estate at the Treasury in 1831.
1689.— May 12, 1812— George Hayter.
Lieutenant- Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineers in
the Island.
He was Acting Surveyor-General and in charge of the Civil Engineers in the Island, and was succeeded by Captain
Sclmeider. His estate was being administered 1813-20; value 65,464 rix-dollars.
1690.— May 3, 1813— John Steddy.
Captain Steddy, Commander of the Government
cutter Wilhelmina.
He was succeeded by Matthew Frewyer. (See No. 341.)
1691.— May 6, 1813— Mattheus Petrus Raket.
Formerly Commandeur of Jaffna.
He was probably a son of Jan. Helfrig Racket, Opperhoofd of Mannar, and Magdalena Swinnas (see No. 886).
He was Commandeur, 1792-96. He married (1) Maria Elizabefli Kramer. His elder brother (?), Bartholomeus
Jacobus Raket, was Commandeur, 1777-92. He married, January 28, 1785, Susanna Elizabeth Mooyaart.
On February 17, 1796, John Jervis, tlae Assistant Resident, wrote to M. P. Racket for " the public books and
accounts which were stipulated to be delivered over to the English on the capitulation of this place." Towards the end
of 1796 he. Major Frankena, and six other Dutchmen sent in a petition to Government in which they objected to a pro-
clamation issued by Major Barbut, the Commandant of Jaffna, whicli ordered that all Coast slaves must be considered in
Ceylon free people. The'r objection was that this would have the effect of liberating Nalavas and Palla caste slaves
which was contrary to the 4th Article of the Capitulation. Jervis pointed out that Major Barbut only ordered the
liberation of a few slaves who had proved themselves subjects of the Nabob of the Carnatic and of the " United English
East India Company." The Rakets and Major Frankena, in fact, never reconciled themselves to English rule. On
September 27 . 1803, tlie Collector, Lusignan, found it necessary to issue an order to the headmen that " no Headman or
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1691— May 6, 1813— Mattheus Petrus "Raket— contd.
nnTa^n°nfHt!!^^*'T shall attend at the house or converse with the two Commandeurs named Raket or Major Frankena
^9^ Ot^-1?; ™ J ^"4 *^f P^^shment, the said Persons being enemies of the British." M. P..Raket married
the PolW^^T •""* Henrietta, fourth daughter of Baron Stephen van Lynden van BHtterswyk. On May 17, 1805,
£?«nP«i H^fj/. ^r^r^rT.'^u^ ^- ^^^^^' "^**« Commandeur," enclosing an extract showing "outstanding
balances due to the late Dutch Government," and requesting information on the subject.
, 1692.— November 11, 1813— Albert Henry Giesler.
" At Jaffnapatnam, aged 61 years, Albert Hbney
Giesler, Esq., Advocate-Fiscal for the Second
Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature in this
Island."
He was of Lisbon and a " boekhouder," and was, under the British Government, Secretary to the " General
"VoaT" ^®A J ^"-Pf "itendence " until February, 1803. He was appointed Keeper of the Dutch Records on February 9,
ISOrf, and Advocate-Fiscal on January 12, 1812. He married (1) Susanna Gertruida Staats, and by her was father of
J^ieutenant br. U. Giesler ; and (2) Gertruida Antonia, eldest daughter of the late Major Fredrik van dem Busch, on
JMovember 18, 1810. Major van dem Busch was Commandant of the garrison at Cochin under the Dutch. P. Sluysken
^nd LieutenantC. Driberg were witnesses to this marriage, and Giesler and P. Sluysken were witnesses to the marriage
ot L,ieutenant Driberg on November 1. R. A. van dem Busch was a witness to both. Giesler's daughter, by his first
wite Margaretta Adriana, married at Colombo, on July 9, 1810, Lieutenant Henry Augustus F. Hervey, of the 2nd
Battalion, 7th Native Infantry, Sir AViUiam Coke and the bride's brother. Lieutenant Giesler, being witnesses to the
marriage. She had a son at Malwan, near Goa, June 9, 1816.
1693.— January 17, 1816— Gerard Godfried Archibald Giesler.
" At Jaffna, on the 17th instant, in the prime of his
life, Lieut. G. Giesler, of H. M. 2nd Ceylon Regi-
ment, of a violent Fever which he got at Moletivoe
while commanding the Garrison of that place.
The few days he lingered with it he bore out the
Severity of his Decease (sic) as a true Christian,
with meekness and fortitude. He was much beloved
and esteemed by His Friends and Relations, He
left a Wife, an Infant Child, and numerous Relations
to mourn His loss." {Gazette, January 24, 1816.)
He was baptized at Colombo, November 25, 1792, and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, on
July 1, 1809, vice Brunette, and 1st Lieutenant, January 15, 1810. He married, on March 27, 1814, Dorothea Sophia
de Breard, who, after his death, married John Joachim Vanderspar (see Nos. 561 and 606). The infant child referred
to was Susan Margare't, who, on July 10, 1835, at Galle, married W. H. Trant.
1694.— July, 1821— John Arnold Stutzer.
" At Jaffnapatam, in the 59th year of his age, John
Arnold Stittzee, M.D. and Assistant Surgeon in
the Colonial Establishment.
" Dr. Stutzer was a native of Sweden, left his country in the service of the Dutch East India Company in 1783,
was employed as Physician to two several embassies to Japan, from whence he brought many specimens of the art of
that wonderful people, had married and settled at Jaffnapatam, &c., on the capitulation of Ceylon, accepted employ
under His Majesty's Government — first in superintending the smallpox establishment, and afterwards in introducing
the Vaccine, which he did so successfully that in this populous district no ravages of the dreadful malady it supplanted
have even been known for these 18 years.
" In 1811 the Doctor, being then 48 years of age, volunteered to accompany the expedition against Batavia,
and being appointed by General Sir Thomas Maitland to do duty vsdth the Corps of the Royal Artillery as Surgeon,
he happily, in the execution of this trust and of duties more important from his knowledge of the languages, manners,
and people of that country, both European and Malay, succeeded in obtaining the approbation of the Commander-in-
Chief and those under whom he served.
" He has left a widow and three daughters, who can never forget the loss of so indulgent, affectionate, and tender
a friend. All classes of the inhabitants of this place will long remember his kindness and assiduous attention as a
professional man, for he never considered that time misspent which was given to the calls of the poor or the distressed.
" Endowed with an enlightened mind, of a mild and conciliatory temper, and much kindness of manner, the
Doctor was the life of all Society, and his firmness in sickness and affliction thro' which he laboured 10 long months
without ever being heard to complain — expressing no feeling for his own agonizing sufferings, but pity only for the
distresses of his afflicted and amiable family, has left us to experience what a blank the loss of a single individual may
occasion amongst a circle of friends." (Gazette, July 21, 1821.)
J. A. Stutzer was renter of the " Joy Tax " (a tax on jewellery) at Jaffna for the year 1800. He was nominated
the same year by Dr. John Camie,the Garrison Surgeon, who in April had been appointed Superintendent of Smallpox
Hospitals, one of which was to be built at Jaffna, as an "overseer " for smallpox duties. He was Acting Garrison
Surgeon of Jaffna (Dr. Camie having left for Europe in 1802), and took medical charge of the detachment of the 34th
Regiment, doing duty in the Jaffna Garrison from September 1 , 1803. He was appomted Superintendent of Vaccina-
tion at Jaffna, May 18, 1804 ; Assistant Surgeon September 5, 1804 ; ditto, " with Island rank and to be attached to
the Garrison of Jaffna," from February 15, 1807. (Oazeiie, June 10.) His house was " at the comer of Main street,"
facing the esplanade. Mrs. Stutzer died at Jaffna, April 30, 1831. Their son. Lieutenant Charles Stutzer, of the 1st
■Ceylon Regiment, was killed during the Uva Rebellion on February 18, 1818. There used to be a tradition in Jaffna
in connection with his death. There was a stone in the floor of one of the rooms of the house within the Fort, which
is now the jailer's quarters, about 2 feet square, and on this stone was engraved the sentence " Hoe lang is de eeuw-
igheid," supposed, to have been cut on it by Dr. Stutzer on hearmg of the death of his son. But against this there
■are the facts that the stone did not seem to be in situ, it was most awkwardly placed in a comer of the room in such
a position that it was difficult to read it; and secondly. Dr. Stutzer's house was situated in the Pettah, though, of
course he may at one time have occupied the quarters in the Fort. The stone has been placed m the floor of the Dutch
Church, where it can be more easUy seen. It is of exactly the same dimensions as the stones which form the flooring
both of' the church and of the jailer's house. (See No. 822.)
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1695.— June 13, 1822— John^Godfried Koch.
" At Jaffna, J. G. Koch, Esq., a Lieutenant in the
Dutch E. I. Company's Service, aged 54 years,
leaving behind him Niae children to lament his
loss."
He was the son of Godfried Koch of Alt-Buppin, Neywork, Brandenburg, who was born in 1734, went out to
Ceylon in the Ship Rosenberg in 1755, and married, November 9, 1760, Wilhelmina Magdalena Rovert. Lieutenant
I. G. Koch married Susanna Elizabeth Brohier. Their son, Cyrus Godfried, married Jacomina Bernardina Toussaint.
Their son was the late Rev. Charles Alexander Koch, Colonial Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church, Colombo.
1696.— November 16, 1833— Samuel Bireham.
" Brevet Lieut. -Colonel Samuel Bieoham, Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, in the 63rd year of his age, upwards
of 50 of which he had spent in the active service
of his country."
Major, Mrs., and Miss Bireham arrived by the transport Stentor (a " bark ") on August 22, 1828. His niece.
Amy Bireham, married, as his second wife. Captain Biu'Ieigh, C.R.R. Lieutenant-Colonel Bircham's widow,
Dorothea, was buried at Jaffna, July 27, 1846, aged 75. He must have entered the army at the age of twelve.
1697.— June 17, 1836— Mary Ann Koch.
" At Jaffna, Maey Aitn, wife of Mr. Lotris Henry
Koch, only daughter of the late Lieut. John
Kennedy, C.R.R. , aged 20 years 32 days, leaving
an infant child."
1698.— Jafluary 14, 1840— H. G. Speldewinde.
" District Judge of Tenmaratche and Patchepalle."
The headquarters of the District Judge were at Chavakachcheri. H. G. Speldewinde was Sitting Magistrate-
of Mallagam from 1823 to 1833, when he was appointed District Judge of Tenmaratche. He was probably a son of
Hendrik Speldewinde who married Maria Dorothea Elizabeth Koch, sister of Lieutenant J. G. Koch. She married
(2) on December 31, 1786, Frederick Gerard de Messe.
1699.— March 15, 1840— Haddon Smith.
" Brevet Major Haddon Smith, late of the Ceylon
Rifles."
Captain Haddon Smith , 73rd Regiment , was in command at Paramatta luatil January 17,1814, when the regiment
left for Ceylon. He arrived in March of that year. He was Commandant at Jaffna from 1833 to 1840. He had married
Sarah— at Calcutta, September 15, 1803. His widow died at Colpetty, Colombo, December 3, 1840, aged fifty, from
which it would appear that she was married at the age of thirteen. One son was John Hastings Smith (see No. 120)..
Another son, Robert Exshaw Smith, who had been in the Ceylon Rifles, married Miss C. M. L. Vanderstraaten, sixth
daughter of V. W. Vanderstraaten, July 27, 1835. He died at Colombo, July 31, 1840. A third son I take to have
been Henry Smith. A fourth son, Haddon, was engaged in coconut planting, and in 1868 was in charge of Hendella
and Mattacooly Farms, and of Mutturajawella, which belonged then to Anthony Gibbs & Co. Major Haddon Smith
took part in the operations in Uva, 1817-18. He was succeeded as Commandant of Jaffna by Major Wallett. It was
for striking Captain Haddon Smith that Private John Jenny of the 73rd was shot on Galle Face on October 27, 1817.
1700.— June 8, 1840— Henry Smith.
" Late C.R.R."
He married Caroline Gray, daughter of Captain French Gray, on January 10, 1833, at the Fort Church, Jaffna.
The witnesses were Captain John Antill and the bride's brother, French Gray. A son, Henry Basil, was bom
September 2, 1835.
1701.— May 27, 1844— F. Colley.
" 2nd Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, aged about
20 years."
1702.— June 8, 1848— Spencer Thomas Vassal Burleigh.
Aged 32 years 11 months.
He was fourth son of Dr. George Burleigh, and was born on July 10, 1815 (see No. 800). He was probably calledl
after Captain S. L. H. Vassal of H.M.S. Harrier. He was in the Civil Engineer's Department, and married Anne
Catherine Gray, nee Cavendish, widow of Captain Richard Gray, C.R.R., at St. John's, Chtmdikuli, on June 3, 1839.
His daughter, Catherine, born August 27, 1841, married Henry Edward Reyne, June 28, 1859, at Kandy. His second
daughter, Ellen Eliza, married Matthew Henry Towgood, a mining surveyor in Perak, who died at Krian, Perak,.
April 23, 1885.
1703.— March 6, 1869— Elizabeth Constance Morrison.
Wife of Charles Morrison, Agent of the Oriental
Bank Corporation at Jaffaa, aged 45 years.
Mrs. Morrison is buried in the churchyard of St. John's, Chundikuli, Jaffna.
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Jaffna — contd.-
1704.— June 11, 1869— John Morphew.
District Judge of Jajffna, aged 46 years.
He died of dysentery. He was eldest son of John Morphew, late Resident of Travancore, and brother of Mrs.
O 'Grady and of James Boyd Morphew (see No. 1073). He married on November 9, 1859, at Galle, Anna Matilda
Mann, daughter of John Olding, Esq. His widow married Charles Morrison. One of her daughters by Mr. Morphew
married G-eorge Shadwell Saxton, CCS. John Morphew served in the Civil Engineer's Department from 1841, and
was appointed Assistant Civil Engineer, February 1, 1843; Civil Engineer, November 30, 1844; Acting Assistant
Government Agent, Kandy, September 25, 1846; ditto Hambantota, July 1, 1849; confirmed as such, April 1, 1850;
ditto Batticaloa, September 1, 1854; confirmed as such, July 1, 1855; on leave, August 16, 1858; District Judge,
Trincomalee, 1860.
1705.— October 29, 1900— Lawrence Fletcher White.
Chief Engineer in charge of the Northern Railway
Extension. Aged 36 years.
He was son of Mary Emery White, and died of snake-bite — ^the only case recorded in which an Englishman in Ceylon
has lost his life in this way. On returning home in the evening he washed his hands at a basin in the verandah, and
was bitten by a snake coiled round or behind it. He thought nothing of the matter, had dinner, and went to bed. In
the small hours he was taken ill, and died before daylight. The snake was not identified. Although there is no other
recorded ease of the death of an Englishman in Ceylon from snake-bite, there was a case of death from this cause at
Melbourne, Australia, in April or May, 1867, where the snake came from Ceylon. A Mr. BurnstaU took a cobra with
him from Ceylon to Melbourne, where he stopped at Tankard's Hotel. He went down into the smoking room with the
«nake round his neck, having, as he supposed, extracted the fangs. It bit him after he had taken it oft, and he died
from the bite. (See Colombo Observer of May 20, 1867.)
Point Pedro.
1706. — May 29, 1871 — James Simpson.
Police Magistrate of Point Pedro.
He died of consumption, from which disease he had suffered for many years. He had originally been
•employed in one of the Ceylon banks, and had obtained the appointment at Point Pedro for the sake of the climate,
which undoubtedly had the effect of prolonging his life. He married Ellenor Anne Morrison, of Yagahahena, near
Kandy, at St. Paul's, Kandy, on June 23, 1849. He is buried in the old burial ground. Point Pedro. The railings
which used to enclose the grave have disappeared.
Mannar.
1707.— January 26, 1804 — John Hatch.
" At Mannar, Ensign Hatch of the Manaar Inde-
pendent Company."
He succeeded Major Ford, 19th Regiment, as Commandant at Mannar in December; 1800, and in October 1801.
was Bucceeded by Mai or Vincent of the same Regiment. While at Mannar he issued "an olah for cuttmg wood, for
XractS helpol&s to the CoUector at Jaffna, who happened to be Colonel Barbut, andexplams that he " d,d
not mean to interefere with the power of the Collector." (April 21, 1801.)
1708.— February 5, 1818— Johannes Christopher van Braunhoff.
" At Manar on the 6th inst., Mr. J. 0. Van Braunhoff, son of the late Lieut. Baron Van BraunhoS of the Dutch
Eastlndia ComTDanv's Service in Ceylon, and Head Clerk of the Cutehery of that Station Aged 30 years, after a linger-
fng iC? whTe premature loss will be long lamented by his affectionate Widowand chi dren " Gazette February U,
ing iimess wno« p (.j^,jg^^ 1^^^ Sigismond van Braunhoff of Mittau, Koerland, was a Vaandrig (Ensign) at Colombo,
when on July 4 1787 he married OaroUna Catherina Jacobez of Colombo. Their son, Johannes Christopher, was
baptized there March is, 1787. He married Anna Catherina Werkmeister.
1709.— October 25, 1843— Colin Raid.
At Mannar.
He had been a sugar planter in Jamaica for twelve or fourteen years, and was in the employ of Mr. Lock of
Gallfi pnd Pame to Jaffna to trade and secure business for that gentleman. " From Jaffna he went to Mannar, where,
on t^n 9Vf bfl was seized with a species of cholera unaccompanied by pain. In walking a few days before from Mannar
to SL^a^^a^aL ft wTob^d that Mr. Reid drank immoderately of the nasty brackish water found in the Island.
n,,. t- o^'w^fln rnpo-nuts of which he drank also to excess, was, no doubt in some degree, the cause of the
^ompSSchTo sudrnlTte^^^ his existence." (Colombo Observer.) He was Superintendent of Magalegama
state. Southern Province, in 1843.
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Mullaittivu.
1710,— November 25, 1834— Elizabeth Petronella Wood.
" Wife of EDMtnsTD J. Wood, District Judge, and
second daughter of D. C. Peetz, Esq., aged 17."
She married E. J. Wood on October 5, 1833. She was a daughter of Diederieh Comelis Fretz, youngest son of
the Commandeur of Galle of the same name, by his first wife, Comeha Reyniera van Sanden. Her mother, Johanna
Gertruida Wilhehnina Mottau, was the third wife of D. 0. Fretz, junior, his second wife having been a daughter of
Pieter Willem Ferdinand Adriaan van Schuler, the Disawa of Matara, who, with his wife, was murdered by a Malay at
GaUe. E. J. Wood married again thirteen months after his first wife's death. The first Mrs. Wood is buried in a
sandy and desolate enclosure in front of the Assistant Government Agent's house, halfway between it and the sea. Over
it a few melancholy and untidy palmyras rustle, and around it the prickly pear struggles to gain an entrance and
overrun the place.
EASTERN PROVINCE.
Batticaloa.
1711.— July 22, 1806— William Ersltine Campbell.
Of H. M. C. C. S.
The Gazette of July 30, 1806, which contains the announcement of his death, omits to state where it occurred,
but it is presumed it was at Batticaloa, where he was Agent of Revenue at the time, as no burial entry is to be found
in the Colombo Registers. He was one of the batch of Writers of September, 1801 , was appointed Assistant to Agent of
Revenue, Chilaw and Puttalam, in November, 1802, and Agent, June 15, 1803; Sitting Magistrate, ditto, June 25, 1803;
Agent, Trincomalee, May 1, 1804, and ditto Batticaloa, April 3, 1805. On August 17, 1803, while Agent of Revenue
at Chilaw, he marched from that place in the morning " with twelve Malay invalids and eight old Dutch Sepoys to
Palanne, one league within the Candian territories, where he arrived at 10 o'clock a.m., drove away the Candians
collected there, burned their newly erected barracks and five store rooms containing fifteen hundred parrahs of rice and
paddee, and took the person next in rank to the corle, prisoner. (Gazette, August 24, 1803, and Cordiner, vol. II.,.
pp. 229-230.)
The Governor notified that he " highly appreciated the Vigour, Activity, and Spirit shown by Mr. Campbell on
this occasion." Ten days later " the feeble and almost untenable fortress of Chilauw was completely beset by an immense
multitude of Candians. They erected batteries in all directions round it , and many of their shot fell amongst the garrison,
which at this time consisted only of twenty-five sepoys and two young Civil Servants, W. E. Campbell and John Deane,
"who acted as volunteers. Their ammunition was completely exhausted, and they had for twenty- four hours kept the^
enemy at bay by firing copper coins instead of grape shot." For these services Messrs. Campbell and Deane were given
the rank of Ensign imtil further orders. (Gazette, September 7, 1803.)
Deane was Provincial Judge of Puttalam at the time. Campbell seems to have been of a military turn. Later
in the year he, with Ensign Purdon, Commandant at Puttalam, " made small incursions into the Seven Corles, which
have occasioned great detriment to the Enemy and been accompanied withno loss to ourselves." (Gazette, January 20,
1804.)
1712.— December 6, 1806— Johanna C. McNab.
" At Batticaloa, Mrs. Johanna C. McNab, wife of
Major Robert McNab, commanding that station,
after sustaining for nearly five years with
extraordinary fortitude and resignation a painful
illness imder circumstances the most melancholy
and trying." (Gazette.)
" Brevet Major McNab, Captain, 91st Regt., was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Colonial Troops in th&
Island of Ceylon by General Order of 25th July, 1805, and to command at Jaffna, 8th August, 1805. He was appointed
Agent of Revenue and Commerce for the District of Batticaloa, 19th March, 1806." (Gazette.)
According to Mr. Walter Frewen Lord (" Sir Thomas Maitland") this was in accordance with Maitland's policy
of replacing in revenue appointments youthful civilians by experienced military men. " Following this line of reasoning
he appointed a military man of the rank of Major to Batticaloa, a district that formerly paid its way, but recently under
the rule of a succession of boys had turned into a desert. In spite of a direct command he flatly refused to appoint
boys to any such district in future The Secretary disapproved Maitland's appointments, the -military man was
withdrawn, and the district ceased once more to yield revenue." Unfortunately for Mr. Frewen Lord's reasoning, his
facts are not correct. Major McNab's immediate predecessor, W. E. Campbell, though comparatively youthful,
had had five years' service as Collector at Chilaw and Puttalam , and had distinguished himself by his vigour and activity
(curiously enough more especiaUy in a military capacity), and he had succeeded an elderly Dutchnian in the British
service, Joseph Smitz, who had also distinguished himself in a similar way. There is this much truth in Mr. Lord's
rhetoric, that Simon Sawers, who had only joined the Civil Service in 1805, had acted as Collector for five months
between Smitz and Campbell. Major McNab, it should be noted, was a friend of the Governor's. He arrived with
him in the Windham on July 13, 1805, and he left with him by the H. C. ship Thomas Grenville on March 14, 1811.
May we not suppose that the desire to provide his military friend with a lucrative revenue appointment also counted
for something with the General-Governor ?
1713.— May 31, 1814— Henry de La Harpe.
"At Batticaloa, Major De La Haepe, 3rd Ceylon, a
gentleman universally respected and esteemed.
{Gazette, June 9, 1804.)
He became a Lieutenant in De Meuron's Regiment, March 30, 1795, and was gazetted, with Captain Senn, a
Captain in Baillie's Regiment (3rd Ceylon Regiment), November 22, 1806, and to command at Negombo, October 5,.
1810; ditto at Caltura, November 11, 1811; ditto at Negombo, April 8, 1812.
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Batticaloa — contd.
1714. — January 4, 1818 — James McNab.
Lieutenant-Colonel, 19tli Regiment.
The 19th or 1st Yorkshire (North Riding) Rejijiment arrived in Ceylon in the middle of 1796, and did not leave
until 1820, having thus spent a longer period in the Island than any other British regiment. The regiment lost in
Ceylon three Lieutenant-Colonels: Hunter, McBean, and MoNab; two Majors: Evans and Beaver ; eleven Captains:
Kennedy, Pearce, Ball, Parson, Fitzgerald, Robertson, Duke, MoGIashan, E. Smith, Jones, and Langton ; fourteen
Lieutenants: Byne, Plenderleath , Blakeney, Maclaine, Vincent, Kerr, Rodney, Jasper Nixon, R. P. Nixon, Fanning,
Gardner, Robertson, Edenson, and Hay; seven Ensigns: Nairn, Kearns, H. L. Smith, Robert Smith, Meares, and
Thornton; besides Lieutenants Callender and Goodall, lost in the Arniston transport on May 30, 1815, and Hugo
Wemyss, who died on board a month before ; two Assistant Surgeons: Hope and Hooper; two Payznasters, La Hey
and NichoUs; and two Quartermasters: Brown and Blake. Of these, the first four Lieutenants, the two Ensign
Smiths, Assistant Surgeon Hope, and Quartermaster Brown were killed in action or massacred. Lieutenants Bagnett
and Tumour and Major Ingham and, perhaps. Major Ottly died in Ceylon after they had left the regiment.
1715— January 23, 1818— John R. McConnell.
" It is with sincere Concern that we report the death
of Lieut. McConnell of H. M. 73rd Regt.
" Thisgallant young officer died at Batticaloa on the 23rd Ult., he had suffered from severe illness in the month or
October, and it is to be feared his zeal to enter upon the active duties of his profession induced him to take the Field before
his strength was sufficiently restored ; he left Kandy on the 27th of October, and in three days he marched to Oosanwelly ,
a distance of nearly 60 miles over a most rugged and mountainous coimtry, he was after some time again taken ill, and
forced to retire to Badulla, from whence, having remained several days without any improvement in his health, he
was moved for the benefit of a change of air to the Sea. Coast, his disorder, a Dysentery, was unfortunately too far
advanced, and on the evening of the 23rd of January he expired without a struggle. Lieut. McConnell was a young
man of a most prepossessing appearance, and had distinguished himself in some of the memorable actions in which his
Regiment had been engaged on the Continent of Europe, he was severely wounded both at the Siege of Bergen op Zoom
and in the Glorious Battle of Waterloo." (Gazette, February 7, 1818.)
1716.— September 17, 1818— Samuel William Tranchell.
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was third son of Johannes Tranchell, and joined the 2nd Ceylon Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant, May 5, 1807,
and the 1st Ceylon as Lieutenant in 1818. He took part in the operations in Uva in 1817-18, and died apparently
&om the effects of the exposure they entailed.
1717.— September 30, 1818— Mark LidwelL
"At Batticaloa, Lieutenant Mark Lid well, 73rd Regt."
He came out as an Ensign in the packet Wellington (Captain Lyons), which left England on October 8, 1816, and
arrived at Colombo, February 17, 1817. He reinforced Captain Glenholme at Hanguranketa, February 17, 1818.
1718.— August 8, 1819— James Vallanee. August 7, 1819 Vallance.
"At Batticaloa on the 7th inst. Mrs. Vallance, and
on the 8th inst. Major Vallance of H. M. 73 Regt. ,
Commandant of that station. The truly distressing
circumstance of the deaths of a husband and wife
followed by each other so rapidly is rendered
doubly lamentable in this case from their leaving
behind them a young and numerous family totally
unprovided for." (Gazette, August 21, 1819.)
Major and Mrs. Vallance came out in the Wellington in February, 1817.
1719.— September 26, 1821— James Bagnett.
" 4t Batticaloa, in the 37th year of his age, James Bagnett, Esq. , Sitting Magistrate of that place, and formerly
a Lieutenant in H. M. 19th Regt. of Foot, whose death was occasioned by a decay m. the liver after a severe Ulness of
twenty-two days ' Mr. Bagnett's mental powers arose far above mediocrity ; keen in his discrinaination, correct in his
judgment lively in his imagination, and original in his wit , which qualities were rendered more alluring by the unbounded
generosity and fine sensibUities of a benevolent heart. His house has long been the asylum of the stranger and the
afflicted His memory wUl be cherished with melancholy pleasure in the recollection of his friends who were best
qualified to appreciate his numerous excellencies. Nor will the Native population of this place suffer his integrity and
kindness to be effaced from their memories, except by the same stern foe which has numbered him among those who are
alike insensible to pleasure or to pain." (Gazette.)
HrP«^e from the old North York Rifles and joined the 19th Foot as Ensign, August 26, 1807 ; became 1st
Lieutenant! 4th Ceylon Regiment, October 11, 1809, and went on half pay, May 16. 1816. He was probably a
Yorkshireman.
Trincomalee and Neighbourhood.
1720.— April 20, 1801— George Kearns.
Ensign, 19th Regiment.
1721.— September 21, 1801— Richard Harden.
Major commanding Colonial Battalion, 7th Native
Infantry.
„ .^^ ivr«lnr in 1800 This battahon seems to have relieved the 2nd Battalion 6th Native Infantry.
He was promoted MaJ°r ^r. J^SOa in^ Kilakarai. The battahon was 800 strong, and the Collector of
Wr.°r Ftilk was iruirTng or boaTs to take them across. The 7th Regiment Native Infantry embarked at
ZZ:^Jto:'i:ci::ZTX I8O2 (Ja^a Diaries), so that it was about 15 months in the Island.
A ' 82—09
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Trincomalee and Neighbourhood — contd.
1722.— August 28, 1802— Thomas Pelham.
Commander of H. M. S. Sloop Trincomalie.
1723.— December 20, 1802— Anthony Mcllroy.
Quartermaster of the Malay Regiment.
Major Davie took over his effects. He was a Sergeant in the 51st Regiment, and was gazetted Quartermaster
of the Malay Regiment from June 1, 1902. The 51st also provided the Malay Regiment with an Adjutant, who died
at Kandy.
1724 —April 20, 1803— Charles Manage.
Chaeles Manage, Esq., of the Ceylon Civil Service.
He was one of the youths from 16 to 20 who were pent out for the Civil Service in September, 1801. He was
appointed Assistant to the Superintendent of the Cinnamon Plantations, April 15, 1803. There is a notice of his death
in Urquhart's Oriental Obituary, vol. I., p. 125.
" His zeal prompted him to volimteer his services to conduct a niunber of coohes to the British camp before
Candy, he caught an epidemical disorder called the jungle fever, which, after apparently sdelding to the power of
medicine, carried him off in the 21st year of liis age. His remains are deposited in the garrison Churchyard' of
Trincomalie." The Gazette shows that on April 12, 1803, having obtained leave to proceed to sea for the benefit of his
health, he left for Trincomalee in the ship Diana with Alexander Johnstone, who was appointed Deputy Paymaster of
the Eastern Division on April 13, and Lieutenants Peter Campbell of the 51st, Arthiu- Johnston of the 19th, and Hutehins
of the 65th, the three latter, hke Manage, for the benefit of their health, and the former no doubt to take up his duties.
Lieutenant Campbell died on the 14th and Manage on the 20th, both at sea. The Diana arrived at Trincomalee on the
20th. Captain and Mrs. Lawrence and Lieutenant Leride, Ceylon Regiment, were passengers from Galle in the
same ship. Urquhart contains an elegy of seven verses on his death, beginning —
" The flower in whose delicate leaves.
The most exquisite tints are displayed.
Oft the hope of the florist deceives,
And blooms alas but to fade."
His estate, value but 57 rix-dollars, was being administered in 1806, and the administration continued until
1832, when there were still moneys belonging to it at the Treasury.
1725.— May, 1803— Joseph Howe.
Lieutenant, Malay Regiment.
He was gazetted from Ensign to Lieutenant, January 23, 1800, and Acting Paymaster, April, 1802.
1726.— July 4, 1803— Johan Carl Christian von Driberg.
" At Trincomalie Lieut. C. Von Dkiberg, of the
Malay Regiment."
He with 22 men of his regiment formed part of the garrison of Fort Maodowal (Matale), which was under the
command of Captain Edward Madge of the 19th Regiment. Captain Madge on hearing on June 27 of the fate of the
garrison of Kandy the previous day from Corporal Barnsley, the survivor, determined to retreat to Trincomalee, and
abandoned Fort Macdowal on the night of the 27th. His force reached Trincomalee on July 3, and Lieutenant Driberg
died the day after he arrived at that garrison. (Marshall's Ceylon, pp. 105-6.) ^ .
North writes of him to Lord CKve, July 15, 1800, " My young Driberg will immediately set out for Madras.
Pack him off to the eastward as soon as opportunity offers. He understands the Malay language, and will prove a good
crimp [i.e., in recruiting for the Malay Regiment). I gave him a Lieutenancy in my Corps at its formation, and hope to
give by his means another battalion to it." (Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II. , p. 299.) He was gazetted Lieutenant in
the Malay Regiment, January 23, 1800. Possibly he was the " Lieutenant Driberg " who was in command of the
1st company of the 1st battalion of the Malay Regiment organized for the defence of Colombo against the British in 1796
(Journal R.A.S., C.B., vol. X., pp. 375, 389), and who was posted with his company at Bentota to defend the
entrance of the river (loo. cit., p. 373). He was, however, young for this position.
His experience of Malay troops was no doubt a reason for Governor North's selecting him, and as the Von Dribergs
were Germans, they had not the scruples about transferring their services from Dutch to English that Dutchmen would
have had.
He was a son of Colonel Diederich Carl von Driberg by his wife Johanna Martina Aubert, and was baptized at
Chilaw, September 15, 1780, so that he was probably about 23 at the time of his death.
1727.— September 4, 1803— James Dunbar Hunter.
"At Trincomalee Lt.-Col. James Dunbar Hunter,
Major, 19th Regt., and Commander of Fort
Osnaburgh," to which he was appointed on 28th
July, 1803.
He went from Batticaloa to Trincomalee by H. M. S. Terpsichore, and had only arrived there on August 30.
He had been Commandant of Galle in 1798-1800, and also of Trincomalee (1802). He was gazetted Lieutenant-Colonel
" by pittchase," February 9, 1804, after his death. The step went to Major Vincent. It appears that he is buried in
the Pettah Burial Ground at Colombo, so Captain T. A. Anderson states. (" The Wanderer in Ceylon.") Captain
Anderson wrote an epitaph on him. (See No. 988.)
1728.— April 7, 1804— E. Marshall.
At Trincomalee Mrs. E. Marshall, wife of Peter
Marshall, Acting Agent of Revenue for the
District of Trincomalee.
Peter Marshall was Master Attendant, Tiincomalee, in September, 1798, and held the office imtil September 3
1804, when he was appointed Customs Master of Point Pedro, Jaffna, and " Gaits." He went on two months' leave on
November 19, 1804.
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Trineomalee and Neighbourhood — contd.
1729.— May 16, 1805— James Urquhart.
"At Trineomalee Lieut. Urquhart, 66th Regt., in
the 27th year of his age."
1730.— November, 1806— Thomas Keppel Chamley.
" At Trineomalee Lieut. Thomas Chamley, 51st
Regt., attached to the Ceylon Cavalry."
Ensign in 1803 ; Lieutenant, June 29, 1803 ; married at Colombo, March 28, 1805, Miss Elizabeth Paul.
1731.— November 4, 1809— John George Kerby.
" Prineipal Civil Servant at Trinoomalie."
The first mention of J. G. Kerby is an order in the Ceylon Government Gazette directing him " to join the army
to assist in the payment of the Troops." The date is January 31, 1803, and the army referred was the force proceeding
to Kandy. He belonged to the Pay OfiSce, having been appointed by the Paymaster-General his deputy "on tlie Island,"
or, as he was styled, "Deputy Paymaster-General, Eastern Division," with a salary of £1,000 a year. He acted aa
Master Attendajit, Colombo, during the absence of George Laughton, from March 13, 1803. He became Storekeeper,
as well as Deputy Paymaster, Trineomalee, April 3, 1803, and was appointed to act as Secretary to the " Gteneral
Committee of Superintendence " at Colombo from April 27 the same year, probably in addition to his own duties as
Deputy Paymaster, for he seems to have wanted increased emoluments, and shortly afterwards it was decided that he
should be given a civil appointment making his salary up to £1,500 a year. On December 28, accordingly, he received
the appointment of " Collector of Sea Customs, Colombo," and on October 23, 1805, he became " Agent of Revenue
and Custom Master, Trineomalee," or " Head Civil Servant," and Alexander Johnstone handed over to him on June 25.
The decision to give him civil employment, as it turned out, was a disastrous one for the local Government. " He
committed suicide rather than survive to see his accounts inspected. The loss to Government was not much
•under £20,000, but with time the greater part of this sum was recovered." ("Sir Thomas Maitland, " by Walter
Frewen Lord, pp. 112-13.) His estate was being administered in 1817. The assets amounted to 2,705 rix-doUars,
which were to be paid to Government "in part payment of its claim as per judgment." Trineomalee was from 1795 to
1805 subordinate to the Collector at Jaffna in revenue matters, and from 1803 at least was placed inmiediately in charge
of officers of the Pay Office. Thus, Alexander Johnstone, Kerby's predecessor, who arrived in Ceylon with the other
Civil Servants in September, 1801, was also Deputy Paymaster of the Eastern Division, having succeeded Alexander
Cadellin that appointment on April 13, 1803.
1732.— January 2, 1813— Nicholas John Smith.
Lieutenant 66th Regt. ; Ensign, Sept., 1805.
1733.— September, 1813— Francis Hand.
"At Trineomale, of a Uver complaint, Lieut. Hai^d,
66th Regt.
This gallant yoimg Officer was at the battle of Albuera with the 2nd Battn. of that regiment, where he had
the misfortune to lose his left arm." (Gazette.)
1734.— February 6, 1814— William Atkinson.
Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regt., aged 25.
His estate was being administered in 1816-17.
1735.— April 20, 1814— Thomas Taylor.
Quartermaster, Caffre Corps, aged 49.
He was appointed Quatermaster, November 15, 1804 ; married at Colombo, March 30, 1805, Mrs. Ehzabeth
Eobinson, widow of Adjutant Robinson (see No. 292). (Date of burial.)
1736.— April 27, 1814— Isaac Ligor.
Lieut, and Adjutant Ligor, 3rd Ceylon Regiment,
aged 40.
1737.— May 9, 1814r— Matthew Wake.
Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regiment; Sergeant-Major, 51st Regiment; appointed Ensign in the Caffre Corps,
November, 16, 1804; 2nd Lieutenant, Baihie's Regiment, August 14, 1805.
Mrs. Wake was bixried at Colombo, September 2, 1807.
1738.— May 13, 1814r— Pierre Frederic Henry von Driberg.
" Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regiment, aged 19."
He was a son of Captain F. W. von Driberg. He was born at Colombo, April 19, 1794, and baptized at Calpentyn ,
where his father was Commandant, on January 24, 1800.
1739.— May 24, 1814^John May.
John May, Esq., Asst. Orda. Storekeeper, aged 30.
(Date of burial.)
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1740.— May 27, 1814^Hugh Rose.
Asst. Surgeon, 3rd Ceylon Regt., aged 24.
He married at Galle, November 30, 1812, D. Carolina, eldest daughter of Joseph Smitz. (Date of burial.)
1741.— May 31, 1814— George Pearson.
George Peaeson, Esq., Surgeon, H.M.S. Leda, aged 30.
{Date of burial.)
1742.— July 5, 1814— Thomas Morse.
Asst. Surgeon Morse, 66th Regiment.
1743.— July 14, 1814— James Titus Murphy.
Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regt., aged 26.
These last ten officers probably died during a fever epidemic — ten deaths in six months. (See Campbell, vol. I. ,
p. 317.)
1744.— March 2, 1815— William Tranehell.
Lieutenant, 4th Ceylon Regiment.
A son of John Tranehell (see No. 1684), 1st Lieutenant, September 26, 1811.
1745.— April 13, 1815— PhiUp Peckham.
^ Captain, 3rd Ceylon Regt., aged 39.
Lieutenant PhiHp Peckham was appoiated Fort Adjutant, GaUe, December 1, 180.5 ; Captain, to command at
Tangalla, vice Fowler, April 13, 1810. He made the eighth officer of the 3rd Ceylon Regiment who died between
February, 1814, and April, 1815. This is evidently the period alluded to by Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell in Ms
" Excursions," &c., vol. II., p. 317. "Some years ago when Trincomalie was awfully visited (as it too often is) by fever,
many of the European officers and non-commissioned officers belonging to the 3rd Ceylon Regiment died of it." The
date of his death was obtained from the Army List.
1746.— September 6, 1816— William Thornton.
Ensign, 19th Foot, aged 23.
(Date of bin-ial. )
1747. — December 9, 1816 — Robert Blackston Sanderson.
Surgeon, H. M. S. Orlando, aged 32.
(Date of burial.)
1748.— January 13, 1817— John Kelly.
Master's Mate, H. M. S. Volage, aged 25.
(Date of burial. )
1749.— May 2, 1818— Sampson Waring.
' ' At Trincomalie , on the 2nd instant , S. Waring , Esq. ,
Ordnance Store Keeper."
He arrived, with Mrs. Waring, at Trincomalee, by the Pj-mceiJeg'eni transport, in May, 1816. He was father of
Kdward Sampson Waring, CCS. His daughter, Frances Letitia, married at Trincomalee, on December 28, 1817,
Ensign Henry Wood Rideout of the 19th Regiment.
1760.— May 18, 1818 Waring.
" On her passage from Trincomalie to Baticaloa on
the 18th instant, Mrs. Waring, Widow of S.
Waring, Esq."
' ' It has been a singular and awful visitation upon this family that Mr. Waring died at Trincomalie on the 2nd
instant after a few days' illness. Mrs. Waring embarked on the 17th to go to Calcutta on board the Perseverance
which was first to land some troops at Batticaloa, when on the following day she was seized by a violent nervous
attack, which carried her off in a few hours ; her body was landed and interred on the 19th in the Church of
Batticaloa." ((?oaei«e, May 23, 1818.)
1751.— November 12, 1818— John Fleck.
Commander of the Ship Cyrus, aged 32.
(Date of burial.) '*
1752.— July 7, 1818— Alexander Buchafian.
Assistant Surgeon, H. M. S. Edm, aged 25.
(Date of burial.)
1753. — January 14, 1820 — James Roscrow.
Lieutenant, 73rd Regt., aged 19.
The name is spelt " Roskrow " in the Register. (Date of death and burial.)
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Trincomalee and Neighbourhood— cowf^Z.
» 1754.— August 14, 1820— Thomas Rodgers.
" At Trincomalee of Cholera Thomas Rodgbes, Esq.
JNaval Surgeon of that Station.
.steemld'aS^mtwtSy'SSw ^^^^^^^^ '^fr.' ^1 '^^^'^^''^^^^ ™*. --^ ^^^ Comn^unity a highly
kind, conciliating, and ben^votot and h^W wJl i.^h *"?"ti^ Tf ^^^^^-hearted, affectionate, and sincere, to a 1
August 26, 1820 ; His ag^^as 37 ^^ ^ ^'"^ lamented by all who knew his worth." (Gazette,
and civn'^' 'i^mlZef t^^tfuSr^^he fo^^^^ *^^ .^^Tv'.^'' ^^^^ Blackwood, and all officers, naval, mihtary.
Surgeon Rodgers, wMch has rsappeTre J TbeTt!, T°''^.^\*^rf? "^f.xf "'^^ *™" ^^ inscription to the memory of
cation to the^i^-«™^eSrstEth«V J «r,^ M ^ ^^T^''*'^?.^°5'^ ^^*'°^ ^^ *^" ^^y'°'^ ^i^^^' ^^ ^ communi-
• Trincomalee. CaptlLjET'iSdSson C R R w^n^°' ^?T n^°^^!l' ^^'^^ "''^ *° ^"y'°^ *°g^*^'^^ ^"'i '^'^d^d at
horse was ver^r W^ ov,T ^anaerson, C.R.R., who was Staff Officer there, lent Rodgers his charger to ride " The
rntrtlTe grave/a^f W'^^^^^^^ ""^'f ^°"-'^: ^*°PP«'i -* *he fence, and sfot poor Tom over
" Here lies the bod;Sor^«.lfn!«r"^- ^^^P^^td and on coming to himself, read on a tombstone close by
absent so much ^J tLT t !^°S«^«' . l^^^ °^n name bemg Thomas WilKam Rogers. I observed him thoughtful and
S"i;, voTlli I *S )' ^-^^^-'^^d ^^' -hen he told me in confidence what had happened." (MontMy Sterary
ilh.esso^th?£al^^TroSL!wiX;n^^^^^^^^ '^^' ™^- — - tbe
1755.— September 6, 1820— George Thomson.
" At Trincomalee Geoege Thomson, Qerk of the
Cheque (sic), in the Civil Branch of the Ordnance,
after 17 years' residence in the Island."
familv ' is^iSrtrjnn^vH T *^^*^°^y t° 5^^ '>ffi°ial duties, but his afflicted widow, on the part of herseh and numerous
family IS ^ous to record his amiable tenderness and affection in the united characters of Husband and FathS
He was m the 62nd year of his age." {Gazette, but according to the Register he was 53.)
1756.— September 28, 1820— Duncan Campbell.
Lieutenant, 73rd Regt., aged 27.
(Date of burial.)
1757.— AprU 11, 1822— John Burke.
Lieutenant, Half Pay, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
"John Burke, Gent., to be 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, 2nd July, 1813." He was appointed to
the command at Chilaw, March 1, 1814. In the operations m Uva he was severely wounded near Godivagama
on April 2 1818. He married Bridgetina Prior, spinster, at Colombo, May 26, 1813. His daughter, Sarah, married
Jidmund James Wood, District Judge of MuUaittivu, on December 28, 1835. .Another daughter married Robert
Farrance (see No. 466). Lieutenant Burke's widow married Thomas Bernard Gilbert. (See No. 547.)
1758.— June 10, 1822— Edward Killwick.
Master Attendant, Trincomalee.
Eliza Killwick.
Wife of Edwabd Killwick.
(Date of burial.) They apparently died the same day, probably of cholera.
Edward Killwick succeeded Francis Dickson as Master of the Kandyanin. 1816. The Kandyan, " a beautiful
brig of war for the service of the Ceylon Government," was launched at Calcutta on December 11, 1806. On June 21,
1816, she left Trincomalee for Colombo with, as passengers. Assistant Surgeons McNulty and Cassidy, who had arrived
there by the Prince Regent transport a month before with Samson and Mrs. Waring. All four of them were iU-fated ;
they were dead within two years. In March, 1817, on another voyage from Trincomalee to Colombo, she had another
ill-fated passenger — Alexander Moon, the Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, and Lieute-
nant Killwick, R.N., probably a brother of the commander. Edward Killwick was Sitting Magistrate at MuUaittivu in
1818-19, and succeeded Lurcheon as Master Attendant, Trincomalee, on December 4, 1821. He, too, was ill-fated, for
he only held the post for six months.
1759.— September 18, 1823— William Hall.
"At Trincomalie, Quartermaster Hall, 83rd
Regiment, leaving a wife and two children."
He was Quartermaster Sergeant of the 83rd Regiment, when that regiment arrived in Ceylon in 1817. He
married at Colombo, January 4, 1818. His widow, Jane, married at Trincomalee, April 4, 1824, Lieutenant Cosby
'^^£lxburton. There is an account of Quartermaster Hall's last illness in the Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 327,
■contributed by Mr. John Dent Young, son of Surgeon W. H. Young, one of the doctors who attended him. (See
NoJ^250, 325, 336.)
1760.— November 26, 1823— Robert Francis Roper Lisle.
Ensign, 83rd Regt.
(Date of burial. )
1761.— October 9, 1824— John Cooke.
Captain Cooke, A.D.C. to H. E. Lord Amheest,
Governor-General of India.
Date of burial.) Possibly a brother of Anthony Henry Cooke. (See No. 956.)
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Trincomalee and Neighbourhood — contd.
1762.— December 24, 1826— A. P. Dent.
Assistant Secretary to Admiral Gage.
(Date of burial.)
1763.— February 1, 1827— Stephen Spurling.
Purser, H. M. S. Hiyid.
1764.— September 7, 1827— Edward Muskett.
Merchant, Trincomalie.
He was head of the firm of Muskett and Young, Colombo, in 1823, and afterwards joined George Winter & Co.
(1828). A consignment of "cashew gum" was sent to the firm of Muskett and Young at Colombo'in 1826. (Bennett.>
1765.— January 15, 1828— Thomas Curran MeQuestion.
Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
He joined June 14, 1815, and was gazetted Lieutenant, September 8, 1825. (Date of burial. )
1766.— September 28, 1829— William Ashe.
" At Trincomalee, on board H. C.'s Steamship
Enterprise, Mr. William Ashe, Chief Engineer,
aged 28 years."
1767.— April 15, 1830— John Younger.
" At Trincomalee, Mr. John Younger, Master of the
Barque John Craig, Free Trader."
1768.— March 26, 1831— Edward Tindal.
Lieutenant, R. A., joined 6th Nov., 1827.
(Date of burial.)
1769.— March 1, 1832— John Campbell.
Assistant Custom Master.
(Date of burial.) The Collector of Revenue was also Collector of Customs. Campbell can only have just been
appointed his Assistant. Mr. G. R. CorteMng was Assistant Custom Master in 1831.
1770.— July 5, 1832— David Robertson.
At Trincomalee, Lieut. Robertson, 58th Regiment.
1771.— July 15, 1835— F. A. Morriss.
Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
He joined July 20, 1827. (Date of burial.)
1772.— September 7, 1835— S. Reynolds.
Madras Civil Service.
His name is not given in Prinsep's " Record of Services " of Madras Civil Servants. (Date of burial.)
1773.— May 22, 1837— James Agnew Shaw ; George Harkness ; T. W. Walker.
" Lieutenant Shaw and Ensigps Harkness and Walker of the 61st left Back Bay on the morning of the 22nd,
with intention of going to Cottiar in a sailing boat on a shooting excursion, and had got a^ far as Nonvoy Island and
Cottiar when a dreadful squall came on and upset the boat. All aboard perished, with the exception of a Malay boy.
Lieut. Shaw and Ensign Harkness each left a wife and children."
Apparently their bodies were never recovered.
Lieutenant Shaw married, January 31, 1834, while a Sergeant, Mary Harriet, daughter of John Tranchell.
(See No. 16590
Ensign Harkness arrived at Colombo by the ship Valley field, which also brought the Suckhngs (see No. 9)
and detachments of the 90th, 61st, and 78th on March 7, 1836.
Ensign Walker arrived at Colombo by the ship Cambridge on February 6, 1837, with Lieutenant Fenwick also
of the 61st.
1774.— May 8, 1838— William Percy.
At Trincomalee, Lieut. Wm. Percy, Ceylon Rifles,
aged 46, of apoplexy .after his return from escorting
treasure from Trincomalee to Kandy.
(Date of burial. )
1775.— April 2, 1839— F. S. Saner.
Assistant Surgeon, 61st Regiment.
1776.— May 12, 1839— Rudolphina Vandembusch.
" Daughter of the late Major Vandembusch."
(See No. 1692.)
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Trincomalee and Neighbourhood— cowfoZ.
1777.— 1839— Johanna Magdelena Weithing.
" At Trincomalie, relict of the late Lieutenant Jacob
Weithtng, of the Wurtemberg Regiment.
She was a Miss Meynders.
1778.— September 28, 1841— Mortimer Jones.
Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifles.
He was Deputy Assistant Commissary at Trincomalee, 1837-41. He joined the Rifles, August 3, 1813, and
became Lieutenant, July 23, 1829. (Date of burial.)
1779.— June 25, 1842— Margaret Smith.
Wife of Lieut. Smith, Ceylon Rifles.
(Date of burial.) She was a Miss Margaret Black, and married Lieutenant C. T. Smith at Colombo on December
4, 1838.
1780.— November 19, 1844— Charles Thomas Smith.
Lieutenant, Ceylon Rifles, aged 28.
He joined the Rifles November 17, 1837, and became Lieutenant May 9, 1840. He married (2) Catherina
Thomson, spinster, on November 15, 1843.
1781. — ^February 6, 1849^Louisa Magdalena Fulton.
Daughter of Capt. Fulton, H. M. S. Hercules, aged 15.
(Date of burial.)
1782. — May 26, 1849 — Florentina Georgiana Theresa Symonds Underwood.
Wife of Capt. V7. H. Undeewood, C.R.R., aged 26.
Captain Underwood joined the Rifles March 13, 1840, and as Lieutenant was Commandant at Puttalam, 1845-47.
(Dateof bmial.) (See No. 128.)
* 1783.-May 30, 1860— James Gorman.
Staff Assistant Surgeon.
1784.— May 9, 1861— R. E. Ellis.
Captain, 50th Queen's Own Regiment.
He had recently joined the regiment and was Junior Captain.
1785.— September 26, 1867— Russell P. W. Hill.
Lieut., 107th Regt.
He was accidentally shot while out shooting in the neighborhood of Foul Point on September 13 with Lieutenant
Willis, R.N., Assistant Paymaster of H. M. S. Jumna, and Lieutenant McCall of the Rifle Brigade. Lieutenant Willis
after midnight fired a shot at wild pig, and subsequently Lieutenant HiU was found wounded under a bush and taken
to the bungalow at Foul Point. He was shot in the left hip while crawhng on all fours. He was attended by Dr. W. A.
Thompson of the Jumna, but died on the 26th.
1786.— December 31, 1867— Christopher Atchison.
Surgeon , R .N . , aged 34.
(Date of binial.)
1787— February 27, 1869— Orby Montgomery Hunter.
Lieutenant, C.R.R., aged 35.
He joined the Rifles as Ensign, August 17, 1855, and became Lieutenant July 23, 1858.
1788.— September 29, 1882— Henry William Varian.
Superintending Officer, P. W. D., aged 34. After-
wards Forester in the North-Central Provmce.
Louisa Varian, married George Frederick Henry Rule at Trmcomalee on December 2, 18b8.
1789.— December 19, 1884— Clement Henry Brereton.
Deputy Assistant Commissary-General.
(Date of burial.)
1790._November 2, 1897— John Armitage.
Lieutenant, E.N., H. M. S. CossacA;, aged 26.
(Date of burial.)
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NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE.
Kurunegala and Neighbourhood.
At one time Kurunegala and its neighbourhood were very unhealthy. Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell
says : — " Formerly it was thought by many to be almost certain death for any one to pass a single night upon the
splendidly wooded banks of the Maha Oya, especially about 15 miles lower down than Allow, where the old road
ov rather path crosses it, so prevalent was jungle fever said to be there Some years ago a company of
light infantry upon its march to Colombo from a post in the interior halted for the night on the bank of this
liver at the place to which the old road leads ; but almost every one of them who slept there was immediately
taken ill, and with the exception of a few who partially recovered, but had to be sent to England, the rest fell
a sacrifice to the fearful effects of jungle fever Allow is looked upon as yet to be a perfectly healthy
station." He adds : — " Allow, admitted to be one of the most charming beautiful stations in this charming
island A house of a superior description has lately been built there, commanding extensive and delightful
views over a truly enchanting and fertile country. It is intended that the Governor shall reside occasionally
there." But later he ivrites : — " Tliat beautiful and much-admired station. Allow, became so sickly that it is
no longer safefor any one to remain there for even a single night." (Vol. I., p. 160 ; vol. III., p. 317.)
1791.— October 13, 1818— Thomas McNab.
" At Kornegalla Ensign McNab, 83rd Regt."
He took part with his regiment in the operations against the rebels of 1888. On May 3 he marched from
Parape to Hatarliyadda in Tumpane,
1792.— June 7, 1819— Martin Murphy.
" At Kornegalle on the 7th inst. of Fever and Dysen-
tery, Lieut. Mabtin Mubphy of H. M. 73rd Regt."
" The death of this gallant officer is to be lamented as a serious loss to his Regiment and the Service in Ceylon.
When he commanded at Nellandy in Matale, he so conciliated the Kandyans by the naildness of his manners and the
firmness of his conduct that before the Rebellion his Post was well supplied with all that the country afforded,
and the utmost cordiality prevailed between the Natives and the Garrison. During the Insurrection Lieut. Murphy's
behaviour was always so distinguished by great spirit and judgment that he never failed to retain the confidence and
esteem of his Commanding Officer.
" Wlien the news of his iUness reached Colombo, Lieut.-Col. Hook hastened (directly) to resume his command
at Kornegalle, in the hope of being in time to remove Lieut. Murphy to the Coast and save a life that he knew to be
valuable. But this fine young soldier had already breathed his last to the disappointment of all who witnessed his
early promise of Military reputation, and the sincere regret of those who were enough acquainted with his character
to esteem his real worth." (Gazette, May 13, 1819.) He was Comm.andant at Atgala in 1818.
Lieutenant Murphy writes to Lieutenant-Colonel Hook from Kurunegala on April 21, 1819 : — " On the 6th of
April, J past 5 in the evening, we had a good deal of Thunder, which was succeeded by as heavy a shower of Hail for
alDout Half an hour as I can remember. I picked up several pieces of the Ice, which were very near an Inch in
Diameter, thick in the centre, and tapering off to the edge. This astonished the Natives, wiio ran out of their houses in
numbers to coUeot it, as I fancy it was the first they had ever seen." There was a fall of hailstones at Alipoot on
Jul}' 27 the same year.
During the Uva rebellion Lieutenant Murphy was at Nalande in November, 1817, and on June 15, 1818,
captured Mahawattagama NUame at Wanduragale Temple in the Kurunegala District.
Puttalam.
1793.— December 28, 1803— Maurice J. O'Connell.
Lieutenant, 51st Regiment ; Commandant at Puttalam.
He was Commandant, also "Adjunct Fiscal," atPuttalam, July, 1801, to June, 1802, and at Hambantota, July,
1902, when he handed over to Ensign Pendergast, 2nd Ceylon. On November 30, 1803, he had " made an incursion
into the Candian Territory in the neighbourhood of Puttlam, at the head of 60 Sepoys and invalid Malays, and laid
waste to a considerable extent of country, burned and brought away a great quantity of grain and arcke nuts, which
the inhabitants had been for some time collecting there for the use of the Candian government, and destroyed a provision
of salt which they had laid in sufficient for the Consumption of 2 years." (Cordiner, vol. II. , p. 256.) He seems to have
been at Kalutara before he went to Puttalam in 1801.
His death was probably due to fever contracted or exposure endured during this raid. He was succeeded as
Commandant by Ensign J. Purdon of the Ceylon Regiment, who continued the raids in conjunction with W. E. Campbell,
the Collector.
1794.— November 22, 1824— Henrietta Gray.
' " Mrs. Gray, wife of Lieut. Richard Gray, Ceylon '>
Regt. She was a kind and affectionate Wife and a
tender Mother."
She was a Miss Hemietta Cripps, daughter of Mr. James Cripps of Richmond, Surrey, and married Lieutenant
(5ray on June 3, 1818. She had a son at Padeniya in the Kurunegala District on September 21, 1821.
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Puttalam.
J795._May 17, 1820— Jean Guillaume Du Bois de Lassosay.
"Late Sitting Magistrate, Calpentyn, leaving a
disconsolate widow with seven children "
Luxem?o J^CLln'J^^Triattr*'"'' f?"",^ °<" ^°^<*" ^^^^°^"^' ^^^ '^'^^^ °^^ *° Ceylon as a Lieutenant in the
n^t^ BuS St Vme hS i« ^f ^ *he eldest son of Claude Guillaume, Marquis Du Bois de Lassosay, and Antoi-
nette Butel bt. ViUe His grandfather, Guillaume Du Bois, who had married a Mme.' Genevieve Gestat was a
;ZaL was areS^nsrXZr- ^^' Marquis le Lassosay held a military oomman^in the Xnd oTGuadairpe!
9 ■p+iorir.o P,iinnmrv.c - Q TT o ■ J. . J " '^^ "^^ ^"""^ ^o^s, VIZ. , 1 , GuiUaume Joachim, who came out to Ceylon ;
thi?d hToSv lhZdLurfSr«^^^^^^^ ."""f ^' "^^^"^^^ ^^"11^- The last of these died without issue"^ th^
thu:d had only three daughters ; and the second had a son, Jean Pancour Du Bois de Lassosay of Pointe a Pitre (who
married his cousin Ahne Du Bois de Lassosay), and three daughters. The eldest son, the Comte drLassosay, first
entered the military service in June. 1774. as a sub-lieutenant in a battalion stationed ^tSt. Anne, Guadaloupe. He
exchanged from this into the regiment de Luxembourg and came out to Ceylon in .1782. Arrived here, he, like many
Europeans who came out to Ceylon in his day. lost no time in forming associations and family ties ; so that ;ventually!
on the departure of the Dutch instead of going back to the land of his birth, he elected to remain in Ceylon and serv^
the British He married in 1785 at Wolvendaal Church, Colombo, a Dutch lady of good family, Elizabeth Adriana
^ f; ^l ^^^Zl^ "wJ?^"/ -^^ marriage, the only survivors appear to have been a son and a daughter. The
daughter, Maria Elizabeth Adelaide married Caspar Henricua Leembruggen, and was thus ancestress of the Leembrug-
gens of Ceylon. The son, Jean Guillaume, married, on November 24, 1811 . Johanna Anna Susanna, daughter of Stephen
Baron van Lynden. In 1788 the Comte de Lassosay retired from the Luxembourg Regiment, in which he then held
the rank of Captain Commandant. He appears to have been a favourite with his brother officers, who, on the occasion
presented him with a written testunonial, signed by them all, in which they complimented him on the ' honour zeal'
and distinction with which he had served in the army. By the British Government he was appointed Sitting Magis-
trate of Ambalangoda, where he died, and was buried in the long building (then a church, but now used as a barn or
stable) which runs at right angles to the resthouse. His tombstone, which I understand was to be seen many years
ago, has now disappeared underground, in consequence of the floor of the building having been raised.
" Jean Guillaume Du Bois de Lassosay. the son, served as Sitting Magistrate of Puttalam, where he met with a
sudden and untimely death from an accidental fall in July, 1820. He had the following children, viz., 1, Maria
Henrietta, who married Johan Wilhelm Rudolph Kriekenbeek; 2. John William ; 3, Otho Peter Charles ; 4, Charlotte
Adelaide (Mrs. Velsink) ; 5. Stephanie Henrietta (Mrs. Raket) ; 6. Henrietta Magadelena (Mrs. Mayor) ; 7, Jane Otteline
(Mrs. Mayes). The eldest son, John William Du Bois de Lassosay, served as an officer on board the ship Mercator, and
died at sea, off the coast of Java, about the year 1833. The representation of the family therefore descended to his
only brother, Otho Peter Charles Du Bois de Lassosay.
" There are no doubt a great many people, beside those of his own family, who still remember the late Mr. Otho
de Lassosay. Left an orphan at five years of age, most of his early years were spent in the house of his stepfather, the
Reverend Daniel Gogerly. whom his mother, the widowed Mrs. de Lassosay, had married for her second husband.
Here he grew up to manhood, but whatever were the opportunities thrown in his way, it is clear he made little use of
them, for we find him struggling to get on in the world. Of free and easy disposition, sociable and unostentatious,
he made friends wherever he went ; but he was placed in awkward straits for a living. At one time he was schoolmaster
and postholder of Tangalla, ofiices from which he could hardly have derived an income suitable to his station in life.
In 1864 he secured the appointment of Registrar of Lands of Tangalla on a salary of £100 a year, but he lived scarcely
more than a twelveinonth to enjoy his promotion, because his health, which had been much undermined by a life of
freedom as well as of hardship, had been giving way for some time, and he died in the year 1866. With him ended the
male line of the de Lassosay family here in Ceylon ; but he had married in 1859, at Hambantota, Georgiana Adelaide
Booy, daughter of Mr. Frederick William Booy of the Kachcheri, and had a daughter, Anne Maria Adelaide Du Bois
de Lassosay. who is now living, and is married, and has a family.
" In a country like France , with its revolutions , its rival dynasties , and its old and its new noblesse , it seems to me
that it would be a difficult matter to decide as to the actual rank and title which should be given to a remote representative
of an old titled family ; but it would be interesting to know what status this young lady, the last of the de Lassosays,
ought to occupy in the land of her forefathers. Her father's lineage, as the direct male heir of the Marquis Claude
GuiUaume Du Bois de Lassosay, is one of the clearest records that could be produced ; and if we are to settle this question
from analogy by the rules observed in other countries for the descent of titles, the late Registrar of Lands of Tangalla
should have borne the dignity of Marquis Du Bois de Lassosay. Instead of doing so, however, he lived and died,
in comparative obscurity. Fully aware of his high lineage, and with a certain notion of honours awaiting
hi^, he appears to have frequently made application to Europe for information ; but in all instances he was either
baffled or disappointed. This may have been due to his not having communicated with the proper parties ; but yet
it is surprising that with such a clear case as his he should not have been more successful.
" Meantime, the family of the Marquis continued to flourish for some time in France and in Guadaloupe. The
second son, Etienne Guillaume left a son, Jean Pancour Du Bois de Lassosay, who was engaged in trade at
Pointe a Pitre. The third son, Francis Sigismund, was Conte d'Estrelan. Chevaher de St. Louis and of the Legion of
Honour, who, dying in 1846, left three daughters. By one of those curious coincidences which frequently occur in
the history of families, the year 1866 saw the extinction of the male line of the de Lassosay fanuly both in Ceylon and
in France. Otho Peter Charles died in that year at Tangalla in Ceylon, while on the 13th May of the same
year died in France Jean Pancour, his father's cousin. One of the daughters of Etienne Guillaume, the second son of
the Marquis, had married Jean Frangois Paul Demeuille, and her issue, it is stated, obtained permission, upon the
extinction of the male heirs, to adopt the name of de Lassosay in addition to their own patronymic Paul. (R. G.
Anthonisz, in Ceylon Literary Register, vol. IV., p. 93.)
^^OTS.— Party per fess, azure and gules, in chief. a lion or. Swpportej-s.— Two satyrs. ,.,,.,.
In 1801 the Comte was a member of the Land Raad at Kalutara, and figured in a curious episode, which did not
do him much credit. ^ ,, „ .^^. .r. c i c-4.4.- ■ht„™;o
Jean Guillaume, who was born in 1791, was appointed Sitting Magistrate of MuUadttivu-the first Sitting Magis-
trate of that place— in June, 1813, but " he showed himself in no hurry to take up his duties, and remained there only
a few months (see " Vanni Manual," pp. 37, 239), proceeding to Kayts in a similar capacity, and finally to Puttalam
on December 1, 1812.
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Chilaw.
1796.— September 3, 1804— Baptist John Young.
Lieut. YouNQ of the Malay Regiment, drowned
while attempting to reach the shore at Chilaw
from the wreck of the brig Echo.
" The Echo, Captain John Arthur, left Colombo, Sunday, 2nd Sept., bound for Telioherry and Bombay. She
sprang a leak, and the captaui ran her ashoue on Monday evening about 2 miles to the South of Chilaw. Seas broke
over her, and Lieutenants Young and Tolfrey of the East India Company's Service attempted to reach the shore, but
the violence of the surf drove them back. Lieut. Tolfrey caught hold of the stern and regained the ship, but Lieut.
Young was drawn out to sea and was not seen again. The Ist Officer of the vessel, Mr. Fry, was also drowned. The
Captain and Lieut. Tolfrey afterwards reached the shore by means of a rope and with the crew proceeded to Chillaw."
(Gazette, September 3 and 12, 1804.)
1797.— September 1, 1805— Wm. Nesbitt.
Lieutenant, Malay Regiment.
" He was drowned with 3 Sepoys and 7 coolies while crossing the ' Chilaw River ' on a raft. He was at the time
en route from Trincomalee to Colombo. He was interred (presumably at Chilaw) with Military honours." (Gazette,
September 11, 1805.) The notice in the Oazette refers to him as belonging to the 2nd Ceylon Regiment. "Lieut.
Wm. Nisbet " of Champagne's Regiment (the 1st Ceylon) arrived by the Windham, which brought Governor Maitland,
on July 13, 1805, and on October 1, 1805, William Husband was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in Champagne's Regiment,
' ' vice Nesbitt , deceased , ' ' and it seems likely that all three references , in each of which the name is spelt differently , refer
to the same officer. The estate of Lieutenant Nesbitt, 1st Ceylon, was being administered in 1813. "Lieutenant
William Nesbitt," who was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Malay Regiment, January 24, 1806. He was still, according
to the Army List, in the Regiment in 1809, but as the names of the officers who perished in the Kandy massacre of 1803
appear in the Army List up to 1808 inclusive, this must not be taken as proof that Lieutenant Nesbitt was living
in 1809.
1798.— January 13, 1846— Henry Caulfield:;
Late Captain, 58th Regiment.
He was an elder brother of James Caulfield (see No. 32). He is buried inside the area of the present St. James's
Church, which occupies the site of the former church. Sir WiUiam Twynam says of him (July 31, 1909) : — " He was
a fine specimen of a man. After he retired he came to live with his brother, when James was appointed Government
Agent of the North- Western Province. He was then in very bad health. James Caulfield and his family were, at the
end of 1845, when I was appointed Writer to the Puttalam Kachcheri, living in the Rest House, Chilaw, for change of
air. Henry took up his residence with William Gordon Forbes, then Assistant Agent and District Judge of Chilaw.
James Caulfield got sick leave early in 1846 and went to Nuwara Eliya, Forbes acting for him. Henry came to Puttalam
for a short time and died there. The funeral took place by torchlight at night. It was rather a weird sight, crossing
the ferry and going through the coconut topes. There happened to be in Chilaw at the time a detachment of a sergeant
and four men of the Rifles, of the Caffre Company stationed in Puttalam. They carried the coffin." Sir William was
present at the funeral.
Captain Caulfield arrived at Trincomalee by the Iris in February, 1835, and seems to have been stationed at
Nuwara Eliya in that year. He was Acting Secretary of " the Nuwera Ellia Hunt," at a meeting held there on September
21, 1836. In December, 1835, he took the hounds down to Colombo, in order that a me8t might be held there twice
a week.
PROVINCE OF UVA.
Badulla and Neighbourhood.
1799.— November 25, 1815— Sackville Saekville.
Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regt.
He joined the regiment on November 6, 1813.
1800.— November 5, 1818— Thomas Wyllie.
Surgeon, 18th Madras Native Infantry.
Assistant Surgeon, July 5, 1807 ; Surgeon, February 15, 1815. The 18th Native Infantry came over to assist in
the suppression of the Rebellion.
1801.— 1816— William Malcolm.
" At Topetty, William, younger son of Lieut.
William Malcolm, 1st Ceylon Regiment."
Lieutenant Henry George William andMrs. Malcolm arrived by the Monarch transport onDecemtaer 19, 1813. He
was, I believe, the first Englishman to ascend Adam's Peak. His account of the ascent was published in the Oovernment
Gazette of May 10, 1815, the ascent was made on April 26, 1815, from the Ratnapura side. Lieutenant Malcolm was
Commandant of Kotmale, 1821-22. His son, by Margaret, his wife, bom July 3, was baptized on July 31, 1822.
Another eon was born at Ratnapura, June 5, 1817.
Topetty (Tuppitiya) is in Udukinda, 9 miles from Badulla, and the same distance from St. Margaret's. It is half
a mile from Halabe bridge.
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BaduUa and Neighbourhood— co^^rf.
1802.— September 16, 1817— Sylvester Douglas Wilson.
Ceylon Civil Service.
Assistant to the Resident, Secretary to theXsfdencraS .4 W ^^' ^^^^ • ^^'=°'^^
Fii«t Assistant to the Resident and MagTsLate at BaduHa He wa^of t^ P ^t'"^^ Tn°f °\^' -^ ' 1.^^^ ' *^*^ ^^"^ '
tho 10th Sentember 1817 Mr W^'l^n^ ti^^ a ■ i i^®.^^^ °n t-he Grand Jury at Colombo inMay, 1813. "On
the 10th beptember, ^"J;^^, Mr Wilson, who was Assistant Resident at Badulla, hearing of the arrival in Welassa of a
king, ana was suDsequently murdered. When the intelligence reached Badulla, Mr. Wilson set out with a small detach-
ment of troops to ascertain the real circumstances. At Etanawatta he met ^ith an ar^ed partrXTmanded a
conference. As Wilson advanced to meet them, he was treacherously shot dead with a volley of arJowl in coM Wood "
("ManualofUva," (?a36«e, November 4 and 11, 1817.) (See No 1067.) huwh in ^oia oiooa.
1803.— November 20, 1817— Manus McNulty.
Assistant Staff Surgeon. " Killed in the field near
Taldena."
The tradition is that he was killed at Ambalampitiya in Palawatta village, near Kehelwatta, and that the body
was removed by the troops who accompanied him. This is in all probability correct. The detachment was under the
command of Captain Joseph Reed, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, and left BaduUa the day before. " On the morning of the
20th, as the troops marched through a thick jungle, Assistant Surgeon McNulty was 12 or 15 yards in advance of the
party, when, mthe act of putting his arm into the sleeve of his great coat, he was struck by an arrow just below his
right breast, which penetrated into the backbone, and he fell almost instantly dead in the arms of his servant." Kehel-
watta is about 6 miles from Taldena, on the road to Pahalagodegedera. There was a camp there, evidences of which
are still to be seen. " The premature fate of this excellent young man must be deeply lamented by all who knew
him. He possessed a heart fraught with genuine Philanthropy, and as a Medical Officer was distinguished by a
kindly and unremitting attention to all who came under his professional treatment." (Gazette, December 6, 1817.)
Assistant Surgeon McNulty of the 4th Ceylon Regiment arrived in Ceylon in 1816 with Assistant Surgeon John
Cassidy of the same corps. They came out by the transport Prince Regent, which arrived at Trincomalee in May, and
went on in the Government cutter Kandyan to Colombo with Barry St. Leger of the Civil Service. Cassidy died at
Galle six months before the death of McNulty. Major Forbes says : — " McNulty is greatly regretted. He was skilful
and attentive in his profession, and there was a kindness and frank simplicity that greatly endeared him to all who knew
him his character." (Vol. II., p. 356.) He was stationed at Kandy in 1816-17.
1804. — December 9, 1817 — James Kennedy.
" Killed in the field near Tibbotugoda, Assistant
Surgeon James Kennedy, 1st Ceylon Regiment."
He joined the army on March 4, 1813, and the regiment on January 25, 1815. There are accounts of his death
in the Gazette of December 20, 1817, reprinted in the " Ceylon Literary Register," vol. II., p. 380, and in Major Forbes'
" Eleven Years in Ceylon," p. 122. From the latter we quote : " Before reaching Madoola, the spot was pointed to me,
near a large bo-tree, where Mr. Kennedy was murdered by a party of Kandians in the rebellion of 1817. This officer,
who belonged to the medical staff, and the small military party (Caffres I believe) that accompanied him found themselves
beset at this place by a host of rebels, who kept up a fire of matchlocks from behind trees and stone walls. While their
enemies were still at a distance and concealed, the military party were lavish of their ammunition, without producing
any effect ; but as their fire slackened, the Kandians gradually approached, and when the last of the cartridges of the
unfortunate party was expended and several lay dead or disabled, the rebels closed upon the remainder and completed
their destruction. To one of the leaders, Kewlygeddra Mohattal, Mr. Kennedy surrendered his sword, and the savage
seizing it by the handle stabbed him to the heart. Kewlygeddra was an inferior headman, lame, and of a ferocious
disposition, who had escaped from the gaol of Kandy, in which he was confined , charged with the murder of a native ;
he was one of the first who rushed into open acts of treason When he was at last secured and placed upon his
trial, he pleaded in mitigation of the crimes charged against him that he had complied with the British office;
Mr. Kennedy's last request (which he seemed to think somewhat capricious and inexplicable), viz., that of being put
to death by his own sword. Kewlygeddra said he discovered the wish of the officer by his delivering the handle of the
sword, while he held the point towards himself. This defence did not avail, for sentence of death and immediate
execution were the reward of crimes, which had rendered this miscreant equally obnoxious to the British Government
and to his own fellow-countrymen." He was on his way from Panala to Badulla, and had just crossed the Kirinda-oya.
1805.— December 29, 1817— James Taylor.
Lieutenant, 73rd Regiment.
1806.— January 13, 1818— John Maclaine,
Lieutenant, 73rd Regiment.
He was " killed in the field," Lieutenant Charles Minter being gazetted in his place on January 15, 1818. He had
arrived by the packet Wellington on February 17, 1817. " He was proceeding to Bootale from Alipoot with a remforce-
ment of 30 men, when he was fired upon from the jungle. Lieutenant Maclaine was on horseback ; a shot struck him
upon the lower lip, and taking a rising direction into his head he fell dead upon the spot without speaking a word, one
private was also killed and two wounded. We cannot better express the sentiments of those who are fully quahfied
to appreciate the merits of this gallant young man than in the words of Lt.-Col. Kelly , who thus announces his death :-
' It is with infinite concern I have to report the lamented occurrence of the death of Lieut. Maclaine, 73rd Regt ihe
indefatigable zeal and enterprise at all times evinced by this promising young officer, and reported upon by Major toxon,
make his loss at the present juncture peculiarly distressing.' " [Gazette.)
1807.— February 18, 1818— Charles Stutzer.
" It is with regret we have to record the death- of a promising young Officer, 2nd Lieut Stutzer, of the 1st Ceylon
Regt., who fell by a Musket Shot on his march from Raloowalwelle to Wellawaye on 18th inst. ...... /^leui ^jkAIj
although a very short time in the Service, had by his attention to his duty and general good conduct concil ated
the esteem of Lieut.-Colonel Moffatt Commanding and his Brother Officers. We do not profess to offer any lU-tmed
Arguments for consolation to his Parents and Relatives who are resident in Ceylon, and shall therefore ada no more.
(Gazette February 28, 1818.)
He was a son of Dr. Stutzer. (See No 1694.)
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Badulla and Neighbourhood— cowirf.
1808.— April 28, 1818— William O'Neill.
Ensign, 83rd Regiment.
He died while his regiment was engaged in the Uva operations, probably in the Province. John Burleigh (see
No. 804) was gazetted Ensign in his stead, April 29, 1818, subsequently altered to May 22, 1818.
1809.— May 6, 1818— John Gore Langton.
At Katabowa.
" We are again obliged to perform the sad duty of announcing the death of an Officer of H. M. 19th Regt.,
Captain Langton. He had been ill for some time at Ahapola and was too weak to be removed. In our last Oazette
we stated from a private letter that he had been considered out of danger and was to be removed to Katabowa on the
3rd inst. He did accordingly proceed there, but the symptoms of his recovery were fallacious, his disorder increased,
his strength failed, and on the 6th early in the morning he expired ; in him the Service has lost an active and gallant
Officer, Society an amiable and accomplished gentleman." (Gazette, May 23, 1818.)
Captain Langton was a passenger to Batticaloa in the brig Hebe in May, 1816. He was third son of William
Gore Langton of Newton Park, Somerset, Colonel of the Oxford Militia. He joined the 19th Foot, May 26, 1808 ;
Lieutenant, January 15, 1810; Captain, April 27, 1815.
1810.— June 16, 1818— James Sutlierland ; William Cliandler.
Privates of the 73rd Regt.
" On the 16th instant, while the H. C. 18th N. I. were haltingat Passara for refreshment, Lieut. Wilkinson sent
into Badulla a small party to announce their arrival. This party consisted of 6 Europeans, 6 Malays, and 6 CafBres.
They had not been used to go quite to Badulla, but to meet the escorts half way, and so were not aware of there being
within two miles of Badulla a patch of jungle which was a favourite lurking place of the Rebels. When they approached
this spot a heavy fire was opened upon them by the Kandyans from their ambuscade close by, and two fine soldiers
of the 73rd Regiment, James Sutherland and William Chandler, were unfortunately killed upon the spot. The gallant
conduct of the rest of the party well deserves public notice and approbation. They were resolved not to abandon
their comrades even in death, nor to suffer their bodies to be insulted by a barbarous enemy. Lance-Corporal McLaugh-
lan with another European and 4 natives formed themselves into a circle round the dead bodies which they had previously
removed to a spot of open ground, while the corporal and his companies made their way good to Badulla, followed
and constantly fired at by numerous Rebels ; the determined band posted round the bodies was assailed for upwards
of two hours by strong parties of Kandyans, who urged on by their Chiefs from the hills, for they always keep at a
distance themselves, advanced within 150 or 200 yards and poured in volleys of musketry. The cool intrepidity of the
soldiers was shown in the judicious reserve of their fire, for they never returned more than two shots at a time, which
were sufficient to keep off the dastardly enemy until Lieut. Burns with a detachment from Badulla drove them all into
the jungle and the bodies were brought off and interred in Badulla." (" The Uva Rebellion," despatches from the
Ceylon Oovernment Oazette, republished in Ceylon Literary Begister, vol. III.)
1811.— July 20, 1818— William Fortescue Hatherley.
" Lieut. Hathbbley of the Light Infantry
Company, 19th Regiment, at Katabowa in the
Province of Welasay.
" This worthy young man endeared himself to his acquaintance and friends by his many excellent and amiable
quftUties. The zeal and correctness with which he performed his military duties gained him the respect and esteem of
his superiors, while his obliging disposition made him universally beloved by his Brother Officers. He had been employed
in the Kandyan Provinces from the commencement of the present Rebellion, during which time he on many occasions
displayed an ardour and ability in the execution of his duty that will ever reflect the highest credit on his Memory "
(Goze«e, August 1, 1818.)
He was a Lieutenant in the North Devon Militia , and j oined the 1 9th as Ensign , February 20 , 1812; Lieutenant ,
August 24, 1815. Katabowa is about 47 miles south-east of Badulla. He was a son of W. H. Hatherley of Phillips-
town, near Bideford.
1812.— September 2, 1818— Samuel Roberts.
" 2nd Lieutenant, Sepoy Invalids, aged 21 years."
He died of fever caught at Kataragam, where he had commanded, and was in charge of the Commissariat
Department.
1813.— October 20, 1818— Alexander McLean.
Captain, 86th Regiment.
He became Lieutenant, October 23, 1817.
The death of " a gallant officer, Capt. A. McLean, and many brave soldiers " is referred to in a general order
dated December 22, 1818. There was a detachment of the 86th in Ceylon in 1818 taking part in the operations
agamst the rebels. The regiment also lost by death in Ceylon Lieutenant Hume in 1818.
1814.— October 28, 1818— Samuel Newnan.
At BaduUa, Lieut. Newnait, 1st Ceylon Regt.
He joined the 3rd Ceylon Regiment on March 13, 1815.
" 2nd Lieut. James Newnan from 3rd Ceylon Regt. to be 2nd Lieut., 1st Ceylon Regt 25th June 1817 "
I have an Idea that he was killed in an ambuscade or died of his wounds, but can find no particulars The
name is spelt Newnan m the Army Lists. Probably his full name was Samuel James Newnan.
1815.— November 8, 1818— S. H. Trydell.
Ensign, 73rd Regiment.
He arrived by the Surat Castle at Trincomalee on May 18, 1818. He joined the regiment on October 5 1815
He was probably related to Major Botell Trydell, 83rd Regiment, who subsequently joined the 2nd Ceylon Resiment
and wasCommandant successively of Bintenna (1821), Four Korles at Fort King (1823), and Matale (1826-29^ There
was a Captain J. F. Trydell in the Ceylon Rifles in the sixties. s \ /' " wo^o ^»;. xnere
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Badulla and Neighbourhood— cow^cZ.
1817.— January 6, 1819— William McBean.
Lieutenant, 73rd Regiment
Moneys belonging to his estate were at the Treasury in 1831.
1818.— May 25, 1819-Norman Macleod.
" tt'Azioi''''' ''^*^"'^' ^«^^^*^> ^-^«*-^
1819.— December 30, 1822— William Orr.
Lieutenant, 16th Toot
He joined, November 18, 1807; Lieutenant, July 10, 1817.
1820.— July 15, 1869— Hans Caulfleld.
Captain, late lOlst Regiment
Alupota.
Alupota was at one time in the Southern Province Bennett, «mr<! r.f it • " ai- a ■ ^i
Assistant Government Agent for the Southern Pro^re who has charge o the ReveiJiS^^f ti!' JV^'i^'^f °* *"
a District Judge of the Southern Circuit of the Supreme Jour? It '?not now^rforll /S^ ^r^ '' "''.?
but a dependency of BaduUa " (p. 402). tormerly a Mihtary Command
^o«. ^T™^'' Assistant Agents were Major Rogers (1833) and Charles Peter Layard (May 1, 1835 to Januarv 31
t836). Two mihtary officers died here, viz., Major Coxon on September 27 1818 and V/ Til', + January .jl,
four days later, but there are no traces of any^ombs or tolZnJ:-''l;i^'tlt'^^^^^
now concealed m the jungle," so the late Mr. James Parsons, who visited the place on SepSmC2r i$07
reported. He states further : '• OiJy the foundation stones are to be seen on the sites She old la^ri
1821.— September 29, 1818— Charles Barbier,
Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He is referred to in the list published by the Registrar of estates being administered as •' Lieut. John Barbier."
Kandy and Neighbourhood.
1822.— February 21, 1803— Thomas Anthony Reeder.
Surgeon, 51st Regt., and Actg. Inspector of Hospitals,
" at the Camp near Kandy."
He died on the day General Macdowal's and Colonel Barbut's forces joined at Katugastota, which Macdowal
had reached on February 20.
He had taken part, two days before, in the storming of the fort of Girihagama, situated on the steep hiU which
rises opposite the 10th mile on the road from Kandy to Galagedera, i.e., a little more than a mUe from the latter place.
Cordiner says of it : " The appearance of the huge mountain on which it is raised strikes the beholder with astonishment
and awe Although only two men fell by the fire of the enemy, many soon became victims to the labours of this
day. It hastened the'death of the surgeon of the 61st regiment, and the greater part of the officers and private soldiers
felt its effects long after the campaign was over" (vol. II., p. 178). The surgeon referred to was Dr. Reeder. Gala-
gedera fort had been taken just before Girihagama. A garrison of one sergeant and twelve privates was stationed in
each fort, but on June 23 they were re-captured by the Kandyans. On February 3, 1816, they were captured by the
1st Division " of the British army sent against Kandy, under Major Lionel C. Hook of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
The compUer has visited the ruins of both forts. The Galagedera fort consisted of " a square redoubt built of hewn
stones, with two large gateways, situate on the summit of a lofty moimtain." (Cordiner.) It lies above the present high
road, west of the resthouse. Girihagama fort was " of a similar construction and a position of remarkable strength."
Surgeon Reeder's effects, including a " Bandy horse and a Bengal Bandy," were advertised for sale at Colombo
in the Gazette of May 18. His widow married William Montgomery, of the Ceylon Civil Service, at Madras, in January,
1806, and had a son bom at Colombo, November 21, 1806 (see No. 1890). Chapter XIX. of Cordiner's "Ceylon,"
vol. IT., consists of an " Extract from a Journal of a Tour round Ceylon," by Sm-geon Reeder. The tour was from
Batticaloa to Tangalla, and lasted from July 10 to 19, 1801. The only Em-opean he met during the course of it was
"Mr. William Orr, the resident of the Magampattoe," whom he found " encamped on the banks of a very beautiful
river " (the Walawe). He " informed me that he had been obliged to change the air of Hambangtotte on account of an
intermittent fever with which he had been seized." It was a case of " out of the frying-pan into the fire," but evidently
Mr. Orr did not realize this.
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Kandy and Neighbourhood — contd.
1823 —March 22, 1803— Joseph Wright.
Second Assistant to the Agent of Revenue and Com-
merce for the District of Colombo.
He came out in September, 1801, one of the " young men from 15 to 20 years, of competent talents, who in
general have been educated with a view of going out as writers to India." (Despatch from Right Hon'ble Henry
Dimdas to Governor North.) He was appointed Assistant in the Chief Secretary's Ofiflce, September 22, 1801, and
Second Assistant to the Agent of Revenue, Colombo, in June, 1802. He was a subscriber of £5 to the Egyptian Fund
(Juno 9. 1802). He probably fell a victim to the " Endemial Fever " which was prevailing in the interior of the Island.
1824.— April 20, 1803— Lieut. James Gellie.
Of the Madras Artillery.
He was appointed Commissary of Ordnance and Military Stores at Trincomalee on March 8, 1803, but he was
tlien at Kandy. In Gazette of March 30, 1803, Captain Vilant (of the 19th) is "appointed to do duty as acting
Engineer at Kandi," and Lieutenant Gellie is to act for him during his absence. Lieutenant GelUe was succeeded as
Deputy Commissary of Ordnance Stores by Captain Richard Humphreys of the Bengal Artillery, from which it would
appear that Gellie, though Deputy Commissary of Stores at Trincomalee, was, as was Humphreys, on duty at Kandy.
He was in command of the party of Madras Artillery which accompanied Lieutenant Colonel Barbut's force, which
left Trincomalee on February 4 and reached Kandy on February 21, 1803. Surgeon Colin Rogers was also with
the detachment of Madras Artillery, but returned to Trincomalee.
It seems liltely that Lieutenant Gellie died of fever or beri-beri ; both diseases were prevailing at Kandy at this
time. An officer of the 19th Regiment, writing a week before the death of Lieutenant Gellie to Lieutenant T. J. Anderson
of the same regiment, who had been at Kandy, but had returned to Trincomalee towards the end of March, says : " The
men, I am sorry to say, are getting very unhealthy, principally of fevers and that damned disease, the berry-berry ; we
have forty-eight now in hospital, and have lost four men since you left us. I am convinced that nothing is so apt to
bring on that plague, the berry-berry (for so it has literally proved to the 51st Regiment), as low living and exposure
to heavy dewa and the night air, to which our men of late have been much subject. Tobacco, an article so absolutely
essential to them, they cannot get here ; but as it is a thing so easily transported, it ought certainly to be sent them.
The beef has now become wretched, and at present no better can be obtained ; the want of wine, too, now begins to
be severely felt." He writes again on May 1 : " Our days in this place pass in a most gloomy manner, and I am sorry to
say that if they keep us much longer in this hole you will see very few of those fine fellows you left behind return. I
have a long list of casualties this month, twenty-six or twenty-eight men, since your departure, and more than half our
number sick, and indeed in a very bad way."* Notwithstanding, statements were published in the Government Gazette
of April 27, as follows : " The Garrison left at Kandi, consisting principally of detachment of H. M.'s 19th and Malay
Regiments and of the Bengal and Coast Artillery, continues to enjoy perfect health The Detachment of Troops
which marched from Trincomalie to Kandi has been remarkably healthy during the whole Campaign, which is attri-
buted to the similarity of the Climate to that of Trincomalie." On the other hand, it is said of the 51st Regiment:
' This fine Corps has suffered considerably from Sicloiess, and many of the men are still confined with the Jungle Fever."
The 51at was then at' Colombo, having returned with General Macdowal early in April.
1825.— April 25, 1803— John Dupont Moses.
" At Fort MacDowall, on the 25th ultimo, Ensign
John D. Moses of His Majesty's Malay Regiment."
{Gazette, Ma.j 11,1803.)
In the Gazette of April 11, 1804, among certain " promotions made by His Majesty," J. Dupont Moses was
appointed a Lieutenant in one of " the two Regiments raised for service in Ceylon," with effect from December 28,
1801, but this list of promotions, as was sometimes the case, was not published in Ceylon until after the death
of some of the recipients, in this instance a year after.f The Army List dates the appointment October
28, 1801.
When Lieutenant T. A. Anderson, with the 19th Regiment, which formed part of Colonel Barbut's force from
Trincomalee, passed Ma tale on February 18, 1803, he describes it as " a group of villages close to the road," the inhabitants
of wliich" were not Candians but aU Moormen." Fort Macdowal had not yet been constructed, but he adds in a footnote
to his diary that " here Fort MacDowall was afterwards thrown up for the protection of these villages." A detachment
of the Malay Regiment was posted there under Lieutenant Driberg and Ensign Moses, and the fort having no doubt
meanwhile been constructed. Captains Madge and Pearce, with 55 rank and file of the 19th Regiment marched from
Kandy on April 15 to garrison it. By May 23, as we learn from the letter of that date from the " officer of the 19th
Regiment " at Kandy to Lieutenant Ariderson, the detachment at Fort Macdowal had only eight men out of fifty fit for
duty. Captain Pearce, it seems, had by May 31 returned to Kandy, for a letter from Quartermaster Brown written on
that day mentions that he was HI, and Lieutenant Ormsby of the 51st, writing to Lieutenant Anderson on June 10,
says : " Pearce is in great danger Madge at Fort Macdowall, I believe, is in as bad, if not worse, predicament
than we are, as he has not a person in his garrison in health." ButPearce recovered and returned to Fort Macdowal, for
he was one of the officers before whom Corporal Barnsley made, on June 27, his deposition as to the massacre of the
Kandy garrison, the others being Captain Madge and Assistant Siu'geon Gillespie. On hearing of the fate of the garri^ion
at Kandy, Captain Madge evacuated the Fort there, which had been besieged for three days, and succeeded in bringing
off the other officers named, and Lieutenant Driberg, 13 men of the 19th Regiment, and 22 men of the Malay Regi-
ment. " Nineteen sick Europeans he was obliged to leave behind him, having no means of transporting them."
(Cordiner, vol. II., p. 215 ; Marshall, pp. 91, 105.)
Ensign Moses appears to be the only officer buried at Fort Macdowal. Lieutenant Anderson owed his escape,.
as we owe his " Poems " and his " Journal," to the fact that he left Kandy on March 20 in command of a detachment
consisting of 12 convalescent Europeans and a guard of 30 Malays, for Trincomalee, which he reached on
the 28th.
* Extracts from these and other letters are appended, with Lieutenant Anderson's " Journal of the Proceedings of the
Trincomale Detachment, commanded by Lieut. -Col. Barbut of His Majesty's 73rd Kegiment, from their leaving Triucomale,
until their arrival at Candy," to some of the copies of Lieutenant Anderson's " Poems Written Chiefly in India," published in
1809, but copies of this book containing these appendices are very rare — in fact, I only know of one, now in the Colombo-
Museum. The British Museum copy lacks them.
t Promotions, though gazetted, had to await confirmation by the King.
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— cowid!.
1826.— May 12, 1803— Paul Carrington.
Capt. Paul Carrington of H. M.'s Malay Regt.
The Malay Kegiment, " A Corps of Foot to serve in the Island of Ceylon," was formally embodied by a general
order of February 25, 1802, published in Gazette of AprU 26, 1802. It had been raised a year before at Trincomalee.
Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Champag^ was the first Colonel Commandant, from whom it got the name of " Champagne's
Kegiment." At the same time Captain Adam Davie was gazetted Major, and Lieutenant Paul Carrington from the 74th
Foot, Captain.
In the court-martial on Ensign John Grant of the Malay Regiment in May, 1802, Captain Carrington's name
figured in the first charge. In June-July of that year the Malay Regiment marched from Colombo to Trincomalee vid
Puttalam, Arippu, and Mantai, and Captain Carrington was in command of the 1st detachment. He was at Pom-
parippu on June 22 and at " Annativoo Madoo " (Annatevanmadu in the Mullaittivu District) on July 4. A copy of a
letter from him of that date addressed to the Commissioner Extraordinary of Revenue at Jaffna, Lieutenant-Colonel
Barbut, is extant in the Jaffna Kachcheri, and it is interesting as showing that the same peculiarities which are found
in the headmen of the Vanni of the present day were then also characteristic of them. " On my arrival here this morning
I found that the headman of the place had left it yesterday. As wa were directed to halt here to-morrow, I imagine he
must have been apprised of our coming, and therefore that he went away merely to avoid being put to the trouble of
doing his duty in providing our people with what his village affords. The headman of the Tapall has likewise behaved
equally ill in not providing for us a single thiag of any kind, though I know that he was apprised of our coming by
Lieut. Thwaits, as I believe the headman of the village was at the same time. In consequence of this neglect. Sir, I am
obliged to march to-morrow, -which, though of no consequence in itself, is yet of some consequence as owing to such a
cause."
Captain Carrington was a brother of Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, who was Chief Justice in Ceylon, 1799-
1805. There is a story of his ghost having appeared at the moment of his death to his sister Catherine (who accompanied
the Chief Justice to Ceylon, married Captain Charles Fredrick Napier, R.A., at Colombo, on December 21, 1803, and
became the mother of Lord Napier of Magdala and Caryngton). The story is stUl remembered in the Carrington and
Napier faniUies. Miss Carrington was an exceptionally intellectual and strong-minded woman.
Sir Codrington Carrington married on August 3, 1801, at All Saints' Church, Northampton, Paulina, youngest
daughter of John Belli of the East India Company's Service, Secretary to Warren Hastings. She was a beautiful woman,
and her picture by Lawrence is in the South Kensington Museum, also one of the Chief Justice by the same painter.
The Chief Justice's son became Dean of Bocking, and published a translation of the poems of Victor Hugo, and
his granddaughter, the Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, is a writer on Folklore and modern Italian history. Captain
Carrington's estate was being administered up to 1813. He died of fever probably, or beri-beri.
The officer of the 19th already quoted, writing his last letter to Lieutenant Anderson on May 23, eleven days
after Carrington's death, says : " I have not much news to give you, except that our mortality and sickness is every day
increasing; such is the melancholy state of our detachment, that out of two hundred and thirty-four men remaining
out of those you left behind, there are not above five fit for duty, and even their services are required to attend those
who are in the hospital. The number at present in the hospital is one hundred and twelve, mostly fevers, and fifty-six
in barracks."
1827. — June 11, 1803— James Henderson.
" At Kandy, Lieut, and Adjutant Henderson of the
Malay Regt."
" Sergt. Major James Henderson, from 61st Foot to be Adjutant, Ceylon Regiment of Malays," June 1, 1802.
1828.— June 17, 1803— Alexander Baussett.
" At Kandy, Lieut. Baussett of H. M. Malay Regiment."
He was senior Lieutenant. He probably belonged to the family of De Baussett of Pondicherry and Sadris (see
Cotton, pp. 375, 369). The Hon. George Turnour married a De Baussett. There was a Lieutenant Louis de Baussett
ia the De Meuron Regiment when it left India in 1806.
Quartermaster Brown, writing on May 31 , says : " Poor Lieutenant Bausset was brought to my house a few days
ago extremely iU with the fever." And on June 6 : " I am truly sorry to inform you that poor Bausset js ve^ ill indeed,
and I think he cannot survive ; GoupU has the fever also , but I have some hopes he will recover ; altogether it w the rnost
gloomy scene I have ever beheld ; the Malays are even obliged to carry the Europeans to their graves. On May 28 he
had written: "Sickness prevails here to an alarming degree, not one man of our regunent able to mount guard, yet
provisions are by no means scarce ; ghee, biscuits, and pepper is issued to them every day, exckisiye of the regular
allowance, but all will not do, they faU off very fast, and the climate seems as unfavourable to the natives th«^eW
I had thirty-three artificers sent from Colombo some days ago to coin the copper, brass, &c., found here ;mvisitmg them
yesterday morning I found every one had the fever, so that my commg business will go on but slowly, ^^ign
Goupildfdreeoverfto perish in thl Watapuluwa massacre of twenty days later, hi %'^^' ^'^Zi^ltZ^, Xr^
wrote on June 10 : " Most dreary place, and our communication has lately been cut off owmg to the heavy ^^'^s- There
is not a man in the 19th Regiment able to do duty, and they are now losmg them fast-very fast •;•••■• ••^°° 3
. knows what will become of us here, for if we were ordered to evacuate the place there is ^^^^^ ^,™i^^^f "f^^ ^^„*
could walk a mile, and there are neither coolies or doolies. If we were to be ^'t^'^kf Ti^TleSte^rSch L SrSed
fit for duty." Major Davie writing from Kandy to Lieutenant T. J Anderson on Jvme 17, a letter ^^^^^^J^^^^^^
by the latter office^ as " probably the last letter ever written from Candy, as ^^e fatal catastrophe took placy^^ t^t
day week," says: " Henderson died on the 11th, and Bausset this mommg. ^"^^^ ^"^J. ^°^P'}, ^'' *''° '^^•
Adds : " Excuse this scrawl, it being the- 19th letter I have written this day, and I am far from weU.
1829.— June 24, 1803— William Blakeney.
Lieut. Blakeney of the 19th Regt.
The circumstances attending his death are described by Jan Bgbertus Thoen the Dutch s^^^^^
the 5th Company of the 1st Battalion of the Bengal Artillery who ^1°^^7X , L^T " There wL a £^ Chief
24th. He had heard the details from soldiers who came mto *e hospital after the fight. ihere w s y^^^^
called Sa^galen in the King's service, he was called a Captam; this «^?^, f J^^^^f^ *° « ?Ss May Chief (who'^had a
this gun of ours had been playing grape on the road m the d>^«°t;°';^ "^ *^? ^^fd*X; tWs^. Lieutenant Blakeny
brother named Nouradeen in our service), attended by one armed f°"°^«^' ,^Pf,Xd hThiThand. Sangalen jumped
advanced towards him, having only his shirt and trowsers on, ^"fl^^^t^^l^^X they then grappled
upon him. and stabbed him with his creese, after which Lieut. Blakeny cut «* ^^ J^'^.^jg^^Xd by a shotfahd the
and fell together, and.as I understand.both died upon the spot. Sangalen's follower was also KUiea oy
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— cow««Z.
1829.— June 24, 1803— William Blakeney— cowfei.
death of these two persons prevented any more from attempting to force their way into the palace by the rear."
(' ' Narative " appended to in " The Wanderer in Ceylon." ) Cordiner's account is as follows : — ■
" About 5 o'c. A.M., a strong party of Condian Malays, headed by Sanguylo their chief, attempted to force the
palace at the eastern barrier. They were opposed by Lieutenant Blakeney and a few men of the 19th Regt. Sanguylo
crossed the stockade and was immediately seized by the Lieutenant ; they struggled and both fell together, and whUe
lying on the ground, Sanguylo gave a mortal stab to his opponent with his creese " (vol. II., p, 208). In November,
1800, Lieutenant Blakeney was at Mannar with a Company of the 19th Regiment, about to march to Trincomalee
(Jaffna Diary). He paid a visit to India later, and on October 19, 1802, arrived from Madras by H.M.S. Eurydice.
He did not proceed to Kandy with Colonel Barbut's force in February, but had only arrived there on June 4, from
Trincomalee, " after a very unpleasant march. It rained from the|time I left Minery, the roads were bad, and the rivers
deep and rapid." So he writes to Lieutenant Anderson on June 14, from Kandy, where he found things in a very bad
way. " General MacDowal had left on the 11th with his A.D.C., Captain MacDowal, both ill. I need not attenipt to
picture to you the dreadful state of affairs here. Sickness and starvation, together with the treachery of the Adigaar,
and the desertion of the Malays and Lascars, combine these with the General's sickness and departure, and I fear not any
man now here will ever leave it. I still keep my usual spirits, and have plenty of employment. I hope, however, to
see you again if the Malays stand by us, and I believe the flank companies from Trinoomale must be ordered up to save
our throats." But within ten days the lieutenant gallantly fell as related, having been less than three weeks in Kandy.
1830.— June 24, 1803— Peter Plenderleath,
Lieut, and Adjutant Plenderleath, 19th Eegt.,
appointed " Adjutant and Quartermaster to the
detachment of 19th at Kandi," 31st March, 1803.
On Lieutenant Blakeney being stabbed by the Malay Chief, " Lt. Plenderleath and a private of the 19th ran
two bayonets through the body of the Malay. Capt. Humphreys of the Bengal Artillery coming up, loaded the field-
piece with grape shot, which, being fired, brought down twenty -four of the enemy. The Candian troops being intimi-
dated by this loss, withdrew to a greater distance and manned all the rising grounds from which they galled the garrison
by the fire of their grasshopper guns."* ' .
On this occasion Lieutenant Plenderleath was severely wounded and " died of his wounds in Candy." (Cordiner,
vol. II., pp. 208-9, 216). From Marshall we learn that he died the same day (p. 119). He joined the 19th Foot as
Ensign, September 20, 1799, and became Lieutenant, November 18, 1801.
The date of the attack on the palace was, accordina; to Cordiner, June 24th, and this appears to be correct, but
according to Thoen's " Narrative " it was the 23rd.
1831 .-^une 24, 1803— Martin Harland Byne.
Lieut. Byne of the 19th Foot.
The Gazette of April 25, 1804, shows that he died on June 24, for his successor Ensign T. A. Jones is appointed
from June 25, " Lieutenant without purchase, vice Byne, deceased."
Whether Lieutenant Byne died of disease or fell in action is, strange to say, nowhere recorded, neither in the
Gazette, the Army List, nor by the various historians of the Kandy disaster. He was stationed at Trincomalee in 1802.
His name appears in the Gazette of November 10, 1802, with those of Ensigns Maclaine and Smith, who perished two
days later in the Watapuluwa massacre, as a subscriber to the Egyptian Fund. He was a son of Charles Byne, Esq.,
of Alphington, Devon, and matriculated at Oxford in February, 1795, at the age of eighteen. He became Lieutenant
November 1, 1800.
It was probably Lieutenant Byne who wrote the letters to Lieutenant Anderson "from an officer of the 19th
Regiment " already quoted dated April 12, May 1 , and May 23. His name is not given by the latter, though he names
Major Davie, Lieutenant Blakeney, Lieutenant Ormsby, and Quartermaster Brown as the writers of the other letters
which,he prints at the end of his " Poems." I arrive at this conclusion from the following circumstance. It is clear
that the writer was the officer in command of the detachment of the 19th left in Kandy, for he says : "I have a long list
of casualties this month." Lieutenant Byne was the senior officer of the 19th at the time in Kandy, for Major Evans,
Captain Vilant, and Lieutenants Jewell (who was Major of Brigade to Colonel Barbut), Roberston, and Robson had
returned to Trincomalee or proceeded to Colombo , and Captains Madge and Pearce were on duty at Fort Macdowal.
1832.— June 26, 1803— Tliomas Ormsby ; Robert Stuart ; Hector Maclaine ; Robert Smith ; William Brown ;
William Hope ; William Mercer ; Robert Barry ; J. Fanthome ; Louis Goupil ; Henry Holloway.
1803
Sunday, June 26th,
Davie's Tree.
Stood on the summit of this Hill.
This stone was placed here by the Municipal Council,
Kandy, June 26, 1907, close to the scene of the
massacre 'of his troops, which the tree survived
exactly 100 years.
Eleven officers appear to have fallen in the massacre at Watapuluwa, and a list of them is given in Cordiner,
vol. II., pp. 215-16, and Marshall, p. 119. The latter omits Stuart. Besides these officers, 1 9 non-commissioned offiicers
and men of the 19th also perished at Watapuluwa and 120 had been massacred in the hospital at Kandy. " The Major's
party at Watapologa (sic) consisted of 14 officers, 20 European soldiers, 250 Malays." (Marshall, p. 119.) Of these.
Major Davie and Captains Rumley and Humphreys were spared, and Corporal Bamley, 19th Regiment, and Sergeant
Thoen escaped. Lieutenant Thomas Ormsby belonged to the 51st, to which he was gazetted as Ensign on October 28,
1795. He was acting Commissary of Grain and Provisions. Lieutenant Anderson writes in his " Journal," under date
Thursday, February 24: " Last night the Candians attacked an advance post of ours beyond Candy, commanded by
Lieut. Ormsby, 51st Regiment ; a smart fire was kept up for about twenty minutes, but not a man of ours hurt."
* " Gingalls, commonly called grasshoppers ; these are small iron guns, carrying a ball from six to ten ounces, and
mounted on three wooden legs, exactly like a common stool ; these they carry from, one buah to another, with great celerity,
as occasion requires." (Lieutenant Anderson's '' Journal," Febrviary 22.) " Grasshopper " {Springhhaan-looper) is the Dutch
name for them.
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— cow^t^.
1832.— June 26, 1803— Thomas Ormsby, &,c.~contd.
One of the letters received by Lieutenant Anderson from Kandy was from Lieutenant Ormsby It is dated " June 10 "
it was his intention to have written before, but he had " always postponed it, in hopes of communicating occurrences
of a more favourable nature than those that have happened to our miserable regiment * He had heard of the
death of Colonel Barbut, which had taken place at Colombo on May 21. " Poor Col. Barbut, how severe his loss
has been felt here. It was a most unexpected blow to us, as we understood he was getting better "
Sergeant Stuart of the 51st was acting Provost Marshall with the rank of Ensign ; he was "to remain in Kandy
under the orders of Lieut.-Col. Barbut " (March 31, 1803). Lieutenant Maclaine and Ensign Smith belonged to
the 19th Regiment, and so did Quartermaster Brown. Lieutenant Maolaine joined the 19th on May 13, 1799, and
Ensign Smith on February 5, 1801 ; he was to have retired from March 9, 1803, and his successor was actually gazetted
nearly a year later. " Ensign C. Douglas from 37th Foot to be Ensign without purchase, vice Smith, who retires."t
Quartermaster Brown had been stationed at Matara. He was appointed " Assistant Drill " there ; (Gazette,
November 10, 1802.) Quartermaster, wee La Hey, deceased, from April 3, 1802; (this appeared in the belated list of
promotions in the Gazette of April 11 , 1804) ; Paymaster to the Garrison of Kandi, from March 29, 1803 ; [Gazette of
April 20, 1803.) There are three letters from Quartermaster Brown appended to Lieutenant Anderson's" Poems."
"Assistant Surgeon W. Hope, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, ■yiee Andrews promoted, June 12th, 1802." (Gazerte
of Aprilll, 1804.) Dr. Hope was dangerously ill on May 28 (letter from Quartermaster Brown), " very ill" on June 10
(letterfrom Lieutenant Ormsby). These three officers were with the 19th Regiment at Trincomalee in 1802. Sergeant-
Major Watson (" Waston " in Gazette) of the same regiment was gazetted " Sergeant-Ma j or of Kandy from the day
he was appointed by Lieut.-Col. Barbut." (Gazette of April 27, 1803.) He was probably one of those who perished
in the Kandy massacres. ^
Lieutenant Mercer was appointed to the Malay Regiment, October 1 , 1799.
Ensign Robert Barry, Adjutant of the Malay Regiment, commanded the escort that accompanied Governor
North on his tour round the Island in June , 1 800 ; he was gazetted Lieutenant , July 17, 1800, but apparently the promo -
tionwas temporary, or was not confirmed. He was appointed Fort Adjutant of Kandy on March 31, 1803. In March,
1 802 , he had figured in the proceedings of the court martial on Ensign Grant , and was reprimanded by General Macdowal
as " the leader of a faction among the officers of the Malay Corps," and as having "exhibited conduct extremely unbecom-
ing his rank alid years." The General further observed that " officers of more mature age and seniority had been
incited to adopt his erroneous judgment."
Ensigns Fanthome and Goupil were also of the Malay Reghnent. Ensign Fanthome was gazetted Lieutenant
from December 27, 1801, and Ensign Goupil from December 26, 1801 (antedated), but the promotions were, at their
death, awaiting confirmation. Goupil's history is given by Lieutenant-Colonel Welsh in his " Military Reminiscences "
(vol. I., pp. 95-6). He was a Frenchman, a Royalist, and consequently an "emigrant." "An accomplished
gentleman and a truly brave soldier, he had formerly served as a captain of cavalry in the unfortunate campaign
under the Duke of Brunswick. Being on a visit to an Officer, Resident to the Rajah of Travancore, who was in
command of the forces engaged in the Poligar war in the Madras Presidency in 1801, he volunteered his services and
took part in the operations in the Sherewell jungle." Having been totally unprepared for taking the field, he shared
the tent of Colonel Welsh, who was then a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the Native Infantry, during the campaign.
Lieutenant-Colonel Welsh describes him as " o'f a slender and delicate frame," and remarks that " his chivalrous
spirit frequently led him into dangers, apparently beyond his strength ; he was endowed with romantic notions of
honour." In illustration of this he relates an incident which occurred during a fight on August 2, 1801 , when his party,
though they behaved most gallantly, was driven back, and* he himself was attacked by two pike-men at once, but
defended himself so well that, though his clothes were pierced through in several places, he came off unhurt, and being
joined by a Malay Captain and five or six others made good his retreat though surrounded by the enemy.
When Captain Welsh congratulated him on his escape he burst into tears and exclaimed, " O mon ami ! J'al
perdu mon honneur," and while his conduct had been viewed with one general sentiment of admiration by all who
witnessed it, I had the utmost difficulty to pursuade him that he had well performed his duty ; and that no disgrace
could attach to the soldier who, successfully defending himself against such odds, had effected his retreat. After the
faU of Punjalumcoorchy he obtained " an ensigncy in the Malay Corps belonging to Ceylon, and perished some years
afterwards in the disastrous expedition to Kandy." He was gazetted Lieutenant from Deceijiber 26, 1801 (antedated).
On June 6, 1803, he had fever, but Quartermaster Brown had some hopes he would recover. ^ . , „^„
Henry HoUoway was a surgeon on the East India Company's Madras establishment, and m 1802 was stationed
at Galle. He was gazetted, on January 28, 1803,to the medical charge of the Artillery, Lascoreens, and Pioneers of the
force proceeding to Kandy, and on March 29 was appointed surgeon to the garrison of Kandy In the report of the
Inspector-Geneml of Hospitals, Dr. Thomas Christie, on the health of the troops m Ceylon ml 803, which is published
in Cordiner, he is eulogized for his great attention to duty and the care with which he kept his medical diary while m
charge of the detachments of the Bengal ^^d Madras Artillery stationed m Kandy to which Cordiner appends the not^^^
"This young man, so highly spoken of, fell in the massacre at Candy' (vol. II., pp. 274--5). The Dutch Artillery
Sergeanl Thoen, skys of him : " The surgeon, Mr. HoUoway was very kind and tender *° ^ejck ^^ v^y an^^^^^^^
to clre them : h; remained with them day and nightand tried a great deal of medicine. ('^he Wanderer m Ceylon
t) IS'} ^ OwiTK. to the illness of Dr Hope, "the whole business falls on Dr. HoUoway, who has not a moment to
Cs i .''""^tls Cterm:r B^o'wne'on May 31 and June 10. «/ t'^-*^- ^ ^f mf a'^^^^^^^
that " Mr. Hope, the assistant surgeon of the 1 ^^h , ha. been very -^^^^^J^f^-^ll^^:i^l^Zl:ltl
practice in each case." The estates «f i;^;^*^^^^*^^™*^,;^ ^^ Supreme Couk of Colombo in May, 1806, and the
Surgeon Holloway were being adm^^^^^ ^ ,^^ 1^286, Mercer, 399,
following moneys were to t^eix credit "i *he^^^^^^ . stUl being administered in 1813, of HoUoway
Ormsby, 149, HoUoway and Fanthome, 4 •^f^^®,^^^!^^;",/'^^ „t the Treasury in 1831. Captain De Bussche in his
in 1817, and there were moneys to the credit of Goupil ^^l^^^^^^l ^^Z^^xZl in which the invalid troops were
" Letters on Ceylon," published m 1817, states that the building used^^^^^^ afterwards " was razed to
massacred was situated in the palace and was visited ^.^ ^^^"^ ^.^ J,^3[J; .^a^^^^ on the spot where it stood "
the ground by order of General Brownrigg, and it is intended that a P^J^^^f^^ °^ ^^^^^ i^ connection with the Kandy
(pp. 61-2). That intention was never ^PP^^^^^ly/^^J'^t^^l^t^^^^ Road," just below the old
tragedies is the recent erection of the stone ^^.^^^^^e inscription gv^ ^^^^ .^ ^^.^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^
bo-tree under which, according to tradition Davie and his Of^^^^^^^^'^^ , .^ j^ l^t^l thrown out a new shoot. The
" Davie's Tree." It died off in 1903, but the trunk is stiU ^^^^^^/^^g ' j^^^ ^ is always associated with
site of the tree is really in the village of Mahmada adjoining Wa^^hiwa , but the mass^ y
the latter viUage. Close by is the abandoned ferry of P^^Xlld^^tale^roaXtre continuation of which may be
superseded by the bridge at Katugastota. Paranagantota was °n.*^_f °^'i^^"r road.
seen just opposite it on the other side of the river near the 4J milestone on the Kandy leiaen y
♦ This nrobablv refers to the great mortality in the 51st, after it arrived in 0°l°^WtCKi^s'^^'
t Tl^SeXette appointment was due to the necessity for its bemg approved by the Kmg. ^^^^^
3l
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Kandy and Neighbourhood — contd.
1832. — June 26, 1823 — Thomas Ormsby, &e. — cmtd.
The 19th Regiment, 13 officers and 432 non-commissioned officers, rank and file, the Malay Regiment with 11
European officers and 600 non-commissioned, rank and file, 42 Madras Artillery and 150 Artillery Lascars, and 90
Pioneers formed the column which, under Lieutenant-Colonel Barbut, left Trincomalee on February 4, and marched into
Kandy with General Macdowal's army on February 21 , 1803. Of the officers of the 19th, Major Evans, who came with
General Macdowal's army, Captain Vilant, Lieutenants Jewell (Brigade Major), Robertson, Robson, and Anderson,
Adjutant Crooks, and Surgeon William Andrews returned to Colombo or to Trincomalee. Captain Pearce, Lieutenants
Driberg and Moses of the Malay Regiment proceeded to Fort Macdowall, and Lieutenant Huskisson went to Trincomalee
and was returning with a detachment of the Malay Regiment escorting 100 doolies to Kandy, when, on June 30, he fell
in with Captain Madge and the Fort Macdowall garrison retreating to Trincomalee. Captain Napper, 51st, who had
accompanied the column as Baggage Master, Lieutenant Thwaites, 51st, who with Lieutenant Blakeney had been in
command of the Pioneers of the column. Surgeon Gilbert Hall of the Malay Regiment, and Surgeon Colin Rogers of the
Madras Artillery had also left Kandy. Captain Napper died at Trincomalee eighteen months after the massacre (seeNo.
927). Lieutenant Thwaites became a Captain in Bailhe's Regiment (the Caffre Corps or 3rd Ceylon Regiment), August 20,
1804, and succeeded Major Evans as Commandant of Mannar, January 1, 1805. The other officer of the Malay Regiment
who came from Trincomalee was Captain Carrington.
There is something of pathetic interest in the fact that among the ill-fated Kandy officers the following were
subscribers in this same year to the "Poems " of Mrs. Grant of Laggan, the author of the ballad "Where, and oh where,
is my Hieland Laddie gone ?": Major Davie, Captain Humphreys, Peter Campbell, 51st Regiment, Lieutenants
Plenderleath, 19th Regiment, and Gelhe (two copies). Ensigns Barry and Driberg, Surgeon Reeder, and Quartermaster
Brown.
Lieutenant Anderson wrote a poem in seven stanzas "To the Memory of the British Officers Massacred at Kandy,"
which is published in his " Poems written chiefly in India." The last verse but one runs :■ —
" When parting at that fatal stream,
Discolor'd now with gore,
Ah little, little did I dream.
That we should meet no more ! "
1833.— July, 1803— Richard Humphreys; Edward Rumley.
These officers were with Davie's troops at the massacre of June 26, 1803, but were not killed. According to
Jlarshall they were imprisoned with Davie at Kandy, but died shortly afterwards.
Captain Humphreys belonged to the Bengal Artillery, in which he was gazetted a Captain-Lieuteiiant, February
17, 1802, and became Adjutant of the Corps. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Ordnance Stores, vice, Gellie,
May 30, 1803.
In the attack on the palace at Kandy on June 24, " Captain Humphreys, by loading a field piece with grape shot,
did great execution among the enemy." (Marshall, p. 96.) At W^atapuluwa he " succeeded in getting a warp across
the river, but the Kandyans on the opposite side soon after cut the rope^" (p. 99).
How he escaped is related by Cordiner. In the confusion of the massacre. Captain Humphreys, " laying hold
of the arm of a sub-assistant surgeon of the Malay Regiment,* found means to roll down with him from the height where
they were standing to the hollow where the dead bodies were thrown " (vol. II. , p. 214).
Captain Rumley was gazetted from the 73rd into the Malay Regiment as Captain, October 26, 1802. Major
Davie's letter of June 17 to I^ieutenant Anderson states that Rumley was then ill. Neither he nor Captain Humphreys
was seen by Thoen, the Sergeant of Captain Himaphreys' Corps, after the massacre, though he saw Major Davie once.
1834.— March, 1813— Adam Davie.
Major Davie of His Majesty's Malay Regiment.
He was the son of John Davie, well known in Edinburgh by the cognomen of " Sooty Davie," from the circum-
stance that he was the proprietor of a manufactory in that city for making sal ammoniac from coal soot. He received
a commission in the 75th, formerly the Stirlingshire Regiment, and now the 1st Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders,
which was stationed in Ceylon with a company at Kandy, a hundred years after Davie joined it in 1787. He obtained
his company in 1793, and went out to the Regiment while it was stationed in the Madras Presidency. He was gazetted
major in the Malay or " Champagne's " Regiment, which had just been raised in Ceylon, on April 25, 1801. He was
acting Commanding Officer at Colombo during the absence of Colonel Josiah Champagne in 1801-2, and was appointed
Commandant of Fort Ostenburg, Trincomalee, on October 19, 1802, and of the garrison of Kandy on May 6, 1803, on
the departure of Colonel Barbut to meet the Governor at Dambadeniya. Davie did not at all appreciate his position
at Kandy, as appears from his letter to Lieutenant Anderson, written from Kandy on June 17, six days after the final
departure of General Macdowal. " A hopeful situation truly, and a pretty time to succeed to such a command." He
was then too " far from well." The position of the garrison was truly well-nigh desperate, as appears from the letters
received by Lieutenant Anderson from some of the officers which have been already quoted, and on June 24 Davie
surrendered. Different views have been taken of his conduct. Marshall endeavours to defend him, whereas Knighton,
in his " History of Ceylon," accuses him of misconduct. He is described by those who knew him as " a well disposed
inoffensive man without any practical experience of hostile military operations." He had never seen any active service
in India or elsewhere. Judging from his conduct in captivity , when he made no attempt to escape, for the trivial reason
that he could not escape without shoes, he was of an undecided character, without any element of heroism about him.
It would seem that at first he was anxious to escape, but that later he did not want to leave the King's dominions.
According to Captain de Bussche, who took part in the expedition against Kandy in 1815, and wrote an account of it in
" Letters from Ceylon," " He was well supplied with such necessaries of life as Kandy afforded, and I should almost think
that he had become reconciled to his fate, as after the most minute inquiry I cannot find that he ever made any serious
attempt to regain his liberty, the effecting of which, difficult as it might be, was certainly not impracticable." The
British authorities do not seem to have had any communication with him for two years after his capture, and, in fact,
probably thought him dead, for in May, 1805, steps were taken to administer his estate, the value of which was returned
at 5,200 rix-doUars. But with the advent of Sir John D'Oyly to Colombo in 1806 as Collector, a regular system of
communication with him was established. This was carried on by D'Oyly by means of spies, Kandyans, Low-country
Sinhalese, Moormen, and Dutchmen ; letters were conveyed between him and the Collector hidden in lumps of jaggery
or in quills, and he was furnished with supplies and money. The King, it appears, did not object to his receiving
♦The name of this sub-assistant surgeon, we learn from the "Illustrated London News," of August 17, 1853, was
Greeving. He was probably of Dutch descent. He hid himself in a dry well at the time of the massacre. He escaped to
Colombo in the following September.
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1834.— March, 1813— Adam J)a.vie—conid.
provisions or money, but objected to his writing or receiving letters, and on one occasion he got into trouble and narrowlv
escaped death through aletter of his being discovered. Itseemsthat the king's idea was to exchange himfor Puttalam
and that, therefore, he wished to keep him alive. Suggestions were made for his escape, but he did not fall in with them'
He Uved at Kandy m the Migonararhbe, which is now the site of Harambe House, also near the bo-tree in the grounds of
the Military Hospital, also at times at the Malwatta Vihare. He also lived at different villages in Dumbara Gomagoda
Huiikaduwa, Napane, and there seems reason to suppose tjiat he was for a time at BaduUa. He was engaged in making
gunpowder for the king, and was appointed by him Madige Disawa or chief of the bullock-carriage department He
wearing an old red tunic and white trousers and had a long beard. He was often ill, suffering from a disease which „
probably dropsy. This correspondence was kept up till the time of his death. As to when this actually occurred there .„
considerable uncertainty. Captain De Bussche says that he died a natural death in 1812, but there are good reasons
for supposing that it actually occurred in 1813. There is a record in the Secretariat which approximately fixes the date
of Davie's death. Inquiries were instituted soon after the capture of Kandy as to the date and recorded as follows :—
" On inquiry being made from some of the Nayakars, it was stated that he died in the Cingalese month Mandig of the
Gentoo year Angura, about 35 months previous to the inquiry, being the 23rd of January, 1816." The Sinhalese year
Angura (Angirasa) is 1812-3, the year beginning in April. The Sinhalese month Mandig (Medindina) is the period from
the middle of February to the middle of March. The date of Davie's death would therefore be February to March, 1813,
and 35 months before January 23, 1816, would make it the first week in March.
Captain de Bussche states that he died of dropsy, and that the house in which he died was pointed out to him,
also that ' ' his remains were deposited at a short distance from the town of Kandy on the south of the upper lake
in an isolated valley and a monument is to be erected to his memory." This intention has never been carried
. out, neither has the pillar, which the same writer informs us was to be erected to mark the site of the building which the
British had appropriated to the purpose of a hospital, which was the scene on June 24 of the massacre of 120 British
troops, ever been set up. But there is no doubt that the remains of the ill-fated Davie lie in the Migon-Arambe or
somewhere close to it on the south side of the present Kandy lake. When Sir John D'Oylj died in 1824, among other
recipients of his bounty the natural son of Major Davie is mentioned. Davie had been allotted by the king a woman of
low (jp,ste, and by her he had a son, who in April, 1816, when Sir Robert Brownrigg visited Kandy, was brought before
the Governor by his mother. The Governor ordered that he should be sent to the Colombo Seminary, and when he had
finished his education there he was given employment under Government, but ran away. He was re-employed, but at
Colombo, as the Kandyan Chiefs objected to stand while he was seated on a office stool. Major Davie left a mother and
three unmarried sisters at Edinburgh, badly off — also three married sisters.
1835.— November 2, 1818— Henry Glenholme.
" At Kandy, of fever, Capt. Henry Glenholme, 73rd
Regt." {Gazette.)
" He was constantly employed in the most active and anxious services, and although his health had suffered
repeatedly and greatly from fatigue and from the diseases incident to the unwholesome Provinces which he traversed ,
he could not be induced to quit the Field. To this Military feeling — to this Strong Sense of Duty — to this Soldier-like
determination, he fell a sacrifice, and so closed a short but memorable Career, not having yet completed his 35th year.
He was beloved by all those with whom he served. His zeal was ardent, yet never obtrusive, his humanity to his men
always appeared most conspicuous — the whole tenor of his life was most meritorious — his character discreet, sincere,
and manly his heart grateful and affectionate. An excellent Brother, an attentive Son, and faithful Friend. In all
these relations his loss is deeply felt by those who could appreciate his worth, and it may without exaggeration be said
that in his premature death his country too has something to regret." {Qazette of November 7, 1818.)
The Army List gives the date of his death as November 1.
He was in command of a force, which was sent on February 13, 1818, to Hanguranketa. " The first night he
estabhshed himself there (he) was attacked by a large rabble and fired on from all sides, but succeeded in driving
them off with the loss of a man killed and three wounded on the side of the rebels, and no casualty on ours *
Capt Glenholme was not molested the next night, and moved on the 15th to open a communication with Gonnegamme
he returned to Hangurankette without meeting any opposition on his road, but on'the 18th he was attacked
there.' He had been reinforced the previous day by a detachment from Wallapana, under Ensign Lidwell, of 30 men,
but had detached Lieut. Conradi and 25 of his former party on the morning of the 18th to accompany Lieut. Hmgstone
and a party which had been sent from Gonagamme to communicate with Capt Glenholme, and who were ret^uxg
tn that nnst and to brine suDpUes from Gonagamme. Lieut. Hmgstone, after dispersmg a party of 300 rebels,
procel'd ' Capt. GlSmeCsition, who immediately quitted it, and with Lieut. Hingstone charged the rabble
attackiTTthfi no^f and pursued them in every direction for five miles, killing and woundmg about 60. In May he
attaekmg the post and P"f «^®'i/^^^'f '": ^.-.^-,cr of the 17th by a great crowd of natives, of whom about 1,000 were
was assailed at Godamoona on the lueJsy morning oi tne i /wi, u^ » g ^„„„„fori thA nRirt Hav nnHl
armpd and lod bv 20 well-dressed headmen. The attack contmued until evening and was repeated the next da,y until
country as plentiful, and his men, 100 rank and nie, m wani; oi now 8 g g -^ ^ p y
very difficult roads. On the 13th he had arrived at Hanwena m ^^^.f,^^^'^'^^'^^^^ march,
gama. He had proceeded from Pallegama 24 miles east to ^"itenna ( Alut Nu™^^^ t^e^ y ^^^
another sixteen kiles to Hanwella. He had captured J ^l^P^-J^and a^on^^dera ^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^
last we hear of him, and he must have died m a week or two ^^«^«';*/p^°* ^X^holme '' is referred to , and his services
issued at KandybytheCommanderoftheForces,''the late lamentedC^^^^^^
as well as those of Lieut.-Col. Hardy, the Deputy Quartermaster-General ,wM^ ^^^^^
a series of continual and fatiguing exertions in the Provmce of Doombara. Lfg^l/^'^^^J P^nU,'' pp. 20, 29, 52, 54, 60.)
with the most praiseworthy ardour, under exposure to every mclemency. ( The Uva Kebeilio , pp , .
1836.— January 5, 1819— Anthony Coane.
Major Coane, 73rd Regiment.
On the outbreak of the Uva Rebellion, Captain Coane was sent ^^^ J^J^-^^^^^ tt^Te^^ Seutcof Hoo'S
to co-operate with Lieutenant-Colonel Hook On December 29 he and Lieu^^^^ ^^^X^^ ^eriormed
with a party to bum the houses of six rebel headmen m the neighbourhood ot ^J-^^^ 4 or 5 of a party of rebels
without any loss an d returned the same day into camp with one prison^ rteken^tterkTO [
* See No. 1838 for locality of Gonagama.
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1836. — January 5, 1819 — Anthony Coane — contd,
whom they had surprised. The prisoner gave information of a number of rebels that were concealed in a cave upon a
mountaia about 5 miles from Madulla. A Detachment under the command of Captain Coane was sent off the very
same night lest the rebels should be alarmed and change their quarters. Captain Coane and Lieut. Lloyd, with a
detachment of 50 men, reached the cave near the gummit of a mountain, after a laborious march over rugged hills
through thick jungle, about three in the morning. In their approach to the cave they were favoured by the noise of
a fall of water down the rocks as weU as by the darkness. Captain Coane disposed his men in so judicious a manner
that few of those who rushed out from the cave upon the first alarm made their escape. But when the party entered
the cave they found there were several women and children in it, and the men were so anxious to avoid hurting them in
the dark, that several of the rebels took advantage of their caution and effected a retreat. Not less, however, than 20
were killed , and among these , two Headmen who were active (as was learnt from a prisoner) in the murder of Mr. Kennedy.
Captain Coane remained at the cave till day-break when he found a pair of pantaloons that the unfortunate Mr. Kennedy
had on when he was killed , with some arms and provisions , a part of which he brought away and destroyed the rest. He
afterwards burnt the houses of some Headmen and returned to camp the same day." On January 22, 1818, he marched
with a detaclxoaent from Madulla to Udumadu, and on the 27th took a detachment from Madulla to Kurupanarala ,
where he surprised a party of rebels ia a house, Idlled 3, and took 2 prisoners. He attempted unsuccessfully to surprise
another party in a cave and then joined Lieut.-Col. Hook again. On May 26 he succeeded in capturing the rebel leader
Rahupala Pihanarala, head of one of the most powerful families in Uva, a capture which Major Coane (he had meanwhile
received his step) reported ' had much damped the spirits of the rebels in Udakinda.' Next month he was at ' Topetty '
(Tuppitiya), and ' had armed several Kandyans in his service with bows and arrows, and they had done good service
upon several occasions.' "
In August he was at Gampaha, whence he had led an expedition to surprise Andiya Mohottale. He had, after
a laborious march, found his house deserted, but he destroyed a great many houses before he returned to Gampaha.
Next month he advanced to Maturata, and by October 1 had arrived at Teldeniya, where he was to remain, while a
party of Malays proceeded by night by Medamahanuwara to Gampaha to try and catch the rebel chief Madugalla. He
was then himself to move by Medamahanuwara into Gampaha. On October 7 he was at " Bambouna " (Bambiya ?).
It is stated in the official account dated October 31, 1818, that " Major Coane is nearly quite recovered from
the effects of an injury which he suffered by the blowing up of some gunpowder, and he will probably soon go to Lftggala
to relieve Lieut.-Col. Hardy," and, with the exception of the commendatory mention of his name in General Orders of
November 10, this is the last reference to him in the record of the operations. Whether he died at Kandy or Lagalla
is not known. (See " The Uva RebeUion," pp. 9, 17, 18, 31, 35, 47-8, 52.) '
He was a brother of Captain Henry Coane, also of the 73rd Regiment, who was severely wounded at Waterloo,
of Lieutenant Montgomery Coane of the 19th Regiment, who died at Ganjam on June 12, 1806, " of fatigue, ia a
campaign against the Mahrattas," of Lieutenant Alexander Coane of the 95th, who was killed " on the frontiers of
Portugal ia a battle upon the Coa," and of Ensign William Conyngham Coane of the 73rd, who was drowned in Colombo
harbour. (See No. 62.)
1837.— June 24, 1819— Roderick Mackenzie.
Lieutenant Mackenzie, 1st Ceyjon Regiment.
He died " of a fever." He was gazetted from the Javanese Corps, in which he held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant,
to be supernumerary 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Ceylon Regiment, August 7, 1816. During the Uva Rebellion,
Lieutenant Mackenzie "succeeded, under the direction of the Hon. J. D'Oyly, in taking the principal leadfer of hostilities
in the Dolosbaugy country." (" The Uva Rebellion," p. 27.) This was in May, 1818. He was Fort Adjutant and
Sitting Magistrate, Kandy, from May 18 to June 5, 1819.
1838.— June 23, 1823— Brooke Young.
Lieutenant Beooke Yotjng, of the 83rd Regiment.
He was probably a son of Lieutenant-Colonel Brooke Young, R.A., commanding the garrison at Colombo. He
joined the 83rd on April 4, 1819. He died from fever and dysentery contracted at Gonagama, on the lower Badulla
road and the right bank of the Mahaweli-ganga and about 15 miles from Kandy. He was on duty here at the time as
Assistant Engineer in the Pioneer Corps.
1839.— December 30, 1823— John Clancy.
Lieutenant Clancy of the 16th Regiment.
He was an Assistant Engineer in the Pioneer Corps from April 15, 1820. There is appended to the entry of
burial a memorandum by the Rev. N. Garstin, chaplain, as follows : — " This commenced the fever of 1824 by which
the officers and men of the 16th and 45th Regts. were carried oft in great nximbers." From the register of burials
it appears that in 1 824 there were at Kandy 1 68 burials , the larger number being in May and June , when fever was most
fatal. Of the 45th Regiment, in May 27 men, 3 women, and 10 children died, in June 24 men, 1 woman, and 6 children,
and during the rest of the year 34 men, 11 women, and 11 children, that is, 127 persons," A note at the end of the
year states that these burials took place " besides bm-ials in the Roman Catholic Chapel."
It is no doubt Lieutenant Clancy who is referred to in Major Skinner's book in connection with an incident which
occurred in 1823, while he was stationed at " Allow "(Alawwa), which he relates as" illustrative of the life of danger
which our reckless feUow- workers ran. C. of the 16th Regiment rode over from Warracoply (Warakapola) one evening
to dine with us, and late in the evening ordered his horse to return home. We all tried to dissuade him from doing so ;
but it was the habit for everyone to return to their respective bungalows, if possible, after dinner, so as to be ready
to miister their men and set them to work at daybreak. C. thought he was quite equal to the ride, but exposure to the
air must have had a bad efiect on him, for he had not ridden a mile before he fell off his horse. At about 4 o'clock
A.M. his old Welsh servant, finding he had not returned, started off in search of him, and found him sound asleep on
the road, surrounded by a herd of elephants, his horse standing by his side, and the bridle-rein in his hand. The
elephant and the horse have a great aversion to each other, to which our friend owed his safety. Old Thomas managed
to get his master home, and in a short time he was sent down to Colombo with fever. He recovered from that attack,
hut shortly afterwards died from a relapse." (Skinner, pp. 37-8.)
1840.— May 4, 1824r— Thomas Donnelan Dunne.
Captain, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
(Date of Burial.)
" Ensign T. D. Dunne from the 66th Foot to be acting Lieutenant, Ceylon Cavalry, 15th May, 1806.'*
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1841.— June 17, 1824— Charles Mitford Watson.
" At Kandy, Lieut. Chakles Watson, 1st Ceylon
Regiment, Staff Officer of Kandy."
It is curious that there is no entry at Kandy of his burial , or at the Military Headquarters, Colombo , of his death.
Inquiries were made on both points in " Notes and Queries " in 1903 by a relative (IX. Series, vol. XI., p. 372), but all
that could be found was the above notice of his death in the " Ceylon Calendar."
He came out with the 83rd Regiment, which he had. joined on August 15, 1809, and was Staff Officer of Kandy
from 1818. He had taken part in the suppression of the Uva Rebellion, and was at Teldeniya early in March, 1818,
where, during the absence of Major Hext, who had gone to Haliela to bring ia a convoy of sick ordered to Kandy, he
" sustained the attack of numerous hordes of insurgents and with the very small force left with him drove them off."
He had brought in a convoy of sick from Haliela to Teldeniya, " though the rebels infested the road," and, reinforced
by Captain Raper, from Teldeniya to Kandy on March 14th." (" Uva Rebellion," p. 22.) At the time of his death he
was Staff Officer to Lieutenant -Colonel Greenwell of the 45th Regiment, who had been appointed to the command of the
Kandyan Provinces about AprU, 1824. Colonel Greenwell says of him in a letter: "To expatiate on his worth and
merit is quite unnecessary. It wUl, however, be some consolation to his friends and relations to know that no Officer in
Ceylon was more esteemed and respected than he was, nor has anyone died more regretted, as well by His Excellency
the Governor, for his merits as an Officer, as by his Brother Officers for his honourable and high principles in every
transaction in life ; and perhaps no one has greater cause to lament his loss than I have, both as a private Friend and
as a confidential Officer of the Staff of this Garrison and the Kandyan Provinces under my command ; and as his strong
and well-regulated mind retained its faculties till within a short period of dissolution, his calmness, patience, and
resignation to the will of the Almighty, awaiting the awful sumnions, was a moral and religious lesson to those about
him." Administration of his estate was granted on October 16, 1824, to Lieutenant-Colonel Greenwell and Paymaster
J. Boustead of the 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was second son of Ralph Watson of H. M. Customs, of Percy street, Barrasbridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
«,nd grandson of William Watson of Percy street. Sheriff of the Corporation of Newcastle, 1747, who was son of Stephen
Watson of North Seaton Hall, Northumberland, by his wife Diana, daughter and at length co-heir of Robert Mitford
of Segjiill Towers by his wife Christian, second daughter of Sir WilUamBlackett, Bart., M.P., of Grey Friars, Newcastle,
and of Woodcroft, County Durham. His elder brother. Lieutenant John Blackett Watson, Royal Marines, was at
the storming of the Diamond Rock in 1806, and died at Bishop wearmouth. County Durham, in 1808.
1842.— May 1, 1825— Alexander Moon.
Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at
Peradeniya.
He compiled a '-' Catalogue of Ceylon Plants," the first of its kind, and it was pubhshed at Colombo in 1824.
" The Botanical Gardens have been lately much improved by Mr. Moon, the Superintendent, imder the Auspices of
Lady Brownrigg." (Campbell, vol. I., p. 51.) They had been transferred from Kalutara to Peradeniya in 1821.
He was appointed in 1817 by Sir Joseph Banks. " He collected at Gibraltar and on the Barbary Coast on the way out,
and formed an extensive herbarium at Peradeni3ia There are plants collected by him in the Kew herbarium,
and some of his drawings are in the Botanical Department of the British Musetmi." (" History of Ceylon Botany,"
by G. S. Boulger, in Trimen's " Handbook," vol. V., pp. 373-4.)
1843.— June 17, 1825— Robert Preston Campbell.
Captain, Ceylon Regiment.
(Date of Burial.)
1844.— February 8, 1826— William Sidney Smith.
Ensign, 16th Regiment.
(Date of Burial.)
1845.— June 2, 1830— James McRae.
Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, aged 38.
" James Macrae, who had been employed in the garden at St. Vincent in 1823 and had subsequently collected
for the HoStoal Society in the Pacificfin ChiU, and Bengal, was appomted Supermtendent m 1827 but his death
i^ 183oSnoT^par^^^^^^^^ advanced the cause of botanyin Ceylon, -r.m act was much hkely to be done untxl
a more educated Spe of man was appomted to the post." (G. S. Boulger, loo. c^t., p. 374.)
1846.— July 6, 1832— William Toulmin.
Assistant Surgeon in H. M.'s 58th Regiment.
(Date of Burial.)
Appointed from Hospital Assistant, June 12, 1828.
1847.— November 6, 1833— Jane Braybrooke.
Wife of Lieutenant John Pbedbbick Gabth Bbay-
BKOOKE, Ceylon Rifles, aged 21 years.
, ■ A i'y\ ^r. Ar,n-1 4 1835 Maria Burton. He was a brother of Lieutenant Samuel
Lieutenant Braybrooke married (2), on ^pnl 4. IS-^^JViana^ ^.^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^^
Braybrooke who joined the 1st Ceylon Regiment m 1816^^^^^^^^^ 7^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^.^^
died a Major-General. Lieutenant J. F G. braybrooke joined tne^^^ " Mr. Braybrooke
Wilham Boyd opened, "Moorootie,"m the Four korales Boyddesonbes mm^^^^ Bj^^ ^.^ ^^^^ ^^^
was an extraordinary figure of a nian. He was «f f ^^ 'I^^^^^^tht captures in 'Hood's Own,' but the sm^eyor
of a boy's humming top. I think I have seen such a fig"r^^^"^°^|r;*'?,^^Xooke was a very taU and corpulent man,
was the only living man whom I saw having this ff «°^bl?;?,°^- , ^"; ^^f/CiSLT^ as broad as he was
yetathiswidestgirth. which was somewhere about t^e r^^^^ghbot^ood^^^^^^ ^^ character,for a better
long. He had a jolly, rubicund, good-natured expression "^^''^^^^^^^^ll^^ti^^ from plays seemed perfectly
boon companion I never met. His stock of songs, anecdotes and fmmy q^^Jf^^^^ ^^P J,^ ^ore marveUous
inexhaustible, and no contretemps could upset the ^q^^^^?^*^ °/.^^" J^^^.ks leaped from rock to rock over foaming
than any other quality. The speed m^th which ^e moved along ^mig^^^^^^ ^^ profession, was something
SSo^'c-oSr^l reXSr^AriJa^to^l^ir^n^^^^^^ — stout-looMng legs." (Chap. X,
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1848.— February 21, 1834— Richard Gray.
Captain, Ceylon Rifles, aged 43.
(Date of Biirial.)
" Richard Gray, Gent., to be 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment, vice Crofton, 18 Oct., 1813."
He arrived by the Prince Regent transport, at Trincomalee, May, 1816. He became Captain, vice Manwaring,
April 18, 1829. During the Uva Rebellion he was with the 1st Ceylon Regiment and was wounded in the face in a
skirmish which took place between Haliela and Hanwella in XJda Dmnbara, on April 12, 1818. He married Henrietta,
daughter of Mr. James Cripps of Richmond, on June 3, 1818, at Colombo. She had a son at Padeniya, September 18,
1821, and died at Puttalam, November 22, 1824. He married (2) Catherine Cavendish, spinster, at Kandy, October 6,
1830, who had a daughter, Emily, born at Kandy, October 4, 1832. He was with William Turberville May when the
latter was attacked by a shark. (See No. 1568.)
1849.— April 1, 1836— Diederich Gerrard Fretz.
Captain, Ceylon Rifles, aged 40.
He served in the operations agaiust the Kandyans in 1818-9, chiefly in Uva. " He was subaltern to Major
Macdonald when that officer with 80 men at Paranagamme* made the gallant stand against 8,000 rebels, many of
whom were armed with firelocks. The little band was hemmed in for 10 days when repeated attacks were made on
them We are informed inflammation of the brain brought on by indulgence at a convival party of his
regimental mess was the disease of which he died and to which, as might be expected, he was peculiarly liable in
consequence of the injury to the adjacent parts." [Colombo Observer.) It is said that he was trying to out-shout
a brother officer. The reference is to the singular wound in his head, which was caused by the bursting of his
gun when elephant shooting in the neighbourhood of Fort Macdonald on January 22, 1828. Part of the breech
and about 2 inches of the barrel remained embedded behind the bones of his palate, but caused no serious inconvenience
during the remaining eight years of his life, andTeiment, in contradiction to the Observer theory, states that he died,
" not from any consequences of this fearful wound, but from fever and inflammation brought on by other causes"
(vol. II., p. 333). His ser\T.ces in the Uva Rebellion are described in detail in the Oazette. On January 19, 1818, he
arrived at Henapatuwa, " having on his march down the Bamberagama Pass met with much opposition." On June 21
he was sent by Colonel Kelly with a light party of 45 rank and file of the 2nd Ceylon at 10 o'clock at night to surprise
a considerable force of Kandyans which had occupied the Donattokappola Pass, and " to possess himself of the Cadavetty.
Lieut. Fretz found the Pass with some newly-constructed batteries abandoned." But on July 23, when he was returning
with a party from Baddegama to Badulla, he was smartly attacked by a number of rebels supposed to be commanded
by Kuloogalapitiya Mohandiranj, when a private of the 19th was unfortunately killed, and a Malay severely wounded.
The Observer adds to its accoinat of his death that " Captain Fretz was greatly instrumental, by one good shot, in
intimidating the Kandyans. He shot one of their leaders. He was an excellent marksman." He was fifth son and
twelfth child of the Commandeiw of Galle, D. T. Fretz. His mother was Gertruida Henrietta Dartels of Tutioorin,
second wife of the Commandeur, and he was a full brother of Mrs. Manwaring (see No. 1102), and a half-brother of
Mrs. Reynolds, wife of Surgeon-Major Reynolds, 51st Regiment, and of Mrs. Conradi, wife of Carol August Conradi of
Kirchheim. He was baptized at Galle on October 16, 1796. All the Commandeur's sons, with the exception of the
eldest, were christened " Diederich" as one of their names, but Captain Fretz did not use this name. He joined the 2nd
Ceylon Reginient, and was, as 2nd Lieutenant, Commandant at Kurunegala in 1816, when he was only 20. He became
Lieutenant, April 8, 1821, Captain vice VanKempen, November 26, 1829, and was Commandant at Fort Macdonald,
the scene of his former exploits, in 1833.
1850. — January 22, 1839 — George Butler Sutherland Watson.
Superintendent of Palakele Estate.
There is an account of the death of Watson from " intermittent or jungle fever," which was prevalent on Pallakele
at the time, in the " Autobiogxaphy of a Peria Durai." [Ceylon Literary Register, vol. III., p 34.) He is referred to
as " Hudson," and it is stated that it was due to R. B..Tytler that he was buried on the estate and not in the garrison
burial ground at Kandy, following what Tytler had been accustomed to in the West Indies. He was buried under an
old ebony tree in accordance with his own wish, and on the tree William Boyd carved his name in the bark. The tree
was shown to Mr. A. M. Ferguson by Messrs. W. D. Gibbon and H. J. VoUar in 1889. But it has since been cut down
and there is nothing to mark the site of the grave.
Watson is described as seeming " a mere boy in years " and, correctly, as " The first European planter who died
and lies buried in the jmigles of Ceylon." According to Boyd he had " some black blood in his veins." He probably
came from the West Indies with R. B. Tytler.
1851.— April 17, 1840— William Spencer.
Overseer of Sir John Wilson's estate at MUembe,
aged 33 years.
He died in the morning and was buried in the evening.
1852.— April 18, 1840— Jane Speneer.
Wife of William Spencer.
She died on the 18th and was buried on the 19th. These deaths were no doubt due to cholera. Major-General
Sir John Wilson, K.C.B., was in command of the forces in Ceylon, 1831-9, and administered the Government
from October 12 to 22. He is not to be confounded with Major-General John Wilson, who administered the Government
from March 19, 1811, to March 10, 1812, or with Major John Wilson (No. 1533). It was Sir John Wilson who fought
the duel with Sir Charles Marshall, the Chief Justice (1833-6), of which there- is an account in Digby's book on
Sir Richard Morgan. Sir John Wilson died on Jime 22, 1856, leaving property in Ceylon consisting of the estates of
Nilambe, Peacock, and Kalugamuwa in the Kandy District.
* Subsequently called Fort Macdonald.
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— coiifi.
1853.— July 27, 1840— Mina Riega Jeffery.
" Aged about 18 years."
" ^T^^oTf JJ^ drowned in the river at Gampola, on the morning of July 27, and buried at Kandy at 11 p m on
EViday, July 31st " (Register of St. Paul's.) He was a son of R. Jeffery, merchant of Colombo fsee No is^fif
though the name ooks hke a femmme name. Young Jeffery, son of a Colombo merchant, lost his life in Vv'vino tn
swim the Mahawehganga a Gampola He fell off his pony, which in its struggleskickedhin; n hehefd." g^lof
Ceylon Literary Begtster, vol. III., p. 195, m a note to Boyd's ' ' Autobiography," end of chapter XXVL) ^■^'"^°' '
1854.— January 7, 1843— Henry T. Normansell.
Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at
Peradeniya, aged about 32.
He arrived at Colonibo by the barque Iris December 21, 1839. " A gentleman of scientific attainments ^vho
took charge of the Royal Botamc Garden m 1840. He made extensive alterations, newly laid out the Sens Ind
classified the various tribes of plants-an improvement dishked by many, who rather preferred the variety and prof us'en^^
of the vegetation to the formahty and stiffaess of the scientific arrangement. Oii first acquaintance with them was
in 1840 or 1839 The gardens were then under the supermtendence of Mr. McLear. They were then laid out in spacious
and broad walks and rides crowded with luxuriant fruit-bearing trees, flowers, and vegetables, and formed a well-
proportioned promenade for the inhabitants of Kandy, who resorted thither for picnics and fetes champStres ' " (Gevlon
Times, January 8, 18490 Boyd says of him: "Clever fellow , Normansell. He says he knows every plant in creation "
(" Autobiography of a Periya Durai," p. 154.) The date is that of burial. It would seem that Normansell has hardlv
had justice done him in recent accounts of the Gardens. "^
1855.— May 20, 1843— John Christian. Theodore Myllus.
" Late Captain, Ceylon Rifles, and District Judge of
Anarajahpoora, aged 45 years."
He was also Assistant Government Agent under the system which prevailed in 1833-46. He was at Anuradha-
pura as Assistant Engineer in the Roads Department and Agent of Government as early as 1828, but he may in the
latter capacity have been acting for the Agent for Seven Korales, under whose jurisdiction this part of Nuwarakalawiya
then was. He was fourth son of Baron F. Mylius (No. 754), and was at one time a 2nd Lieutenant in the Bourbon
Regiment, which he joined on December 13, 1813, at the age of fifteen. He was gazetted from the half-pay of that
regiment, which had been disbanded, to the 1st Ceylon Regiment, as 2nd Lieutenant, on December 26, 1819. In the
Residency compound at Anuradhapura is a rectangular stone trough 32J in. by 24J, and some 6 or 8 in. deep, that was
probably at one time used at some Buddhist monastery for the monks to wash their feet in on returning from a journey,
and on one of its outer side is cut the name " T. Mylius " in letters 2 in. high. There is one other reference to this
earliest Assistant Agent of Nuwarakalawiya to be met with. In 1 836 the road from Kandy to Matale by the Balakaduwa
Pass was being improved, and it is related that on July 7 a party of Caffres and coolies were working onit, between
Balakaduwa and Matale, under J. Coulan, Sergeant-Major, 14th Caffre Company of Pioneers, when they were attacked
by bees in tens of thousands, which " also covered two bullocks which were bringing Mr. Theodore Myhus's baggage
from Anurajapura to his bungalow at Balacadua." He had a coffee estate at Arambepola near Balakaduwa to which
he probably was accustomed to retire to recruit his health when suffering from the fever of Nuwarakalawiya. He had
another estate at Mahayaya, Kandy. His only son, Henry Theodore Mylius, died at the bungalow at Arambepola on '
May 15, 1852, aged 28. He had married Eliza, daughter of Captain John Morris (No. 341). His widow married W.
Herft, Secretary of the District Court, Kegalla, and his daughter, Harriet, married Thomas Herft. The estate at
Arambepola, now in native hands, is still known as " Mylius Mahatmayagewatta." Captain T. Myhus's only daughter
married at Kandy, February 15, 1847, Charles de Waas, who was a son of W. S. de Waas, who succeeded Captain
J. W. Higgs in the command of the Seaforth between 1847 and 1850, and who is described by Sir Wilham Twynam as
one of the best skippers that Government ever had in its employment. He was, I think, the last of the Seaforth's
Ceylon masters, as she was sold soon after 1850. W. S. de Waas by 1853 was Assistant Master Attendant at Colombo.
Mrs. C. de Waas died at Matale, October 22, 1866.
The Rev. C. Greenwood (No. 757) officiated at the burial of Captain Myhus.
1856.— July 18, 1844^Robert Jeffery .§
A merchant, who died at Ramboda on his^way from
Colombo to Nuwara Eliya.
In the Oovenment Gazette of November, 1829, appears a notice signed by "Groves and Co." : "Mr. Robert
Jeffery will have the direction of our affairs from 20th instant." He was a member of the first Legislative Council in
1833, and an original member of the Ceylon Agricultural Society. Possibly he was buried at Ramboda. Several
Europeans had akeady been buried there when the church was consecrated in 1850. (See page 372.)
1857 .—October 7, 1844^ James Shand.
A planter, aged 25.
"He was drowned near Gampola while riding, with Messrs. Ackland and Blackmore, across a submerged paddy
field near the river over which a road had recently been made. The field was near the river, and both field and road
were under water. Mr. Shand was in advance, when his horse suddenly sank where (it is supposed), the roadhad been
washed away, and threw him off, when he disappeared and was not afterwards seen. Mr. Blackmore foUowmg, was
also precipitated into the water, but escaped by swimming, while Mr. Ackland was enabled to tur» back m safety. Mr.
, Shand's body was found about four hours afterwards, and was conveyed into Kandy, where it was interred. {Colombo
phserver.) He must have arrived in Ceylon in 1844, as his name is not given in the Du:ectory of that year. He was m
<^arge of " Moorootie Estate,' the first and largest estate in the Four K6rales," and was succeeded by William Boyd ot
tfea " Autobiography of a Periya Durai," who gives an account of the accident both m that book and m his Ceylon
^M lis Fioneeis " m the Ceylon Literary Register, vol. 11., p. 219. , , i • u -a-
Boyd professes to have met the party just before between Gampola and Peradeniya, when he himself was ridmg
with Mr. Lambe and Mr. Geddes from Dolosbage to Kandy. " It had been very wet, the ram was still pouring down m
drenching showers, and the river was Very much swollen, and, overflowing its banks, had covered large portions ot tue
road and the adjoining paddy fields to a considerable depth with water. In one place, about halt way between uampoia
tod Peradeniya, the road was covered for more than a mile, and the whole country between us and the toot oi tne
aantane hills looked like a large lake of water in the midst of which the native houses with their clumps at coconut
and jak trees stood out hke islands around the general inundation." • (" Autobiography," chapter XX.\/1.} itiere was
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Kandy and Neighbourhood — contd.
1857. — October 7, 1844 — James Shand— cow^^.
a similar flood at Gampola on October 27, 1906. According to Boyd, Shand was from BoyndKe. He was on his way
back to the estate from Kandy, where he had been to see his employer, Mr. Ackland, who proposed that he should
return to Kandy and wait until the water had gone down, " but Shand was confident of his ability to guide his party
through the flood and spurred ahead to lead the way. His horse stumbled and fell and his rider disappeared beneath
the muddy waters. Both Blackmore and Ackland did all that men could do to rescue their friend, but he never appeared
above the surface , and hours elapsed before his body was found covered with only a few inches of water. It was supposed
that he had been struck by his horse in falling, and being thus rendered insensible was unable to do anything to help
himself, and the opaque muddy condition of the water prevented his friends from being able to render him any assistance.
{Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., p. 219.)
Captain Blackmore was one of the proprietors of Kondesale. The name Moorootie is not now to be found in
the Directory. The estate must, as a rubber or tea estate, have changed its name.
1858. — November 20, 1844 — Clarissa Sophia Urquhart Stuart.
Wife of Charles Ueqtjhabt Sttxart, aged 36.
She was third daughter of Mr. James Harding of Grove Hill Terrace, Camberwell, and was married at Kandy on
December 23, 1843, to Charles Urquhart, eldest son of Dr. Robert Stuart of Grantown, N.B. He was a " planter,
member of the Legislative Council, and an able and humourous writer for the press." (A. M. Ferguson, loc. cit.)
1859.— March 5, 1845— John Armour.
He was District Judge of Seven Korales at the time of his death, but is not classed as belonging to the Civil
Service. He died at Kuriuiegala, but was buried at Kandy the next day. He was son of the Rev. Andrew Armour
(No. 340), probably by his first wife. In 1815 he was " Assistant EngHsh Teacher, School Establishment." He was a
good Sinhalese scholar, and was for many years Interpreter and Secretary of the Judicial Commissioner at Kandy, and
afterwards o^ the District Court there. He was appointed District Judge, Tangalla, December 4, 1845, and ditto
Matara, September 1, 1837, eventually becoming District Judge of Seven Korales. He is referred to in the Colombo
Observer of March 10, 1845, as " confessedly the best authority in the Island on the complicated system of unwritten
Kandyan law." He contributed papers on " The Grammar of , and Notes on , Kandyan Law " to " The CeylonMiscellany ,"
edited by Edward Rawdon Power, C.C.S., in 1842-3, which were afterwards separately pubUshed. He also wrote an
" Essay on Buddhism " in the "Ceylon Almanac" for 1835. He is said to have been taught Sinhalese by the same tutor
that Sir John D' Oyly had at Matara , Karatota Nay aka Terunnanse of Weragampitiya temple. He owned some of the best
sites in Kandy round the lake, including those of the present "Government House" and Lake House, now the Florence
Hotel. " Mrs. Armour, a Kandyan lady, is said to be buried in the gTOunds attached to Lake House. These grounds,
as well as the adjoining gardens, were known as Mi-gon Arambe (Bxoffalo Grove), the place where the King's cattle were
tended and fed. Hence the house adjoining Lake House is called Harambe House." (Correspondent of Ceylon Observer,
May, 1902.) He is said to have been turned out of the house, when a youth, by his father for circulating anti-Christian
Hterature among the boys of the Colombo Seminary, and to have found his way to Kandy and to employment under
the Judicial Commissioner. His only daughter, Sarah Margaret, jjiarried at St. Paul's, Colombo, on May 18, 1843,
Christopher Christofiel Henri cus de Saram, District Judge of Galle, eldest son of the Rev. J. H. de Saram, Sinhalese
Colonial Chaplain, by whom she had four children, one named Armour de Saram.
I860.— April 24, 1846— Charles Delegal.
He was for some years agent of Messrs. Ackland, Boyd & Co., at Kandy, and had his office at a house which
occupied the site of the Queen's Hotel ; and was later in business there at the same place on his own account. It is
described in the Colombo Observer of August 5, 1841, as "the large house near the square formerly occupied by
Messrs. Ackland, Boyd & Co.'s establishment, and now by Mr. Delegal's establishment." At the time of his death
he was " Secretary and Treasurer to the Ceylon Agricultural Society." His name appears in the list of members of the
Committee for the erection of a Chtuoh at Kandy, inscribed on the marble tablet, dated 1843, in St. Paul's Church,
Kandy. It was at his office that William Boyd presented himself on his arrival at Kandy in 1841, and he describes
him, no doubt with some truth, but probably also with some exaggeration, as "a Uttle man, not more than four and a
half feet high, and very irascible," and he proceeds to give instances of his irascibility. That he was irascible seems
likely enough, for in 1842 Francis Price, C.C.S., District Judge of Kandy South, resigned his membership of the
Committee for the erection of the Kandy Church, because he " could not sit in company with Mr. Delegal." But
F. Price himself suffered from €he same complaint, for the Observer, in August, 1841, comments on " his overbearing
conduct towards Mr. Wilmot, Proctor, who was condemned in an irregularly constituted court, and in a mode that our
readerscannothaveforgotten,toflneandimprisonmentandsuspensionfrompractice. Every part of the sentence
was entirely set aside by an order of the Supreme Court." Boyd was still more struck with Mrs. Delegal, judging from .
the frequency with which he brings her into the " Autobiography." " She was neither young, handsome, nor witty,
and yet, I believe, there was not in Ceylon, at that time, a better informed nor a more intellectually clever woman than
she was." According to Boyd, she was his guide, philosopher, and friend in his matrimonial projects, real or imaginary.
(" Autobiography," pp. 81, 429, 432, 443-6, 450, &c.) Mr. and Mrs. Delegal arrived at Colombo from London in the
Africa, Captain Skelton, on June 23, 1838. Fellow passengers were Dr. G. Rumley and Miss Sophia Lambe, afterwards
Mrs. Wilham Fisher. (See Nos. 978 and 1387.)
1861. — September 9, 1846 — James Laing.
"Died from spasmodic cholera at Parkside,
sometime editor of the Ceylon Herald, a universally
esteemed member of Society." (Ceylon Times.)
Where "Parkside " was I do not know ; it was probably some estate, or some house, at Kandy.
1862.— October 14, 1846— John Keane.
Superintendent of Rahatungoda Estate, Hewaheta.
He was killed by an elephant. One of the planter friends who was with him when the fatahty occurred sent the
following account of it to the Ceylon Times, dated October 19, 1846 : — " On Tuesday last I went over in the afternoon
to Rathoongodde, and on my way saw that an elephant had crossed G's ford. He had gone down from the Hope, and
after crossing the ford proceeded up the road towards Rathoongodde, entering the jungle near G's gate at the Patna.
Of this I told Keane, and he requested me to send him word if I saw him on my way back. It was late when I returned,
and I stopped all night with G. On leaving his bungalow next morning before six, some of his coolies came
running to say that an elephant was at the gate and I went up with G to see him. G had no balls, and I sent
down to Keane for some. . In the meantime the elephant attempted to cross the Patna under the gate and go to Rathoon-
godde Forest. I drove him back by running before him with the white bitch Fanny, and soon after Keane came up
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— cowf^Z.
1862.— October 14, 1846— John Keane—contd.
^ifr^^aih^vfZ^T^ ^r?.?"" *^ree beaten-out villagers' bullets. I told him that they were good for nothing, but he
r «lrTfW ' ^ / *°ok G's. double-barrelled gun, G. toolcKeane's flintlock, and Keane a single-barrelled percussion.
.^= W^^lT^'l t"^ f """^ S* °°^^® ^^^^ ^°°^ "^^ *° *1^« «P°t ^here he was standing in the belt. We both took him
nil «^!^ o A .T^uT^*^^ ""f ^''°^* ^^® y^^*^^ °^- I fi'S'i '^n'i lie plunged forward, then turned frightened by the
pXf «1^^ nr.l, ri. .K *i .^-.^"t ^'^ ^™ ^y *^« Pl™ge ^'^'i *he smoke, and reserved his fire. Keane was on the
Patna side of the belt with a lot of villagers who had come up with guns. He ran down after him, and we attempted
to get through the belt to him, but it was so thick set with thorns that we were obhgedto go round by the gate On
going low down the Patna, calling out for Keane, we heard him in the jungle. .1 entered the belt and got into the
track ahead of him We followed it downwards till we came to the river, when I told Keane that I was sure we were
close upon him, as the precipitous nature of the ground could not have allowed of his advancing further. Keane took
up his station on a large rock by the side of the river, where he was perfectly safe, and close to which the elephant must
pass in returmng. I clambered up a ridge projecting from the steep face of the bank, and found the elephant at bay,
at the very muzzle of the gun, in the act of turning, two shots having been that instant fired down upon him by the
viUagers above, i fired m his face, and was in the act of turning round to retreat, when belaid hold of me by the
trousers and pulled me back on to the top of the ridge, where he stood over me after having pulled off part of my
trousers and pulled out my shirt , which he covered with the blood from his nostrils. Crack , crack , came two more shots
from above, and he looked up, when I slid from under him and involuntarily directed my course towards the river,
fell upon a large slanting rook down which I was shding, when by a little exertion I guided myself into a hole which I
saw close to me on the right, and which proved to be the mouth of a large cavern. Down he came furiously after me
trumpeting with fury, and was in the act of looking into my den when Keane fired. Up he got again, and ran up the
old track down which he came. Keane then came over to me and said, ' You had a narrow escape, and I could not
fire at him for fear of shooting you.' The villagers continued popping at him from above as he went up the hollow. •
We reloaded, but I could only muster one hammered ball and some blasting powder from a villager. I was a good deal
bruised in the legs and hip and managed with difficulty to get up the steep track in the belt : to go through the jungle
was impossible. On getting up , we found him in the httle piece of old coffee under the road at the Muloya gate standing
at the edge of the jungle on the west side. G. and I went down a line to a tree in the middle of the coffee, under the
protection of which we both had a steady aim and fired at his forehead at once, about six yards off. He bolted atus,
but seeing that we had a tree to dance round he passed close by to his old quarters in the belt at the gate. The ammunition
was all expended, and we went up and stood on the road beside more on-lookers. A villager went close up to him and
aiming at him for something like five minutes, fired and cut a deep raking wound in the crown of his forehead. He was
at this time engaged in throwing earth over his head with his trunk, and continued this work for some time after the
iff- -villager's fire, as though he had become accustomed to their shots. Keane was at this time standing on the Patna
side of the belt close to where the elephant was, and I expected to see the latter drop down from exhaustion, when he
commenced moving round towards Keane. I called out to him to move aside a piece of jungle that was before him,
and he would see the elephant. This he did, and I heard the click of the gun, the cap not having exploded. A second
time I heard it, and then saw the elephant pass out. A little after G. went up to the gate and told me that something
was the matter with Keane. We ran to where he was and found my horsekeeper and some villagers beside him. I at
once saw that he had been much hurt, and questianed him regarding it, for he was quite sensible. He said that he ran
up the Patna towards the gate, that he fell, and that the elephant kicked him round and round with hisfeet, though my
horsekeeper said that he saw the elephant turn him about his trunk. I immediately went down to Mrs. Keane to
. prevent her from being alarmed by false reports, whilst G. was making arrangements to have him conveyed home on
the Dobees' door. We put him to bed, put leeches on his temples which were bruised, and consoled him as much as
possible, but he gradually became cold, and felt that he was going, and he died about three hours after the accident.
A postmortem examination was made by Dr. Owen of the 95th, when six ribs were found broken on the right side, and
the lungs injured by the contusion." The elephant escaped into the jungle, having been wounded in many places.
The only other reference to the death of Keane is in a paper contributed by Mr. John Tyndall to the " Monthly
Literary Begister " (vol. III., p. 63), but he wrote from memory, and makes it occur on " Christmas Day, 1846," and
adds the information, which is not correct, that " his friend bolted and was climbing up a tree when the elephant made
for him and seized him with his trunk by the foot, but luckily for him his boot and leech-gaiter came off, and he was
quitte pour le peur."
" Mr. J. Keane and son " arrived from Bombay at Colombo by the barque Edina on January 20, 1844. On
March 24, 1845, John Keane of Rahatungoda married at the " Cathohc Church, Colombo," Jane, daughter of J.
Whittaker, Esq., of Rathkeale, County Limerick. They left for Kandy by the coach on March 25. A daughter
was born, March 13, 1846, and baptized at Kandy, on March 30, the god-parents being John Whittaker, Daniel
Ooknelham, and Mary Brown. There is no record in the registers of the Roman Catholic Church of the burial at Kandy
or elsewhere of John Keane. He was probably buried on the estate.
1863.— October 26, 1846— Charles H. M. Kelson.
He died at Bambaragaha, aged 29, " after an iUness of 14 hours, of cholera." He was the eldest son of Captain
Charles Kelson. In the Directory of 1847 his station is given as Badulla, and as he was not in the army or the pubhc
service, he was probably a planter. There was a Lieutenant W. H. Kelson , who joined the Ceylon Rifles ml 844 , whom
I take to have been another son of Captain Kelson, and who in 1846-7 was employed in the Civil Engmeer s Department
There was also Dr. F. Kelson, possibly a third son, at Badulla in 1846 and at Ramboda ml 850-4 a sportsman fnend
of Jack Tyndall's. Captain C. Kelson came out to Ceylon as a Lieutenant m the 97th Regiment (1825-36), and m
1833 was Commandant at Maturata, and later at Nuwara Eliya.* Here he was resident or many years and here
» HofEmeister was entertained by him in 1845, and talks of his " pleasant, although 1°^!^ ^Z rSf'.d between fslo and
office of " District Judge of Kotmale." In 1850 he was Commandant of Galle, and left the Island between 1850 and
im I have not been able to ascertain the locality of Bambaragaha. The Ceylon Rifles were encamped there m
1846, and suffered much from cholera; though the object of removing the regiment there was apparently to get away
from the cholera which had been so bad at Kandy. (See No. 1298.)
1864.— August 3, 1847— Lettie Campbell East.
Wife of Lieut. Charles William Clayton East,
15th Eegiment, aged 21.
She was the youngest daughter of Captam McLachlan 57t ^J:^JToCc^%.^^1
S^DXKtli!^n1-uly^26, ^l?I?;^S;SLrt2ra^^
Ti^:;~^;^-;;^^^;rJI^^-^^ «. -d baptized on Novem-
ber 12, 1836, at Nuwara Eliya. 82-09
3m -
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Kandy and Neighbourhood — contd.
1864.— August 3, 1847— Lettie Campbell East— cowid:.
signed the Register as witnesses. These two sisters, or one or both of them, must have furnished ^William Boyd
with the material for his feigned first love, the "Miss Innes" of his "Autobiography of a Periya Durai." Boyd
had, some two or three years before this, been in charge of Pallakele estate near Kandy; and as was his wont to do
romances on a substratum of fact, his heroine becomes the wife of an officer of the Ceylon Rifles, and died shortly
after her marriage. She is described as the niece of the wife of a Captain Lucas, then stationed in Kandy
"and she now lies buried in the Kandy graveyard, in the easternmost corner, near where the jungle encroaches
on the tombs." Now the only wife of a military officer who died and was buried at Kandy in Boyd's^ time
was this wife of Lieutenant East. She was twenty-one at the time of her de^th in 1847; Boyd, writing of the "Miss
Innes" of his fiction in 1844, the last year of his residence in Dumbara, says: " She did not appear to have then seen
more than eighteen summers," but her resemblance ceases and her sister's personality intrudes. The sister married
a Ceylon Rifleman, but did not die at Kandy. Mrs. East married a linesman and died. Boyd invents for himself a
second lady-love, whom he calls "Helen Leith," which remarkably like Helen Lisle (McLachlan). Li justice to
Lieutenants East and McDougall, it should be stated that there is not the sUghtest evidence that Boyd's description
of the officer who married "Miss Innes" had the least application to either of them, but we cannot help the
fancy that Boyd's picture of the lady was drawn from life — Lettie or Helen McLachlan. (" Autobiography,"
chapter XXVII.)
1865.— August 24, 1847— James Moncrieff Sutherland Glenie.
Archdeacon of Colombo, aged 64.
He was Colonial Chaplain, Jaffna, 1815, having also to officiate at Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and other stations.
He succeeded Twisleton as Archdeacon, but was not appointed to this office until February 23, 1828, though his
predecessor died in 1824. He preached the sermon at the consecration of St. Paul's Church, Colombo, on Tuesday,
May 25,* 1821. The Gazette remarks that he "happily introduced much matter applicable to that church and the
inhabitants of the Pettah, and the other parts of his Sermon were of the best description." The pay of the Archdeacon
was then £2,000 a year. Archdeacon Glenie was busily engaged in coffee planting at Pussellawa in 1841, and for this
he was reprimanded by the Secretary of State, and ordered not to leave his station. He retired in 1843. The editor
of the Colombo Observer (Dr. Elliott) wrote of him on his retirement : " He continues to carry on his operations of
Coffee Planting personally at his well-lmown Estate at Pusilawa. In the Newra Ellia District alone the Venerable
Archdeacon possesses land to the extent of 1,976 acres," and he adds in his usual caustic style, " We would suggest
that such of his friends as believe that the venerable gentleman has perpetrated by design a single good or praiseworthy
act, do immediately subscribe for a piece of Plate to be presented to him, but whether they decide that the said piece
of plate shall be a copper plate, a German silver plate, or a common crockery diimer plate, will be to us neither here nor
there." (May 9, 1843.)
His son, the Rev. Samuel Owen Glenie, was Colonial Chaplain, at St. Paul's, 1834, and at Trincomalee, 1851 , for
about 30 years. He too became Archdeacon. He was editor of the Ceylon Chronicle, 1837-8. He married (2) Mary
Ehzabeth, widow of Colonel Cochrane. (See Nos. 823 and 1003.)
1866.— May 11, 1848— John Malikenzie Ross.
He was editor of the Ceylon Herald in 1841, sold it to Dr. Mackirty. On the death of the latter it was sold to
Mr. James Laing (No. 1861). Mr. Ross'sburial is entered in the Jaffna Register as having taken place on May 11, 1848,
though he died " aged 44, in the Coffee districts near Kandy." The explanation is that the register were personal to
the chaplains, and when the Jaffna chaplain officiated at Kandy he had his register with him. Where Dr. Mackirty
died is not kno-svn.
1867.— May 23, 1848— William Adolphus Staples.
Aged 34.
(Date of burial.)
He was a son of Quartermaster John Staples (No. 347), and a leading and popular advocate at Kandy in the
forties. His name appears in the list of members of the committee for the erection of a chinch at Kandy, on the tablet
in St. Paul's.
1868.— September 21, 1848— Henry Gray.
" Captain H. Gray, Ceylon Rifles, age unknown."
(Date of burial.)
He was a heutenant in the 29th Regiment in 1840, from which he was transferred- to the Ceylon Rifles, but he
must have retired some time before his death, as his ^ame does not appear in the list of officers of the regiment in the
" Ceylon Almanac " of 1846 and 1847.
] 869.— February 14, 1850— Robert Elliott.
" Robert Edliott, M.D., of Kandy, aged 34."
(Date of burial.)
He cannot have been out long, as his name does not appear in the Directory of the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1846
and 1847.
1870.— October 11, 1851— E. A. Morgan.
Superintendent of Galantenna Estate.
He was shot by Sinhalese villagers when riding back along a jungle path tp the estate from Kandy with money
to pay coolies. He managed , after he was shot, toridein.to the Kitulamullapatana, where he fell and was foiuid mortally
wounded. His assassins were disappointed of plunder. He was buried in the Old Garrison Cemetery, Kandy, on
October 13. Boyd has an accoimt of the murder, but he states that he does not give it from his own knowledge [he
could not, for he had left the Island in 1849], and he is wrong about the date and the name of the estate.
" The most lamentable and tragic of all these attacks occurred two or three years after I left the Colony, I think
in 1859 or 1860. The victim was a young Welshman, of the name of Morgan Mr. Morgan was an assistant to
Mr. Bird of Neelambe. He had been sent in to Kandy for money , and he was riding out to the estate unattended,
carrying the money over his saddle-bow. The road, like every other mountain path in Ceylon, had some zig-zags in it.
On approaching one of these a native started from the jungle and fired first one barrel and then another of a double-
* The date, September 25, on page 96 is a lapsus calami. According to a writer in the "Ceylon, Churchman" for
February, 1890, reprinted in the Monthly Literary Register, vol. IV., p. 76, St. Paul's was consecrated the day before St. Peter's
viz., on May 21, but this is incorrect. (OovernmerU Gazette, May 26, 1821.)
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Kandy and Neighbourhood— conM.
1870.— October 11, 1851— E. A. Morgan— contd.
C'StJsri^e^;? mfn,^^* ^^\ -^^"f shots took effect. Nevertheless Morgan was not dismounted, neither did he
n the aCi he was ab?« ;. ^. fl° "^^ ^""^ *.' ^"^^°^ ^^° ^^°* ^™' "^^^ if there were more than one implicated
hut all Se of Tavin^ hi, iff! ^ *^'"' T^ "'^''^^' "'°^P'' ^^*^ ^^^^ "^"^^J^- ^e managed to get home to Neelambe,
another brave anrOh?i,tf«i was gone : h:s wounds were of too serious a nature, and he died that evening as man^
Tn the Lod feeW o^ ™ ^°"*i^ has since died in British India-^victims to the ferocity of, or the misplaced confidence
in the good teehng of, a seemingly qmet and inoffensive people." (" Autobiography," chapter XXII )
ziff zaaf 'w^rttTn'otri'^ r ? ^T'^\ °* ^* = "^""^^^ Morgan shot b/ the Sinhalese as he came up the
zig-zags with the notes m his breast-pocket the cooHes with the rupees had gone up the short-cuts whilst
Morgan rode round, and as he turned the zig they must have fired at him from behind the big stump that stands th^re-
it was a tree then. He stuck on his pony, and only fell off when he got to the Bowalane patana, so saving the money.
i,^^r ir'S,°'lY°'^°u ' '^*^^*^®'^''^"'*'^^^*^ly-" (Notes,p. 47.) Here his PeriyaDurai is said to have been "BiUyS.;"
who tells the tale whereas Boyd makes him George Bird and the estate Nilambe. Probably both writers are wong
fc the Directory of Estates m the " Ceylon Almanac " of 1851, Morgan is given as Superintendent of Charlemont estate,
Hewaheta, which belonged to James Caulfleld, CCS. , and B. Dodsworth. Galantenna is the name of the estate given
m the register. Galantenna belonged to Colonel Braybrooke.
1871.— March 1, 1857— George Samuel Bird.
Aged 67.
He opened "the new. coffee plantation at Gampola," otherwise Sinhapitiya estate, on the left bank of the
Mahaweli-ganga, and about 15 miles from Kandy, in 1824.
Mr. A. M. Ferguson says of him : " Mr. George Bird, the real pioneer of coffee-planting on a large scale, was
still engaged in the long but futile struggle to achieve success in 1837-46. The first coffee estate in Ceylon was opened
in the Gampola District-so far ba'ik as 1824 by Mr. George Bird, who accompanied his brother {Colonel Bird of the
16th Regiment) to Ceylon in 1823 for the purpose of engaging in such agricultural undertakings as inducements in the
Island should appear to offer ; and the attention of the brothers (Colonel Bird being at that time Commandant of Kandy)
was directed to the cultivation of coffee, and the valley of Gampola was selected as an eligible locahty wherein to carry
out their intended speculations. Sir James Campbell, then Lieutenant-Governor, gave encouragement to the proposed
undertaking by promising a grant of land for the purpose, which was afterwards confirmed by Sir E. Barnes, and thus
commenced that cultivation on the site of two ancient Kandyan palaces, Royal lands (Singapitiya and Weyanwatta),
which has been of such importance to the subsequent history of our Island. The mode of cultivation adopted and
the enormous protective duties then in favour of the British West India colonies rendered this and two other estates
at Ganga Orowa' and Matalle, that soon followed the one at Gampola, equally unprofitable ; and Colonel Bird's death
from cholera in 1829 so paralysed the operations at Gampola that Mr. George Bird was induced to abandon the property
in 1833 and remove to Kondesally, and subsequently to Imbulpitiya in Oudabulatgama. After having been engaged
in the production of coffee for 33 years, with singular want of success, he died in Kandy having been the means of
conferring signal advantages on others, by the engrgy of his character, while to himself, the pioneer of coffee cultivation,
his best efforts served only to prolong his disappointment. Although a good practical man and possessed of great
experience, accumulated through many years of toil, his experience did not avail him, until failing health had destroyed
that energy which repeated disappointments could not impair." (" Ceylon in 1837-46.")
WilHam Boyd, serving his apprenticeship under A. Stephens on Pallekele, the estate adjoining Kundesale,
met him at Kandy in 1841 , and describes him as " a tall farmer -looking man, a Welshman, a man of few words." His
bungalow at Kundesale, which had been erected by Messrs. Ackland and Boyd, was set fire to by some person unknown
and entirely destroyed on May 2, 1835, though Boyd makes it out to be in his time, at least six years later, for Boyd
did not arrive in Ceylon until August, 1841. He describes the Kundesale bungalow of his day thus : "Mr. Bird's
bungalow stood on a rising knoll, commanding an extensive view over the wide plains of Dumbara and its magnificent
amphitheatre of surrounding mountains. There was a lawn in front of the house edged by a flower border and shaded
by a fringe of Persian Ulac trees. On one side was a coconut tope, and a short distance in front was a large substantial
coffee store, looking hke a miniature fortress, surrounded with barbecues and enclosed within a liigh rampart of tramped
clay. The bungalow itself was a long one-storey high building, with a thatched roof, having two verandahs about
ten feet wide and seventy or eighty feet long, off which the sitting rooms and bedrooms of the family opened The
store from the upper storey of wffich we had an extensive and uninterrupted view of the surrounding country, with
the Hunasgiriya, Knuckles, and Hantane ranges of mountains, where there are now numerous clearings, where the
dark verdure of the coffee contrasts pleasantly with the sombre hues of the forest, there was, at that time, not a single
opening to be seen above the belt of patana and native henas. It was all an uninterrupted stretch of heavy forest,
from Hunasgiriya to Maha Patana, the mountain that towers immediately above the town of Kandy." { Auto-
biography," pp. 81, 88, 93.) , ,, TT 1 1 11 c J. r
" George Bird had been an officer in a cavalry regiment and was a sportsman." He had a perfect armoury of
guns," including an elephant rifle " like a small cannon, that would have ahnost required a carriage to transport on.
It carried a four-ounce brass ball Many years after, when the household of Kondesale was broken up and poor
Bird removed, a lonely, a widowed, and a careworn man, to another and a more rugged part of the Mand, I happened
to be at his bungalow on a passing visit. His great gun was still there .... ( Autobiography P- 1270
It is recorded in the Government Gazette that a rogue elephant appeared on Suihapitiya estate m December 1825
and within three months killed four men. Bird, in February, 1825, put seven bullets into the head of one elephant
and f™nto that of another. Whether these " four-ounce brass balls " ended the career of either beast, and whether
either was the dreaded rogue, does not appear. ^^ , , t oe lo^o "c^^A-ir:" Shp, wa.? a dausrhter
Charlotte Carpente?, wife of George Bird, died at Kundesale on June 26, 1842 ^gf 35- ^he was a daughter
of Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Hook, Ceylon Rifles, and was born at Colombo °^. j^^^^ 22 180£^ and was^a^
Her father had refused to bear arms against the British, and '^ ^°^f^^^J^^\^^ we^ murdered by the Indians, and
retire to the "Back Settlements," and begm farmmg agam^ ^If^^'^irgiri o7 sSteen was rescued by Captain
Elizabeth and her sisters carried into captivity, from which Ehzabeth, when a g^l ot^xteen w s^ ^ ^
Bird who, in 1779. married her at Detroit. She was then a very ^eautiM girl but imable to ^^^^ ^
accomplishments she quickly leamt, and at eighteen wrote an account of her adventures among tne
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Kandy and Neighbourhood — contd.
1871. — March 1, 1857 — George Samuel Bird— contd.
longer accomit later, which she completed in 1814. Captain Bird returned to England with liis wife and three children
in 1785, and purchased a small estate in Monmouthshire, between Pontypool and Abergavenny, called Goytre, which
became his home. Captain Bird was engaged, with the 54th Regiment, in the war with France, and in April, 1800, left
England to join the expedition to Egypt, but died of fever two days after leaving Spithead, August 15, 1800. His
eldest son, Henry, the future Lieutenant-Colonel of the 16th Regiment, was born at Detroit on April 24, 1780. His
father describes him, when ayear old, asof " extraordinary size, though not fat," and of a " fine andflorid " complexion
with dark eyes. He served in the Peninsular war and the Walcheren expedition. His youngest son, George, the future
coffee planter, was born at Goytre. The statements of William Boyd (" A^utobiography," p. 81) that he was a Welshman,
and had been a cavalry officer are both incorrect. The Bird family belonged to Penrith, Cumberland, at one time
owning Brougham HaU. Mrs. Bird died at Goytre on June 4, 1842, agsd 80. All her surviving children were present
except one : " The only absent one was her youngest son George, who had been for many years in Ceylon." The story
of her adventures, abridged from her own manuscript by her daughter, Fanny Bird, was published in 1902 under the
title of " Elizabeth Hicks, a True Romance of the American War of Independence, 1775 to 1783," edited by her
granddaughter Louisa J. Marriott. Colonel Henry Charles Byrde, late Major, Ceylon Rifles, lived at Goytre until his
death in 1895.
1872.— October 15, 1862— A. M. Thompson.
" At Gonawatta ferry, drowned by the upsetting of a
boat, A. M. Thompson of Rajawella."
" Messrs. Thompson and Ingleton wanted to cross the river, but foiind that the canoe had not been brought to
the usual point. Mr. Thompson went to fetch it, and while floating down stream the boat was struck by a tree and
upset. Mr. Thompson was probably stunned by a stroke from the floating tree, or got entangled in its branches."
The body was recovered, but there is no entry of burial, either in the registers of St. Paul's or of the Scot's Eark, Kandy.
Mr. Ingleton, well known subsequently as a planter, particularly in connection with tobacco growing and curing in
Dumbara and Kandy, died in February, 1910, aged 75. He came out in 1855.
1873.— September 11, 1866— John G. Falconer.
Superintendent of Hantane Estate, aged 50.
He was shot " on the Hantane road about a mile from Kandy, and just a little way beyond the store near the
hospital, where the road naakes a sharp turn resembling the letter V, by Kalayan Kangani, about 5 p.m." He had
been for many years a planter in the Knuckles, and had only returned to the Island a few months before.' " It is a
curious fact that within one year two superintendents of Hantane should have died of cholera and that the third shoidd
have been murdered." {Colombo Observer, September 17, 1866.) Of these, one was James Urquhart (see No. 1184).
Of the other there is no record, unless it be " A. Segar of Hantane Estate," who died in November, 1866.
Falconer's widow, Annie, died at Gingranella estate, Pussellawa, October 29, 1867, aged 37 years 9 months.
" Old John (or Johnny) Falconer — afterwards shot by a thieving kangany at Hantane — preceded Mr. (John Lewis)
Gordon as Manager on Waverdon, and from March, 1853,hadashisSinneDurai Mr. Walter Agar ■ General
Fraser, by the way, took John Falconer as his Superintendent when the latter left Waverdon on 1st July, 1853."
(J. Ferguson.) He was on Batagala in Madulkele in 1862.
1874.— July 22, 1867— Amelia Kershaw.
Wife of DuEAND Keeshaw, died at Paradise Estate,
Gampola, in her 34th year.
D. Kershaw was appointed Assistant Civil Engineer, October 1, 1846, and Assistant Civil Engineer and
Commissioner of Roads, January 1, 1851. He was at Atgalle in 1861. " Kershaw's Bridge," 4| miles from Kandy
on the Haragama road, was built under his superintendence, andbears the date " 1847," probably the oldest stone bridge
in the Kandy District. He married in 1855 in Jersey, to which island he belonged. He was proprietor of Dunally
estate. Lower Hewaheta, in 1853.
Nuwara Eliya.
1875.— May 16, 1834— H. J. Hunt.
Staff Assistant Surgeon Hunt, M.D.
Nviwara EUya was constituted a military convalescent station in 1828. This is the fu'st death there of a European
recorded. It was the headquarters of the Kotmale military district, and, from 1833, of a District Court, the Command-
ant being the Judge. From 1833 to 1840 or later this was Captain Kelson.
y Staff Assistant Stu-geon Hiuit was at Mannar as " Hospital Assistant," 1830-1. He arrived at Colombo from
Chilaw on August 16, and left Colombo for " Ootooankandy " on August 23, 1831.
1876.— July 12, 1853— George Watt.
A planter, who was Superintendent of St. Margaret's,
IJda PusseUawa, in 1850.
He married at Pussellawa on Jime 19, 1852, " Louisa, daughter of D. Macdonald, Esq."
Miscellaneous.
This section contains notices of persons more or less intimately connected with the Island, who died on
the voyage home or elsewhere out of it, or the place of whose death is unknown to the compiler, or who have
been omitted from the previous lists in this book.
1877. — September 5, 1799 — Pierre Dormieux.
Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, 7th Native Infantry.
He was stationed at Jaffna, with a detachment of his regiment, 1796-97, and was killed in action at Panjalam-
kurichchi, Madras Presidency, in the second Poligar war, the result of which was that "the district came permanently
into the hands of the British." Lieutenant Charles Torriano, of the 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment Native Infantry, who
was stationed at Jaffna in January, 1799, fell in action at Panjalarnktu-iohchi on March 31 or May 24, 1801. (Cotton,
p. 335.) Lieutenant Dormieux was a relative, possibly the son, of the Dormieux referred to by Captain Percival as
having been of assistance to him in his researches, " a Dutch gentleman in the English service, who had resided upwards
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Miscellaneous — contd.
1877. — September 5, 1799— Pierre Dormieux— cowici.
°! ftTt«tL^n^li'l?,®y\°'',; f'l'i had during that period acquired a complete knowledge both of the manners and language
or WrZTn Th« T 7*' J^'^^ ^h^the^ this was the " John Anthony Dormieux^ who in 1796-7 was an "Assistant "
,r^ W«;^W Tan^f Kachcheri, in 1802 was exporting " palmeiras and repas " from the Jaffna Peninsula, and
^«™t^nfwK ' ^f.,¥^-^^^^ fey the Collector as the petition-drawer for Jaffna, I am unable to say. Rates of
Ta^^fx fanTrTfn^P lo'Jf ^^""^ ^''^^' ^""^ petitions written by any other person were not received. The rate
ZZ^^^^fl^l ^'^^^y 120 words, and every petition not exceeding two pages in length had to bear a stamp of sis
4^If«;v. n!f. ■ ^^^^^ ^- ^*"i'^«'^s- These were the stamps that petitions had to bear under the Dutch Company.
Abraham Dormieux was Dissave of Matara, 1733-5. ^ ^ f ^
1878.— March, 1803— James Scott Hay.
Ceylon Civil Service.
He arrived in September, 1801, with Samuel Tolfrey, both of them being " qualified for higher appointments,"
and on February 11, 1802, received that of " Civil and Judicial Auditor," in addition to his appointment of Member of
the Board of Revenue to which, with S. Tolfrey, he had been gazetted on his arrival. He left for Europe in the H. C.
ship Bengal for the benefit of liis health," on November 27, 1802, and seems to have died on the voyage home. His
estate was being admimstered in 1813-4.
1879.— September 9, 1803— Julius St. Leger.
Writer, Ceylon Civil Service.
A ^"^1> '^'i^o'^T ^x* Bombay. There was a Barry St. Leger appointed Writer on September 14, 1815 (see Gazette of
August 28, 1816) ; Assistant to the Collector, Jaffna, January 1, 1817 ; First Assistant, Secretariat, August 1, 1819
He was on leave m 1820 and 1821. His name then disappears from the Ceylon records, so that he must have retired or
died. He may have been a younger brother. Barry St. Leger arrived by the Hesper at Trincomalee on May 31, 1816
On October 25 the same year he was acting as one of the stewards at a ball at Colombo.
1880.— October 14, 1804^-Berkeley Vincent; Henry Littleton Smith.
Lieutenant Berkeley Vincent and Ensign Smith of the 1 9th Regiment were two of the Oflacers of Captain Johnston's
expedition to Kandy in 1804. On the retm-n march, about three days after leaving Kandy, somewhere in the jungle
between Matale and Minneri, " Lieutenant Vincent of the grenadier company received a shot in the groin ; it had been
rather spent, He inarched on with the others until the blood was coming out over the top of his boot at the knee ; at length
he became quite faint, and was put into a doohe ; and also Ensign Smith, who was struck on the breast with a spent
ball which knocked him down. They were sent off by a bye-road, under the care of the guides, with instructions to
join again upon the route. When poor Vincent was struck he exclaimed ' I have caught — I have caught it, men.' All
were grieved for him. He begged and implored some of his men to remain beside him, and he would reward them
handsomely, as he was well able to do it. His appeals were vain. The danger was so maijifest, none would comply.
At length he addressed himself to one of his own grenadiers offering him a recompense of £500 and his discharge, or
whatever he wished he would do for him. To tliese tempting offers the poor fellow turned a deaf ear. At length he
said, ' I will go with you-^rstand by you — live or die with you ; but it is not your reward that makes me do so — it is
the pity for you and the love I bear you ; all the world could not otherwise induce me to. do so. I will share your fate,
come what will, but it is for love alone.' They moved off ; Lieut. Vincent held a penknife open in his hand, resolved
not to fall aUve into the hands of the enemy." (From Bombardier Alexander's account of the expedition, quoted
by Marshall, p. 256.)
The main body reached Minnery lake on the 16th to find Lieutenant Virgo and the advanced guard, but without
Lieutenant Vincent and Ensign Smith and two wounded soldiers of the 19th whom they had had to abandon. "The
guard alleged that they had lost their way in the woods and were nearly starved ; that the cooUes had deserted them ;
that they were themselves so exhausted as to be scarcely able to walk, and had no means of carrying the sick whom
they were under the necessity of abandoning ; that they were without guides and found their way to the village where
they were by mere chance." (Marshall, p. 125-6.)
Whether the plucky private of the 19th, who was prepared to sacrifice his life for his officer, was among the
survivors is not recorded, but Lieutenant Vincent and Ensign Smith were never seen again.
Lieutenant Vincent was Fort Adjutant of Galle from May 1 , 1804, and must have later in that year been stationed
at Batticaloa, from which place the expedition started on September 20. He was 6th son of John Vincent, Esq., of
Limerick. Lieutenant Henry Littleton Smith was the third son of Fernando Smith, Esq., of Halesowen, Grange,
County Worcester, and was bom in 1787. He joined the I9th Foot as Ensign, February 3, 1803, and was gazetted
Lieutenant, August 15, 1803.
There was considerable feeling on the part of the officers of the 19th Regiment, according to Dr. Marshall, against
Lieutenant Virgo of the Malay Regiment, who was in command of the escort which was bringing the unfortunate
wounded officers to Trincomalee, on accoimt of their abandonment, and he was tried by court martial and sentenced
to go on half pay and lose seniority for six months. Dr. Marshall is inoUned to think that he could not help himself,
and that he was badly treated. He had been a private in the band of the 80th Regiment. " He lived in a very retired
manner, read much, and was considered well-informed on general subjects. He was Supposed to indulge in the use of
opium. As an officer he was not considered very efficient. He was repeatedly superseded in the Malay Regiment
by the promotion of junior officers of the same Corps. In 1818 he exchanged on half pay as heutenant, the rank he
had attained in 1809, and died in 1837 " (p. 130). He himself was wounded in the retreat and lost an eye. The
statement that he attained the rank of heutenant in 1809 is difficult to reconcile with the fact that he was gazetted
lieutenant from March 28, 1803— a rank which he never passed. He left for England on leave by the City of London
on March 13, 1813. He was Commandant of Tangalla in 1816-7. and was transferred to the 3rd Ceylon Regiment,
June 25, 1817. It is a pity that the proceedings of the court-martial are not available.
Lieutenant T. J. Anderson evidently shared the feehngs of the other officers of his regiment on this subject
for he says in " Stanzas to the Memory of Lieutenants Vincent and Smith of the 19th Regiment, who, being wounded
in their retreat from Candy, were abandoned to their fate in the jungle" :
" But now in dark and gloomy wilds.
Your bones, alas, decay !
To howling savages expos'd.
An unresisting prey !
Forsaken ere the vital spark
Had left your fainting frame.
Oh stain to manhood ! and to arms !
An everlasting shame." ^
(" Poems Written Chiefly in India. )
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Miscellaneous — contd.
1881. — April, 1804 — James Allardyce Barclay.
Ceylon Civil Service.
He was appointed Writer and attached as Assistant to the Ciiief Secretary's Office, September 22, 1801 ; Assistant
to Agent, Batticaloa, 1802 ; 1st Assistant to Agent of Revenue, Colombo, May 25, 1803 ; Agent of Revenue, Trinoomalee,
October 5, 1803. He died at Madras. His estate, value 2,509 rix-dollars, was being administered in 1806.
1882.— March 10, 1805 — Samuel Jeanneret.
Lieutenant-Colonel, Invalid Corps.
He was Major of the 73rd Regiment, commanding at Jaffna, August-October, 1797-8, and took an inventory
of the Jaffna Kachcheri consequent on the death of the Assistant Resident, Mr. John Jervis, in February, 1798.
Whether he died at Jaffna, Trincomalee, or Madras, I have not been able to discover, but it was probably at Jaffna,
as Mrs. Jeanneret was a witness there to the marriage of Captain Truter to Mrs. Brunette, on September 3, 1808.
1883.— March 6, 1809— William Hamlyn Heywood.
Chaplain of Brigade to the Forces serving in Ceylon.
Appointed March 3, 1804. He went on leave, February 14, 1809, and toot: passage by the East India Company's
ship, the Jane Duchess of Oordon, which, with the Lady Jane Dundas and the William Pitt, was convoyed by H.M.S.
Belliqueux. The Jane Duchess of Gordon was lost " in a gale which destroyed nearly a whole squadron off the Cape "
(see Cotton, pp. 42, 43). With this fleet there also left Lieutenant-General Hay Macdowal, who had been succeeded
in the command of the forces in Ceylon by Major-General David Douglas Wemyss on March 1, 1804; had since been
on the staff of the army in Madras, and had arrived at Colombo on a visit to Major-General Charles Baillie ; the Honourable
Alexander Johnston, Mrs. Johnston and family, Kenelm Chandler, Assistant Commissary-General of Trinoomalee, and
Miss Mary Twistleton, who became Mrs. Gisborne. With Mr. Heywood was lost the register of marriages of the Fort
Church (see page 1). The William Pitt was also wrecked, but whether iji this storm or later I cannot say.
1884. — ^December 8, 1810 — John Beaver Nares.
Ceylon Civil Service.
He arrived as a Writer in the ship Walthamstow, October 2, 1804, and was appointed 2nd Assistant in the Cinna-
mon Department on the 31st. He proceeded to Europe on leave in March, 1805, by the same ship as the Chief Justice,
Mr. Edmund Henry Lushington. He returned to the Island, for on March 15, 1809, he was appointed to act as Sitting
Magistrate for the Port of Colombo, and on January 31, 1810, 1st Assistant at the Secretariat. Where he died is not
known. Moneys belonging to his estate were lying at the General Treasury in 1831.
1885.— May 16, 1811— Thomas Castle.
Lieut. Castle, 4th Ceylon Begiment.
He was killed in action in Travancore. The 3rd and 4th Ceylon Regiments were sent to the assistance of the
Madras troops in the war against Travancore in 1809-11. On February 28, 1809, the men of the 3rd Ceylon were ,
ordered an extra allowance of arrack " for having, in an attack, the first in which they were ever engaged, conducted
themselves in the usual manner in which all His Majesty's Regiments have ever done when called upon to serve their
King and Country." The Regiment was formed in 1805 by Governor Maitland from a number of Caffres, and was at
first known as the " Caffre Corps." It received its colours on November 29, 1805, when its first commandin.g officer.
Colonel Charles Baillie, gave a ball and supper. It was reduced in 1816. The 4th Ceylon was raised early in 1809 and
1811, and on February 24, 1811, was given its colours on the Galle Face. The regiment was reduced about 1815.
It comprised Malays and Sepoys. The four Ceylon regiments wore scarlet ; the 1st had light buff facings, the 2nd bright
yellow, the 3rd dark green, and the 4th white. Lieutenant Castle became Lieutenant, December 4, 1806.
1886.— August 27, 1812— William Husband.
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, vice Nesbit, deceased, October 1, 1805 ; 1st Lieutenant, Marclj 15, 1808.
1887.— April 8, 1813— George Gillespie.
Assistant Surgeon, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He joined August 1, 1802. He was at Fort Macdowal on the night of June 26, 1803, when Corporal Barnsley
arrived with the news of the massacre of the Kandy garrison and, with Captains Madge and Pearce, signed his deposition.
He escaped with Madge to Trincomalee. He was appointed to the charge of the Bengal and Madras Volunteers at
Trincomalee, January 25, 1804. He accompanied Captain Johnston's expedition to Kandy in that year, so that he had
a double experience of retreats made under the greatest difficulties and privations.
1888.— June 22, 1813— J. Elsey.
Lieutenant and Adjutant, 66th Regiment.
He joined August 30, 1810.
1889.— July 4, 1813— John Curtis.
Assistant Surgeon, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
1890. — January 25, 1814 — William Richard Montgomery.
" At Sea on the 25th Ultimo, on his return from Calcutta, to which place he had repaired for the benefit of his
health, William Richard Montgomery of the Civil Service of this Island. Our annals here seldom had to record an
event so deeply and generally deplored as the untimely death of this excellent young man. He had just completed the
twelfth year of his service in Ceylon, and had thereby become entitled to a moderate competence in his native country
for the residue of his life.. High-minded, liberal, and sincere, he was an honour to the Establishment of which he was a
member, and the delight and love of the society he adorned. His memory will long survive in the regrets of his
afi&icted family, and in the fond affections of a numerous circle of friends, whom his many virtues and amiable
qualities had bound to him by no common tie. He died at the early age of 32, and has left a widow and four
children." (Gazette of February 2, 1814.)
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Miscellaneous— cowicZ.
H« • ^ . .. 1890.-January 25, 1814_William Richard Montgomery-co^<(^.
bom at CoSo "^t'rll 'iTr^j^e'ttT '''%''Z t^^^'"^ T"^' ^'^^^^ (-«No. 1822),andhada son by her
the Secretariat akd Paymaster-GeneJal's offices ^PP"^^*'!^ Writer ml 801 arrived January, 1802, and was attached to
Agent and Sitting Mag^^trate GaUe JuL 1803 ^^d^tto « t #'.?f''* *°f ^""f' °^ ^^^'^'^"<'' ^^''^' November 3, 1802;
Matara, Jnne, 1805 ; Collector, Jatoa and Wann; ^nL^Z f.T f^ ^alpentyn. May 1, 1804 ; Agent, Galle and
1808 ; Acting Garrison Storeke;per November?^!! 1 ' ' Supermtendent of Cinnamon Plantations, June,
1891.— March 27, 1814— Henry Stewart.
Captain, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
at ColoS,rirDec'S,;r ' I'gS?' KL'SL^ Sebror"' K^' Ceylon Regiment (2nd Ceylon Regiment). He married
Adjutant at Trincomalee'frm F^Cu^y 1 1808 ^ "^' '^°"' Adjutant, Colombo, at the time, and was Fort
1892.— October 26, 1814— Cham Reynolds.
Captain, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted Captain from October 8, 1812. His Christian name is here given as in the Army List.
1893.— 1814-Meagan.
Quartermaster, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
1894.— February 8, 1815— Martin Browne,
Ensign, 4th Ceylon Regiment.
He joined July 5, 1810.
1895.— March 10, 1815— George Stavert,
Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment ; 2nd Lieutenant,
March 2, 1810.
1896.— May 30, 1815— William John Molesworth.
6th Viscount Moleswobth, Lieut.-Colonel, 2nd
Ceylon Regiment.
He joined the 1st Ceylon Regiment, July 9, 1803, from the Newfoundland Fencibles, and was gazetted Lieutenant-
Colonel from March 28, 1805 ; ditto, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, September B, 1805. He was Commandant of Jaffna, 1805-7.
He went to the Cape on leave in September, IS/) 7. He married a daughter of Johan Dirk van Clotwyk, Governor
of Malacca, 1751-6, and sister of John Dirk van Clotwyk, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies.
The younger Johan Dirk van Clotwyk died at an advanced age at Clapton in 1804. Lord Molesworth was appointed
Commandant of Galle, November 1, 1811, where he remained until early in 1815, when, with Lady Molesworth he
embarked on the transport Arniston, which was in Colombo in January-February. (Two men belonging to her, Samuel
Hay and James Black, were buried there on February 9 and 11.) She was lost near the Cape of Good Hope, May 30, and
Lord and Lady Molesworth were among the drowned, with many of the passengers and crew. " In the awful hour that
preceded the breaking up of the vessel, he was calm and resigned, and exhorted those who were around him to prepare
to meet their God. Had he remained in Ceylon a few weeks longer he would have received the appointment, to solicit
which was the object of his visit to England." (" Jubilee Memorials," by Spence Hardy.) The same writer says that
Viscount Molesworth " named the rocks which rise from the translucent bosom of the Koggala lake, Brama, Vishnu,
and Siva" (p. 341).
1897.— May 30, 1815— Adam Callender,
Ensign Callendee, 19th Regiment.
He was lost in the Arniston. He joined the Regiment, April 15, 1813. Captain P. W. Harkness of the 80th, a
regiment which in March, 1797, had "lately arrived" at Trincomalee, but left in a year or two, was also drowned.
1898.— May 30, 1815— Thomas Addison. '
Second Lieutenant Addison, 3rd Ceylon Regiment.
Lost in the Arniston. He joined April 9, 1812.
1899.— March 30, 1816— John Wilkins.
Captain Wilkins, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He died on board the Company's ship Minerva, which left Galle on the voyage home on March 24. He was
appointed Ensign in the Caffre Corps, January 17, 1805 ; Lieutenant, Malay Corps, vice Rossi, June 2, 1805 ; and was
Commandant at Mullaittivu, 1811-14 ; Galle, March 24, 1816.
1900._0ctober 10, 1817— E. S. Erskine.
Lieut.-Colonel Ekskine, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, De-
puty Adjutant-General, Ceylon.
1901.— December 15, 1817— James Chalmers.
Lieutenant, 37th Regiment.
He probably died on the voyage home or in India, as the 37th was not at this time stationed in Ceylon.
1902.— March 5, 1818— Andrew High.
He succeeded Dr. James Anderson as Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in Ceylon in 1813, and accompanied
Governor Brownrigg on his tours to the Pearl Fishery of 1814 (Feb. 28— May 20), and "through Saffragam and Ouwa
Provinces to Kandy " in 1816 (March 28— April 17). He had been in Sweden and St. Petersburg, and came to Madras
■with Lord William Bentinok. He died ' ' near Edinburgh. ' '
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1903.— April 12, 1818— Richard PoUington.
2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant, 3rd Ceylon Regiment.
He died on board the Adamant off Negombo. He was gazetted from Sergeant, 66th Regiment, to be Adjutant,
1st Ceylon Regiment, with rank of 2nd Lieutenant, ■uice Eaton, deceased, July 20, 1811; to be 1st Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon
Regiment, vice G. A. Tranchell, May, 1815.
1904.— November 29, 1818— John Gill.
Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regiment.
He was gazetted Lieutenant, 3rd Ceylon Regiment, March 12, 1810. He was Fort Adjutant, Kandy, 1816-8.
He died at Calcutta, probably on sick leave, just after the close of the Uva Campaign.
1905.— April 20, 1819— Edward Caddell.
Lieutenant, 86th Foot.
He was engaged with a detachment in the operations in Uva in 1818. He was with Major Macdonald at
Wiyaluwa in October, and was sent by him with a party to meet Captain Cleather who was in Walapane. " Lieut.
Caddel crossed his detachment over the Ouma Oya upon an elephant, and accompanied Captain Cleather to WattemooUe.
Captain Cleather had marched from Panella on the morning of the 20th, and in six hours he reached Tiripaha, where he
met Lieut. Caddel. The distance is about 14 miles, the road good, except over the steep and rugged pass of Ewuregodde,
which is about 5 miles in length, on the east side of which Tiripaha is situated." At the conclusion of the operations in
November he must have retiirned to Calcutta with the detachment, for he died on board the Oolconda transport on the
voyage home.
1906.— May 19, 1819— John TuUoh.
1st Lieutenant, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He died at Madras.
1907.— July 8, 1819— John White.
Captain White, late half pay, 3rd Ceylon Regiment.
He had been in the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, was cashiered, but re-instated in 1817. He joined the 2nd Ceylon
Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant, August 15, 1805, and became Adjutant, mce Collier, November 20, 1805, and 1st Lieutenant,
September 2, 1807.
1908.— August 22, 1819— Joseph Reed.
" Capt. Joseph Reed of H. M. Ceylon Regt., who died
on his passage to England, whither he was proceed-
ing for the recovery of his health. He was a steady,
brave, and excellent Officer, and a worthy and
amiable man." {Gazette, January* 8, 1820.)
Captain, 2nd Ceylon Regiment.
He died on the passage from Ceylon on board " the Richmond free trader." He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant
in Ramsay's Regiment (2nd Ceylon Regiment) in September, 1805; 1st Lieutenant, May 14, 1806. He was with the
2nd Ceylon Regiment in the 1st Division in the Kandy an War of 1815, and surprised a Kandyan post on January 31 ,
1815. He was in command of the detachment, with which was Assistant Surgeon MoNulty, when the latter officer
was killed on November 20, 1817, during the Uva rebellion.
1909.— May 21, 1820— John Ritchie.
Captain Ritchie (73rd Regiment).
He died on board the Alexander, on the passage from Ceylon. Ho had taken a prominent part in the operations
in Uva. (See No. 40.)
1910.— Augusb llj 1820— George Stace.
Captain Stage, 1st Ceylon Regiment.
He was also engaged in the operations in Uva. On January 3, 1818, he marched with 60 grenadiers of the 73rd
Regiment from Kandy for Bintenna (Alutnuwara), where he was to leave them and return to Kandy immediately. In
the middle of February he was sent with reinforcements from Kandy to Hanwella in Uda Dumbara, where an attack
was expected. He left on February 18, when immediately afterwards it was attacked by the Kandyans and ably
defended by Captain Truter, as already related (p. 401). In August he was with a detachment in Kotmale, and
joined Captain Fraser on September 1 at Nawangama, a village about 15 miles from Pasbage, while that officer was
engaged in chastising a party of rebels. He must have gone to England on leave on the conclusion of the war, for he
died "in Essex."
1911.— March 21, 1821— Frans Philip Fretz.
Sitting Magistrate, Calpentyn.
He died at Colombo , aged 50. He came out as a boekhouder f rem Kirchheim by the iew'atten in 1787. He was
appointed Assistant to the Agent of Revenue for Chilaw and Puttalam, March 11, 1807 ; Sitting Magistrate of the Port
of Colombo in 1814. His first wife, whom he married at Colombo, September 30, 1792, was Catharina Sophia Clara,
daughter of Mr. Johan Willem Schorer of Middleburg, Opperhoofd of Trincomalee, and of his wife Juliana Cornelia'
Lebeck (widow Visboom). She was born at Trincomalee, February 12, 1776, and died at Calpentyn, December 17, 1812.
Her sister married Dr. Joseph Sansoni (see No. 600). His second wife was Sara Johanna Sophia, daughter of the
Rev. Bernard Abraham Giffening, Predicant of Wolvendaal Church, by his wife Maria Sophia Franoius (widow Hickler).
She was baptized on May 9, 1790, and married at Colombo on December 2, 1814. The Rev. B. A. Giffening was the last
Predicant of Wolvendaal Church under the Dutch, and was succeeded by the Rev. J. D. Palm on August 27, 1812. He
himself was married by the Rev. Mr. Twisleton at St. Peter's, Fort, Colombo, on December 17, 1807, to Wilhelmina
Petronella Potger of Colombo, spinster. Her brother, Cornells Everardus Potger, and Jacoba Eliza Sohsten signed as
witnesses.
F. P. Fretz' s son, Daniel Jacques Fretz, was employed in the Commissariat. His eldest son married Dorothea
Thomasia, daughter of Johannes Arnoldus Kriekenbeek and Sara Jacomina Louisa Carolina Zezilles. His eldest son,
Frans Philip, was a Sub-Collector in the Customs Department at Weligama, Balapitimodera, and Kalutara. His second
son, James Henry, and his sixth son, Edward Richard, were District Engineers in the Public Works Department, the
former, who died at Kandy in 1809, married (2) Arnoldina, daughter of E. P. Wilmot. (See No. 1273.)
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1912.— February 1, 1824r-5amuel P. Johnston.
Ceylon Civil Service.
Ooll«nt?r^ ir»^„*?f**'?T^'*u^'J^,'^„^'^**''* ^'^ **^^ ^i«f Secretary's Office, May 1, 1822, and to act as Assistant to the
OolIector.Tangalla. March 1, 1823. He died at Bombay.
1913.— June 2, 1825— Charles Auber.
Lieutenant Atjbeb, 83rd Regiment, Deputy Assistant
Quartermaster-General.
Vr.r.n^ a ^ proceeded in February with the 45th Regiment to Rangoon and was destined to remain with the principal
rorce serving at Ir^ome, and had arrived with the Headquarters of the Army at Prome" (Gazette), where he died of
cnoiera aome ot the sketches of the scenery of Uva in Davy's " Account of the Interior of Ceylon " are from the pencU
of Lieutenant Auber. (Preface, p. vii.) j f
1914.— July 14, 1826— John Comyns Bulkley.
" At Sea, on board the ship Alexander, near St. Helena."
" Mr. Bulkley having been attacked with an inveterate fever at Kornegalle, and having experienced severe
relapses, was recommended by his Medical adviser to proceed to England. He quitted the Island on 15th May, arrived
at the fele of France in the beginning of June, and left it again a few days after. His disease daily increased ; all the
efforts of Drs. Haine and Tighe were baffled. He lingered till the 14th July, on the noon of which day he breathed his last.
The amiable qualities and disposition of Mr. Bulkley endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance — all
of whom will deeply deplore his premature death." [Gazette, December 17, 1826.)
He belonged to the 16th Regiment, and was later Assistant Surgeon, 45th Regiment. (See Nos. 723 and 1610.)
1915.— April 30, 1827— Ambrose Hardinge Giffard.
Chief Justice of Ceylon, 1820-7.
He died on the homeward voyage on board the Lady Kennaway, East Indiaman.
Sir Hardinge Giffard was the eldest son of John Giffard, High Sheriff of Dublin in 1794, Accountant-General of
Customs in DubUn, and was born in 1771. His mother was Sarah, daughter of William Norton, Esq., of Ballynaclash,
County Wexford. The Gilfards were an ancient Devonshire family, but the grandfather of the Chief Justice, who was
the disinherited son of John Giffard of Brightleigh, settled in Ireland. Hardinge Giffard was called to the bar at the
Inner Temple, arrived in Ceylon in October, 1810, and was appointed His Majesty's Advocate Fiscal, February 26,
1811 , and Chief Justice, 1819. Professor R. W. Lee says of him : " One is struck by the astonishing ability with which
ho handled the intricate questions which came before hirn at a time when the fortunes of the Island were hanging in the
balance, and when it was open to the occupant of the Bench to determine the coiorse which the Island was to follow. It
was a time when the old members of the Dutch Bar had many of them left the country, when the traditions of the
eighteenth century were obscured and half forgotten. Sir Hardinge Gifiard recalled to mind the traditions of the past.
He laid the firm foundations of the system of law which every Chief Justice after him has developed." He had a differ-
ence of opinion with the Governor as to the application of the Habeas Corpus Act to Ceylon, the Chief Justice maintaining
the affirmative. " His leisure was devoted to literature, and a selection of poems was published at Ceylon about 1822.
A specimen is reproduced in ' Traditions and Recollections ' of the Rev. R. Polwhele." It is chiefly on this account,
apparently, that he has found a place in the " Dictionary of National Biography," for nothing is said therein as to his
legal attainments, and Sir Charles Marshall of the " Judgments," whose distinction as a lawyer is even greater but who
was not literary, is omitted. ''Sir Hardinge Giffard's health failed, and he proceeded to England on leave, but died on
the voyage. He married in 1808 Harriet, daughter of LoveU PenneU, Esq., of Lyme Regis, ard left five sons and five
daughters (see No. 342). His eldest son, John Hardinge William, died on July 31, 1833, at Upper Phillimore Place,
Kensington, aged 22. His son Edward married Rosamund Catherine, daughter of William PenneU, Esq., of
Portsmouth, in 1844. His third son was Admiral Sir George Giffard (1815-88). His nephew is the Earl of Halsbury,
late Lord Chancellor.
1916.— January 2, 1829— James Chater.
"At sea, on board the Seppings, in the 50th year of his age, the Rev. James Chater, Baptist Missionary, who was
proceeding to England for the benefit of his health, which, with his general constitution, had been greatly impaired by a
residence in India of 23 years. In the death of this excellent man the cause of Christian Missions has sustained a heavy
loaa ^hjs acquaintance with the languages and habits of the natives of this country and the confidence he had gained
amongst them by his mild and judicious proceedings rendered him invaluable in such a work. Mr. Chater was almost
tho firat English Missionary that settled in Ceylon, and by the liberal assistance of His Majesty's Government pubUshed
the first Grammar of the Singhalese language, to which he afterwards added several elementary works. Since the death
of W Tolfrev Esq he had assisted with others in the translation and revision of the Scriptures in Singhalese, but in his
general Missionary pursuits it may be said of him, he was ' in labours more abundant,' and on leaving Ceylon he had the
Mtisfaction to know that his efforts had been successful. As a Christian Minister he was greatly respected by the people
and esteemed bv all his feUow labourers. Mr. Chater has left a widow in Ceylon and eight orphan children in England,
who by this painful event have to mourn the loss of one of the kmdest of husbands and most affectionate of parents.
tGazette Anril 25. 1829.) His widow was Mrs. Anna Deborah Chater ,,.,,. ^ ^ ^
^ <; ^P ' ^^^ ^^^^ jjjj. g^j^Q yj^g a Missionary in Burmah. He was dehberate m speech and of grave demean"-
our, but a useful minister and a man of great worth." (Hardy, p. 67.) His " Grammar of the Cmgalese Language "
was' pubUshed in 1815 at Colombo.
1917.— May 10, 1831— Jean Martin Lavalliere.
Assistant Collector of Customs, Galle.
IT o= CH+Hnc Magistrate and Customs Master, Negombo, 1815 ; ditto Hambantota, October 17, 1818 ; ditto
M „ V? 182?^f-^Sant Sector, Galle, 1826. He died, I think, at GaUe. He married Lucretia Adriana
SSir^iuySn (No^"^^^^^^^^ the father of Jean Louis Theodore LavaUiere, CCS. (See No. 329.)
1918.— November 5, 1831— Petrus Flanderka.
Captain Flandbeka of the Dutch East India Com-
pany's service.
" He was in Ceylon for a long period in the Company's service, and was sent to Batavia in 1796, after the surrender .
where he^^ed uhtiUt was taken by the British. He then returned to Holland leavmg his family behmd, and was
stationed at Grave." {Gazette.) ^^^^
3n
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1919.— 1836— John Foulstone.
He was Ensign in the Caffre Corps in 1805 ; Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, January 16, 1805 ; to command
at Hambantota, December 23, 1805; and was afterwards in the 1st Ceylon Regiment and Ceylon Rifles. He was
gazetted from the half -pay of the Ceylon Rifles to the 63rd Regiment, and left Ceylon to join that regiment in Bengal
in 1832. In 1846 he " had not been heard of for ten years."* He married at Colombo on September 1, 1814, Helena
Herfts. His wife had a son at Madawalatenna, May 4, 1816.
1920.— 1838— Joseph Wynne.
Captain Wynne. 58th Regiment.
HewasSittingMagistrate.Kandy, 1831-33; Police Magistrate, 1833-38. He died at Malacca. He was gazetted
from the 83rd Regiment to be Captain, 5Sth Regiment, January 14, 1829.
1921.— August 30, 1860— Henry Frederick Loekyer.
Major-GeneralLocKYER, C.B., K.H., late Commander-in-Chief in Ceylon.
He was in Ceylon, 1856-60, and died on the voyage home on board the Ripon.
1922.— August 31, 1860— Edward Frederick Kelaart, M.D., Stall Surgeon.
He died on board the Ripon, the day after General Lookyer. " Dr. Kelaart, one of our medicos at Trincomalee,
was not only a clever surgeon, but also a naturalist of no mean reputation. He made an interesting and exhaustive
analysis of the habits and peregrinations (for they do move about) of the pearl oyster Some people used to go
so far as to say that he had trained one to follow him like a dog. But although that was an exaggeration, it is certain that
most of his pets and curios were particularly docile under his influence. He never lost an opportunity of studying
Natural History." (("Memories of the Mutiny," by Colonel Maude, R.A., who was stationed in Ceylon, 1855-67.) Mr. A.
M. Ferguson says of him : " Justice calls for reference to the researches of the late Dr. Kelaart into the natural history of
the pearl-yielding bi-valves, really mussels, although their appearance justifles the popular name of oysters. Dr.
Kelaart may not have solved the mystery of nacre deposition into pearls by reference to the presence of diatoms or
other foreign bodies, but he established the facts that the shell fish could throw off the byssus, or beard by which they
were anchored, to pieces of coral, and that by means of a "foot " they exercised powers of locomotion sufficient to account
for the presence of individuals on the cable by which a Government vessel was anchored on the pearl banks."
(" Ceylon in 1846.") He was author of " Prodromus Faunee Zeylanicse " (1852) and of various other works and papers
on the natural history of Ceylon.
He was a Staff Assistant Surgeon at Kandy in 1850 (by 1846 he had not reached thatrank) ; Staff Sturgeon, Galle,
1853. He was a son of W. H. Kelaart (No. 335). He married in 1843 (1) Frances Sophia Hussey " of Staffordshire,"
(2), on May 13, 1851, at Trincomalee, Elizabeth Nye. His eldest son, Gerald Talbot, became an officer .in the Royal
Artillery.
1923.— August 17, 1861— J. Albert Denton, feieutenant, Ceylon Rifles.
He died at Bombay.
1924.— August 26, 1866— George John Brook.
Assistant Collector of Customs, Calpentyn, aged 44.
He was third son of George Shaw Brook, who married, when ho was seventeen, Ariana Maria Rabinel on January
1 5 , 1 818, at Galle. He was for many years Sub-Collector of Customs at Point Pedro. He married on February 11 , 1861 ,
at Jaffna, Mary Rebecca Harding. His age at the time of his death was actually 42, as he was born on May 25, 1824.
A sister , Sarah Anne , married Henry Latham Maddock ; two other sisters , Anna Cecilia and Emilia , successively married
R. J. Dunlop ; a fourth, Eliza, married Thomas Gordon. (See Nos. 709 and 977.) Anna Cecilia Dunlop died,
Jvme 16, 1853, aged 29, at Jaffna.
1925.— April 8, 1867— George Ackland.
A Ceylon planting pioneer.
He began business in Ceylon with George Hay Boyd (No. 646), the firm being called Ackland, Boyd & Co. of
Calcutta and Colombo, and starting business in April, 1829. It introduced the culture of sugar cane, and brought out
Messrs. R. B. Tytler, R. D. Gerard, J. I. Strachan, and Charles Pitts to superintend its estates, each at £4. 3s. 4d. a month,
William Boyd says : " Having thus secured the services of a competent and practical planter, | Ackland, Boyd & Co.
sent out relays of young men principally from the neighbourhood of Crimond.J who served a sort of apprenticeship
under him. When new estates were opened, these men were put in charge of them and there they also had young men,
newly imported, placed under them, to whom they were expected to impart the knowledge and experience which they
had acquired from Mr. Tytler. It thus happened in course of time that the whole planting community became fermented
and imbued with the ideas of Mr. Tytler, and to these ideas, carried out to their practical issues, the present prosperity
of Ceylon is in a great measure to be ascribed." {Ceylon Literary Register, vol. II., pp. 217-8.) Among the estates
thus opened were Pallakele and Kundasale.
Ackland began life as a midshipman in the Indian Marine service. He was for some time an unofficial member
of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. The£rm collapsed in the coffee monetary crash of 1848. In 1853 Ackland trans-
ferred his energies to Bengal, and " got into touch with the management of the paper works, then at Serampore, where
experiments were being made, tried with country grasses and fibre plants, to improve the quality or cheapen the manu-
facture of paper. Ackland's genius caught on to rheia as a possible rival to flax and hemp." [" Calcutta Empire.")
But he soon saw the advantage of abandoning rhea for jute and, in 1856, started making machine-spun jute yarns. He
carried on his jute mills until 1867, when his interests in it ceased. He died at Calcutta. The late Mr. John Capper
of the Ceylon Times married his sister, Anne Arneil Ackland at Kandy, November 5, 1839. Charles Pitt married,
on November 27, 1843, at Kandy, Augusta Capper. He died at 27, Priory road. South Lambeth, on October 6, 1858,
the same day on which his wife had a son born.
The name Ackland was spelt originally with a k, but in more recent times the k seems to have been omitted.
Boyd refers to " my exciteable and talkative little friend, Mr. Acland." (" Autobiography," p. 12.)
* According to Ceylon papers. But I learn from Henry Stock Smith's " Military Obituary " of 1855 that he exchanged
into the 13th Foot on February 17, 1832, became Captain in the 63rd Eegiment, December 31, 1839, exchanged into the 27th
Regiment (H. P.), January 26, 1844, and died at Shirley Warren near Southampton on June 4, 1854. He served in the Kahdyan
wars of 1803 and 1815, and was wounded in the leg, June 20, 1803, also in the Travancore war ; was present at the capture
of Bourbon and Isle of France, 1810, and was taken prisoner on the Nereid frigate after action with a French squadron on August
23, 1810. He was also present at the capture of Ghuznee on July 23, 1839.
t R. B. Tytler. t Boyd was a native of Crimond.
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ADDENDA.
1926.— August 8, 1799— John Nairn.*
Lieutenant Nairn, 19th Foot.
Gazetted Ensign, January 8, 1795 ; Lieutenant, June 3, 1795.
1927.— October 20, 1800— Jasper Nixon.* •
Lieutenant Nixon, 19th Foot.
Gazetted Ensign, November, 1798 ; Lieutenant, March 28, 1799. He and Lieutenant Nairn probably died in
India, as five companies of the 19th went from Ceylon to reinforce the siege troops before Seringapatam, and arrived
nine days after its fall on May 7, 1799.
1928.— January 28, 1804— John Crooks.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Crooks, 19th Foot.
Appointed Adjutant from Sergeant-Major, 19th Foot, July 31, 1802; Lieutenant, June 27, 1803.
1929.— April, 1805— Charles Douglas.
Lieutenant Douglas, 19th Foot.
" Ensign C. Douglas, 37th Foot, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Smith who retires, March 9, 1803." This
Ensign Smith was apparently the Ensign Smith who perished in the Kandy massacre.
1930, — April 10, 1813— Richard Parsons.
Captain Parsons, 19th Foot.
( Gazetted Ensign, April 14, 1803; Lieutenant, December 1, 1804; Captain, June 18, 1811. Captain Parson
had served in the Travancore Campaign of 1809.
1931.— October 31; 1814— John Bower Edenson.
Lieutenant Edenson, 19th Foot.
Lieutenant Edenson was born 1780 and diedatGalle. Gazetted Ensign, October 11, 1809; Lieutenant, July 20,
1812.
1932.— April 29, 1815— Hugo Wemyss.
Captain Wemyss, 19th Foot.
He died on board the Arniston Transport sixteen days before she was wrecked off Cape das Agulhas. He was
bom in 1788, and seems to have been a brother of Major-General David Douglas Wemyss who succeeded General Mac-
dowal in the Ceylon command, March 1, 1804. " The Government House occupied by the Commander of the Forces
wasstruck by lightning on April 19th (1805), also the adjoining house occupied by Brigade Major Colebrooke. No one
was hurt General Wemyss received no other injury than the effects of surprize so tremendous a shock from the
Thundergust, which succeeded it, produced. Lieut. Wemyss, A.D.C., sitting in the room at the time, falling masonry
and timber drove him against a door with great violence, over the appartment were pieces of ornamental masonry
raised according to the Dutch taste, considerably above the roof. This masonry received and threw off the
electric fluid to the Adjoining House." (Gazette of April 24, 1805.) . , , „ , ^ .
Ensien Hugo Wemyss, 19th Foot, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant m the 1st Ceylon Regiment, June 3, 1804 ;
Lieutenant, 19th Foot, October 2, 1805; Captain, 19th Foot, June 11, 1812. In 1809 he served m the Travancore
campaign^ ADC was either Lieutenant Hugo Wemyss or Lieutenant Thomas James Wemyss, who was gazetted to
tl,« iQfh from the 65th the same day that General Wemyss was appointed to the Ceylon Command, viz.. March 1,
isnd. Thomas Tames may have been an elder brother of Hupo, as he was born m 1785, son of Colonel James
Wemyss ofTheRo^l Marines. He died a Lieutenant-General and C.B. at Bath, on July 19, 1860.
1933.— May 30, 1815— Francis Goodall.
Lieutenant Goodall, 19th Foot.
r>rnwnpH in the Arniston. He was born in 1792; gazetted Ensign, January 1, 1807; 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd
Ceylon Ragli^ent, August 13, 1807; Lieutenant, 19th Foot. January 18, 1810.
1934.— December 5, 1816— Robert Brown Duke.
Lieutenant Duke, 19th Foot.
Gazetted 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Ceylon Regiment, November 20, 1805; Lieutenant, 19th Foot, August 10, 1807 ;
Adjutant, March 30, 1810; Captain, June 17, 1816.
paragraph
* a o r,»,r« 7-? ante The names of Lieutenants Nairn and Jasper Nixon should be added to those given in the last
11 of^the rerAarks on Captain Anderson's poen>/and that of Lieutenant Wimi should be omitted.
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1935 — 1806— Thomas Wetherall Ottley.
Major Ottley, 65th. Regiment.
He joined the 19th Foot as Ensign, May, 1794; Lieutenant, August 24, 1784; Captain, 37th Foot, March
31, 1803; Major, 65th Foot, July 2, 1805. He was fifth son of Thomas Ottley, sometime of St. Vincent and afterwards
of Antigua. He served in Germany with the 19th in 1794-95. No record in Ceylon of his death, but according to
Burke's " Landed Gentry " for 1853 it took place there in 1806.
1936.— January 24, 1809— David Philips.
Captain David Philips, 44th Regiment, exchanged into
Baillie's (3rd Ceylon) Regiment, August 7, 1806.
»
1937.— May 19, 1811— Ebenezer Eaton. ,
He appears to have been Quartermaster of the 19th Foot before he was gasetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st
Ceylon Regiment, of which he became Adjutant. Estate being administered in 1813.
1938.— June 5, 1813— Peter Dennison.
He was Quartermaster of the Malay Regiment at Jaffna in 1804. He had joined this regiment on Decem^ber
1, 1802, from, I think, the 19th Regiment, and succeeded Anthony Mollroy (No. 1723) as Quartermaster. His wife
had a son born at Jafina, November 12, 1804. An Ensign George Dennison, 19th Foot, arrived from England by the
Monarch, December 19, 1813. Peter Dennison's estate was being admiriistered 1814 to 1817.
1939.— January 13, 1823— Robert Graham Geddes.
Ensign, 83rd Regiment.
He was commanding at Balangoda, and probably died there.
Note on No. 1598. — Lieutenant Fellowes was a relative of the Rev. .Robert Fellowes, LL.D. (" Philalethes "),
author of the " History of Ceylon," published in 1817, and probably supplied him with material for that work. (See
Skeen's " Adam's Peak.")
1940.— April 26, 1799— Robert Boadly Ashe.
" At Trincomalee, in his 20th year, Robert Hoadly Ashe, 2nd son of the Revd. Robert Hoadly Ashe, D.D., of
Eltham, Kent. He was a lieutenant in the 80th Regiment, an excellent officer and the best of sons." (" Gentleman's
Magazine," May, 1800.)
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APPENDIX.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Lieutenant T. J. Rodney (No. 2). He was second son of the Hon. John Rodney. He had been in the 19th
I'oot, and had served in the Travancore campaign in the year of his death. He died at Quilon.
Lady Louisa Rodney (No. 2). John Stratford Rodney, her eldest son, died on December 28, 1854.
Captain G. R. Maltby (No. 7). His father. Dr. Maltby, was Bishop of Chichester, 1831-36, and of Durham,
1836—56.
Archdeacon Twisleton (No. 13). His youngest son was Edward Turnour Boyd, born at Colombo, May 29, 1809.
whose exhaustive researchos into the identity of "Junius " resulted in the conclusion that the " Letters " were the
work of Sir Philip Francis. He died in 1874, and there is a notice of him in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Henry Matthews (No. 15). Hia wife was Emma, daughter of William Blimt, Esq., of Orleton Manor, Hereford-
shire. A brother of his, Arthur, was a Canon of Hereford.
Robert Imray (No. 29). His daughter, Mary Anne, married at Kandy on July 17, 1854, S. O. Thwaites, brother
of Dr. Thwaites.
Major Willerman (No. 58) was a Captain in the Royal Staff Corps and was appointed A. D. C. to the Governor
March 12, 1812 ; D. Q. M. G. with rank of Major, August, 1813, vice Edwards ; Brevet Major in command of a company
2nd Ceylon Regiment, April 22, 1813. He established " the new settlement at Palitoopane," for which he was thanked
by Governor Brownrigg (General Order of September 28, 1813). He designed the fort here and that at Ruanwella.
" His indefatigable enquiries and observations enabled him to gain a correct knowledge of the enemy's country. The
different divisions of the army were supplied with excellent charts and the most distinct information respecting the
strength of the passes leading into the island, till then considered impregnable, such as the Balane and Idalgalshika
Pass. To his exertions every possible praise is due. With great justice. General Brownrigg placed the utmost
confidence in the experience of this scientific ofiicer, in whose extended mind and powers of combination resources
were found for most of our wants, and I can assure they were numerous." (De Bussche, p. 26.)
Captain Parker (No. 96) was with the 1st Division in the Kapdyan War of 1815, and surprised a Kandyan post
January 31.
Captain A. Mylius (No. 100). Mrs. MyUus died at Lichfield, February 7, 1860.
Major Suckling (No. 144) was related to Admiral Lord Nelson, his father or grandfather being a brother of Mrs.
Nelson, mother of the Admiral, who went with him in the Seahorse to the Arctic.
Dr. Kelly (No. 148). His widow, Bmiha Maria, married (2) Lieutenant Alfred John Douglas Smith, C. R. R.
Charles Ross Mitchell (No. 227). The date of death should be May 20, 1860.
Quiryn Goutier (No. 267). His widow married, on October 21, 1703, at Colombo, George Albertz of Inaterburg.
Cornelis Hanecop (No. 271) was the eecand husband of Maria Magdelena Cherpentier (see No. 499). Her first
husband, William Loquet, whom she married on February 17, 1692, died at Galle, July 27, 1697, andshe died March 26,
1699, so that she was only for a short time the wife of Hanecop.
Colonel Barbut (No. 296). His widow was second daughter of Major-General Sir Eccles Nixon, and a relative
of Lieutenant Richard Phepoe Nixon (No. 1538). She married (2) Captain William Macpherson, 12th Foot, who was
Deputy Adjutant-General to General Macdowal during the Kandyan War of 1803, and commanded the expedition to
Batugedera and Avisawella, was Commissary-General of Grain and Provisions from May 29, 1803, and left the Island
with General Macdowal in November of that year. It was she and not Colonel Barbut who was a cousin of Frederic
Gahagan, through her mother Lady Nixon. Her nephew was Major-General J. P. Nixon and his son is Sir John Nixon.
Sir Eccles Nixon was lost at sea in the Prince of Wales, May 29, 1804.
Abraham White (No. 313) was appointed Assistant Surgeon, 1st Ceylon Regiment, November 1, 1814.
Captain W H Cleather (No. 319) was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and arrived in Ceylon in 1805.' His
third daughter, A^na, was the. second wife of the Rev. Carr John Glyn, whonr she married on April 25, 1839. She
died in 1887. Captain Cleather died at the house of Major Delatre at Colombo.
Archbishop Melizan (No. 426). Date of death should be June 27.
Bishop Bettachini (No. 428). Date of death should be July 26.
Prideaux Selby (No. 433). H. C. Selby died at Paris, January 12. 1858.
SIgismundus Monitanier (No. 473). This inscription is given twice by Ludovici^ ^'f^'^'''^ *° ^^^ ^''^ ^^^"^
DiBiBiiiu fnrnhatone is in the Pettah Burial Groimd, Colombo (see No. 355).
wrongly Y'^^^^^^^l^lt^^ltZZu a descendant of Hendrik SchwaUie of London, Corporal and Postholder,
Ambalangoda! who married at Colombo, June 9, 1782, Gertruida Jetses, of Colombo, widow of Nicolaas Magnus
~r; Magdelena Boln^^^^
rdtoCrorTS^crnWnorrit^ ^'--^''^:^-'f'r'-ff''-''-'l\ , ,,
Pieternella Verdonk (No. 502). . C. Verdonk was perhaps -o- ^ i^'Sn'^t 64 ) "^ ^"
There was a Dirk Verdonk, an "Assistent," Colombo, 1677. (Tfeid., vol. XXiL, p. b4.J
There -^^ «/>^^ ,3,^ ^ B,,,, ,,„ Hugel travelled from Negombo to Colombo m April, 1833.
Sor Vanderspar (No. 565). His widow married at Bath on October 2, 1862, Lieutenant Alexander G. Owen.
Bengal Staff Corp^. \^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^,^ ,,^, ^der No. 586. ^ ^ . ^ , ^
rage ^ ' ° I ' TWoRonn mo 590) had served in two luckless campaigns— the American War and, two years
Lieutenant-Colonel ^f f,*" (^°;.2°ied e^^^ against Buenos A^res which ended in the surrender of 1,500
before he arrived m Ceylon, m t^i^^^^'^f '^^'f^'Jf.^Pr as an Ensign in Count Dillon's Regiment in 1771, and was with
of General Whitelock's troops. He b^ganjiis caxeer ^ an ^^^^^ ^ Camden and Guildford Court House, had
the 7l8t at the capture of Savanha, was at Br^ans^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Yorktown (1781). From
been in command of the ^"^^^ JfJ°l^^-^\^f^^lZ^or. May 1, 1778, became Adjutant of the Caledonian Volunteers.
Dillon's Regiment he JOi^.®'^ *^^ 'I,®'',-; °° sqth and 19th Regiments. With the 89th he served in the suppression of the
He was ^^^^J^^f'-^^^lZf'^ 1809 He wa; several time! womided on these campaigns,
mutiny o^reMadra^A^y ■ ^^^ ^.^^^ ^,,,Y^.r., Sitting Magistrate of Mullatittivu, 1821-32. He
was ba^l'ekTffl? OcSer, 1800, and married Henrietta Florentma Ludovici.
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J. R. Morgan (No. 593) was Hospital Assistant at Matara in 1823.
M. M. Deacon (No. 599). Captain and Mrs. Deacon and family left Colombo by the ship Eliza on May 5, 1837,
Henry Agar (No. 616). Dr. Agar died at Weligama.
Major Sargent (No. 646) joined the 60th Foot as Ensign, October 26, 1809 ; became Lieutenant, October 13,
1810; Captain, 19th Foot, May 13, 1826, ditto 18th Foot ; 58th Foot, June 8, 1826 ; 18th Foot, December 14, 1838 :
Brevet Major, May 16, 1841 ; retired January 26, 1844. He -was severely wounded in the attack on Canton in May,,
1841. With Mrs. and Miss Sargent he left Colombo for Trincomalee by the barque Barossa on Jiine 24, 1838.
John Learmonth (No. 701). A nephew of his, Mr. Thomas Learmpnth, J. P. of Melbourne, died on June 22, 1912,
at Colombo and was buried in the same grave. The family in England are now known as Livingston Learmonth.
Mrs. Brook (No. 709). There is some confusion of names here. It was her daughter, Anna Cecilia, who
married R. J. Dunlop on July 6, 1847, and died June 16, 1853. R. J. Dunlop then married another daughter, Emilia.
See No. 1924.
Mrs. Maingay (No. 710). Her husband was a planter on Wewelhena, Baduila, and on Rothschild, Pussellawa.
She was the first lady resident in the planting district of BaduUa.
Add to Galle Inscriptions {Dutch Burial Ground).
1941 .. Jan. 2 .. Willem Carel de Silva .. Heir onder legt begraven het lyk van Willem Cabel.
1820 DE Silva, in leven Baas Timmerman, Geboren
Den 8 Jan., 1775, en overladen 2 January, 1820,
's morgan om 4 uur, cud 44 Jaaren 11 Maandan
en 24 dagen. Zalig zyn de dooden dia in dan Heere
stervan.
"Baas Timmerman " = master carpenter. This is the third instance of the use of the Dutch language in an
inscription on the tombstone of a native, the others being Nos. 511 and 753. The word " baas " is also used in Nos. 270
and 284, on the tombstones of a master mason and of the head of the ships' carpenters. The use of this word was not
confined to Ceylon, as erroneously stated under the latter number. It is an ordinary Dutch word. The stone was
recently discovered in the Dutch Burial Groim^d.
Baron Mylius (No. 754). His seventh son, Greorge Frederick, was a Lieutenant in the 16th Foot, and left Ceylon
for Calcutta in January, 1829.
H. J. St. John (No. 766) was, with Louis Sansoni, steward at one of the " Monthly Balls " held at the " Colombo
Club Rooms " in 1820.
W. K. Burleigh (No. 806) was a son of Dr. Burleigh (No. 800). He was appointed "District Judge of
Waligammo," February 24, 1845.
A. E. van Coeverden (No. 814). There was an Arnold John Mom at Jaffna in 1804, who was in charge of the
loans of paddy made by Government to the people of Punaryn. Complaint was made to th& Collector in November of
that year that he was in the habit of issuing only a portion of the paddy for which he received a bond, e.g., if he got a
bond for 125 parrahs he gave only 95 and retained 30 for himself.
T. Nagel (No. 818). On the introduction of manioc {manij^ot utilissima) into the Vanni see "Tropical
Agriculturist," New Series, Vol. 3,351, p. 58. Thomas Nagel in 1803 was the owner of a brig called the Mathilda.
Alexander Murray (No. 831) had practised at Inverness. In 1846 he was Police Magistrate of Kayts.
Captain Fitzgerald (No. 935) had served in the Travancore campaign of 1809.
Major Frederick Reeve (No. 1013). There is a tablet to him in the south transept of Bristol Cathedral, erected
by his brother officers, which states that he was son of Lieutenant John Andrews Reeve, R. N., and was born at Locking,
Somerset.
Thomas Farrell (No. 1511), then " one of the jiidges of the fiscals' court," formed one of the party which accom-.
pauied Governor North in his tour round the Island in 1800. Cordiner , who also accompanied the Governor, describes
the unfortunate magistrate as " a singer of very superior excellence." At Kuchchaveli Resthouse, two stages north
of Trincomalee, on October 6, 1800, when news was received of the King's escape from assassination at Drury Lane, he
favoured the company with " God Save the King," " including the new lines added on the occasion by Mr. Sheridan.
All present joined in the chorus" (I., p. 286).
Major.Beaver (No. 1531) was a son of the Rev. James Beaver of Lewknor, Oxfordshire, born February 24^
1764. He joined the 48th Foot as Ensign, March 31, 1783; became Lieutenant, October 13, 1790, ditto 19th Foot-
January 16, 1792 ; Captain, December 2, 1794 ; Major, September 3, 1803. He served in the campaign in Holland,
1794-95, asAide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Coates. There is a tablet to his memory in Childry Church, Berkshire,
with the following inscription : —
Sacred to the memory of Herbert Beaver, Esq., Major of the XIX. Regiment of Foot, who, after having served
his country in three quarters of the Globe, died at Colombo in Ceylon, April 19, 1809, aged 45 — P. F. H., M. P. C.
C. W. Ludekens (No. 1593). Her father. Major Heupner, was son of Jan Casper Heupner, Ensign, of Mannar,
who died in 1799, by his wife, Maria Christina CorneUa van Camaryk. He was born at Colombo in November, 1743,
and married at Trincomalee, in 1770, Maria Christina Steenkelder, and (2) Wilhelmina Elizabeth Francke. By the
latter he had two daughters, Helena (or Carolina) Wilhelmina, who was baptized at Colombo in 1785, being the elder.
The other daughter, Johanna Adolphina, baptized at Colombo August 5, 1787, married on January 27, 1805, Assistant
Surgeon Philip Barlow, who was gazetted, on August 17, 1803, " to join Captain Blackhall'a Detachment at Negombo,"
and on May 10, 1804, to the " Caffre Corps." She died at Northampton, March 7, 1820, " leaving four children." In
the newspapers she is described as " wife of Captain P. Barlow," but her husband was a medical officer.
Lieutenant Sloper (No. 1598) was severely wounded by a musket-shot near Panela, February 14, 1818.
Major John William Evans (No. 1706) joined the 52nd Foot as Ensign June 16, 1780, becoming Lieutenant^
June 27,1781, Captain-Lieutenant, August 8,1792, and Captain on the-same date. He was probably with that regiment
when it landed at Negombo in 1795 (see No. 482). He transferred to the 19th Foot, August 31, 1798, and became
Brevet-Major, January 1, 1800.
Johannes Christopher van Braunhoff (No. 1782), baptized at Colombo, March 15, 1787, was son of Christopher
Sigismond von Braunhoff of Mittau (Koerland), Ensign at Colombo, by his wife Catherina Jacobsz married on July, 4,
1786. J. 0. von Braunhoff married Anna Catherina Werkmeester belonging to a family still represented at Mannar.
Lieutenant-Colonel McNab (No. 1738) spent the whole of his military career in the 19th Foot and, with
Captain Kennedy and Paymaster La Hey, took part in the campaign in Germany, 1794-95. He was also in the
Travancore campaign, 1809. His commissions were dated, Ensign, April 10, 1793; Lieutenant, August 13, 1794;
Captain, June 25, 1803; Major, November 26, 1809; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 4, 1814.
Ensign Thornton {No. 1770) was son of Mrs. Thornton of Haddington near Edinburgh, and was born in 1796,
so that the age given in the register is incorrect.
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« 1817^^" n'^lu"'"^®°'^ McNulty (No. 1827). The circumstances of his death were given in the Gazette of December
Jncmi 19 Vr "lornmg of the 20th, as the troops marched through a thick jungle, Assistant Surgeon McNulty was
WB s Kt V C. ^^ ™ advance of the party, when in the act of putting his arm into the sleeve of his great coat, he
A^A-T .^^ ^^ ^^^'^^^ ^^^^ ^®^°"^ '^is '■iglit' breast, which penetrated into the backbone, and he fell almost instantly
dead into the arms of his servant." ° i- ^
Assistant Surgeon Kennedy (No. 1828). The Gazette of December 13, 1817, says of him: "He had been well
eaucatea m Ihs profession, and his experience in a campaign of almost unprecedented severity upon the Lakes in North
iunerica must have rendered him skUful in the treatment of wounds or diseases incident to a military life. From
suon a, warlike contest of daring courage and enterprise did this poor young man escape only to perish in a jungle."
•v^aptam L.oa,ne, twenty days later, found, in a cave at the summit of a mountain five miles from MaduUa, "a pair of
pantal<K)_ns that the unfortunate Mr. Kennedy had on when he was killed " [Gazette of January 10, 1818).
AT, 1, ^'®"® Dormieux (No. 1901). The Dormieux referred to by Percival was Philip Jacob Dormieux, a grandson of
Abraham Dormieux, Dessave of Matara, 1733-35, afterwards Commandeur of Jaffna. He " took employment under
tne iJritish after the capitulation of Colombo in 1796 and held the post of Chief Dutch Translator to Government on a
salary of 80 rix dollars a month. A daughter of his married one of the Maartenszes of Trincomalee." (R. G. Anthonisz.)
The Coinmandeur'8 father, also Abraham Dormieux, was a son of Jacob Dormieux by his wife Annetye Hendriksz
van Grrolshagen, was born at Amsterdam and baptized there, March 23, 1657, and arrived in Ceylon by the Cronenburg
m 1676. He married Margarita Maartensz (van Suchtelen). The Commandeur married Pieternella Verschuur.
Captain Flanderka (No. 1942), born at " Lankow," arrived in Ceylon circa 1793, and married there Elizabeth
Vanderstraaten in that year, and (2) S. C. W. Stael. By his first wife he liad two sons, the younger, John Louis Flan-
•derka, was appointed a Writer in the Civil Service, January 1, 1846, was Police Magistrate and Assistant Government
Agent of Mullaittivu, 1847-52, and afterwards District Judge and Assistant Agent of Anuradhapura, retiring in 1867.
Mr. Dyke had great confidence in him. He married (1) a Miss Shepherd, (2) Clare Evelyn Hudson.
Schneider (No. 397). The notice in the Gazette of the death of Baroness van Conradi states that she died at
Captain Schneider's house " after a lingering illness of twelve months," and describes her as " an accomplished and
beautiful wife and daughter." Her name is given as " Jane," though it really was " Johanna," one of several instances
■of a tendency to substitute English for Dutch names. (Gazette of July 27, 1822.)
Welbore Ellis Doyle (No. 1512) died a Major-General of 39, who had seen much service. He became an Ensign
'in the 55th Foot at the early age of 12, Lieutenant at 15, and Captain-Lieutenant at 17, having already fought in the
American War. He obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy per saltern in 1778, in the corps called " the Volunteers of
Indiana," and was in command at the first battle of Camden in Carolina, U. S. A., where the Volunteers lost 50 per cent,
of their strength, and were favourably mentioned in despatches by Comwallis. At the second battle of Camden (or
Hobdirk Hill) the Volunteers lost a still greater percentage, and Doyle was twice wounded. / The Volunteers became in
1782 the 106th Foot with Doyle still as Lieutenant-Colonel, but were disbanded next year on the conclusion of peace,
■and Doyle went on half pay, eventually becoming Military Envoy at Warsaw. In 1789 he was promoted Colonel of
the 14th Foot, and with that Regiment fought in Flanders in 1793, when the 14th had the good fortime to be the only
Regiment in the British Forces provided with great coats, which were bought by private subscription. He stormed
the redoubt at Valenciennes with 100 men, with the result that the place surrendered next day. He was present at the
battle of Turcoing, became Brigadier-General in 1794, and returned to England. He was next Adjutant-General to
Lord Moira, who was in command of a Force of 10,000 men, which landed at Ostend on June 30, 1794, and marched
through the enemy'scountty to the assistance of the Duke of York, whom it joined on July 8, a,fter severe fighting on
the two days previous. He became Major-General and Governor of Southampton, February 26, 1795, and took part
in the expedition to Quiberon. He was presented with a gold and diamond and enamel-hilted sword by his officers,
became Colonel of the 53rd Foot, and in November, 1796, was appointed Commander-in-Chief and Acting Governor of
Ceylon. He married, in 1781 or 1782, Frances Rainsford of Saleen, Kildare, who in 1801 married as her second husband
PrinceJoseph ofMonaco. His eldest son, who became Major-GeneralSirFrancisHastingsDoyle, Baronet, accompanied
him to Ceylon, having been fetched out of bed when recovering from an attack of measles, for that purpose. He had a
unique military history. He had been on the half-pay list of the 105th Foot from a very early age and was gazetted
Ensign when 11 years old, and when he had already seen active service with his father in Flanders. Next year, as a
Lieutenant in the 108th Foot, he fought in the battles of July 6, 7, and 12, and was wounded in the retreat on Antwerp
on the 16th all at the age of 11. He was A. D. C. to his father at Southampton at theage of 12. On hisarrival in
■Ceylon he was attached to a Highland Regiment, probably the 72nd or 73rd, and went off to fight in India. He saw
much active service in Europe afterwards with both Wellington and Nelson. The latter gave him a conunand in his
Marines and invited him at the age of 18 to the CouncU of War before the battle of Copenhagen. He ended his active
career at one and twenty, but survived until 1839, when he died, worn out by his early privations, and prematurely old
a,t56. He was father of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, the poet. ,^ , ^ , ,, ,„ „^ , ■, „ ,^„„
The death of General Welbore Doyle seems to have been postdated at the War Office to January ?, 1798.
Lieutenant Auber (No 1937). In a letter dated ' Kandi, Dec. 24, 1818," to Major, afterwards Major-General,
Charles Joseph Doyle second son of Major-General Welbore Ellis Doyle, Lieutenant Auber gives a description of the hill
country of Ceylon and of the Uva Campaign of 1817-18 : " I have travelled through the whole of the mterior and have
visited all the passes and defiles, and I can, in some measure, give you a description of this extraordmary country and the
cause of the no less extraordinary system of warfare that has been carried on m it. The greater part of the mterior is
composed of chains of mountains and hills covered with the thickest jungle and wood I ever beheld, the valleys between
so na^ow that musketry from either side can take effect Had the present force been m the country it is probable
thaTnTrlbeUion would have broken out, and, even if it had, it might have been nipped m the bud. But^unfortunately
ou^ troops were so barely sufficient for the defence of the various military posts , that they were obliged to shut themselves
l^ T>,?« hpimr the case the enemy gained such confidence that convoys were attacked, When enabled by morease
up This bemg *be case tne enemy g , ^^^3,^;^,^ ^as put to the rising. The natives, with the exception of those
of force to ^^'^'J^l^f^''^^''^^,Zrflpt^ with a wild racfcalled Veddas ; they are much like Bheels,
on the «o«?*.' ^5.^_^^3^'irLe?a^^^ of livelihood save the bow, nor have they any intercourse with other
nXes°o^thfiTar T^^^^^^^ - ^^^ ^'''^^' ^"1"^°? °' *^^7 ^""^ '°"T^" "'4??'''^" ' '''' ''°
natives 01 tne xsiauu. -■. ^ j ^^ thermometer was as low as 46°.
mconvenience^rorn expos^^^^^^^^^ I am the o^ one that has been ordered into the interior My
1 he ^rigaaier b t j^ unknown parts , and I have commenced trigone metrically on a large scale ; if I
ISS to co^Se I shalwLvour"?o giVe /ou an account of the minerals, precious stones, and valuable timber.
I propose journeying to t?^^*"? "^^^fX^iSSotyTcompleted. Major Doyle refers to him afterwards as " rather
, J'r^VZil^tS.n'^TA^^^^^^ of ConLt," by Colonel Arthur Doyle.)
-a celebrated Indian ^is*°"«^^ ., ,^„ 388) The 88th Regiment was under orders to reheve the Bombay Regiment at
Captain Dugald Campbell (No 288)^ ihe »»tg ^.^^ ^^^.^^ ^oth or 25th Dec, and be
SSri'rCe^ra^Wet^^^^^^^ (De'spatch fromVt William to Governor North , dated
Ifovember 16, l^OO^ Blakenev (No. 1829) was fourth and youngest son of Charles Blakeney of Feigh and
<:urrenIarmrCou^tf S^w^:^^^^^^^^^ Roscommon. He joined the 84th Foot as Ensign. July 9. 1795,
«nd became Lieutenant, 19th Foot, August 10, 1799.
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John WalbeofI (No. 110). The family, probably now extinct except in Ceylon, belonged not to Pembrokeshire,
but to Breconshire, Bernard de Newmarch came over with the Conqueror and estabhshed himself at Talgarth and later
at Brecon. He parcelled out the land of Breconshire among his followers, including Sir John Walbeoft, to whom were
assigned the Manors of Llanhamlach and Llanvihangel-Tal-y-llyn. ' ' The last of the Walbeoffs was living in this county
about five and twenty years ago, though the family had sadly fallen from its high estate. In 1884 a woman named
Mrs. Walby applied for relief to the Crickhowell Board of Guardians, and she explained that her name was really
Walbeoff, but her husband had altered it to Walby, because people laughed at it as outlandish, little knowing how
distinguished a name it was. A Walbeoff was schoolfellow of the late Capt. Bailey, R.N., but sank into want."
(" Legends and Stories of Breconshire," by the Hon. Mabel Bailey, 1909.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Bonnevaux (No. 1489), then a captain, was commandant of Trincomalee on its capture by
the British in 1782, and supplied Hugh Boyd with stores and transport, including "wines and good spirits," for his
embassy to Kandy. The garrison was composed of 150 Europeans and 300 Sepoys.
Lieutenant Anslemn (No. 1509) was to have married in 1801 the 7th daughter of Commandeur Fretz, Adriana
Henrietta, then 17 years of age. The Commandeur had petitioned the Governor on October 4, 1801, for a license with
permission to have the three banns published on one day, also that directions might be given to the Commandant of
Galle, Lieutenant-Colonel Logan, to see that the marriage took place without interference by ButtenmuUer , although "he
has not the least legal right thereto." The Governor complied with these requests, but on October 8 Lieutenant-Colonel
Logan forwarded a declaration made by the lady, and reported that the marriage had been broken off " through the
machinations of Lieutenant Buttenmuller." She married on March 28, 1806, Dirk Schaap of Graveland. (SeeNos. 573,
581, 1849.)
J. P. Jumeaux (No. 28). A notice dated May 31, 1817, appeared in the Gazette, from whichit seems that he was
in business for over 20 years in Colombo before he became Fiscal. It runs : "Mr. J. Jumeaux begs to inform the public at
large that by the advice of his friends at Bombay he is come here to establish himself as an Agent, and as such he has
received for sale on commission, by the schooner Wilhaina(Wil'helmina?),& few pipes of London Market Madeira Wine,
&c., &o.. King Street, No. 9."
B. N. Degen (No. 574). His widow, Elizabeth Magdalena, died April 9, 1821, at Galle.
1942.— October 31, 1809— Barend Dedryk Potgen.
" At Colombo Barend Dedryk Potgen, late
Factor in the Dutch East India Company."
His widow, Henrietta Huyberta Raket, died at Colombo, August 26, 1820, aged 86.
1943. — August 10, 1812 — Bernhard Abraham Giffening.
" At Colombo the Rev. Bernhard Abraham Giffening, Head Clergyman of the Reformed Church in the
District of Colombo, after a long and severe illness, which he bore with exemplary fortitude and resignation, at the age
of 50 years, 30 of which had been actually spent in the Church. His remains were buried on Tuesday evening in the
Wolfendal Church, where they have been followed by the Hon'ble and Reverend T. J. Twisleton, the Members of the
Consistory, and almost the whole of his Dutch and Native Flocks. His unfortunate Children whose love towards him
was sincere and deserved, the large Circle of his Friends, and all the Members of the Dutch Reformed Church of Colombo
deeply lament his untimely death, and will long regret that worthy and indefatigable Pastor."
His second wife died at Colombo, March 9, 1812. His daughter, Cornelia Wilhelmina, married at Colombo, ten
dayslater, viz., on March 22, 1812, Jacobus Cornelis Van den Driesen, A^istant Dutch Recordkeeper. (See No. 1911.)
1944.— August 15, 1812— A. van Heck.
At Galle A. van Heck, formerly Head Surgeon of the Hospitals at Galle in the Dutch East India Company's
Service, aged 72 years.
1945. — September 5, 1817 — Jurgen Arnoldus Hlcken.
" At Poonereen J. A. Hicken, Sitting Magistrate of Poonereen
and Elephant Pass."
In May, 1803, he was " Mint Master " at Jaffna, and applied to the Collector for metal to carry on the work of
the Mint. " All the brass ordnance ordered to be coined" was delivered to him. (Jaffna Diary.) His son, James
Arnold Hicken, succeeded him as Magistrate. On February 19, 1818, probate was issued to this son and to Daniel
Bartholomeusz of Jaffna. The son married, on September 17, 1818, at Jaffna, Elizabeth Frederica, only daughter of
Dr. William Modder.
Stephen Baron van Lynden (No. 1633) and Gerard Joan Fybrands "had with great willingness entered into
H. M.'s Service and sworn the oath of allegiance," and in 1801 were members of the Civil Raad of Colombo. They had
heard rrmiours that they were to be discontinued, and in great perturbation addressed, on October 12, a petition to
Governor North, deprecating this possibility, and explaining that, with their pay, although theyhad " lived retired and
avoided all expenses," they had found " the greatest difficulty to make good our monthly disbursements for we always
came too short," that if they were discontinued they would not only be exposed to ridicule, as their taking the oath of
allegiance had " created us many enemies amongst the principal Dutch inhabitants of this place, but we did little care
for it, as we depended on Your Excellency's protection." Baron van Ljmden was gazetted Sitting Magistrate of
Mullaittivu, May 8, 1819.
Trincomalee.
1946.— May 2, 1802— Henry Nayler.
On May 2, 1802, Lieutenant Henry Nayler of
H. M. S. Le Sensible died at Trincomalee.
Hia ship was lost on the night of March 3 on a shoal near Kokkilai , 1 5 miles South of Mullaittivu. Captain Robert
Sausse and all the officers and crew were saved, and were taken to Trincomalee by H. M. S. Sea Horse, arriving there on
March 15. Le Sensible had, curiously enough, been captured by the Sea Horse from the French in 1798 when returning
from Malta to France. The wreck, Is^ing on the beach at Kokkilai, was sold to Mr. Granby Bagshaw, Master Attendant
of Trincomalee, on June 28. {Gazette of March 15, 1802, the first published, et seq.)
The following officers of the De Meuron Regiment died in Ceylon, in addition to those already given ;
Samxtel Jesqutbr . . Galle
J. B, Spieleb
Jacques Dtjbas
Fbancis Montatjdon
J. DONZEL
Merlin
Jean Gottlieb Stein
Ttjxleb
Balthasab Steussy
Colombo
do.
do.
Trincomalee
do.
do.
do.
do.
March
14,
1789
November
1,
1791
March
23,
1794
February
26,
1797
April
10,
1790
May
10,
1792
November
22,
1793
June
20,
1794
January
22,
1797
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INDEX.
Name.
Aarnoutsz, Abraham
Aarnoutsen, Julius Abraham
Abell, C!harles
Acason, Edward Covien
Adair, Maria Lydia
Adams, Donald Ross
Adley, W. . .
Adley, W. Mrs.
Adrians, Michiel
Aems, Lucas
Affleck, Thomas
Affleck, William
Agar, Charles Shelton
Agar, Fanny Arabella
Agar, John Shelton
Agar, Henry
Agnew, Eliza
Agota, Maria Elizabeth
Agreen, Daniel
Albertus, Thomas
Albinus, Johanna Maria
Albrecht, Henry James
Aldons, George
Alebos, Adriana, see Blom
Allan, Margaret
Allcock, J.
Allen, James
Allen, James
Allen, Willie
Alstorpf, Catharina Eliza-
beth
Altendorf , Maria Dorothy
AlVSares, Antonio
Amabert, Andreas
Anderson, Adriana Gertruida
Anderson, Alexander Thomas
Anderson, Amelia
Anderson, Swem
Anderson, T. 0.
Andrae, Johan Fredrik
Andrews, James
Angelbeek, Jakomina van
Angus, Mrs.
Anley, Robert Nethercote
Anthonisz, Peter Daniel .
Antill, Anthoinetta Theo
dora
Antill, John Thomas
Apthorp, George Henry .
Apthorp, Mary R.
Archbald, Josiah Philip .
Archer, Alexander Wilson .
Argles, Edward
Armitage, Emma M.
Armitage, John Enoch
Armour, Andrew
Armour , WilhelminaCarolina
Arnott, Robert
Ashe, Robert Hoadly
Ashmore, Alexander Murray
Assat, Frederic
Atherton, Eleanor Todd
Atherton, John
Atherton, Robert
Atherton, Robert
Audain, Margaret
Augustin, Barta
Aijlt, William
AuSten, Charles John
Austin, Eliza
Austin, Nathaniel
Austin, WiUiam
Baalde, Joanna Maria, see Mode.
Bagenall, Florentina
Bagenall, George
Bagley, Arthur
3 o .^
Page
219
220
33
69
273
267
126
127
167
176
64^
64-
351-
304-
330-
188-
241
158
219
76
78
306^
178^
302
126
190
135
355'
74
212
226
149
229
231
319
218
351
164,
294
117
147
334r
174, 191
269
269
241
241
316
51
271
350
347
97
96
319
448
27
100
267
245
272
257
280
217
128, 251
271
170
171
195
48
173
195
INSCRIPTIONS.
Name.
Bailey, Benjamin
Bailey, Daniel Stanley
Bailey, Hamilton
Bailey, Joseph
Bailey, Lucy Ann
Bailey, Mrs. J.
Bain, Donald
Bain, John Rose
Bain, Philadelphus
Baker, Arthur Heberden
Baker, Eliza Heberden
Baker, John
Baker, John Garland
Balkhuysen, Boyle
Balkhuysen, Robert
Banner, Harmood
Bannerman, John
Barber, Charlotta Frederioa
Barbut, Burton Gage
Barendsz, Ana Benjamina.
Barker, Thomas Munson .
Barnes, Edward
Barret, John
Bartholomeusz, Ellen
Bartholomeusz, Oliver
Bartrum, Robert
Basset, James
Bauer t, Jan, daughter of .
Bax, Johanna Maria, see
Herental, van.
Bayley, Charles H.
Bayljj, Francis
Bayly, Lydia
Bayly, Robert Lionel
Bayly, Thomas
Bayly, Walter
Baynes, Arthur Stuart
Beaufort, Stephen
Beaumont, Anna Henrietta
van, see Loten.
Beaumont, Frangois van . .
Beaumont, Mary
Beck, Grace
Beckering, Barta, see Augus-
tin.
Beckwith, Henry Bruce
Behring, George Balfe
Bell, Claude Cotes 330,
Bell, David
Bell, Francis
Bell, Francis Graham
Bell, John Alexander
Bell, Maria Anne
Bell, William
Benham, Edwin Arthur . .
Bennison, William
Bent, Agnes Mary
Bergh, Francis van den
Berghuys, Adriana
Berry, John
Bettaohini, Orazio
Bews, Isabella
Bill, Alice
Birch, Reginald
Birch, Sophie Ernie
Bisset, George McRitchie . .
Bisset, Margaret JoUy
Black, Isabel Swinburn
Black, John
Blaeklaw, James
Blacklaw, Francis
Blackmore, Arthur
Blackmore, E. B.
Blair, David
Blankenberg, John C.
Blechinberg, G. C.
Blom, Adriana-
19
349
14
126, 146
62
127
316
138
61
214
369
284
365
174
174
319
33
95
83, 448
167
198
144
58
356
356
286
297
206
293
189
359
272
38
211
71
42
107
37
165
47
331
339, 352
307
194
147
138
307
91
26
294
352
160
161
341
136, 448
264
302
274
194
191
315
199
196
314
314
195
126, 236
82
290
249
104
Name. Page
Blom, Floris . . 217
Blom, Susanna . . 217
'Siyth., Ann . . 198
Blyth, Ernest . . 198
Blyth, Mary Catherine . . 198
Boake, Rhoda . . 331
Bock, Maria Sophia de . . 221
Boddens, Joanna, see Roos.
Boevey, Agnes Crawley . . 367
Boevey, Ethel Lindsay Craw-
ley . . .. 367
Bolhard, A. J. . . 90
Bolner, Maria Magdalena . . 157, 448
Bolscho, Pieter Christiaansz
Bond, Anne
Bond, Sarah
Bonjean, Christopher Ernest
Boodle, Edward Chilner
Boogaard, Johanna, see Palm.
Borman, Ottilia, see Brommer.
Borron, Archibald, G. K. . .
Bosch, Catherina, see Camp.
Bosemis, Ina
Boultbee, John Alfred
Bout, Susanna
Bovill, Agnes Kennedy
Bowman, Lydia Septima . .
Bowman, Haverstock Hod-
sell
Boyd, George Hay
Boyd, William
Boyle, Richard Charles
Brabazon, Thomas Jefferson
Bradley, John
Bradshaw, Margaret
Braham, John Ward " . .
Brahan, Henry
Brahan, Henry W.
Bravi, Guiseppe Maria
Bray, Edmund William
Braybrooke, William Leman
Brengman, Elbregt
Brent, R. . .
Bridge, Robert
Bridgnell, Eliza
Bridgnell, Julia
Brigstock, William
Brine, Margaret
Brommer, Dirok Antony
Brook, Ann Cecilia
Brook, Arriana Maria
Brook, Richard
Brook, William
Brooks, Godfrey
Brouwer, Livinia
Brouwers, Rachel, see Brunek.
Brown, Alexander
Brown, Edward Grey
Brown, Emma
Brown, Felix James Taylor .
Brown, James
Brown, John
Browne, Godfrey Dominick
Lyle
Browne, Richard Joseph . .
Browning, T.
Browning, Mrs. T.
Brownrigg, John, Studholme
Bruckshaw, H.
Brughen, Albert Antoni C.
van der
Brunek, Catharinna
Brunek, Rachel
Brymner, Charles
Buchan, Thomas M.
Buchanan, Minnie Charlotte
Sheffield
205
45
4S
136
197
353
103
60
203
373
203
203
168
265
369
349
230
300
197
35
34
135
•355
326
218
126
194
199
199
66
368
78
106, 448
225
268
268
378
• 76
331
349
278
349
349
380
245
196
126
127
138
199
111
73
75
190
264
374
82-09
( 454 )
Name. Page
Buokton , Edward . . 224
Budd, Alice Mary Gordon. . 24
Budden, Joseph . . 47
Bull, Edward Norman . . 47
Bull, Richard Newell . . 270
BuUock, Edward . . 82
Bumsted, Junias . . 92
Burdett, Charles Wjmdham 51
Buren, Lambert van . . 247
Burleigh, George . . 223
Burleigh, John G. . . 225
Burleigh, Rebecca . . 226
Burleigh, William Kingsley. 225, 449
Burmester, Caroline Mary. . 276
Burnet, John . . 375
Burnett, Charles . . 314
Burns, A. . . 303
Burslem, John Thomas . . 41
Burton, Anna . . 69
Burton, Arthur Westbrooke 195
Butcher, Samuel James . . 285
Butler, Ann . . 69
Butler, Eliza Mary . . 60
Butler, James Armar . . 326
Bury, Charles G«orge . . 196
Bury, Sarah . . 311
Byles, James . . 230
Byrde, Emma . . 333
Byrde, Henry . . 333
Byrne, Anne . . 291
Cadell, Alexander . . 9, 32
Cadensky, Barbara Margarita,
see Duym, van der.
Caley, Fanny . . 136
Cameron, Charles Hay . . 353
Cameron, Julia Margaret . . 353
Cameron, Katharine . . 365
Cameron, William . . 343
Camp, Catherina .. 116
Camp, Christianua . . 85
Camp, Susanna Margareta . . 92
Campbell, Anna Allan . . 54
Campbell, Dugald . . 80, 451
Campbell, Frederick W. Bur-
leigh . . . . 335
Campbell, John . . 29
Campion, C. . . 339
Carey, Ann . . 257
Carey, John . . 257
Carey, Lain-ence St. George . 328
Cargill, Grey Scott . . 312
Carry, Emily Amelia . . 154
Carry, William . . 154
Carter, Mrs. J. . . 127
Carver, Mary . . 240
Casement, Hugh . . 2
Cassidy, John . . 178
Castilla, Henry . . 195
Caulfield, Eliza . . 61
Caulfield, James . . 20
Caulfield, William Gorges C. 50
Cave, Charles Donovan . . 333
Cawthorne, Maria . . 64
Cawthorne, William . . 64
Ceely, Arthur James . . 195
Chambers, Courtenay . . 189
Cheape, Margaret . . 309
Chermont, Anne Marie
TTranie . . . . 330
Chevret, Jean . . 175
Cheyne, Alexander . . 330, 339
Chisholm, Eleanor . . 364
Chisholm, John . . 59
Chisholm, John . . 267
Christoffelsz, Catherine . . 170
Clark, Emily Stuart . . 371
Clark, Mary Anne . . 374
Clark, William H. . . 275
Clarke, Francis Conningsby
Hannam . . 26
Clarke, Helen Rose . . 376
Cleather, Thomas George . . 90
Cleather, William Henry . . 90, 448
Cleaver, Ferrar Reginald M. 294
Name. Page
Clement, John Albeck . . 50
Clements, Joseph . . 162
Clerk, Malcolm H. . . 351
Clop, Joan Pieter . . 78
Clough, Margaret . . 129
Coane, William Conyngham 29
Cochrane, Jane . . 266
Cochrane, George . . 272
Cochrane, Theodora . . 229
Cock, Gerard Reynier de . . 114
Cockburn, Alexander . . 261
Cockburn, Olyrapia . . 261
Cockburn, William . . 261
Coeverden, Anna Elizabeth
van . . . . 227, 449
Cohen, Annie Holland . . 65
Cohen, William . . 65
Coke, Thomas . . 127
Coke, William . . 7
Coles, Samuel . . 126
Coles, Mrs. S. . . 127
CoUett, Oliver . . 329
Collins, James . . 33
Collins, H. , . 126
Collins, R. . . 127
Conolly, Lily . . 148
Conradi, Carl Christiaan . . 176
Conrady, Christiana . . 41
Conrady, Charles Fredrick
van . . . . 118
Conrady, Eva . . 41
Conrady, Johanna Gertruyda
van . . . . 118, 450
Conrady, Louisa Maria van . 117
Const, Maria Elizabeth " . . 85
Conway, Margaret . . 88
Cooke, Ada Louisa . . 352
Cooke, Anthony Henry . . 265
Coq, Burchart . . 156
Corbet. Francis Chudleigh. . 197
Corfe, Herbert Anderson . . • 345
Cornell, John Henry . . 308
Corrie, Daniel . . 15
Costa, Don Theodora de . . 159
Cotton, John Hynde . . 48
Coulter, William A. . . 201
Court, Joan de la . . 74
Coutinho, Manoel de Silveira 226
Coventry, Frank . . 334
Covey, Prank . . 356
Cox, William Macarmick . . 297
Coxon, Ralph / . . 179
Craft, B. J. * . . 228
Craig, Robert L. . . 189
Cralen, Anna van, see Heuvel van.
Craven, Thomas . . 66
Crawford, Marcus Synnot . . 140
Cripps, Blanche Predrika . . 169
Cronje, Gidion G. . . 295
Crowe, George . . 317
Crowe, Robert . . 50
Cruiokshank, James B. . . 351
Crutwell, James Nicholas . . 31
Crutwell, James William
Squire . . . . 31
Crytsman, Johannes Perdi-
nandus . . . . 206
Crytsman, Josina Jacobina 110
Crytsman, Rachel . . 77
Cumley, John Stewart . . 198
Camming, John Randolph
Gordon . . . . 256
Gumming, William Gardiner 54
Cummings, A. E. F. . . 270
Curgenven, Charles Richard 93
Curgenven, Charlotte Euge-
nie . . . . 93
Curgenven, Samuel Stuart . . 93
Curtis, William Hodsell . . 203
Dadelszen, Henry Hermann
von . . . . 327
Dalmas, Margaret Christina
de St. . . . . 378
Daly, William . . 371
Name.
Page
Dalziel, James
57
Dalziel, John L:win
186
Dalziel, Mary
57
Damman, WiUiolmina Cathe-
rina
96
Daniel, Ebenezer
132
Daniell, Alice Emma
347
Daniell, Georgiana Margaret
347
Daniell, Lindsay Murray . .
347
Davidson, Jane
254
Davies, Jacob
132
Dawson Thomas
19
Dawson, William Francis . .
339
Day, William
341
Deacon, Anne
262
Deacon, Edward Durand . .
182
Deacon, Eliza
262
Deacon, Henry Augustus
Durand
182
Deacon, Margaret Mary
Durand . . 184
, 448
Deane, Anthony
306
Degen, Barend Nicholas . . 176
, 452
Delatre, see Latre de.
Delmege, Agnes Jessie
197
Delnxage, Robert John
197
Denham, Elizabeth Mary . .
190
Denham, Thomas Homfray
189
Denham, W. H.
190
D' Estandeau, seeEstandeau D'.
D'Esterre, see Esterre, D'.
Dick, Adeline
120
Dick, Francis
96
Dick, Frederick
120
Dickson, John Frederick . .
329
Dickson, John Gibson
269
Dickson, William
52
Dickson, W. H. A.
199
Dielen, Catharina Africana
von
106
Dier, Coenraad
77
Dier, Isabella
75
Dobbs, Mary
372
Domburgh, Diederick Chris-
tiaan van
111
Dondien, Jan
160
Donner, Charles Sedgfield . .
276
Dormieux, Anna Henrietta,
see Vanderspar.
Douce, Francis Hubble
308
Doude, Richardiaa Magdalena
159
Douglas, Jessy
302
Douglas, John
328
Dowbiggin, R. T.
127
Dowding, James
21
Downall, Richard Beau-
champ . .
362
Downe, Edwin Henry . . 70, 22
D'Oyly, John . . 11
. 298
Drew, Camillo di Montebello ■
317
Drew, G. . .
303
Drew, Tempe Stanley
190
Drumm.ond, Henry Ludovio
348
Drummond, Russell
319
Dudley, Henry
67
Duff, Walter Ross
315
Duncan, Abraham Newton
306
Duncan, Alexander
48
Dunlop, Arriane Cecilia
225
Dunlop, Robert John
236
Dunlop, Robert Vetch
126
Dunn, David
27
Donsmure, Anita Edith . .
374
Dunsmure, Margaret Dyoe
374
Durand, Carey
307
Duym, Barbara Margarita
van der
106
Dyer, Thomas Dyer Thistle-
ton
71
Dyke, Percival Acland . . 21
233
Eck, Lubert Jan van
113
Edge, James Greer
281
Edmonds, Christopher
236
Edwards, Rose Araminta . .
41
Name.
Ehriiardt, Anthonetta Maria
Theodora
Eliott, W. . .
EUeray, Wiiliam
Elliott, Christopher
Elliott, Jessie
Ellis, John
Ellis, Hannah
llis, John
EUis, WUUam ^
Elphinstone, Graeme DalrjniQ-
ple-Horn
Elsenhanz, Carl Johan
Esterre, Henry William D' . .
Evans, Mark
Ewart, John
Ewing, David
Ewranke, George Richard . .
Fairgrieve, George Gordcn . .
Falk, Frans Willem
Palk, Iman Willem
Famin, Paul Leon
Fane, Charles H. Hay
Farquharson, Frances Geor-
giana
Farr, EHzabeth Elinor Bessie
Farrance, Robert
Faucheur, Joseph Louis le . .
Faught, Godfrey Steers
Faught, G. S.
Faught, Marcus Steers
Faught, Mrs. G. S.
Faught, Susan Margaret . .
Feneran, Emily
Feneran, Mary Anne
Fenwick, Henry King
Ferguson, Alastair Mackenzie
Ferguson, Anne Mackerras . .
Ferguson, WiUiam
Fermier, Georgiana Harriet
Fetherstonehaugh, Evelyn
Gertrude
Fielding, James Cameron
Filder, WiUiam Alexander
Finch, Edward
Finchara, Philip
Findlay, David
Firebrate, Henry Frith
Fisher, Arthur
Fisher, Catherine Emily
Fisher, Francis Conrad
Fisher, Frederick William
Fisher, Kat^
Fisher, Stephen
Fisher, Thomas
Fisher, William
Fisher, Wilmot
Fitzgerald, James
Fleming, George
Fleming, G. T.
Fletcher, Thomas
Fockes, Anike
Fockes, Johanna Isabella,
see Nieper.
Ford, Waiiam Henry
Fortescue, Matthew Rey-
tnundo . .
Fosseth, Loringe
Foulkes, Mary Anne
Fowler, Edward Seymour ...
Fowler, Sarah
Fraser, Charles Campbell . .
Fraser, Emily Jane
Fraser, Harriet
Fraser, Hugh
Fraser, John
Fraser,_ John
Fraser," John
Fraser, J- ■ • ■ •
Fraser, Leopold Saxe Co-
bourg . .
Fraser, Martin
Fraser, Robert
Fraser, Robert Brcwnrigg. .
262,
Page
210
303
311
133
133
96
367
96
367
3
210
308
59
79
53
265
376
205
115
293
179
379
353
147
201
203
126
203
127
203
304
304
70
139
139
138
92
354
125
360
41
312
312
303
257
361
370
361
361
266
268
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361
449
50
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Name. Page
Fraser, WiUiam . . 27
Fraser, Wilham . . 379
Freckleton, George Henry. . 307
Fretz, Andreas WiUielmus. . 93
Fretz, Corneha Reyniera .. 116
Fretz, Dieterick Cornells . . 93
Fretz, Johanna Elizabeth . . 178
Freywer, John Gerrit . . 249
Frith, Maria Carolina . . 184
Frith, Maria Elizabeth . . 184
Fuller, Rose Maxwell . . 331
Fulton, Rennie Kingdon . . 367
Fudge, Jonathan . . 255
Fyers, W. A. B. 276
Gallwey, Harry Payne . . 363
Gallwey, John Macdougal) . . 362
Gardner, George . , 340, 361
Gardner, Robert . . 262
Garstin, Emily . . 37
Garstin, Mary Ann . . 169
Garstin, Norman . . 42
Garvook, Margaret . . 309
Gaskell, Harriet Margaret. . 325
Gaskell, William Rothwell . . 325
Geddes, Cecil Sophia Mar-
garet . . . . 236
Geddes, William . . H
Geldesma, GelUus . . 160
Gerard, Philip A. . . 365
Gerard, Robert Duncan . . 65
Gerretson, Maria, see Wandel de.
Gerritsz, Ana Benjamina, see
Barendsz.
Gervan, John Henry, Ed-
mund . . . . 276, 278
Gevertz, Anna, seeHoflant.
Gibson, James . . 319
Gibson, James Alexander . . 261
GiVison, Lewis . . 52
Gibson, Lewis . . 86
Gibsot, Margaret . . 190
Gibson, Thomas .. 180.
Gibson, "William . . 92
Gibson, WUliam Carmiohael 184
Giesler, Gerald Benjamin . . 185
Gilbert, GertruidePetronella,
see Schroter.
Gilchrist, Robert Muir . . 274
Glanville, Mrs. F. . . 127
Glen, John . . 331
Glenny, Thomas Jefferson. . 285
Glover, Frederick Augustus
Barnard . . 197
Godinho, Joana . . 143
Goens, Esther van . . 104
Goens, Jacomina van . . 104
Gogerly, Anna Susanna . . 95
Gogerly, Daniel . . 131
Goldie, W. H. . . 294
Goldschmidt, Philip Paul . . 197
Gomes, Paulo . . 144
Gordon, A. D, . . 126
Gordon, Cecilia Maude . . 368
Gordon, Francis Henry
Hamilton . . 366
Gordon, James . . 288
Gordon, Robert A. . . 265
Gordon, Roger . . 15
Gorman, Frank R. . . 71
Gorman, Frederick . . 302
Gosset, Emily Lucy . . 348
Gould, Roger . . 341
Goutier, Job . . 74
Goutier, Livinia, see Valk.
Goutier, Quiryn . . 76, 448
Gower, Richard P. . . 193
Graaff, Agnita Clara van de 114
Graaff, Christina Elizabeth
van de . . • ■ 117
Graham, Archibald Cunning-
ham .. .. 193
Graham, Frances Ann . . 198
Graham , Henry Alexander . . 365
Grant, George ■. . 355
Name. Page
Grant, Isabella . . 48
Grant, Jane . . 315
Grant, Janie . . 191
Grant, John . . . 276
Grant, Mary Ann . . 348
Graves , Campbell Maekinnon 316
Graves, John Baker . . 316
Gray, French . . 209
Gray, French . . 256
Gray, Herbert Edward
• Compton 319
Gray, Susan Jane . . 255
Green, Dorothea Janetta . . 153
Green, WUliam . . 348
Greenhalgh, Peter . . 194
Greenwood, Charles . . 126, 203
Greenwood, Mrs. C. . . 127
Gregg, Thomas James . . 352
Gregg, Thomas Nattle . . 351
Greig, Louisa . . 352
Gregory, Elizabeth . . 319
Gregory, William Henry . . 146
Grey, Humphrey . . 332
Griffin, Thomas . . 259
Griffith, Edward Moule . . 126, 236
Grimes, F. . . 61
Grimston, Annie Kate . . 372
Grinlinton, Emily . . 363
Grobler, P. A. H. . . 295
Gubbins, Philip Charles . . 295
Gunn, Ann . . 267
Gunn, Catherine . . 267
Gunn, George . . 88
Gunn, Mary . . 302
Gimn, R.M. . . 300
Gunn, William . . 267
Guy, WiUiam . . 125
Guyon, John Henry . . 344
Hackett, William . . 372
Haddock, Robert . . 39
Hageman, Anthonie . . 269
Hagt, Susanna M. von, see
Camp.
Hall, Andrew HaUiday . . 269
Hall, EHza Harriet . . 71
Hall, Francis Edward . . 137
Hall, Thomas Arthur . . 372
Hall, William . . 195
Hals, Dominica . . 78
Hals, Jacob . . 109
Hamilton, John Herbert
Feamly . . 286
Hamilton, Kenneth . . 330, 339
Hampton, John Lewis . . 373
Hanecop, Comehs . . 77, 448
Hannecop, Benjamina . . 282
Hannay, WiUiam . . 263
Hansz, Erasmus . . 249
Harding, James Townsend 177
Hardinge, Frances EKza-
beth . . 65
Hardy, Robert Spence . . 132
Hare, Humphry John . . 370, 332
Harper, Mary Elizabeth . . 332
Harris, Arthur WiUiam . . 350
Harrison, Edward Devereux 30
Hart, Abraham van der . . 161
Hartswick, Joris . . 216
Hartsz, Johanna Jacoba . . 269
Harvard, John Twisleton . . 166
Haslam, Elizabeth . . 31
Haslam, Elizabeth . . 51
Haslam, John F. .. 60, 126
Haslam, Mrs. J. F. . . 127
Hastings, Burotas Parmelee 242
Haswall, Barrington . . 29
Haultain, Jane . . 67
Hawke, Frederick Thomas. . 333
Hay, Charles . . 260
Hay, Sarah EUen . . 334
Hayward, James . . 196
Heale, Harriet EUzabeth . . 62
Heathcote, Cecil Hamilton . . 377
Heber, Reginald . . 13
( 456 )
Wedder
Maria
Name.
Hedertrouw, Francina Adol
phina, see Pereiia.
Hedley, Robert Shafto
Heelis, Arthur
Heelis, Edward
Heelis, Richard
Heere, Gerrit de
Hellefeld, Otto
Helsham, Matilda
bum
Helsham, WiUiam
Hemliag, Laurentius
Henderson, Andrew
Henderson, John
Henderson, William
Henning, Andreas S.
Henry, Louis Magnus
Herental, Johanna
' van
Hertinberg, Johannes
Hetherington, Thomas
Heuvel, Aima van
Heuvel, Nicolaas Brasser van
Hey, James la
Heyliger, Caesar Augustus
Sillery . .
Heyliger, John
Heynen, Margarita
Heyward, Ann
Higgens, AmeUa
Higgens, Edward Albert
Higgens, E. T.
Higgs, Mary Ann
Hill, Samuel
HiUs, George
Hi nckel, Barbara Theodora,
see Jong, de,
Hitchcock, Mary Randall
Hoatson, John
Hobday, Sydney Herbert
Hodges, Edward Septimus
Hoflant, Anna
Hogarth, John
Hogerlinde, Rachel, i
Crytsman.
Hogg, George John
Hogg, Thomas
Hogg, WiUiam
Holding, T.
Holgate, EHza Francina
Holgate, Robert Baird
Holland, John Frederick
Holroyd, C. S.
Holt, Martha
Holten, Maria van
Home, Patrick C
Hone, Brindley '
Hook, Margaret Susan
Hool, Ina van der, see
Bosemis.
Hope, Margaret Letitia
Hopkins, Fannie Catherine
Hopper, A. S.
Horst, Jacobus van der
Hoste, James Derick
Howden, Jaraes Elphinstone
Maitland
Howland, Susan Reed
Howland, William Ware
Hubbard, Hugh Leonard
Hugel, Theobald von
Hughes, Enos
Huin, August Bergen
Huismans, Marten
Hume, James
Hume, Sarah Rebecca Lad
brook . .
Hunt, Elizabeth
Hunt,. Isabella
Hunter, George Edward
Hutton, Dorothy
Huysman, Joannes
Huxham, Brownrigg
Huxham, WiUiam
Hyslop, R. K.
Page
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levers, Henry Rogers . . 21
ImhofE, Jacobus Wilhebnus
Balthazarus van . . 109
Imray, David Robert . . 332
Imray, Robert, 18, 61, 448
Imray, Sarah . . 61
Ingham, Ellen . . 48
Ingles, Walter Lawrence . . 349
IngUs, Elizabeth Augusta . . 195
Innes, Jean . . 303
Ireland, Thomas . . 302
Irving, Edward . . 268
Jackson, Louis M. . . 276, 278
James, Alfred . . 69
Jansz, Livinia, see Brouwer.
Jevons, James Edward . . 287
Johnston, J. S. . . 126
Jolly, EHza Doveton . . 316
Jolly, John Keith . . 327
Jones, Charles . . 275
Jones, G«orge . . 266
Jones, J. Ireland . . 127
Jones, Mrs. J. Ireland . . 127
Jones, Robert Molesworth . . 62
Jones, Thomas Aldersey . . 6, 253
Jong, Barbara Theodora de 87
Jong, EUzabeth de . . 162
Jong, EUzabeth Margaritta
de .. .. 161
Jong, Iman de . . 219
Jong, Maria Sophia de . . 220
Jong, Susanna Anthonia de 220
Jumeau, Susan . . 96
Jumeaux, John Pierre . . 18, 462
Jimaeaux, Louis llligot . . 96
Kadensky, Elizabeth . . 166
Kakelaar, Zacharias . . * 75
Kats, EUzabeth . . 278
Kats, John Gualterus . . 101
Keetlaar, Abigail, see Strick.
Kelaart, Anna Johanna Fred-
erika . . . . 95
Kelaart, WilUam Henr\' . . 95
KeUow, Ellen Mary ' . . 366
Kellow, WiUiam . . 366
Kelly, John . . 32
Kelly, LiUie Henry Richard 364
KeUy, Luke . . 52, 448
KeUy, Walter MaxweU 363,333,339
Kempen, Comelis Gerardsz
van . . . . 74
Kempen, Joan Gerardus
van . . 74
Kennedy, Charlotte Alex-
ander . . . . 324
Kerr, Mary Fulton . . 376
Ketel, Christina E., se» Mar-
selis.
Kettyles, Sarah . . 67
Kier, Mary Ann . . 308
Kjlby, Lewis Herbert . . 312
Kihier, John . . 239
King, Mary Anne . . 196
Kinsey, Edwin Matthew . . 314
Kirton, WiUiam . . 176
Kleybert, Christopher . . 219
Eaiight, E. S. . . 243
Knight, Joseph . . 145, 126
Kiiight, Mrs. J. . . 127
Knight, S. B. . . 243
Knight, Ralph . . 341
Knox, Charles Stuart . . 141
Kiiox, Robert . . 341
Koebneyer, Geliermis Cor-
nells . . . . 151
Koshom, James . . 263
Kraayenhoff, Anna Jacoba 167
Kriekenbeek, Henrietta van,
see Rhee, van.
Kydd, George . . 333
Kydd, G«orge . . 349
Name. Page
Lacerda, Maria de .^ 246
La,uig, James • • 138
Laird, Gilbert • • 198
Lamb, John . . 69
Lambert, Douglas Reynolds 276
Lambert, Josias . . 67
Lamberts, Isabella, see Dier.
Lambertyn, Barbara . . 205
Lambertjm, Bernardus . . 205
Lambriok, Samuel . . 126
Lambriok, Mrs. S. . . 127
Lane, Alfred John . . 67
Lange, Johanna Heittietta de 259
Langslow, Robert WilUam . . 237
Lardy, John Peter . . 301
Latre, Charles Boyle de . . 302
Latre, James de . . 262
Laughton, Arnoldina Jo-
hanna . . . . 86
Laurance, Annie Macleod . . 374
Laurie, Charlotte EUzabeth 374
Laurie, Maria Maxwell . . 343
LavaUiere, Lucretia Adriana
Charlotta . . 269
LavaUiere, Theodore . . 93
Lawrance, Edward Alex-
ander . . . . 71
Lawrence, George . . 207
Layard; Barbara Bridgetina 56
Layard, Charles Peter . . 25
Layard, EmUy . . 52
Layard, Frances Georgina . . 56
Layard, Frederick, children
;of . . . . 293
Iiayard, Henrietta . . 55
Layard, James Frederick . . 236
Learmonth, John . . 197, 448
Lee, Lionel Frederick . . 141
Leeden, Minna EUzabeth
van, see Agota.
Leeuw, SibiUa de . . 103
Legyt, Phihp WiUiam . . 195
Lengele, Marthinus . . 259
Leonard, H. G. . . 276
LesUe, George Tod . . 67
LesUe, Jessie Tod . . 67
Leur, Anna Jacoba van de,
see Kraayenhoff.
Lever, Adrianus CorneUus. . 175
Lever, Jacomina, see Angel-
beek, van.
Lever, Judith Charlotta, see
Mekern.
Lewis, Jane . . 319
Lewis, WiUiam Edward . . 284
Leys, Charles . . 249
Liesching, Charles . . 370
Liesching, Louisa Sophia . . 369
Liesching, MatUda . . 284
Liesching, Mrs. Arthur . . 284
LiUie, CaroUne Julia . . 54
Lindeborn, Hercules . . 103
Linden, Anna Maria van, see
Schruttrup.
Lindsay, Martin . . 324
Lindsay, Sarah . . 321
Linton, WiUiam . . 63
Litson, John . . 91
Little, John WiUiam . . 66
Li vera, Siman de . . 211
Loohveld, Maria EUzabeth,
see Const.
Lockyer, Dorothea Agatha 177
Logan, Jemima . . 174
Login, Edward William
Spenser . . 197
Longden, James Robert . . 25
Loos, Jacob Pietersz . . _ 76
Loquet, Maria Magdalena . . ' 157
Loquet, WilUam . . 167
Lorenz, Charles Ambrose . . 22
Lorenz, Eleanor . . 22
Lorenz, Johann Frederick
WiUiehn . . 186
Loret, Daniel . . 185
( 457 )
Name.
Xoret, Frederick
Loten, Anna Henrietta
Loveland, John
Lowe, Caiarles Harley
Lowrie, Harold A.
Ludovici, John Henry
Lumsden, Alexander
Lurcheon, Thomas Pasley .
Lushington, Thomas Davis
Lushington, William John .
Lusignan, George
Lusignan, Maria
Lutyens, Beatrice
Ly, Dorothea Agatha de, see
Lockyer.
Ly, Dorothea PetroneUa de
Ly, Maria Cornelia de
Lynden, Joanna Henrietta
van, see Weyns.
Lyon, Clara
Lyons, Mary Catherine
Lyte, William Robert
Lj^tleton, Rebecca
Macarthur, C. C.
Macartney, Henrietta
Macdonald, J. D.
Macdonald, Jane C.
MacEwen, James
MacGregor, Robert
Mackenzie, George Alexander
Mackenzie, Henry
Mackenzie, Kenneth
Maclean, Alice Marion
Macleod, Henry Alexander
Duncan
Macleod, John Forbes
Macpherson, Alexander
Macpherson, James
Macpherson, James
Macready, William Charles
Macvicar, Halliburton J. . .
McBean, Alexander
HUcBean, Donald
MoCall, Thomas Denroche
McCausland, Charles Men-
zjes
MacConnell, Thomas
McCreevy, Archibald
McDermott, John Martyn . .
McDonald, Alexander
McDonald, Farquhar
McDonnell, Eugene
McFerran, WilHam
McGill, A. . .
McGiU, Patrick
McGlashan, James Edwin . .
McKasser, Eliza Jane
McKemia, Elizabeth
McKenny, Mary
McKeimy, Robert Newton . .
Mcintosh, William
McLaren, Frances Ellen . .
McPherson, A.
McPherson, A.
Mackwood, Julia
Mackwood, WiUiam Watson
Macquet, Ras
Madden, Frances Elizabeth
Madden, James Arnold Wy-
cliffe . ■ <^
Maddook, Sarah ,^nne
Magniis, Catharinna, see
Brunek.
Maingay, Sarah Maim
Mainwariog, Arthur
Maitland, John Alexander. .
Maltby, George Rivers
Manlych, Bemardus
Manson, WiUiam Bruce . .
Manwaring, John
i^fAlice Capel Le . .
Illiers Henry . .
ip
Iristina Elizabeth
Page I Name.
185 Marselis, PetroneUa EUza-
111 beth
341 Marsh, J. . .
367 MarshaU, Henry Augustus . .
141 Martin, Benedict
208 Martin, Henry Thomas . .
311 Mason, Cloudesly Shovel
265 Fitzroy . .
194 Mason, WiUiam
266 Massie, James
35 Massie, Marianne Mitford . .
35 Matheson, Walter
375 Mathieson, Alfred
Matteucci, Andrea
Matthew, Walter Edmund . .
177 Matthews, Henry
163 Matthews, WiUiam
Maturio, Charles Carrier . .
Mayor, Robert 126,
266 Mayor, Mrs. R.
59 Mazius, Maria
315 Meaden, Ann
264 Meaden, David
Meaden, James
126 Meaden, Mary Anne
365 Medeler, Susanna PetroneUa
350 see Sluysken.
350 Mee, Henry Sidney Cowper
312 Meigs, Harriet Benedict . .
18, 60 Meigs, Sarah Maria
125 Mekem, Judith Charlotta . .
317 MeUzan, Theophilus Andrew
41 Menezes, Paulo Ferera
375 Merson, Charles
Messervy, Ernest Francis . .
346 Messervy, Margaret Dyce . .
374 Messervy, Paul
209 Messiter, Mary
55 Meyer, Adolphus
311 Meyer, Johanna Catharinna
317 HeArietta
366 Meyer, WUliam
280 Michel, John Johnson
179, 448 MiU, WiUiam Forest
318 Miller, Charles Frank
Miller, PhiUp Francis
350 MiUer, Thomas •
138 Miller, Thomas B.
88 Minchin, WiUiam
264 Minnen, Johanna Hester van
355 Minnen, Richard van
311 Minor, Lucy B.
284 Miranda, Maria de
365 Mitchell, Charles Ross
319 MitcheU, John
31 Mitford, Bertram
296 Mitford, Edward
267 Mode, Joanna Maria
312 Moens, Adriana Maria
167 Moens, Johannes Godefrisus
1 67 Moens, PetroneUa Adriana . .
191 Moens, Sara Maria
368 Moens, Susanna Adriana . .
273 Moffat, CorneUus WilUam . .
377 Moffett, Samuel
56 Moir, David
346 Molesworth, Percy Bray-
156, 162 brooke . .
332 MoU, Adriana Henrietta . .
MoU, Arnold
349 MoU, Bittarina
198 MoU, Constantia
Mom, EUzabeth, se» Coever-
den, van.
198, 448 Monitanier, Sigismundus . .
137 Monteiro, Luiz
379 Montgomerie, Archibald . .
9, 448 Moor, Plantina Johanna de
' 150 Moor, Sigismundus
191 Moore, C. . .
40, 300 Moore, EUza
311 Moore, WiUiam
370 Mooyaart, Anthony
277 Mooyaart, Johanna Hester,
90 see Minnen, van.
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Mooyart, Sophia . . 283
Moran, John Kenneth . . 201
More, George B. . . 178
Morgan, James Rowland . . 180, 448
Morgan, Richard Francis . . 122
Morice, Lydia . . 361
Morphew, Annie Steuart . . 355
Morris, AJnn . . 279
Morris, John . . 98
Mortimer, Edward . . 351
Mortimer, John BaskerviUe 189
Mudge, Johanna EUzabeth 11
Mulhousem, Christiaan . . 158
MuUer, Frederica . . 46
Muller, Jacob Anthon . . 92
Mullertz, Fredrik Christiaan
von . . . . 173
Munes, Bras . . 143
Munro, Ebenezer Gordon . . 3*5^ '
Murdoch, James . . 331
Murray, Alexander . . 233, 449
Murray, Catherine . . 349
Murray, John . . 60
Murray, John . . 367
Myers, Henry M. . . 196
MyU,us, Alfred . . 40, 448
MyUus, Frederick . . 208, 449
Nagel, Hendrina PhUipina. . 221
Nagel, Thomas . . 228, 449
Napier, John Andrew . . 57
Napper, George . . 261
Nash, Mary Ann Newman . . 268
Newham, F. W. . . 239
Newman, WiUiam . . 62
Newton, Charles Henry . . 317
Nicholas, Robert . . 179
Nicholson, James . . 194
Nicholson, Mary Hester . . 290
Nieper, Catherina Agnita .. 162
Nieper, Jacob Fredrick . . 162
Nieper, Joan Matthews .._ 162
Nieper, Johanna IsabeUa . . 79
Nietner, Johan . . 138
Norcott, WUUam Burges . . 352
Norris, IsabeUa GUlio . . 51
Norris, WiUiam George . . 99
North, CecU . , 353
Northway, Margaret Jessie 315
Norwood, Charles . . 264
Nutt, John . . 196
Oakley, Frances Mary . . 127, 337
Oakley, WUUam ' . . 126, 337
O'Brien, Joseph . . 308
O'Brien, WUUam . . 201
O'ConneU, Robert Brown-
rigg . . . . 263
O'DonneU, Anthony R. . . 178
OgUvy, James BaKout . . 68
O'Grady, Sarah EUzabeth , . 292
O'Hara, FeUx . . 34
OUver, Alexander Bm-nett. . 368
OUveyra, PhUip de . . 142
OUvier, J. H. . . 295
OUenranshaw, WiUiam . . 81
O'NeUl, Elizabeth . . 237
O'NeUl, J. . . 126
Oostdyk, Adriaan . . 204
Orr, WiUiam . . 30
Orta, Pasquel de . . 76
Osborne, A. E. . . 237
Osborn, Susan . . 240
Osbom, Thomas Falkner . . 240
O'Shea, Andrew . . 88
O'Shea, Henry . . 88
Oswin, Thomas . . 152
Overbeek, EUzabeth . . 161
Overbeek, Gesina EUsabet. . 161
Overbeek, Johannes Adrian 109
Owen, Richard . . 27
Ozzard, J. G. W. Grant . . 197
PaUiser, Annie . . 375
Palm, Johanna Jacoba .. 119
Palmer, James DodweU .„ 365
( 458 )
Name. Page
Pargiter, Adrian Herbert . . 352
Pargiter, Charlotte Elizabeth
Ann .. .. 352
Parke, Jane Vivian . . 18
Parker, Buxton . . 194
Parker, John . . 38, 448
Parker, Mary Susanna . . 196
Parker, Petronella . . 56
Parra, Cornelis van der . . 107
Parra, Henrietta van der . 247
Parsona, George 62, 126, 203
Parsons, Mrs. George . . 127
Parsons, Gerald John . . 65
Parsons, Gother Mami . . 70
Parsons, James . . 371
Parsons, Jane . . 65
Parsons, John . . 328
Paterson, Charles Henry . . 236
Patterson, Elsie . . 191
Paterson, Qeorgiaa 236
Paterson, Lizzie 191
Pattison, Helena . . 186
Patterson, W. . . 303
Paxton, George Sloan . . 376
Peddie, John . . 357
Peddie, Louisa . . 357
Peel, Henry . . 359
Pelt, Susanna Anthonia van,
see Jong, de.
Pennefather, Richard Theo-
dore ... . . 69
Pennell, Henry . . 98
Pereira, Frederica Adolphina 153
Perks, Kenneth . . 236
Perry, Edward John . . 126, 332
Perry, Harriet Joanna . . 241
Perry, John M. S. . . 241
Pesecheloche, J. B. Martial
Louvain . . 201
Petrie, George . . 79
Pettitt, G. . . 126
Philip, Alexander . . 336
Philips, f'hiUp Lovell CoUyer 194
Phihpsz, Cornelia Henrietta,
see Saram, de.
Philipsz, Henricus . . 116
Philipsz, Susarm.a . . 115
Philhps, WilHam . . 32
Phillpotts, EUza Ann . . 305
Phillpotts, Henry F. 24
Pickford, J. . . 126
Piokford, Mrs. J. . . 127
Pieck, Maria, see Toorzee.
Pieters, Johanna Henrietta,
see Lange, de.
Pilkington, Harriet . . 236
PiUans, Albert Alexander . . 352
Pilson, Arthur Ashfield . . 127, 371
Pinhao, Simao . . 286
Plunkett, James . . 308
Plunkett, John Macfarlane 308
Poingdestre, Edward . . 305
Pole, Catherine Emily . . 232
Poor, Daniel . . 243
Poor, Sarah . . 242
Potken, Jurriaan . . 218
PoweU, H. . . 127, 203
Preston, Alice Maud Mary. . 58
Preston, Frances Narcissa . . 68
Preston, James Stephen . . 58
Preston, Richard William . . 68
Price, Caroline Harriet . . 225
Price, Josephine Mary . . 366
Prideaux, John Rollo . . 194
Pritchett, Maria . . 63
Proudfoot, Mary Ann . . 301
Purchase, Mary Ann . . 189
Pyl, Laurens . . 216
Quaker, Leendart de 162
Quaker, Maria Florentina de 152
Rabinel, Anne . . 169
Rabinel, Johanna Plantina 169
Rabinel, John Henry . . 169
Name. Page
Raitt, Mary Murray . . 189
Raket, Magdalena . . 248
Raket, Sara Maria, seeMoens.
Ramsay, Sibella Estreaux . . 273
Ramsey, Arthur S. ... 276
Ravens, Maria Sophia, see
Jong, de.
Ravenscroft, William Henry 24
Reokerman, Catharina Eliza-
beth .. .. 81
Reddie, Johanna . . 58
Reder, Friedrich Wllhelm de 220, 221
Reder, Henrietta Tugen-
dreich de . . 114
Redstone, G. . . 276
Reede, Anna Constantia van 151
Reets, Sandrina, see Sonne-
velt, van.
Reeve, Frederick 40, 275, 449
Reeves, Evelyn Layard
Arthur . . . . 367
Reeves, Evelyn Layard . . 329
Reid, WilHam Hunter . . 343
Rein, Rebecca . . 260
Reyne, Frances Cavendish 364
Reynolds, Caroline Eliza
Gonsalve . . 264
Reynolds, Thomas Montague
Wharton . . 264
Rhode, Francina van . . 258
Rhee, Gerardus van . . 217
Rhee, Henrietta van . . 105
Rhee, Johanna van, see
Wezel, van.
Rhee, Willem van . . 106
Rhodes, Fanny Lily . . 239
Richards, James . . 243
Richards, John . . 198
Richardson, William . . 33
Richley, Thomas . . 185
Richmond, Anne . . • 347
Richmond, Anne Jane . . 347
Riddel, Robert . . 85
Ridder, Peternella de, see
Verdonk.
Ridsdale, Mary Anne . . 47
Ridgeway, Liaa . . 363
Riekert, Martha F. F. . . 296
Rigney, John Scott . . 34
Rimmers, Joseph . . 71
Roberts, Charles William
Lewis . . . . 212
Roberts, Hugh Borrer . . 354
Roberts, John . . 273
Robertson, James Dunbai;. . 211
Robertson, John Spottis-
woode .,. .. 309
Robins, Margaretta P. . . 242
Robinson, Abraham . . 81
Robinson, James Duff/ . . 24
Robinson, W. . . 47
Robson, Arthur George . . 354
Rock, Balthazar . . 147
Roddy, Arnoldina Johanna 49
Rodney, Edward Anthony 148
Rodney, Louisa . . 2, 448
Rodney, Thomas James . . 2, 448
Rodrigo, Louisa . . 228
Rogers, Sarah . . 61
Rogers, Susanna . . 32
Rogers, Thomas William 291 , 323, 367
Rohde, Haughton George . . 307
Roiz, Helena . . 143
Romans, Margarita, see Hey-
nen.
Roos, Abraham . . 248
Roos, Joanna . . 77
Roos, Pieter . . 77
Roosmalecooq, Emily . . 122
Roosmalecocq, Frederika
Antoinetta . . 94
Roosmalecocq, Peter John 153
Rose, Francina Maria . . 184
Roseboom, Monica, see Winc-
kelman.
Name. Page
Rosegaard, Jacomina, see
Goens, van.
Ross, Christie Isabella . . 90'
Rossiter, Catherine . . 125
Rossiter, Mary EUen Lad-
brooke . . . . 125
Rough, William . . 15, 367
Rowe, WiUiam Carpenter . . 195
Rowen, Caroline . . 37
Rudd, Annie Augusta . . 34S
Rudd, Ehzabeth . , 94
Rudd, Mary . . 262
Rudd, Otehne . . 310
Rumley, Elizabeth . . 269
Rumpf, Isaac Augustin . . 108
Russell, Alexander . . 32
Russell, William . . 34
Rutland, Stephen . . 341
Ryan, Patrick . . 377
Ryan, Robert Henry . . 194
Ryder, Edward Lisle . . 56
Sabonadiere, Emily . . 231
Sabonadiere , Francis Richard 345
Sabonadiere, Mary Sophia. . 345
Sackmann, Sarah Louisa . . 319
St. Clair, Adolph Coutourier
de . . . . 57
St. Dalmas, Margaret Chris-
tina de . . . . 378
St. George, Maud Edith Mon-
criefi . . . . 72
St. HUl, Felix Edmond-
stone . . 305
St. Hill, Mary . . 271
St. John, Henry John //''':?. 213, 44»
St. John, Oliver . . 269
St. John, Travers . . 269
Sally, Hugh . . 270
Salve, Pierre de . . 248
Samlant, Abraham . . 16J
Samlandt, Agnita Clara, see
Graaf , van de.
Sande, Fran5ois van de . . 247
Sanden, Cornelis Regniera
van, see Fretz.
Sanders, Georgina Knight . . 242
Sanders, Marshall D. . . 243
Sansoni, Joseph . . 183
Sansoni, Louis „. 183
Sansony, Seraphina . . 87
Sansony, Thomas ^ . . 176
Saram, Cornelis Henrietta de 120
Sargent, Frances Matilda .. 270
Sargent, John James . . 102, 448
Sauliere, Eliza Madelina .. 63
Saunders, Henry Cecil .. 194
Saunders, William Nonus . . 304
Sawers, Mary . . 251
Scarlett, Maria . . 361
Scharff , Susanna, see Philipsz.
Schepmoes, Gabriella . . 205
SchUhoorn, Johanna Mar-
garita, see Toll, van.
Schmidt, Pieter Liebert .. 114
Schneider, Gaulterus . . 117
Schneider, Johanna Ger-
truyda, see Conrady, van;
also . . . . 451
Schneider, Sophia Madga-
lena .. ^ .. 118
Schodt Rebecca, see Rein.
Scholte, Marten . .- 104
Schoonbeek, J. Daniel van. . 229
Schorer, Susanna Margarita 107
Schrader, George Justus . . 197
Schrader, Helen Susan Cor-
nelia . . . . 347
Schreuder, Huybert Joan . . 112
Schreuder, Susanna Lyal-
berta . . . . 112
Schroter, Gertruida Petro- -^'c't
nella . . ■. . " ;M8
Schuler, Catherina van )^.' ' , '166
Sohuttrup, Anna Maria ''^•j .--^ '■ 1=63
. 153
Name.
Schuttrup, Maria Cornelia,
see Ly, de.
^chuylenburg, Barent van
feohwaUie, Peter Justinus
Soott, Charles
Scott, Mary Jane
Soott, M. H.
Soott, Richard Reginald
Scott, Robert
Scott, William
Soratchley, James
Sealy, John
Segar, Elizabeth
Segar, Israel
Selby, Prideaux
Selkirk, Anne
Selkirk, Emily Jane
Selkirk, James
Selkirk, John
Senden, Jacques Fabrice van
Serrengiera, Susanna, see Blom.
Sheppard, Edward J. M. . .
Sheridan, James
Sheridan, Margaret Anne . .
Shield, George
Shipton, Louisa
Shipton, Mary
Siemonsz, Johanna Jacoba,
see Hartsz.
Sigaam, George J. H.
Sikes, Edward
Sillery, Frances
Silva, WUliem Care! de
Sim, Charles
Simmons, Mrs. J. D.
Simpson, EUenor Ann
Simpson, Henry Western . .
Sims, William
Sinclair, John
Sinclair, Robert Hamilton . .
Sinnot, James
Skeen, Henry
Skinner, Georgina
Skinner, Mary Maria Char-
lotte
Skrine, WUliam Dickson . .
Sluysken, Clara Josina
Sluysken, Susemna Petro-
nella Charlotta
Smellie, N. W.
Smith, Annie Elizabeth Bow-
den
Smith, Annie Mackintosh . .
Smith, A. P.
Smith, Eunice
Smith, George
Smith, James
Smith, James
Smith, James
Smith, John
Smith, John Arbuthnot . .
Smith, John Hastings
Smith, John M.
Smith, Maitland Balfour . .
Smith, Robert
Smith, Robert
Smith, William
Smith, William
Smith, Waiiam Bowdeh . .
Smith, Willoughby
Smitz, Petronella Henrietta .
Smyth, John
Smyth, Thomas
Sneyd, Henrietta Charlotte
Snow, Charles
Snowden, Charlotte Gertrude
Soares, Izabel
Solemnp, Esther de, see Goens.
Soley, James
Sonnenkalb, J. H.
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Sortain, James Cornish
Souter, Alexander Fyffe . .
Souter, James
Soutter, David Lindsay . .
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Spaulding, Mary . . 241
Speedy, James . . 213
Spottiswood, Arthur Donald 312
Spottiswood, William Donald 312
Spratt, Mary Jane . , 67
Spreat, H. M. . . 127
Springett, Herbert . . 96
Sprott, Mark John Hill .. 312
Spurl, John . . 332
Staples, Anna . . 71
Staples, Caroline van . . 99
Staples, Cecil Loughlin . . 60
Staples, George Alexander . . 98
Staples, John . . 99
Staples, John James . . 60
Staples, John Michael . . 54
Staples, Theodore Glenie . . 63
Stavers, Mary Ann . . 308
Steel, Anne . . 190
Steele, Eliza Katharine . . 213
Stephen, J. . . 303
Stephens, John . . 335
Stephenson, Annie E. . . 240
Steuart, Ann . . is
Steuart, Elizabeth Mary . . 18
Steuart, George . . 26
Steuart, James . . 22
Steuart, Joseph . . 53
Stewart, Clement . . 186
Stewart, James . . 99
Stewart, James . . 100
Stewart, Katherine Char-
lotte . . . . 48
Stewart, William . •. 99
Stoddart, John Frederick . . 17
Stoup, Richard . . 130
Stradiot, Francois . . 196
Straube, Fredrick Ludwig . . 93
Strick, Abigail . . 106
Stricb, Joannes . . 77
Stroeff, Sarah Wilhelmina . . 180, 448
Stuart, Cecil Howard . . 349
Stuart, Blizabet . . 149
Stuart, J. . . . . 303
Stutzer, Anna Maria Ulrica 266
Stutzer, Johanna Jacoba . . 229
Suarus, Dominica, see Hals.
Suckling, Horatio .. 62,448
Summerfield, John W. . . 34
Sutherland, Christian Wil-
helm .. ■• 88
Swan, James . . 68
Swan, William . . 305
Sweeting, B. 0. . . 348
Swensen, Carel Pieter . . 161
■Swinburne, Charles . . 298
Swinburne, Neale . . 298
Swinnas, Magdalena, aee Raket.
Swinnerton, Alice Maud
Mary .. •■ 348
Swinney, John . . 35
Symons, Selena Hood . . 274
Tait, WiUiam ■ • 307
Tate, James Rosell . . 304
Tate, James Rosell . . 343
Tate, John • • 304
Tate, Sarina Sophia . . 343
Tatham, William Reeve . . 351
Taylor, F. W. • • 126
Taylor, James . . 333
Taylor, WiUiam . . 262
Temple, Christopher Ed-
mund .. 196
Temple, Christopher Ed-
mund . . 196
Temple, Isabel Susan . . 363
Temple, Philip William Main-
waring . . • • 54
Temple, Robert Edward . . 376
Templer, Ellen Maria . . 180
Templer, Henry . . 325
Templer, Henry Dawson
Skinner 282
Name.
Templer, Henry Myleby . .
Tennant, Robert Hamilton,
Thacker, WiUiam Hoverden
Theile, John Frederick
Thomas, Arthur H.
Thomas, George
Thomas, John Davies
Thomas, Walter Sandys
Thompson, Alexander
Thompson, Byerley
Thompson, Champion
Thompson, Dora Grey
Thompson, George P.
Thompson, Gilbert
Thompson, Hamlet Wade
Thompson, Henry
Thompson, Mary Ann
Thompson, Robert
Thompson, Thomas
Thompson, WiUiam
Thomson, John Sangster
Thonnon, Susanna
Thornhill, CecUia Augusta
ThornhiU, Hayman
Thornton, Annie GhaUis
Thorpe, Helen Plumtre
Thwaites, George Henry
Kendrick
Tincome, Edmund
Tiste, Elizabeth
Titterton, Mary
Todd, John
Tolfrey, Edward
Tolfrey, WUliam
Toll, Hendrik Jacob van
ToU, Johanna Margarita van
ToUer, Hugh Montel
Toorzee, Johanna Maria, see
Albinus.
Toorzee, Maria
Torriano, Caroline
Torriano, Charlotte Caroline
To thill, Thomas Frederick. ."
Tottenham, Charles
Toussaint, Adriana, Ger-
trmda, see Anderson.
Toussaint, Peter Frederick. .
Toussaint, Susanna Isabella
Tower, George
Townshend, Harriet E.
Tramblay, Gabriella du, eee
Schepmoes.
Tranchell, Carl Jonas
Tranchell, Elizabeth
Tranchell, Gustavus Adol
phus
Tranchell, John Thomas
Tranchell, Maria Magdalena
Tranchell, Mary
Trant, WiUiam Henry
Trimen, Henry
TrimneU, G. C.
TrimneU, Mrs. G. C.
Tucker, Thomas Reeve
Tugendreich, Henrietta,
Neder, de.
Turner, Arthur Henry
Tumour, Edward Archer
Tumour, Elizabeth
Tumour, George
Tumour, George
Tweedie, Alexander Law
rence
Twigg, Thomas MeCausland
Twisleton, Caroline
Twisleton, North Wemyss
Twisleton, Thomas James
Twynam, George Albert
Twynam, Mary Annie Cath
erine
Twynam, Mary Cecilia
Twynam, William
Tyndall, John
Tyndall, Olivia
Tytler, Charles William
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Urquhart, James . . 316
Valk, Livinia . . 158
Valk, WiUem . . 158
Vanderspar, Anna Henrietta 229
Vanderspar, Charles Edward 190
Vanderspar, Charles Henry
Richard . . . . 352
Vanderspar, Dorothea Petro-
nella, see Ly, de.
Vanderspar, Dorothea Sophia 191
Vanderspar, Henrietta Anno 170
Vanderspar, Henrietta So-
phia . . . . 174
Vanderspar, Joannes Chris-
tianus . . . . 248
Vanderspar, Johanna . . 248
Vanderspar, Johanna Ger-
truida . . . . 177
Vanderspar, John Joachim 173
Vanderspar, Mattheus . . 165
Vanderspar, Petronella, see
Ly, de.
Vanderspar, William Charles 174, 448
Vanderstraaten, Harriet
Frances . . 200
Vanderstraaten, Stephen
Charles . . 200
Veen, Anthonie van der . . 151
Velsen, Joan van . . 159
Verdonk, Pietemella . . 157
Verwyk, Johanna, see Wir-
man.
Vetch, Francis Hunter . . 281
Vilhers, Daniel de . . 295
Vincent, Joseph . . 46
Viner, Emily . . 314
Vistarini, Giovanni Battista 153
VHet, Joan van . . 105
Vliet, Thomas van 74
Vogelaar, Jacob Henderik. . 248
Vos, Albertus CorneUs de . . 120
Vos, Frederick WiUiam de. . 191
Vos, Hendrina Phihpina de,
see Nagel.
Vos, Johanna de . . 221
Vos, Johanna Gerrardina de 178
Vos, Sophia Ehzabeth de . . 191
Vreland, Geraard Johan . . Ill
Wace, Herbert . . 330
Wade, Peter . . 261
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Wilkie, James George
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Wilkinson, Cecil Harry Twigg 33«5
Walbeoff, John
43, 452
Willerman, William
27, 44&
Walker, Charlotte Fullarton
333
Williams, Richard
80
Walker, Edward Akers
285
Williams, Rose
8a
Walker, Henry James War-
Willisford, Francis William
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ren ' . .
333
Wilmot, Amoldina Dulcima
337
Walker, Jemima
255
WUmot, Frances Field
WaU, Alice
61
Eardley . .
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Wall, George
368
Wilson, George
71
WaUer, Raymond Edward . .
350
Wilson, George Baxter
315
WaUett, Charles
16
Wilson, John, child of
86
Wallett, Maria
224
Wilson, Sophia
289
WaUett, Maria Langford . .
43
Wilton, Horatio
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Walton, William
239
Winekehnan, Monica
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Wandel, Maria de
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Wingate, James Fenton .
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Ward, Mrs. B.
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Ward, Henry George
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Winter, Alfred Octavius .
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Waring, Carohne Ehzabeth
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na
Waring, Edmund Sampson
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Winter, George
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Waring, Henrietta Maria . .
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Winter, George Walter
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Warner, John
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Wirman, Johanna
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Watson, Albert
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Wittensleger, Jan Marten .
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Watson, Arthur Godfrey . .
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Wood, Daniel CoUyer
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Watson, George Stretton . .
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Wood, J. . .
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Watson, William Clarence . .
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Wood, Mrs. J.
127
Webster, Charles
271
Wood, Thomas
294
Weekes, Thomas Earle
378
Woodcock, John
138
Weemayer, Jan
74
Woodford, John
40
Wellington, Matthew
265,
Woodford, Thomas
40
Wells, Mary Augusta
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Woods, F. C.
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Wernham, Frederick
318
Woodward, Lydia Middleton 243
Westaway, Nathaniel
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Worsley, Frederic Conrad .
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We3ms, laaao
205
Woutersz, Johan Philipsz .
2ia
Weyns, Joanna . Henrietta
Wren, Christopher
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CoUard ..
159
Wright, Alexander Edwards 351
Wezel, Johanna Taay van. .
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Wright, WiUiam Diunaresq
24
Wheatstone, Robert William
194
Wyrill, Samuel Stanhope .
196
Wheeler, Samuel Allen
29
White, Abraham
88, 448
Ximenes, Horace
182
White, Daniel
193
White, Eliza
368
Yongeling, Barbara, see
White, William
368
Lambertyn
Whitefoord, John
367
Young, Ann
82
Whitehouse, Charles Augus-
Young, Anne Marie Clemen
tus
59
tine
201, 448
Whitehouse, Edwyn Stan-
Young, Anne Marie Louise
hope
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CeUne . .
377
Whitfield, Anne
94
Yoimg, Charles Moffat
95
Whiting, Henry John
42
Young, Frederick
95
Whitley, Henry
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Young, William Dent
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Wichelman, Susanna
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Wiggin, Arthur R.
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Addison, Thomas
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Anderson, James
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Andree, WiUiehn Hendrik . .
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Andringa, Oeke
388
Angelbeek, John Gerrard van
38ai?
Ansehnn, Frangois Louis . .
383, 452
Armitage, John
419
Armour, John
436
Ashe, William
418
Atchison, Christopher
419
Atkinson, William
415
Auber, Charles
446, 451
Badger, John
391
Bagnett, James
413
Ball, Robert
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Barbier, Charles
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Barclay, James AUardyce . .
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Barry, Robert
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Bates, R. V.
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Baussett, Alexander
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Baynham, George . . 384
Beaver, Herbert . . 386, 450
Benezet, William Henry
Conyngham . . 399
Bergheim, Charlotta Lam-
bertina von . . 392
Bingham, G. W. . . 397
Bircham, Samuel . . 410
Bird, George Samuel . . 439
Bird, Henry . . 394
Blake, Thomas . . 390
Blakeney, William . . 427, 451
Blaunt . . . . 403
Blevin, Thomas . . 390
Bonnevaux, Pieter . . 380, 452
Bourne, Richard . . 382
Brahan, John . . 394
Braunhoff, Johannes Chris-
topher van .. 411, 450
Braybrooke, Jane . . 433
Breard, Maria Joseph Benja-
min de . . . . 389
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Brereton, Clement Henry . . 419
Brinkley, John George . . 403
Brook, George John . . 446
Brook, George Shaw . . 395
Brouncker, Henry . . 393
Brown, A. . . 399
Brown, James . . 399
Brown, William . . 428
Browne, John Dennis . . 402
Browne, Martin . . 443
Brunette, George . . 408
Brush, Oliver , . 40O
Buchanan, Alexander . . 416
Buckle, Edmund . . 402
Bulkley, Eliza Catherina . . 393
Bulkley, John Comyns . . 443
Burke, John . . 417
Burleigh, Spencer Thomas
VassaU . . . . 410
Burnand, Jacob . . 39Q
Busch, Rudolphina van dem 418
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OaUender, Adam
CampbeU, Duncan
Campbell, John
Campbell, Patrick
Campbell, Patrick
Campbell, Peter
Campbell, Robert Preston . .
Campbell, William Erskine. .
Carrington, Paul
Castle, Thomas
Caulfield, Hans
Caulfield, Henry
Chalmers, James
Chambers, Augustus
Chamley, Thomas Keppel . .
Chandler, William
Chater, James
Chrisp, James
Clancy, John
Clarke, Edward
Coane, Anthony
CoUey, F.
Conradi, Johan Frederic . .
Conradi, W.
Conrady, Martia Leonardus .
Cooke, John
Cooke, Theodore
Cooper
Crofton, Edward
Crooks, John
Curtis, John
Dakers, H. F.
Daniell, Samuel
Davidson, WiUiam
Davie, Adam
Davies, Simon Pearce
Delegai, Charles
Dennison, Peter
Dent, A. P.
Denton, J. Albert
Dickson, Francis
Dinwoodie, John
Dobree, Beauvoir
Donzel, J. . .
Dormieux, Pierre
Douglas, Charles Antoine . .
Douglas, Charles
Doyle, Welbore Ellis
Driberg, Charles
Driberg, Friedrich Wilhelm
von
Driberg, Gertruida Elizabeth
Driberg, Johan Carl Christian
von
Driberg, Pierre Frederic
Henry von
Dubas, Jacques
Duke, Richard Brown
Duncan, Alexander M.
Dunkin, James
Dunne, Thomas Donnelan. .
Durand, Catherina
Bagan, John
East, Lettie Campbell
Eaton, Ebenezer
Edenson, John Bower
Elliott, Robert
Ellis, R. E.
Elsey, J. ■ -
English, John
Erskine, B. S.
Estandeau, Jean Jacques
Daniel D'
Evans, John H.
Falconer, John G.
Fanning, Philip
Fanthome, J.
Parrell, Thomas
Farren, Charles H.
Fellowes, Richard Fisher
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Jeanneret, Samuel
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Foul stone, John
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Jeffery, Mina Riega
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Franken, Johan
388
Jeffery, Robert
435
Fretz, Diederich Gerrard
434
Jervis, John
405
Fretz, Diederich Thomas
390
Jesqmer, Samuel
452
Fretz, Prans Plailip
444
Jones, Mortimer
419
Frome, Francis
402
Johnston, Alexander
389
Fulton, Louisa Magdalena
'419
Johnston, Samuel P.
445
Geddes, Robert Graham
448
Kane, John
392
GeUie, James
428
Keane, John
436
Giesler, Albert Henry
409
Kearns, George
413
Giesler, Gerard Godfried
Kelaart, Edward Frederick. .
446
Archibald
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Kelly, John
416
Giffard, Ambrose Hardinge 445
Kelly, Richard
394
Giffening, Bernhard Abra-
Kelson, Charles H. M.
437
ham
452
Kempen, Hugh van
394
Gilbert, Jacobus Cornelis
400
Kemiedy, James
t23, 451
Gill, John
444
Kennedy, Thomas Alexander
380
Gillespie, George
442
Kerby, John George
415
Glenholme, Henry
431
Kerr, John
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Glenie, James Moncrieff |
Kerr, William
390
Sutherland
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Kershaw, Amelia
440
Goodall, Francis
447
Killwick, Edward
417
Gordon, John
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KiUwick, Eliza
417
Gordon, Sylvester
381
Kins, Richard
382
Gorman, James
419
Kirby, WUham
384
Goupil, Louis
428
Koch, John Godfried
410
Goupil, Louis
428
Koch, Mary Ann
410
Grant, John
398
Gray, Henrietta
420
Laing, James
436
Gray, Henry
438
Langton, John Gore
424
Gray, Richard
434
Lassossay, Jean GuiUaume
Green, Thomas Henry
400
Du Bois De
421
Greenslade, William
408
Laughton,
385
LavaUiere, Jean Martin
445
HaU, William
417
Layton, Robert
403
HallUay, George L.
400
LidweU, Mark
413
Ham,ilton, Gavin
381
Ligor, Isaac
415
Hand, Francis
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Lisle, Robert Francis Roper
417
Hardgn, Richard
413
Lloyd, F. W.
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Harding^ George Nicholas 385
Lockyer, Henry Frederick. .
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Harkness, George
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Harpe, Henry de la
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Hatch, John
411
Lyster, John
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Hatherley, William Fortes-
cue
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Macdonald, Charles
397
Hay, Charles
392
Macdonald, James
389
Hay, James Scott
441
MacKena, de
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Hayter, George
408
Mackenzie, Roderick
432
Hayter, T. B.
393
Maclaiae, Hector
428
Heck, A. van
451
Maclaine, John
423
Hek, Henry van
401
Maclean, Lachlan
395
Hemmon, Samuel Wood
402
Macleod, Norlnan
425
Henderson, James
427
McBean, William
425
Henderson, WiUiam R.
388
McConnell, John R.
413
Hendriksz, Reynaldus
384
McHroy, Anthony
414
Hewetson, Henry James
402
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Hey wood, William Hamlyn 442
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Hicken, Juxgen Arnoldus
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McLean, Alexander
424
High, Andrew
443
McNab, James
413, 450
Hill, Russell P. W.
419
McNab, Johanna
412
Hilliard, WiUiam
386
McNab, Thomas
420
Hoffland, Thomas Gerardus 390
McNulty, Manus
423, 451
Hollo way, Henry
428
McQuestion, Thomas Curran
418
Hollo well, James
386
MoRae, James
433
HoUoweU, William
387
Magrath, Hamilton
387
Holmes, Hugh
403
Malcolm, WiUiam
422
Hooper, Richard
392
Manage, Chailes
414
Hope, Andrew
396
Marchand, Wharton Mar-
Hope, William
428
tham Le
403
Host, D. ..
392
Marshall, E.
414
Honlin , Johan Baptist
382
Matfield, Brick
408
Howe, Joseph
414
May, John
416
Humphreys, Richard
430
May, William Turville
391
Hunt, H. J.
440
Meagen
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Hxmter, James Dunbar
414
Mercer, William
428
Hunter , Orby Montgomery. . 419
Merlin
462
Husband, William
442
Mess, Gerrit . . .
384
Molesworth, William John . .
443
Ingham, George
396
Montaudon, Francis
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Isaake, Matthew Wylie
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J'ans, Thomas Rawleigh
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Morriss, F. H.
Morse, Thomas
Moses, John Dupont
Mulquinny, James
Murphy, James Titus
Murphy, Martin
Murphy, Thomas Turner
Muskett, Edward
MyHus, John Christian Theo
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Nairn, John
Nares, John Beaver
Nayler, Henry
Neep, Maria Elizabeth de
Nesbitt, WiUiam
Nett, Christoph August
Newnham, Samuel
Niell, W. P. S.
Nixon, Jasper
Nixon, Richard Phepoe
Normansell, Henry T.
O'Brien, Florence
O'Brien, P. W.
O'Connell, Maurice J.
O'Donnel, Dominick
O'Niell, William
Oldenkop, Charles von
Onion, Henry Bristowe
Ormsby, Thomas
Orr, WiUiam
Ottley, Thomas Wetherall
Paim, John David
Pargiter, Robert Stott
Parker, Mary Ann
Parsons, Richard
Pearce, Charles
Pearson, George
Peckham, Phihp
PeLham, Thomas
Percy, William
Perks, Noah
Philips, David
Plenderleat^, Peter
Pollington, George May
Pollington, Richard
Potgen, Barend Dedryk
Poyntz, Samuel
Proctor, A. D.
Raymond, Francois
Raymond, Jean Frangois de
Marie de
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Re3Tiolds, S.
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Robertson, Alexander
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Robertson, David
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Robertson, W. D.
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Rodgers, Thomas
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Roscrow, James
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Rose, Hugh
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Ross, John Mackenzie
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Rumley, Edward
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Sackville, SackviUe
422
St. Leger, Julius
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Sanderson, Edward
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Sanderson, Robert Blackston
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Saner, F. S.
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Saunders, Arthur
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Schneider, Hendrik
393
Senn, Francois Louis
404
Shand, James
435
Shaw, James Agnew
418
Simpson, James
411
Sloper, James
394
Sluysken, Pieter
389
Smith, Charles Thomas
419
Smith, Edward
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Smith, Haddon
410
Smith, Henry
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Smith, Henry Littleton
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Smith, Margaret
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Smith, Nicholas John
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Stuart, Robert
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Stutzer, Charles
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Stutzer, John Arnold
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Supple, Thomas Robert
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Sutherland, James
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Tinley, Charles Newport . . 395
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Toulmin, William . . 433
Tranchell, Johannes . . 407
Tranchell, Pieter Cornelia
Johannes . . 401
Tranchell, Samuel William. . 413
TrancheU, WiUiam . . 416
Truter, James . . 400
TrydeU, S. H. . . 424
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TuUoh, John . . 444
Uhlenbeek, John Wilhelmus 387
Underwood, Florentina
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Vallanoe, Mrs. James . . 413
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